JulyAug 2003

1954 CLASS NOTES / July - August 2003

July - August 1959: AL TERRILL working for Morrison-Knudsen in Boise, Idaho, BILL STERN practicing law in Miami, Florida, BRYCE BASTIAN with Singer Manufacturing in N.Y.C., HOWIE SLOANE a psychology instructor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, WILL WILKINS with the Mechanics National Bank in Worcester, Massachusetts, BOB HIGBEE with Armstrong Cork in Kansas City, MO, LEE LANE with American Trading on Wall Street, GEORGE NIMITZ with Converse Rubber in Cambridge. Still serving: BILL FOX in the Air Force in N. Carolina, JOHN MORAN at the USAF Hospital at Otis AFB on Cape Cod, PHIL SWARTZ at the Navy Hospital in Oakland, California and DAVE REED at Travis AFB in California.

DICK PERKINS has been named a TAPPI Fellow. TAPPI is the leading technical association for the worldwide pulp, paper and converting industry. The TAPPI Fellowship is an honorary title bestowed upon less than one percent of TAPPI's membership and is given to individuals who have made extraordinary technical or service contribution to the industry. Dick joined the faculty at Syracuse University in 1964 as an assistant professor and was promoted to professor. He chaired the mechanical and aerospace engineering department from 1981-1990 and became professor emeritus in 1999. He is presently adjunct professor in mechanical, aerospace and manufacturing engineering and adjunct professor of paper science and engineering at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He is member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Academy of Mechanics.

Our long lost classmate, BOB DRAWBAUGH has been located in Grafton, VT. Bob had served as a forward air observer in Laos.

Besides writing our class newsletter (a job in itself), PETE BARKER keeps busy with his acting career. This spring he appeared in "Mind Talks", "Black-Eyed Peas" and "Coming Out Party" all in N.Y.C.

BOB LEVINE and STEVE MULLINS (with wives) traveled to Antarctica on the M/S Clipper Adventurer.

CHUCK TANNENBAUM has retired from his ophthalmology practice in S. California and moved to a horse and hay farm in Springfield, Oregon on the McKenzie River. Chuck keeps busy overseeing the horse and haying operations. He continues missions for Angel Flight, flying patients from their homes to medical care.

As you read this column, ‘54 is the 50^th Reunion Class. The reunion committee, led by John Gillespie, is as usual, well organized. The reunion will be from June 11^th to June 13^th, with a party at STEVE MULLINS farmhouse on June 10^th for early arrivals. The 50^th Reunion Giving Campaign chaired by DICK PAGE and BOB BERRY have completed the preliminary campaign with great results and are now launching the public campaign. They need every classmate's help and participation. WAYNE WEIL and BILL WHITE are co-authoring the 50^th Reunion Book. Many thanks to the classmates who anonymously helped to defray the cost of the Reunion Book.

Other class activities: Midwest Reunion in Chicago and Indiana, September 11 - 16. Contact STEVE MULLINS or TOM TYLER for more information. Post reunion cruise

from Venice down to Dalmatian Coast. Chaired by DON BERLIN and JOHN FENN. (More information in Class Newsletter.)

DON BERLIN
7 Hamilton Drive
Washington Valley
Morristown, NJ 07960-3311

Berlin1954@aol.com