1950s

Basil Booton ’51 retired from Morrison & Morrison Ltd., a mid-size CPA firm in downtown Chicago. Basil writes that he stays active with the senior social club and church work. He comments, “I am hoping to see the Wildcats play the Irish in 2018 — I’ll be 90 years old then.”

Robert A. Sauerberg ’52 was certified by the Supreme Court of Florida as a circuit mediator.

After serving as a Marine fighter and attack pilot, and completing his MBA at the University of California-Berkeley, Don Fraser ’56 reports that he became acquainted with Charles “Sparky” Schulz and his Peanuts characters. That led him to his lifelong Peanuts character business with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the gang, until his retirement in 2006. A co-author of Security Blankets: How Peanuts Touched Our Lives (peanutsstories.com), Fraser and his wife, Dianne, now reside in St. Helena, in the heart of California’s Napa Valley wine country. He is on the boards of five nonprofits, and he serves as chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum.