1957

Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lend me your ears. This is the third month in a row that our conversation is being held on a dead run. Less than a week ago MONY decided that I was old enough to try to manage an agency on my own. Therefore, they are moving my family lock, stock, and barrel to Austin, Texas, where my fate has become bound with the future of the agency there. I guess that means that this old Yankee will have to become a Yankee Texan and cheer for the Longhorns - second of course. Hope, Karen, and I will be moving down there during January and try to find a house before the furniture arrives. It will be exciting. My new address appears at the head of this column.

A wonderful letter by Monte Pascoe is very interesting so here it is in full.

Last year we purchased a little house in an older part of Denver with plenty of room for you and any and all '57s who are in the Denver area. We would love to see you.

I have found the practice of law very interesting. Recently, I have been concentrating on banking and water law, a rather unusual pair: they are not connected.

There are several classmates in the Denver area. Just recently I ran into Randy Aires at church. He and his wife now live in Denver where Randy is with the trust department of the Colorado National Bank. I also saw Roger Brown recently. He represents the Head Ski Corp. in the western U.S. and does some free lance photography on the side. I see Don Burkhardt often both through Dartmouth and legal work. I have corresponded frequently with Lud Landgraf, who is helping with enrollment work in the La Junta area of Colorado. In September, Wayne Kakela was in Denver, for the night and several weeks later I had dinner with him at Whitman-Gaylord School near Steamboat Springs, where Wayne teaches. It is a beautiful place nestled back in some very fine Colorado mountain country. I was in Steamboat Springs, in connection with a water rights trial and thoroughly enjoyed dinner with Wayne. The next day Wayne brought his clan down to see the last few hours of the trial which concerned the present and prospective use of water on the Yampa River, a tributary of the Colorado.

I have also been working closely with John Meier and Nick Tschetter on the development of some land south of Denver, part of which we hope will eventually be used to establish a private secondary school. Nick is now Chief Resident Pediatrician at Colorado General Hospital in Denver and John is psychologist for the Littleton School District, just south of Denver.

In the non-Pascoe news Peter Falcon has been elected as Assistant Treasurer of the Maine Midland Trust Company of New York. Pete has been with the bank since his graduation from Univ. of Michigan Business School in 1958. Erich Kunzel is building a fine name for himself in the musical field. A newspaper states "Upon his graduation from Dartmouth in 1957 Mr. Kunzel undertook graduate studies in music at Harvard and Brown Universities. He received his Master of Arts degree from Brown in 1960 and has remained there as a member of the faculty. Mr. Kunzel holds the rank of professor in the Dept. of Music. He is the director of the Brown and the Pembroke Glee Clubs. In 1952 Mr. Kunzel was the director of the Summer Youth Festival, in Greenwich, Conn. In 1955 he organized and conducted the Greenwich Pops Orchestra. While attending Dartmouth he was the Director of Music at the Norwich Congregational Church. Since 1957 Mr. Kunzel has made annual appearances as the guest conductor of the Hancock Symphony Orchestra. In 1957 he was a director of the Santa Fe (N. Mex.) Opera Company in its premiere season. Presently Mr. Kunzel is the assistant conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor of the Rhode Island Pops Orch. In addition to his conducting activities Prof. Kunzel is known as an arranger with works published by Boosey and Hawkes in the Brown University Choral Series."

A few brief notes about many of the members of this spread-out class are: KentCrane is a foreign service officer in the Department of State and lives in Falls Church, Va. Henry Crumbless is a salesman for the Henry Crumbless Yarn Co., in Chattanooga, Tenn. Rod Dußois is on the Market development staff of the Mobil Oil Co. in New York. Bob Goodman is an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission and also lives in Falls Church, Va. Brad Gorham is at Harvard Law School while John Griffin is in the Market Planning Dept. of the Corning Glass Works in Corning, N. Y. Larry Guild is Sales Manager for the Guild Mills Corp. in Laconia, N. H. Dr. Mai Lindsay, who lives in Rochester, Minn., is a Fellow in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. LarryLubow, also a doctor, is a resident physician at Montefiore Hospital, and lives in Yonkers, N. Y. Clif Olds is living in El Cajon, Calif., and is Asst. Prof, of Art History at San Diego State College, while Herb Schneidau is an instructor in English at Duke University and Mike Seitz is an instructor in French at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N. J.

Well, gang, the next of our meetings will originate from Texas. Drop me a note to let me know how things are coming with you and your families (and the names of any friends we may gain in Austin). Hope, Karen and I wish all of you the best for the coming year.

Best Regards Skip

Secretary, Mutual of New York 1501 Lavaca, Austin, Texas

Treasurer, 119 South Broadway, White Plains, N. Y.