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The U.D. Alumnus
Established 1929
>!» Vol. March, 1954 No.3
J AMES F. CLARKE .. ············ ...... Editor
JAMES F. " PEPPER" WILSON . .. . Sports Editor
"Entered as second class matter April15, 1940, at the Post Office, at Dayton, Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1879." For wills and bequests, the legal title of the corporation is "The University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio." Subscription price $2 per year. Published Quarterly for the University of Dayton Alumni Asso Registration for evening classes is a busy time for all. Many of the full-time ciation by the Public Relations Office, University of Dayton, 300 faculty turn-to to help counsel students and complete the procedures. The College Park Avenue, Dayton 9, Ohio. registration is completed in four days each semester.
For the last two years the bulletin of the evening classes has carried the phrase "TV or Member of International Council of Industrial Editors and th e UD?", asking prospecti ve stu Miami Valley Association of Industrial Editors. dents whether they wanted to avail themselves of education or sit by the tv set. Although the tv saturation TABLE OF CONTENTS in th e D ay ton area h as reached the point where over 90 per cent of the homes have TV or UD . . . 2 a set, the popularity of eve ning classes has not waned. In fact, if anything enrollments News Notes .5-6 have increased slightly. Evening classes at UD be- Hilltop Jottings 5 Bro. Jos. Mervar, S.M. gan in 1921 when a few inter- ested persons requested a special course be given after regular class hours in the late afternoon or evening. Thirty-four Sports ...... 7-9 students signed for that course, and since then it has been a story of constant broadening of the offerings and increase in UD Before the Camera .10-11 enrollment. During the war years, a slight drop was noted, otherwise each September has brought an increase in students. Here Among the Alums .. . 12 are the enrollments by five year periods. 1921-34 students; 1925- 170; 1930-253; 1935-291; 1940- 525; 1945- 606· Calling Doctor 338 . . 13 1950- 1290; 1953- 1725. Administration Class Notes ...... 14-20 Since the beginning, the evening classes have been admin istered by the Registrar. Now some thought is being given to making it a separate unit of its own, with its own office Front Cover-Capt. Don " Mickey" Donoher of the Kami and staff. kaze Kids, goes up over the head of Louisville Player Chet Currently there are three full-time people working on the Beam, during the UD-Louisville game in the Fieldhouse. evening class staff. I am the director of evening classes; with Dayton won 78-61. Robert Donovan, as assistant director and director of the 2 The Story of the Evening Classes By Bro. Joseph J. Mervar, S.M., Director
Albert Hoffman, mechanical drawing instructor, gives some individual Dr. Richard R. Bake r, of the philosophy department, is a popular instructor. atte ntion to one of his students. This individual attention from a top-flight His courses in Aristotle, Plato, and currently in St. Thomas, have proved to teacher, does much to make evening classes popular. be stimulating and courses that have attracted many people.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Center; and Donald C. Metz, time each week. We have capitali zed on the situation and have director of the technical institute. been using instructors that we could not afford on a full-time Many colleges throughout the country offer evening classes basis. on a non-credit basis, but all but a very few of the courses at Such companies as the five Dayton divisions of General UD are for full college credit. There is little difference in the Motors, the National Cash Register Company and the Mon material and methods used in the evening classes and those santo Chemical Company have also proved to be valuable of the day classes. Even the faculty are in many cases the sources fo r evening faculty members. same. One-half of those currently teaching evening classes are full-time faculty members, giving part of their time to Kind of Students evening work. What kind of students register in our evening classes? Cer Fortunately it has been a simple matter to procure the tainly the cali ber of those who register for evening classes is services of part-time instructors. We are located in an area different from what we find in day classes. They are mature where qualified men are in abundance. Wright-Patterson Air people who for various reasons are seeking personal improve Force Base has lured top fli ght insh·uctors from some of the ment. Many of them have never had the opportunity of attend outstanding universities of the country with salaries that col ing college and the evening classes are a welcome opportunity. leges cannot afford and these men have been placed in the Again and again we have examples of students who attend research programs there. Many of these ex-coll ege professors classes without interruption for 12 to 14 years. Each year we are hungry to get back into the class room, even for a short graduate several of these, most of whom have completed all of their work in evening classes. The caliber of work done in the evening classes is on a par with that accomplished in the clay classes, according to the evaluation of our full-time faculty, who have experienced teaching both in day and evening. Popular Courses What courses are the most popular? As might be expected, the greatest number register in the business division. Account ing has always been popular. Next September for instance we will have three sections a week in elementary accounting alone. lnh·oduction to business, fundamental speech classes, English composition, business English and introductory psychology are other very popular subjects. Because of the shortage of elementary and secondary school teachers, the Education division ranks second in popularity. The majority of p eople registered here are renewing their Donald C. Metz Robert Donovan teaching certifi cates after being inactive for several years. 3 Ralph V. Montello, chemical engineer at the NCR, is typical of the pro Walter Barnes, accounting instructor, is one of the most indefatigable fessional men who give of their evenings to teach in their field. Here instructors in evening classes. This semester, for example, he is teaching Montello lectures to an industrial chemistry class. three different classes three different nights of the week. Bringing these teachers out of their retirements of sorts is solv. from various areas of small business operations carried the ing a problem that has worried educational administrators for assignment. Much more service can be given to the com the past few years. The evening classes are doing their part munity in this area. to help alleviate a critical situation. The co llege of engineering and technical institute hold Full-Time Students honors for the next most popular areas. Industrial and me It is significant that more and more full-time students are chanical engineering have the highest interest of students. attending one or more courses in evening classes. Las t semester There has been enough demand in these two areas to give a over 400 people did this in addition to regular enrollment cycle of courses making it rather simple for an industrious already indicated. individual to complete the engineering requirements in eve There are a number of reasons for this. In some instances, ning classes alone. naturally, students find it difficult to fit all required courses in their day program. In other cases, they have gone out of Wright-Patterson Center their way to take a clas with an experienced person in industry ll) addition to the 150 class s presently offered on the who has earned the reputation as a teacher in tJ1e evening campus, we have been giving 20 to 30 classes at Wright division. This has been particularly h·ue in business and Patterson Air Force Base. These have been well attended and education. as students advance they continue their work on the campus. I have frequently fou nd it amusing to observe what adult As reported in a previous issue of the ALUMNUS, we have and younger persons look for in teachers. Young persons in recently expanded om services at Wright-Patterson Air Force day classes are apt to ask what degree his instructor has, where Base. Through the cooperati on of the directorate of supply and he taught, and what he majored in. The evening class student pro curement, UD has estabHshed two special programs in simply asks, what does the instructor do in the daytime? The the area of supply for W-PAFB personnel. answer to the question qualifies or disqualifies the instructor. Enrollment in these two-year courses is open to all AMC One of the problems of adminisb·ation is the high mortality personnel and contains not onJy special com ses designed par in evening classes. Throughout the counh-y, experience shows ticularl y for the program but also a number of alxeady estab the average drop-outs to be in tJ1 e neighborhood of 40-50 per Hshed UD courses. cent from one year to the next. Students can obtain a certificate of completion of the two A survey done during the last semester, showed that 42 year associate program upon the completion of the prescribed per cent of the students enrolled las t year were not enrolled curricula. during this year. We are presently planning to extend the services of the Last year, in an effort to curb this mortality we established evening division in the area of non-credit comses. For the a program of counseling for evening students. Each dean is pas t several years we have been offering an engineering re available at least one night a week to talk with the evening fresher course for persons interested in qualifying for the State students and help them plan their programs. Board of Registration for Engineers. Likewise, a real es tate The evening classes are drawing from an ever-widening conference has been popular. So popular, in fact, th at last area. It is common for students to b·avel 40 and 50 miles once fa ll we had to close regish·ations when 170 signed up for the or twice a week to attend classes. Last year there were 4 eight-week session, with two meetings a week. students who drove 70 miJes from Indiana twice a week to Other examples would include a speed reading com se, that attend their evening classes. has been appreciated by many executi ves. This non-credit It would be difficult to estimate when the peak of evening program consists of 16 evenings spread over a six week period. registration will be reached. CertainJy there is no evidence It is being repeated three times during the cmrent semester. of a decline in the near future. It is my expectati on that the A small business conference, lasting over a period of eight evening classes will continue to grow proportionately with the weeks, was well attended. In tJ1is conference 24 speakers day classes.
4 UD Helps Organize Educational TV Foundation in Dayton; Cooperative Move is One of First in Country
The University has been taking a lead is the producer. week and means of preparing them; ing part in bringing educational television Typical of the productions of the Foun "Music on Parade," a series presenting the to Dayton. A year ago we reported on dations to date are such shows as: "Where musical units from all school and college the formation of the Allied Universities Do We Go," a weekly half-hour on ca units in concert; "Movie-time"-student TV council and the possibiHties of an reers, each week discussing a clilferent job teachers from UD will illustrate the use educational tv station in Dayton. or occupation. Students questioners ask of movies in the classroom; and "Rehearsal Since then a good deal of work has members of a panel of persons in the job Hall," a series presenting plays, dance been accomplished. As we go to press the about the details of their work. groups, and musical aggregations prac colleges and school units of the area are "Adventures on Art," gives a first ex ticing for performances. incorporating the Dayton Educational perience in the fi elds of arts to those inter Current members of the Educational Television Foundation. ested. They have done programs on ce TV Foundation in addition to UD are: This Foundation has actually been in ramics, finger painting, soap sculpture and the Dayton Public schools, the Dayton operation since January 1st, producing paper decoration so far. Catholic schools; Sinclair College, the educational television programs for all "Mr. Fixit," gave basic instructions on Dayton Art Institute. The Dayton Public three stations in the Dayton area on be how to make minor repairs around the Library; The Oakwood schools, and the half of all education. house, such as repairing leaky faucets, bad West Carrollton schools. Others will be The Foundation has ·raised a total of elecb·ic plugs, refinishing tables and the brought in in the future. $10,000 among all its participants, for the like. This is one of the first examples of this purpose of hiring a full-time writer, and Set to start within a period of a week type of cooperation with commercial sta producer to actually air the shows. are five other programs: "Food Fair," tions in the nation. ------Bob Campbell, form erly of WHIO-TV, built around the best food buys of the En joy the Fl yer's Frol!c
Hilltop Jottings • Roger Brien, editor of the French Air Force Base hospital, Coll ege Hill hos neering. Liz is currently vying witl1 409 Canaclian magazine "Marie," was awarded pital and the Dayton State hospital as well men in her classes . the 1953 Marianist Award in ceremonies as the Siene Home for the Aged. a Speed reading, first offered in evening on the campus, December 8. "Marie" has The real Christmas spirit prevailed on classes during the CUlTent semester, has been call ed "the most beautiful and most the Hilltop. been a very popular course. The course complete Marian magazine of modern • Very Rev. Andrew L. Seebold, S.M ., is being repeated three times during the times" by the Vatican. UD president, will lead a pilgrimage to semester, and from all indications will be M. Brien is also editor of the weekly Europe next summer in honor of the a fixture in the offerings from now on. Catholic press service for 120 Canadian Marian Year. Fr. Seebold is the spi1·itual • Louis Budenz will teach a course in papers ; producer of a weekly radio pro director of the ational Association of the techniques of communism, during the gram on Radio Notre Dame; editor of a Marianist Organizations. The trip will be summer session beginning June 21. The 32-page pamphlet on a Mari an subject gin in New York June 9th and offers two course will be offered in both day and each month; and a prize-winning poet. He alternate trips arri ving back in this cotm evening sessions. and his wife were guests of the University try in mid and late July. • The University is taking a long look for two days. • Two sets of German guests have visited at its il1ternal organization in a survey • Dr. Edward A. Ruth has been elected the campus tl1is spring. First, the director now going on. In announcing the survey president of the National Catholic Con of adult education for tl1 e province of Fr. Seebold said, "UD is no longer the ference on Family Life and wi ll preside Baden came in rrud-December and then little school on the hill. Therefore it be at the conference's annual meeting to be in late February eight leaders of the town hooves us to restudy om functions and held in ew Orleans this month. Dr. of Solingen were visitors and witnessed give some direction to om efforts especial Ruth is chairman of the department of the Dayton-Cincinnati basketball game, .l y in the areas of student and community sociology at UD. their first. services." • The University was saluted coast to • The Marian library has obtained the The study is needed most in the fi eld coast by the Vaughn Monroe -Camel Marian collection of the late Leon Clug of business operations, Fr. said. "We want Caravan radio show on the CBS network net, librarian at the Universi ty of Paris. to determine the relationships of all · busi on January 11. The show was recorded in This acquisition brings the Hbrary to the ness activities at UD with our main job, a personal appearance of Monroe and the point where, it is believed it is now th e that of giving our students the best educa Sauter-Finegan orchestra in rrud-Decem largest Marian collection in the world. tion we can." The study will determine ber. The Clugnet coll ection was purchased these relationships and set up a pattern • "Operation Joy," student Christmas through the kindness of a friend who for future operations. project to bring the spirit of the holiday loaned tl1e money to buy the books. • Second semester registration on the to the people of Dayton was a tremendous • Lt. Col. Cyril M. Sterner has replaced campus has held up surprisingly well this success. Col. OHver J. Kinney as the commandant year according to Bro. Joseph Mervar, The students gathered enough food to of tl1 e UD ROTC detachment. Col. S.M., registrar. supply holiday baskets for close to 50 Kinney has been reassigned to Norfolk, Usually the drop-outs at semester time famili es, over 500 toys were distributed Va., to attend the Army War College. will show a ten per cent decrease in the to needy yo ungsters and parties were • Elizabeth DeCurtins is the second total enrollment. This time the decrease is given for patients at the Wright-Patterson woman in UD history to enroll for engi- less than three per cent. 5 The Building is Ready: Will We Have Money For Furnishings ? We've still got a long way to go towards of-town alumni has gone out with a re providing the furnishings for the new quest for their gift. From the returns so dormitory. And it won't be too long be far, it would seem that the number of fore the building will be ready. contributors from beyond Dayton will The accepted bid on the furnishings is be considerably larger than last year. for $1 00,000. Included in this are double In cities where there is a concentration deck bunks, mattresses and spreads, a of alumni, a number of volunteers are fol double desk with two chairs, a lounge lowing up the mai ling and urging each chair and draperies for all the rooms. alumnus to do his share. The pledge card Wardrobe space is provided in the closets should accompany contributions mailed built into the partitions between the in-but don't hold yom gift if you have rooms. misplaced your card, they're accepted The first Annual Alumni Fund brought without the card. in a total of $40,000 from more than 1200 Fr. Seebold is personally acknowledg alumni and friends. Of that $2,750 was Founders Hall (nee Me yer-Ze hl e r Hall) is complete ing each gift to the fund and with his specified for other than dormitory furnish on the outside and the interior work is progressing letter each conb·ibutor will receive a ings. In the current Alumni Fund 700 rapidly. The building should be ready for furnish newly designed contributing membership Dayton grads alone have already added ings about the time of graduation. Will we be card. able to raise the funds to help this p roj ect? Don ' t nearl y $20,000 to the fund with many forget to do your part. The June issue of the ALUMNUS will more still to be reported on. carry a complete listing of contributions Within the past month, the call to out- En joy the Flyer's Frolic to the Second Annual Fund.
Chapter News -Mail Call Detroit Let's Write A Letter to Our Overseas Alumni! c/o Postmaster, San Fra ncisco Pvt. George R. Derham Class of '52 15 enthusiastic alumni in the Motor Donald Abbott Class of '50 A Btry. , 452 F. A. Bn. City braved a heavy snow to come to the 382nd Gen. Hosp. APO 46 meeting for reorganization of the Detroit APO 54 Rev. John F inke, S.M. Class of '29 Box 180 Chapter, Thursday, February 25. Charles Bran t Class of '52 Co. E., 34th Inf. Reg. APO 864 A new constitution was established and APO 24 Capt. S. W. Hickey Class of '25 plans were made for greater animation in Edward L. Buescher, M.D. Class of '45 Di v. of Comm., Hq., Pepperrell AFB chapter activities. A three dollar dues 406th Med. Gen. Lab. APO 862 Lt. Thomas Lambert Class of '53 charge annually for the chapter was insti APO 500 Don. H.. Crossley Class of '52 86th ATS (MATS ) tuted. B Btry., 555 F . A. Bn. APO 57 Bros. Thomas Price and John Lucier of APO 31 Lt. Edward Maj. Class of '50 the faculty were present and gave the Phyllis Niswonger Fackler Class of '42 Bty. A30, F. A. Bn., c/o Lt. Col. Robert Fackler APO 46 members an up-to-the-minute report on Col. Charles Max\vell Class of '30 the campus from, all points of view. Hq. FEAF, APO 925 Hq. 317th T. C. Wing A board of directors to be responsible Maj. Leo Farber Class of '41 APO 13 for future meetings was selected. John Pvt. James R. McCaffery Class of '52 Hqs. 56th Amph. Tk. & Tr. Bn. Det. 7, 373rd TMP Fisher, '35, and George Loesch, '15, were APO 38 APO 863 named co-chairman of the board, with the Pfc. Don E. Graham Class of '52 Lt. R. M. Pfei1fer Class of '4.5 1-lq . Co., 229th Ord. Base Depot 18th Weather Sqdn., MATS following servi ng as members: James R. APO 503 Cassidy, '33, Clement Hellebush, '22, Tom APO 633 Cpl. Robert Lehner Class of '52 Maj. Henry Stang Class of '21 Hoeffel, '50, T. J. Hollenkamp, '37, Ed 72nd Tk. Bn., Pers, Sn. 85th ADW, Box 111 ward P. Rush, '35, Joseph E. Simon, '42, APO 248 APO 207 and tfaj. L. G. Stuhldreher, '27. Lt. Col. Verne Malloy Class of '36 Maj. H. Thomas Class of '27 Tentative plans for a dinner dance later 7.5th Main. Group Hq. 3rd A. F. APO 954 APO 125 in the year were also discussed. Pvt. James S. Sasala Class of '52 Harold E. W ehner Class of '51 40th lnf. Div. Hd. 50th MS Grp., 50th Ftr. Bmr. Wg. APO 6 APO 109 Cleveland Lt. Col. Paul Spahr Class of '28 Ens. William W eis Class of '49 Hq. 24 A/ D Wg. US S Sabine A0-25 ew officers were elected at the Cleve APO 74 c/o FPO land chapter meeting held at Cathedral Ens. William H. Stevens Class of '52 Col. George Zahn Class of '39 Latin school, February 24. Gunnery Dept. Hq .. USAFE, ACS-Comm. John Bohan, '29, was elected president; USS Oriskany APO 633 c/o FPO c/ o Postmaster, Seattle Joe Jira, '31, vice-president; Dick Mayer, Lt. George Sullivan Class of '47 Col. John Carroll Class of '28 '51, secretary; and Joe Popik, '51, b·eas USS Wahoo ( SS 565 ) Army Engr., Hq. USARAL urer. c/o FPO APO 942 Bill Mayer, '25, was named program lst Lt. Alfred Voigt, M.D. Class of '49 Marv Ann Kurtz Clas .. of '42 USAH 8167th A .5010th Inst. Unit chairman, and Dan Ferrazza, '51, was APO 1055 APO 937 made pubucity chairman. A. A. Zettler Class of '21 Col. Brendan Reilly Class of '39 The Cleveland group are now planning APO 74, Box K 502.5th Supply Cr. to bring their membership list up-to-date Vincent Yano Class of '44 APO 924 USCAR-Legal Lt. Col. Irvin g Shepard Class of '51 and enter a new phase with much more APO 719 r.-2. Hq. USARAL active programming. c/ o Postmaster, New York APO 949 6 SPORTS
Another NIT for Dayton Kamikaze Kids Stir Nation; By the time you read this the 1954 NIT will be history. Look Ahead to Bright Future It's impossible at this writing to even hazard a guess at Flyer chances. On a given night there's little doubt that Dayton Shed no tears for the basketball F lyers! could lick any team in the country-the problem is you don't Tommy Blackburn's Kamikaze Kids rolled and at times always come up with a good night when you need it most. roared through their 30-game suicide schedule to finish the The Flyers came up with that good night enough this past regular season with a 24-6 record. season to make them one of the most popular teams in the The Flyer schedule and Dayton's performance this season nation. What do the Flyers have that has enabled them to have served one purpose that may bring about a change in build such a loyal following? the national picture-especially in tl1e newspaper fi eld. A number of pieces are needed to put together the entire Newspapers and wire ser ices this season have been taking picture-but one lone factor that acts like a magnet is "thrills." some of the highly ranked teams to task because of "patsy" In one season the Flyers give their fans tluills that some schedules. sports followers have to wait years to experience. Thrombosis The press and public are finall y beginning to reali ze tl1at fi eldhouse-Coronary Court-that fits the Flyers' play at home "supremacy" of many of the basketball powers in the country as well as on the road. are actually myths built on home court showings and/ or A comeback in which you hold a team witl1out a fi eld goal against schools whose atl1 letic reputations have been built for more than 20 full minutes-fantas tlc. How about coming around truly great football teams . back from a 21-point deficit to win-and on a foreign court The Flyers make no claims to greatness. They are just a more fantastic. A h·iple overtime-won and lost, then won and good, entertaining ball club that upon occasions can rise to lost again. great heights. A spectacular shot tl1at ties a game already in one overtime Brightest factor in the picture is the prospect of a sparkling witl1 two seconds remaining; a last second tip-in that brings future. Only Don (Mickey) Donoher and Larry Peclicord will victory-or a two-point loss to an ancient rival. Yes, there were graduate from this year's squad. heartbreaks, too- but all are part of the picture tl1at makes "Only"-that's hardly tl1e word for Donoher whose sparkling Dayton so popular-so great a fi gure in th e basketball world. floor play and accurate eye earned him a warm spot in tl1 e Now's the Time- hearts of Flyer fans. And Pedicord, when the picture looked Joe Sheeketski, new backfield coach, speaking straight from clark and the Flyers' basketball world ready to crumble, came the shoulder scored a KO over rumor mongers with a clearcut off the bench at Memphis State to get Dayton back on even statement to the Dayton Daily News with "I would prefer keel. that you mention I've been worl'ing in a gaming house here Had the Flyers dropped that game to Memphis the Dayton in Reno since I quit coaching .. .. It is a legal enterprise out season could have turned into a nightmare. here, operating under the laws of the state of Nevada .... I Back next season will be Long John Horan and Jumpin' Jack assure you my job was strictly above board and I have abso Sallee, both now members of tl1e 1000 point club-only Monk lutely nothing to hide .. . . I'd rather have yo u mention it Meineke, Chuck Grigsby and the baby tank, Junior Norris, openly, so that someone won't find out for himself and b·y to ever topped that mark. make something big out of it." Horan can play witl1 the first five of any team in the land and you'd never be able to dig deep enough to find any coach Honors for Dashin' Dan who would h1rn his back on Sallee. Lt. Walter D. O'Brien of the Marine Corps (he was halfback Least heralded but one of the most valuable of H1e starting Danny O'Brien to Flyer followers) was named "Marine of five was the redoubtable Chris Harris. The junior guard was the Month" for November in Japan. Danny also was named nothing short of brilliant at times and his defensive work, to a number of All-Marine and All-Service teams in Japan almost unnoticed by fans, was a key fac;:tor from start to finish . because of his outstanding play last fall. Bill Uhl needed only his sophomore year to break Sa ll ee's Pep's Peeps : sophomore scoring record of 550 points (Jack had topped Jim Katcavage, sophomore end, was named to the Marian Monk's previous high ) . And the Green Giant from Greenfield, All-American team comprised of players of Litl1uanian an Ohio, came so fast during tl1e season his name is already being cestry ... . Don Donoher now is a lieutenant colonel in the whispered about when All -Americans are mentioned- despite ROTC and Don Dartt and Hal Gabel have bounced up to first tl1 e fact that tl1e fi eld is overloaded with seniors and juniors lieutenants .. . . Dartt and Gabel have ended their football already. careers and Donoher, whose promotion elevated him from There are some other sophomores yo u are going to be company to battalion commander, has just completed a sen hearing more about- tJ1e two Bobs, Fiely and Jacoby. Both sational basketball season ... . Pat Maloney, Dick Bertrand, played their parts in the success of tl1e past season as did and Jimmy Raiff recently received their second looey com Gordie Dodane, George Woywod, Don Miller and Bill Mihm. missions and will report for active duty in a few montl1s .... Som etimes it was a large role and otl1er times just a small one few persons have made so many fri ends in such a short time but all share in the spotlight. as George Dickson did during his stay on th e Hilltop. Shed no tears- the Flyers can take care of themselve ·. 7 Camera Clicks By Johnny Moreau Flyer Gridders Face Ambitious Schedule Coach Hugh Devore and his staff will face one of the most ambitious seasons in the University's history next fall and the early starting date means a lot of work must be done in a hurry. Tennessee and the new Dixieland grid giant, Mississippi Southern, join the Flyers' rugged "ole regulars," Xavier, Cin cinnati , Miami and Chattanooga in pro viding opposition. Because of the recent CAA ruling that limits schedules to 10 games, the Flyers will not be filling the open date listed be low. You may want to clip this schedule for your wallet. Homecoming will prob ably be ei ther the Louisville or John Carroll game.
Bill Uhl vs Lou isville Chris Harris vs Eastern Ky. ------, .. Such language Mr. 11!! .. . Oh, no ya don' t! CLIP THIS
Sept. 18 Bowling Green Dayton Sept. 25 Cincinnati Cincinnati Oct. 2 John Carroll Dayton Oct. 9 Louisville Dayton Oct. 17 Xavier Cincinnati Oct. 23 Tennessee Knoxville Oct. 30 Open ov. 6 Mississippi Southern Dayton ov. 13 Miami Oxford, 0 . Nov. 21 Xavi er Dayton Nov. 25 Chattanooga Chattanooga
Bob Fiely and Jack Sallee Bill Uhl vs Murray State How's your sports library? Keep ... Stairway of Stars! ... Boarding house reach! ing up with the basketball Flyers? You may want to be sure you get the following: American Boy-Open Road February, 1954 Issue . .. cover of Horan and story PIC- February, 1954 Issue ... layout on Sallee and Harris Sports Review's Basketball- 1954 Issue ... Four Iron Men and the Green Giant Inside Sports-February, 1954 Issue ... Pilot of the Dayton Flyers Basketball- 1954-Dell Publication ... Dayton ranked fourth Young Catholic Messenger- Jan. 29 Issue ... cartoon on Horan Catholic Boy- Jan. Issue ... Keep your eye on Dayton Bobby Jacoby vs. Gusties Horan vs Baldwin-Wallace , . , Fledgling with w ings! .. Whadda I do now! 8 Hugh Devore Heads New Flyer Football Staff; Sheelietslii, Dintaman, Rush Give UD New Looli A new era of football is opening on the game" in 1949. Devore coached at New In 1939 Sheeketski became head coach hilltop. York University from 1950 until 1952 at Holy Cross, a post he held through Hugh Devore, with a hand-picked staff, when the Empire State school cut back 1941. From 1942 until 1945 he served will now direct the destinies of Fiver foot- its athletic program drastically and as special agent for the FBI and in the ball. · dropped football. fall of '45 returned to Notre Dame to join The amiable Devore, very highly re Devore then moved on to Green Bay Devore's staff. garded by the coaching gentry, comes to and after a coaching switch there last fall, Sheeketski rejoined Dr. Anderson in '46 Dayton from the pro ranks. In '53 the was offered the top spot, but declined in but this time it was at Iowa. In '47 Shee otre Dame graduate (he played under order to return to the collegiate field. ketski became head coach and athletic Knute Rockne and Hunk Anderson) was West Orange . J. is home to the director at the University of Nevada. After with the Green Bay Packers. Devore clan which recently added its the Wolfpack dropped football in 1950 he Devore has chosen a former coaching seventh child, a husky little potential joined the New York Yankees staff as assistant, Herb Dintaman, as line coach; gridder, the fourth boy. backfield coach. a former Irish teammate, Joe Sheeketski, Of the three aides, Dintaman probably After the '51 season Sheeketski joined as backfield coach; and a former pupil, knows the Devore system best. At 33, the public relations staff of Harrah's Club Clive Rush, as end and frosh coach. chubby Herb is 10 years younger than his in Reno. The Dayton assignment marks The new Dayton grid boss played end boss whom he played under at St. Bona his return to football. Skeeketski is mar for Notre Dame in '31, '32 and '33. He venture. ried and has two sons.
Hugh Devore Joe Sheeketski Herb Dintaman Clive Rush was co-captain his senior year and earned Dintaman, who hails from Hazelton, Sheeketski replaces George Dickson, mention as an All-American. He served Pa., entered the Olean, N. Y. school in who was released by the school after he as frosh coach for his alma mater under 1940 but had to take time out for war received an offer to join Terry Brennan's Elmer Layden. service. He earned the Bronze Star in staff at Notre Dame. From 1935-37 Devore was on the staff China for pulling two pilots from the Youngest member of the staff is Rush, of Jim Crowley at Fordham. Devore wreckage of a burning plane. former star pass catcher and punter for coached ends and tackles and Frank After the war he returned to the Bonnies Miami University. Leahy guards and centers in develop and was co-captain of the 1947 team Rush was offensive end and defensive ment of the famed "Seven Blocks of Gran which incidentally lost 7-6 to Dayton. He halfback for the Green Bay Packers last ite." served as an assistant to Devore in 1948 season. It was there that he met Devore. In 1938 Devore moved to Providence and '49 at Olean. The talented Rush is 23. College as head coach and in 1942 be Dintaman was recalled to service in He was a standout athlete at Spring came an assistant to Ank Scanlan at 1950 and went to Germany. He joined field, 0. Public High and went on to Ox Holy Cross. Devore returned to Totre Devore in time for the 1951 season at ford, 0. where he became the most pro Dame in 1943 as an assistant to Leahy. New York University and remained there ficient pass receiver in Redskin history. He The Irish were national champs that year. through 1952 when the school gave up caught 64 passes over three seasons good The next year Devore assisted Ed Mc football. for 998 yards and 14 touchdowns. Keever and in '45 became head coach Last season Dintaman served as assist These 14 touchdowns tie him with himself. His 1945 Irish team compiled a ant to Hugo Macolini, his co-captain at Dayton's Jim Currin and Bowling Green's 7-2-1 record. When Leahy returned from Bonaventure, at St. Cecelia High School Jim Ladd for the all-time Ohio collegiate service to retake the reins in 1946 Devore in Englewood, . J. record for scoring passes caught. moved on to became head coach at St. At 44 Sheeketski is the older staff mem Rush, who did the punting for Green Bonaventure. ber. Dayton fans remember his fine Bay last season, had to decide whether Under Devore the Bonnies won 25, lost Nevada team that came to Dayton in '49. he wanted to continue his pro career or eight, and played one tie. He also took The Flyers won that game 16-14 on a get into coaching. He decided that join them into the Tobacco Bowl at Lexington, field goal by Barney Otten. ing Devore now would enable him to get Ky. in '46. Devore remained at St. Bona Sheeketski and Devore were teammates the needed background for a coaching venture untill949 and in that time played at Notre Dame. The former Irish half career. Dayton three times. back's first coaching assignment was with Rush is married and at the moment is The Flyers and Bonnies traded 7-6 vic Dr. Eddie Anderson at Holy Cross where residing in Springfield, 0. tories with Dayton winning the "rubber he served six years as backfield coach. Enjoy the Flyer's Frolic
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This was the scene in the chapel as Fr. Henry J. Kobe, S.M., opened the celebration of the Marian Year on December 8th. Many events are being held during the year as part of the celebration.
Col. Francis Gabel, '30, right, receives the second oak leaf cluster to his Bronze Star for services in Korea, from Maj. Gen. Lionel McGarr. Col. Gabel is now deputy G I for the Eighth Army
Vincent Yano, '44, and his family in their home on Okinawa where Vince is a legal adviser to the U. S. Civil Administration of the Ryukyus.
10 The Camera of Campus Events Photos lnv l ing or Facult
Carl Ruh, '40, state senator from the 24th district in Kentucky, shown at the Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort, with Lt. Gov. Emerson Beauchamp, Lt. John Larish, '50, explains to a group of natives presiding officer. in Yong San, Korea, some ways to avoid wasting coal which he has just distributed a s a member of 22nd Signal Group there.
11 Among the Alums
HERB WHALEN '09 the board of the Keps Electric Company PEG KUNKA '52 in Pittsburgh. Peg says that Herb is one of Paul is active in professional and civic after four years of the early birds at circles too, for he is a member of the deadlines on the UD. As a matter American Ordnance Association, the Tri Exponent and the of fact he is proud state Industrial Association, and a mem U. D. ews she's of the fact that he ber of the committee of management of even found a liter was a member of the Homewood-Bmshton branch of the ary angle to her the first basketball Pittsburgh YMCA . t eaching job. team at UD which Married to the former Mary Jane Ryan She's a first grade had "day schol of Pittsburgh they have two children, teacher at LONG ars" on it. Herb Paul, seven, and Patrick, four. FELLOW School was a guard on Paul is active in alumni affairs too, and in Dayton. the 1907 and is somewhat of a rallying point for the This is her sec 1908 teams. He .local alumni. He tells us that he has ond year at the same school as a full-time also was active in the preparations to build heard from Fred ewman, '99, who is teacher, but she also did her student the monument to Om Lady on the cam still plenty active and interested in all teaching at the same school. pus which is this year having its 50th things about the Hilltop. As Peg says, "I have forty little shining anniversary. Business address: care of Rockwell faces turned up to mine; forty pairs of Leaving UD Herb went into the bank Manufacturing Company, 400 N. Lexing grubby hands to guide." ing business rising to be vice-president of ton Avenue, Pittsburgh; Home address: Both summers between teaching Peg the old City ational Bank and finally 5381 Highgrove Road, Whitehall, Penn. has been in the record department at the the Union Trust. Anderson Piano Company and says she is After retiring from that first career in h r own best customer for she has a 1932 he joined the Northwestern Mutual ED SEEBOECK '49 large collection of operatic recordings Life Insurance Company as an agent in Ed is another which she uses quite regularly. 1932 and then became general agent in Peg is also active politically as a mem 1942. alumnus who con tinued his educa ber of the Montgomery County Young And for the last 22 years he's carved Republicans. She was a committeewoman himself a second career in the field of tion after leaving the Hilltop. He for the lOth ward in Dayton last year insurance. His is the only agency in town and was kept busy trying to do her job which boasts of two million-dollar-a-year went on to the Harvard Gradu in all the 39 precincts of the ward. producers. Ye editor can testify as to Peg's com The agency covers 13 counties in ate School of Business Adminis petence, for his eldest is currently among Southwestern Ohio. Peg's forty charges and Dad is constantly It's a real alumni family too. Herb, jr., tration, where he received his mas amazed at the development of his son. was '38; Janet is now Mrs. Joe Eilers, jr., Business address: Longfellow School, '40; Elaine was '45 and is now Mrs. ter' degree in business adminis- 245 Salem Avenue; Home address: 116 George Mitchel, '48, and John, the young Monteray Avenue. est will marry Jayne Nyhan, '50, in April. tration in 1951. The senior Whalens are proud of their Then he was awarded the ortheastern nine grandchildren. regional Chamber of Commerce scholar AN APPEAL Business address: 20th floor, Hulman ship to attend the National Educational Conference of the Chamber. We try in each issue of the Bldg., Dayton; Home address: 269 ALUMNUS to bring you all the Schantz Avenue, Dayton 9. After this Ed joined the ew York Life Insurance Company as a sales agent. A news we can about your fellow year ago, he was appointed assistant classmates, their families, their jobs, PAUL A. WICK '38 manager of the Dayton branch of the their promotions and tl1e things of interest that are happening to them. Paul continued company. Unfortunately, many times we his education At the moment Ed is living in Spring miss some major events about alum after UD at the field with the re ponsibility of developing ni. Although we have a clipping University of and adding to the sales force in Spring service covering the State of Ohio Pittsburgh Law, field. and we gather all we can find from , getting his LL.B. He's a great sports fan and participates the faculty and staff at UD we also in 1942. For the in basketball, football and ice hockey as need your help. next four years he a spectator any time he can. Actively he Everyone wants to hear what's was in the legal likes golf, tennis and swimming. happening to his classmates. So to department of the On the other side he also likes any help us do the job, please don't Pittsbmgh Army dramatic performance he can find and lots forget the ALUM US when you Ordnance Dis of classical music. hear something about a grad. trict. He's looking forward to the time when OR when you get a promotion or Then he joined the Rockwell Manufac he can give more time to community par a new job, when you have a baby, turing Company and has steadily risen ticipation. when you get married, or have until he is now assistant to the president, Business address: 733 Hulman Bldg. , something interesting happen to and assistant secretary of the company. Dayton; home addres: (presently) at you, please let us know. He is also secretary and a member of 1122 N. Limestone St., Springfield, Ohio. 12 ' Calling Doctor 338''
Dr. ichard C. Mill r Pre ident of Local Medical 0 forth ar
lie's a ph sician, surg on, amil man, the local medical asso •iation. nd what authored uu arti cle which is ·onsid r •d golfer und a fo rmer trump t pi a •r, bu t an effect that con mitt · • has had on the tho sla ncl urd method in the ountr for n os l or a ll he's an innovator and widc community and the profc ·sion. T he li.t running such a program. awak · m eli ·a l practition r. of their accomplishm •nts is long. 1 ick i · marri cl
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Mediation ommittee T he com milt e has also established a mediation commill c in th society to w hich individuals an bring their com plaints about ov r ·hnrgin r, poor meclical care, or unprof sional conduct, get a h aring. The public r I ti n ommittee also ponsor th chool round-up in which v ry young ter pr parin for cbool in the fall i i,· n •• m cli cal examination without charg . Dick and Dr. Thoma · ' hark v, as mem PR Committf' bers of th committ ', h lp ci to estab li sh the first 1 ali nal li ab tcs detection rII 1949 he was appointed lo th Arst week program in Dayton. T hi program fu nctioning public relations ·ommitte of was so successful that th h o doctor
13 CLASS NOTES
1908 for three years. 1930 MscR. HARRY J. ANSBUHY, dean of the MATTHEW BoYLAN recently returned to GERARD "Fuzzy" FAUST has filed petitions Dayton clergy and pastor of Corpus this country from an extended trip to announcing his candidacy for the post of Christi church for the past 18 years, cel Ireland. Montgomery County auditor in the fall ebrated the 40th anniversary of his ordina elections. tion on February 8. He has been dean of 1925 the Dayton district since 1949 and a JoHN D. BYRNE, was recently honored 1932 monsignor since 1951. with a dinner at the Hotel Statler, Cleve CHARLES GRoss, superintendent of the land, marking his lOth anniversary as income tax division for the City of Day 1920 manager of the Cleveland agency of the ton, resigned his post December 31 to Union Mutual Life Insurance Company accept an as yet unannounced new posi WILLIAM F. METZNER is the Piqua area of Portland, Maine. The company presi tion . He won the plaudits of the City representative of the Republic Powdered dent gave John the first honorable men Manager for having established and oper Metals Company of Cleveland, dealing in tion won by an Ohio company in com aluminations and protective coatings. He ated the tax division. pany competition in the U.S. and Canada. is living at 417 S. Main St., Piqua ART RouTZONG is the president of the Houston, Texas baseball club, a farm club 1923 1926 of the Cardinals. · RAY MICHEL has been elected president CoL. CHAHLES HIMES, JR., has returned LEE L. ZIEROLF, for 21 years athletic of the Walnut Grove Country Club in from a tom of duty in Germany to be coach at St. Mary's High School, San Dayton for the current year. come the director of personnel at the dusky, has been appointed business man 3535th Observer Training Wing, Mather ager of Providence Hospital, Sandusky. MR. AND MRs. JosEPH G. WAG NER of Field, California. His basketball team won the Ohio class Sidney celebrated their 25th wedding B championship in 1936. anniversary February 13 with a Thanks 1927 giving Mass in Holy Angels church, Sid ney, and a Silver Jubilee Dance at the CoL. JosEPH GoETZ, chief of the Armed 1933 Van Cleve Hotel that night. Forces Professional Entertainment JunGE RoDNEY LovE has filed petitions Branch, has been making headlines re seeking the Montgomery County Probate cently in the nation's press . In recognition Judgeship again. 1924 of his service, he has been made a mem LT. CoL. FRA K W. WILLIAJvis, chief of ber of the Hollywood Masquers. the Air Force Engine Test Facility, Ar After the death of his daughter from 1934 nold Engineering Development Center, polio, he has been very active in aiding FoRREST L. BLru'IKENSHIP has announced Tullahoma, Tennessee, was recently polio drives throughout the country. In his candidacy for the Democratic nomi awarded the Hour Glass Device to the Dayton this year, as last, he arranged nation for U. S. Congress from the 4th Armed Forces Re,serve Medal, for 20 for Hollywood entertainers to be part of district of Ohio this fall. years' service as an Air Force Reserve the TV benefit poHo show at the UD A polio victim at fom, he has been offic er. He's been at the Arnold Center fi eldhouse. assistant county prosecutor, and an assist-
Chaminade Varsity Coaches Save a Million Dollars ? 2 Grandchildren In 2 Days An All-UD Group -It Can Be Done By Some Give Rolls Merry Christmas The major coaching posts at Chaminade How would you Hke to save one million When you've had five grandchildren, High School now all belong to UD grad dollars? Sounds great, doesn't it? Well , we the SLxth one doesn't usually cause too uates. Donald "Bucky" Weaver, '51, has know two alumni who have saved that much stir. But when number six and seven been appointed head football coach for amount and more-for the government. arrive within 24 hours, that's pretty the Eagles, succeeding Bob Jauron, who The two, both members of the class of special. resigned to become coach at St. Joseph's 1949, were commended by the Air Force And that's what happened to Mr. and College in Indiana. in ovember for making the "buy of the Mrs. Matt Roll of Dayton in December. As football mentor, Bucky joins Tom Month" in which they saved the govern Their daughter Marianna Roll Phillips, Frericks, '52, who has just completed his '51, had their fifth grandchild, Stephen ment over $1,300,000. first year as head basketball coach. last July. Barry J. Shillito is a contracting officer, Bucky is also the first Chaminade alum Chrisbnas week things really happened nus to be appointed as football coach at in the fighter interceptor unit, with the though. Son Dr. John Roll, '44 had a his alma mater. headquarters, AMC, and R. Donald Frost second son Mark, December 21. And the Bucky was an All-City end for Cham is a buyer in the electronic branch, anna next clay the phone rang again as so n Dick inade in 1942-43-44. After seeing service, ment section, of AMC. and his wife, the former ·w anda Billet, he entered UD in 1947 and played end The two men foresaw changes which had their third daughter, Julie. here for three years. were coming in the armament system of An interesting sidelight is the fact that Following graduation he spent a year as a plane and by changing the specifica both of Marianna's children are boys; both head basketball and football coach at the tions, they saved over $1,300,000 and of John's children are boys; and all three Russia, Ohio high school. averted delays in delivery. of Dick's children are girls. 14 Mary Nagle Named Lt. Robert Heck '52 Dayton Law Office Editor of "McCall Spirit" Gets Bronze Star Medal Has Two UD Alumni Mary Ellen Nagle, '52 has been ap UD continues to compile an enviable Promotions in the office of Dayton City pointed editor of the McCall Corporation record in service in Korea. Lt. Robert Law Director Herbert Beane have employees' magazine, "McCall Spirit," it affected two UD men. Heck, '52, is the latest of the Hilltop's was announced in late February. William P. Keane, '30, assistant prose Mary Ellen has been assistant editor of servicemen to distinguish himself in over cutor in the office has been named to the the "Spirit" for the last year and few seas duty. post of city prosecutor. In this post he months. She succeeds Dick Levy in the Bob has been awmded a bronze star succeeds Maurice Russell, '31, now a position.· Mr. Levy is one of the founders medal for meritorious conduct in Korea, municipal court judge. of the Miami Valley Association of Indus Arthur 0. Fisher, '48, has been named from which he returned as this magazine trial Editors and has been regarded as one assistant prosecutor. Fisher has been as of the leaders in the field of industrial went to press. Bob was praised for service sistant Montgomery County prosecutor journalism in the area. He has taken an so that "no unit was denied use of neces since mid-summer. He was originally other position with McCall's. sary equipment" during the fighting. named a city assistant prosecutor in 1951. ant attorney general of Ohio. 1936 Memorial competition, sponsored by the American Society of Composers, Authors C. R. GoTTSCHALK has been named presi LT. CoL. VERNE H. MALLOY recently and Publishers. dent of the Board of Education in Syra assumed command of tl1e 75th Mainte cuse, New York nance Group, in Japan. He had been VICTOR REILING recently incorporated a executive officer since the group's incep 1942 new Dayton firm, Modern Industrial tion. His wife, Grace, and their two chil dren are with Verne in Japan. HENE E. FIGUEROA is now living at Box Plastics. Vic had been vice-president of 882, Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican He Kurz-Kasch in Dayton. HALPH LocHER, former executive secre public. tary to Gov. Frank Lausche, has been JoE QuiNN, former assistant to Joe Gavin 1935 named law director of the City of Cleve in football, is now selling steel for the land. In this position he is the second man WILLIAM J. BRADLEY, an attorney in Hio Peninsular Steel Company of Dayton. De Janeiro, has been elected president of in the city administration. He has also the American Society of Hio. He is also a been secretary of the Industrial Commis WILBUR SMOLKA, now a trial attorney for director of the American Chamber of sion of Ohio. the U. S. Air Force, has moved his office Commerce there. to the Call ahan Building in Dayton. During the war he was legal attache 1938 to the U. S. Embassy in Hio. RoBERT MASTANDREA is vice-president of 1943 CHARLES E. GRoss, SR. has moved from both Magnesia Products and tl1e Dayton MARY HosE SuLLIVAN has been trans Carlisle, Ohio to 131 Atlas Drive, Collins Toy House in Dayton, two dissimilar but ferred to the Springfield, Mass. plant of Park, New Castle, Delaware. interesting concerns. the Monsanto Chemical Co., where she is working on surface coatings. Her address MRs. MARY GARSTER YouNGBERG was re HEY. VICTOR BROERING has returned from is now 75-IC Longhill St., Springfield, cently saluted in the Miamisburg News as Korea after 15 months as an artillery Mass. a wife, teacher, journalist and musician. chaplain with the 45th Division. He has A member of the faculty at the West been awarded a Bronze Star Medal with HOBERT J. ZIMMERMAN was recently Canol! ton High School, where she teaches a V clasp for his activities and earned awarded the distinguished service plaque public speaking, English and journalism; the respect and appreciation of every man of the La Porte, Indiana Junior Chamber she also gives private music lessons. in the division for his leadership and of Commerce, "for outstanding contribu valor. tion in community service" d.uring the past year. 1939 Bob owns the Zimmerman Paint and Glass in the Hoosier city and his list of DAVID L. GRIMES is now living in San activities reads like a directory-a chair Diego, California. man of the La Porte Business Bureau; members of Lions, Knights of Columbus, and Elks; board of directors of the YMCA 1940 and county selective service board; mem HrcHARD K. SMITH has been named a ber of American Legion and past presi vice-president of the B. G. Danis Con dent of Pine Lake Association; active in struction Co., of Dayton. He has been the Little Theatre and Hed Cross blood with the company since 1946 as an engi drives. neer and will now add the supervision of construction projects to his engineering duties. 1944 DR. JoHN M. HoLLand his family are now 1941 living in Cincinnati. STANLEY SAGAN is back home after a tour HussELL H. ScHLATTMAN has won na of duty with the Army in Europe. tional first prize of $500 for tl1e best essay Lt. Col . Verne Malloy in copyright law in the Nathan Burkan DR. HoBERT L. SwAR<.lEL has moved
15 The Bells Chime For Liberty, Ind., October 30. the affairs of the International Federation Walter Wojciechowski, '51, married of Catholic Alumnae in the Dayton area. Ralph D. Brown, '52, married ancy Loretta Pih·e, Sacred Heart chapel, Prairie Collis, Lucasville Methodist church, Dec Ronde, La., November 8. 194 8 ember 27. Lt. Joseph A. Young, '53, married BoB KAss is now living in Springfield, Eugene J. Burg, '52, married Betty Nancy Ann Denlinger, Church of the Holy Massachusetts. Family, Columbus, Ga., February 20. Braun, Assumption church, November 26. DR . PHILIP LEE is at the Walter Reed John Chaney, '53, married Carol Hospital in Washington, D . C. He and Stittgen, Holy Angels church, January Mrs. Lee, the former Teruke Okuna, '50, 23. now have three children, the latest born from Germantown into Dayton, where his Ronald M. Glaser, '53, married Mary last August. address is now 6225 Meadowcroft Road. Louise Maurer, Resurrection church, Feb GEoRGE MITCHELL has joined the sales ruary 20. VINCE YANO has written a long, interesting staff of the Buckeye Tools Corp. Evelyn Gerdes, '49, married Anthony letter to many of his friends from Oki nawa, telling of the conditions there as WARREN H. WILSON is now with Frigid Broering, Assumption church, February aire Corp, in Dayton. He and his wife are 13. he ~ees them from the point of view of a lawyer with the US Civil Administration living on Forrer Boulevard. William E. HaBerman, '52, married in the Ryukyus. Ellen Marzolf, Immaculate Conception 1949 church, Columbus, February 20. 194 7 WALTER FREMONT, JR., is Dean of the Albert Hodapp, jr., '50, married Marie Division of Education at Bob Jones Uni L. Skora, Holy Angels church, ovember MARY H ussEY has been promoted to 1st versity, Greenville, South Carolina. 27. Lt., in the Women's Army Corps and DoNALD HOHLER is working with the Roy Horvath, '53, married Patricia named Platoon officer in the Leaders Willard Manufacturing Company. Hickey, Precious Blood church, December Course at Fort Lee, Va., training potential 26. non-commissioned officers . ToM AND PAT OLCOTT LECHNER are living J. Fred Howe, '43, married Mary Moos ARNOLD KRAMER is with the Pax Steel at 479 Rockcliff Circle, Dayton. brugger, Emanuel church, February 27. Products Company and is living in Cold ROBERT PFEIFFER has been promoted to water. Helen Knepper, '50, married George Captain while serving overseas in Wies baden, Germany. Schilling, Corpus Christi church, Nov JoHN A. RA USCHER has been transferred vember 25. to the engineering department for the LT. RosE MARIE RICHARDS has been Arnold Kramer, '47, married Ruth M. inorganic chemicals division of Monsanto transferred from Los Angeles to Spokane, Kemper, St. Henry church, St. Henry, 0., at Anniston, Alabama. He has recently Washington on recruiting duty for the November 28. been approved as a professional engineer WAC. in Ohio. Marcellus H . Lachey, '51, married ERNEST Truce and his wife are living at Elizabeth S. Yeary, St. Rita's chapel of St. MARY ANN KESSEN BucHER is active in 1356 Holly Avenue , Dayton. Patrick's Cathedral, El Paso, Texas, No vember 24. Lt. Stanley W. Lagedrost, '53, married Sally Anne Marshall, St. Albert the Great church, November 14. Careers in Politics and Government Thomas P. Lechner, married Audrey Lure Many Alumni Successfully Pah·icia Olcott, both '49, Our Lady of Mercy church, November 27. Government is becoming the business has filed petitions for county auditor in George D. Moon, jr., '49, married of many of the alumni, particularly in the Montgomery County; Judge Rodney Love, Nancy M. E. Green, Brick Presbyteri an last year. '33, has filed petitions for the Montgomery church, Rochester, N. Y., December 18. Several members of the alumni have be County Probate judgeship; and Charles come active politically and in government Whalen, jr., '42, has filed for state repre Henry D. Nye, Jr., '51, married Edwina circles. sentative. Yuen, in Honolulu, in August. Probably the top man so far is Carl J. We also record that Ralph Locher '36, Lt. James O'Connell, '53, married Mar Ruh, '40, who started his first term as a has been named city law director in the ilyn Baltes, St. Joseph church, Decem Kentucky State Senator in January. He City of Cleveland, second man in the city ber 26. has already served three terms as a repre administration. sentative in the Kentucky legislature. Thomas B. Talbot, jr., ex-'32, filed as Thelma Romer, '53, married Richard J. Carl has the largest senatorial dish·ict in the Democratic candidate for Congress Witt, Corpus Christi church, January 30. Kentucky-he represents 110,000 people. from the Third District (Montgomery Ray L. Tischer, '50, married Mary He was elected last August with the County). Louise Emmons, Westminster Presbyte slogan-"All I need is one vote-YOURS." Talbot opposed incumbent Paul rian church, November 14. He is a native of Covington and at Schenck in 1952 and was defeated. tended the University of Cincinnati and Three other men have fi led petitions as Ernest C. Trigg, '49, married Phyllis Salmon Chase Law schools in Cincinnati. candidates as members of the Democratic Ann Martz, St. John Evangelical and Incidentally, Carl is a radio ham, with central committee. They include: Robert Reformed church, Germantown. the call letters W4TZT. C. Boesch, '31, ward 4-B; Robert E. Warren H. Wilson, '48, married Montie In other parts of the ALUMNUS we Keane, '32, ward 4-D, and James M. Wil Guthrie, Edwards Memorial church, record that Gerald "Fuzzy" Faust, '30, son , '53, 14-C.
16 Mon anto Gives Mor Duti Charle lana Die A Promised Future To Dr. Carroll Hochwalt Donor of Chap 1 Painting harl s Coltin '50 to Dolor Monnier Dr. arroll HochwaJt, '20 and '35, i Charle tan , whos death is recorded ovington, Ohio. presid nt and director of re ar hat ~Ion Ill the Compl t d ar rs section, wa th Jam s urrin '53, to Judith M. Lang. santo h mical Company has add cl ad fa ther of Jack tang, '43, and th donor o( ditional duties in a reorganization of th the painting of the rn ifixion above th Rob rt L. Heistem1an, '53, to usan ompany r cently made. side altar of th a r d H eart in the Baker. June 19 wedding. Dr. Hochwalt will now supervise engi Chapel of th lmmacul ale Conception on Donall W . Hohler, to Patricia Ann neering programs of the compan. , in addi the campus. Fraa. tion to his pr vious re pon ibilities of r - ~1r. Stang gav the painting in memor Jane Nyhan, '50, to John E. Whal n s arch and development. of his son who made th supreme sacrifice son of H rb rt E. '09. Aplil 2-! w dding. during the war. uzann Pohlmeyer '50, to Thomas E. Landgren. chumann lontgomer,, '51, to ~ ! ar L\".-\ PAR 01' h be n nam d the Tipp City Ohio repr s nlati of the Motorists assini, of East Orange, N. J. Mutual lnsuran o. of olumbus. H e harlcs J. cha fer, jr., '53, to hirl y was fOJme rly with croproducts in Van- nn Moorman, May 1 wedding. dalia. Mary Ann Slattery, '51, to C layton Jank RoBERT P ATHJ .K has b en awarded an BuJFalo, . Y. May 1 weddin . alumni scholar ·hip to Har ard Law Ensign David Smitl1, '51, to B rnadctte School for the currenl y ar. G uma ria , Iifton, . J. RITA ~1. H.>\PP has b en awarded a master Frank Tuite, '50, to Carol toeckl in, of science in anatom and research at '53, ~ I a · 15 weddina. t. Loui niver ity. Rob rt A. V\ eber. '51, to atherin L. 1 RY H LL REGAl\ and her husband Brecklcr, ,olumbus Ohio. have moved to Miami. EN . DENNJS MITU rec ' ntly spent a 10- clay leave at hom after bei ng commis sioned at the aval Officers Candidate M.n . A •o Mn ·. FnEo OH J\ JEH I ft Dayton chool, 1 e' porl. rec ntl to live in Tucson, Arizona. · FRAl\K TuiTE is now with the City of BrLL and MAnY HALL R EGAS moved to Lt. Alfre d Voigt Dayton Recreation Division. ~ l iami Florida earl in Februarv. 1 'T. LT. LFHED E. VOIGT recentl arrh·ccl on Okinm a for duty a a ph sician ' ith 1951 th 29th Regimental Combat T am. He RoKALD AsATO has join d hi father in the had b n with the Tokyo rm Hospital. insurance busin •ss in Honolulu, the Asato Agency. 1950 JoHN CALLAHA is now the representative JO II r BESANCE. y who has b ''11 \ ith th fo r Prentice-Hall publishers in the incinnati onvention and Visitors Bu Youngstown area. r au sine graduation, has resign ,d to JAMES GIL VARY ha n appointed recent join the hcrer-Bell Company in Piqua. decisions department ditor of the vVe t H now ha three children. ern Reserve ni rsit Law Review. B B D w ·oN wa in t. Paul during the R."" Y HIEBEH i a contractual sp cialist in lc arnival there, judging tl1e national the electroni bmnch at \Vright-Patter drum majorett competition. on Air Force Bas . HEL E1 D DERSTADT, form rly with MARCELL US H . LA II EY is now with WHJO, has joined tl1 e Worn n's D part Trans-Worl d Airlin s in Berea, Ohio. ment of th · Dayton Journal-H raid, re placing Erma Fiste Bombeck, '49. Dol\ALD Y. M. L h, s b n discharged from the arm aft r s rvice in Korea and LAEHT HODAPP , JR., is now Uving in Ft. is helping his broth r in his supermarket. Laud rdale, Florida. Sgt. J erry Rizer RoBERT LEE i. at th Jefferson :\fedical H ELEN K 'EPPER CHILLI:-/ is now li ing JEHHY LL :" RJZER is in tl1e ,\Iarine orps College in Philacl lphia. in Wilmin ton where her husband is an and was a m mber of the Fl in Bulls football team of the El Toro ~ I a rin ir attorne . IURLEY MeN IL who i at 6733 abban ta tion last season. venue, D troit is working a a draftsman ROBERT W. LoEB has b en nam d chief and stud ing for her masters at the same ENs. DA\' ID r-uTH is servin aboard th of th Dayton air pollution and combus time. V\ ri rht at Philadelphia. tion ontrol bureau, succe ding llarold Wright who has become superintend nt Ht;NRY YE, Jn., is ser in r in the Army Hon£nT . TEYBEH recently a ttend d n of maintenance at Miami Va ll y Hospital. at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. two-week training school for th • North- 17 to Capt., nd ~ l r . Hob •rt Pf iffer, '49, in Ro\LP II Bn w:o> and his wif ar li ing in The Junior Alumni \\'ie baden rman . Lucas\'i ll , hio.
Dau h t r, D bra, to :\lr .• nd :\ lr . Ben Fourth child, s cond clau h ter, Barbara BILL lfT 11 ·n ha been nam d h ad bas W. •. u, '53, Octob r . J., to Leonard, jr.,, nd ~1 adi l n Geonrie e k tball ·oach at Purcell Hi h chool in Daught r Karen .. to harl . and Rawson 43, ov mb r . incin nati. Hila mann Baxter, '52, pt ml r 29. Son, Steph •n H., to I lank and Betty J NWr I. F INKE r ceived h r mus l r of Fourth chi ld fi rst son, Harold T., to H ch ti en, '42, O v •rla nd, Missouri, Jan sc.:icn · dcgr from the Ohio tat • ni ll;u·old and Marilyn Bi stlin , '4 I, ov- uary 22. vcrsil i1 I) c mber. c mbcr 19. F irst son, s •cond child, William L. jr., ' u ..: 11 1 • ·uy ' as in D ayton at .hrist to William, '51, and ~ l ar_ Regan. '50, on, t >ph n A., to Lt. and \l r~. Jack mas time on a I ave. Bramla •. '52, Ft. Bennine;, a., I c m December 3 1. l r 2. on. Rich. rd. to ~ l r. and ~ f r . Ravmond on, llan R. to :\lr. and :\ lr\ . >U Rieger. ~ov mhe r 2:-. - ,a nnarozzi , '52, ~o, · e mb r 9. econd on, :\ larJ.. H. to Dr. and .:\lr . Daught ' r, :\ lary, to :\l r. and 1\ lrs. ed Jobn ~1. Roll, '44. in , t. Loui , December 21. 'o cr, '.'52., 1 ovember 11. Third ·hil d, second daught r, Kar n Third daught •r, j11lil', to Ri chard :mel ., lo Mr. and M rs. Edwar 1 rnu l, Jr., '.51. Wanda Bi ll ett Ro ll , '50, D c mber 22 . Januar 24. J< irst !.On, third child, John T ., jr., to :\ Jr. and :\I rs. John H oba n, '43, Detroi t, :\ I iclugan, ctober 22. Dau htcr, Kathleen, to Bill and :\ Juri! n to I Iauer rot , '52, February 3. to rmer, jr., Fourth hild, third on, Thomas, to Dr . •tnd 1r . Rob rt Finch, '4 ', De· mb r 21. I aught r, Taney, to Mr. and Mrs. James l"i nke, '48. D ecemb r 2 1. Son and thi rd ·h il d, Paul D., to Mr. and on and ninth child, Thomas, to hart s :1\ lrs. Paul wifl, in Panama, in late Jan and •ranc erwels, '3 , o hin "I nd., uary. Lt. (j .g .l Don Grimme I) ' mb •r 23. Daughter, ~ l ar J., to ~ f r . and .:\1rs., Do. <\LD .HIM:O.£ E has been promot d to econd on :\lark ., to :\I r. and ~ l r . James \\ inter, ' 1, •lmhur t, I ll., 1\:ovem th ranJ.. of li utenant, junior grad while llnrrv iambrone, Oaklawn, Ill., :-\o' m ber l. ~ n ing aboard the anti-aircra ft ·rub •r Jun ·~u 1 nl :-\orfolk, \'a. b r is. Daughter D borah ., to Tom and Dau rhter, :\lartba :\'1. , to :\l r. and Mr . Jacquelin Pohl Zin ·J.. , '51 January 21. LT. H1 .11 no H CE..U.-\X ha join d th ' Dan ,ro ·z wki, '51, :\o mb r 3. I 21 t Tran portation Truck om pan in Kor •a as motor officer. Dau rhtcr, Jeanne L., to d, '51 and Hil a Teg d r Janning, '50, ept •mb r 2 . western 1 alionnl Lif • Insurance Com W ILL I,,M HALL EJIMAI\' is wo rkin ~ for pany in Minneapoli s. Daughter, Patricia E., fourth child a nd S •: 11·s, Hot· buck in Dayton. second dau rhter, to M r. and 1rs . Jams RoBERT A . Wto:oEn is ' orking for the Rem LD II n KE has pledged to Phi Lambda Kl opf, '44 Tracy-Well ompan in olumbus. psilon, national chemistry · i l. at th Duu ht r Regina A. third child. fir t ni\'ersit y of incinnati. JoE Z.u Kl i th <.'Oach and director of daught r, to D r. John and Dr. :\lary Wad. athletic at t. Paul' oil , \\'innipe . T. J " · J ~XEY i enin with the .-th Kno I r, '43. in .:\ovemb r. .:\lanitoba. In addition lo playing with th H. :.T. in Kor a. Dau htcr, \lolly B. to . harl a nd \ innipeg Blu Boml r prof ionaJ foot :\lar ' nn Kenny: Toledo hio, Decem ball team. LT. P \llL L £ ha retumed to tl1 tal s b r 25. after ser in with the 25th Division in J..:: ur a. •cone! daughter, Sarah M ., to 1\ I r. n nd 1952 Mrs. Jnm s B. Leist, Jr., '51, of G r<.y bull, C PL . HO II EIIT L EHNER is serving with th • W omin ' , January 11. ANNE AND EnTON ·nl •rc d the offi cer b·ain 720lh Tunk Battalion as a s rvi<: r orcls ing class of th • Worn •n Marine at Quan cl ·rk. ·one! son, Gary \ ., to 1r. and Mr·. tico late in Januur . he had been ir> th Ted Li n ch, ' 9, Decembe r _9. public relation ' d •partm nt of the AA H1 11 no .:\!Jc KLEY has b en promol •d lo Third dau ht r, Patricia ., to Mr. a nd in \\ i con in . corporal while ening a information and :\I rs. .harl :\IcFarland. '..j] of L hig h education p cialist with th -oth rei PFc . CHARL ES BAXTEH i with the Third ton, Pa .. D cember 24. nan • mmunition Compan, in Korea. Armed :\1 dical ompan , in Nurnberg D. ught r, econd child, Germany. He ha b n , ptain of th • o \1\00 :\I LA."oncH ha a new addrc Hobert and Nanc ~ i won army football t am that won a troph in I lou ton, T exa : cj o 1\ l, nning and Januar I I. and is now pln. in r bask tball. Nan '. Ht . 7, Box 1425, Houston. on, 1 icha 1 J. , to Mr. and Mrs. Jost·ph LT. JACK BnA ILA '' and hi s wife wer MAnY E LLE l AC LE has been nnm d Palu zzi, '41, ovember 13. at home on I av for n brief time in mid s ·crctur of the Miami Valle Associati on Third hild, second daughl r, 1ar I. February fro m F orl B •nning. of Industrial Editors.
1 v nth i on th Hou e Completed Careers ay Good Sam Ho pital Alumni Family Profit · What A ar r!. Mrs. LiiUan H. Bickford, moth r of Frank H., jr., '20, and Will iam H. Bick n alumni family ' as among the first to Here is an interesting chronicle of ford , '23, Tovember 10. profit from a new poJjcy re cntly in 'ti a career. Failed in business '31; de tuted by Dayton's Good Samaritan Hos G orge Bienle in, '97, who woul d hav feated for legislature '32; again pital. b 'en 75 March 13. In Pitts! urgh, Pa., failed in business '33; elected to Th ho ·pita ! has put into eff ct a rule January 4. wh r ·by th re will be no cha rge for th legislature '34; sweetheart died '35; ~ I rs . Raymond T . Boyle, mother of c e nth bub in a family- Jjk ' ise the had nervous breakdown ' 36; de 1 th, 21 t, and 28th. P t r Bo le, '52, in January. feated for speaker '38; defeated for Timoth. James, on of Dr. and 1\l rs. Prince Davis, r. , fa th r of Prine John R iling, '37, was born F bru• ry J 2, elector '40; defeated for land officer Davis, jr., '53 January . just after the new rule ' 1 t into pff ct. '43; defeated for Congress '43; nd as their eventh child, ' hen Daddy elected to Congress '46; defeated for Burt E. Dohner, '01 pre id nt of hio Jack w nt to pa. the bill, it was on th M tal Products Co., father of Mr . Vir hous . Congress '48; defeated for Senate ginia D. Moor , '39, rec ntly honor d The new poli cy excited a goo I dea l of '58; elected President '60. That was fo r 50 years of service to screw produ ts newspa per pubJjcity and as a resul t, Tim industry, December 19. and his mother had their pi tur s on the Abraham Lincoln.- The Investor front page of the Da ton Journui-H ra id . Will iam H . Drerup, fa ther of Bro. John Dr rup. D librarian January 0. Dr. Ed' ard Duffy, '20, fath r of Ali p,'T, RonERT 1 oo -_-\....,. is now rving a a RoBERT L. HEJ TEJIM N i now at Ohio }. (. Duffy raig, '52, in m dical practi riR man with the 3rd Infantry Di\'ision in Northern ni ersi Law chool. Kor a. in Dayton 2 ars January 16. RoY HoRv TH has b n tationed at Aber Edward P. Hogan, ' 12 of olumbu , D Kr\Y ' BRrE!\' wa the ~ I arin thlet deen, Maryland, whil completing his of th 1onth in Japan. H e was an out army training. Ohio, and attorney, Decemb r 9. standing m mber of his conf r n ·e all W illi am R. Kehl, jr., son of Bill and sta r squad. Pn·. W ALTEH LAN CASTEn has been as signed to the Army Hospital, Camp Dorothy Dweng r Kehl, '52, February 7. EORGE Rv CHKEWITCH \ as a r C nl Pickett, Va ., as a so ia l work technician Karl B. Koors, '07, owner of Koors 29 after being drafted in ptember. campus vi itor. r staurant in Dayton, Februa1 25.
WILDA BILLETT o-, El LER i now in San 1 LT. T 11 o l EUFFERT came b ck to the William John on, '20 of ' L xing ntonio ' h re Paul is a tt ncling medical tat s in D cember on rota tion. H i onl ton, Ohio , D c mber 20. Da toni an credited with shooting down technician chool in the ervice. a pla ne in Korean conflict. H i · no' at FRA:\'CE \ RIGHT PoL o. i at the Bone L o J. Log , 06 of Dayton Ja nuar 5. th Tacti a) Air Command, lo i . . M . brake Seminary, 1 10 H arva rd Blvd ., Thomas J. Macklin '12, of LT. RoB ERT WE TENDORF is with th 2nd Dayton. own r of th Macklin I nsm·an Training Batt alion, Marine Corps hool, PETER PRESS has b , ' n mad a member Nov rnber l9. Qua ntico. of Phi Delta Epsil on medical fraternity Mrs. Jeanette K. McCann, '34, who at Ohio State Univer ity. To ·1 Y MADA is an assistant engin er with re iv d h r bachelors degre at 64, in th Mutual Telephone ompa n in Hon - LT. JA.."!E 0 ' ON 'ELL i. now stationed at 'lorristown, . J. February 21. lulu. Ft. Leonard Wood 'li ouri. Donald R. McDonough, on of ol - H :-.. nY YtM i at Jeffer on }. ledical oi LTS . BoBBY RECK n and J E Yo .•c are man ( ol y ) McDonough '40, in an air l g in Philadelphia. both station d at Fort B nn.ing, Ga. ra h in Iaska F ebruary 5. BILLY 0 ' ETLL is in th nny erving in lr . Elizab th Reagan, moth r of Dr. 1953 outhern German . Ed\ ard R agan, '42. January 11. BEN A is running Kuulei Gifts in Lanil BILL STALEY has re ntly r turned from ol. Paul . Schauer, '43, in an air kai, Hawaii , deali ng in general items for service in Korea. ·rash, in !at January at Whit Plai ns, th hom and Hawaiian items su h as DrcK and THELM Ro mn WrTT are doll s, hardwood bowls, sal cl s r rs, sa lt John A. ha , father of Mary, '44, D living at 944 Old Or hard Avenue, D ay lumni s cretary, Bernard, '48, Paula nd :1 1 d p pp rs. ton. Franc s '52, December 20. ~ ~ IU0:-.1 LT. JoHx \ ' EL l ll ha b en ho pitalized ~ l r . He ter nycler, wif of Barth at the Quantico ~ I ar in Ba for a back nyd r '3 1 and '34 rn mb r of D ailment. Facul ty, Dec mber 4 .
LT. JOliN GA!'\NON is now rving with harl s tang, father of th !at Jack the h •aclc1uarters company, 11th irb rn Enjoy the tar g '43, in andusky, F bruary ] 0. I i ision artill ery Ft. Campbell, Ky. William 1; . Stoermer, fa ther of W . F ., HONALD M. LASER and his wif ar Uving Flyers' Frolic jr., '43, Hob rt, '50 and Mary . Gl nnon, at OOJ Edison Avenue, D ayton. in Dayton, Ja nuary 14. 19 Want to get a bit closer to Flyer teams? ~------, Many alumni have expressed a desire to receive the pre-season press books for Dayton football and basketball teams. Please mail me one copy each of the 1 954 Flyer football and basketball brochures. Am en- These publications by the Public Rela closing a check for $1 .25 to cover costs. tions Department have been very favor ably received by press, radio and TV men throughout the country. Name------Here's your chance to get copies of the 1954 football brochure which will be Address------published in August and the basketball brochure which will be out in November. Just fill in the blank and mail to the City'------Zon e ______State, ______PR Office along with a $1 .25 check that covers books and mailing. Better order now.
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