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This month's column could not start without words of praise and thanks to Head Agent Howie Read, his many co-workers, and the 496 '51's whose average gift of just over $52 added up to a total contribution just shy of $25,800 to this year's Alumni Fund. We finally put ourselves on a par with our neighboring classes and have a Green Derby victory to show for it.
Of late, involvement in two companion antitrust cases on the West Coast has left me feeling like the Strategic Air Command, always in the sky. Still, I don't think I can keep up with theatrical entrepreneur JayWolf, from whom I received a postcard from Greece just after my last column went to press.
In San- Francisco in August a few days after the airline strike ended, I got to work on the telephone. Mike Heyman told me that Ed Eichler just might be the next Mayor of San Francisco. The very next morning, Herb Caen's column in the Chronicle ruined it all with these words: "Although the polls were encouraging, young Ed Eichler of the big building clan has decided against running for Mayor next year; too many business problems."
Mike, wife Terry, and sons Steven. 5, and James, 3, live in the Berkeley Hills with a magnificent view of the Golden Gate out their front door. For the past year, law professor Mike has been Cal's representative on the Athletic Association of Western Universities, which rated him VIP treatment at the Rose Bowl. He is also on the Human Welfare and Rights Commission of Berkeley, which puts him in the middle of those Berkeley town-gown problems you've read about.
I also got to see Herm Christensen and Jim Danaher. Lawyer Jim missed last year's reunion because he was in Jackson, Miss., spending a month working in the first group there of the American Bar Association's civil rights task force, which Berl Bernhard heads up.
Herm is a partner in the construction firm of Herman Christensen and Sons, engaged in multiple residential, commercial, and industrial building. He and wife Isabel have three children: Maren, 5; Gavin, 3; and Andrew, 1. After college, Herm did graduate work in political science at Stanford, where he earned an MA. and was a teaching assistant before going into the Marine Corps.
On one of those rare days of late when I was in my office, I received a telephone call from Fred Ranney, who said that he had something to show me. He arrived lugging a large box containing something resembling a table radio, but which turned out to be a personal investment advisory computer.
Fred is now president of isec, which stands for instant stock evaluation computer. For an initial cost of $485 and $150 a year thereafter, you can buy a programmed computer and a weekly poopsheet to feed into it which in combination tell you whether to buy, hold, or sell numerous stocks. The most interesting thing about the whole operation is that Fred is succeeding in selling the "thing" to brokerage houses.
In June, I made it back to Hanover as an "ex" for the Alumni Council meeting, at which time Paul Staley was elected a member-at-large. I was particularly happy not just that the Class' representation on this key alumni body will continue but that it will with a West Coast member.
Dune Booth has been promoted to a vice president of Industrial National Bank of Providence, R. I. He has been with the bank for 12 years and heads its International Department. Dune is a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers as well as Dartmouth. Married with three children, he is active in community affairs and a member of the World Trade Club.
Chris Fuller (we used to know him as "Kit") is now controller of Birds Eye Kool Aid Division. In three years with the company, he has been a financial analyst, manager of marketing analysis, accounting manager, and product manager of potatoes, fish and onion rings.
News Shorts: Charlie Hood elected treasurer of H. P. Hood and Sons. Ted Glaser named associate professor of Electrical Engineering at M.I.T., where he works on a research project called MAC and teaches and consults in the computer business. Dave formerly with the Merrill Lynch "herd," appointed a registered representative by Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, Minneapolisbased investment securities brokers.
Hospital Administrator John Ives is moving from Middlesex Memorial in Middletown, Conn., to become director of a new hospital to be part of the University of Connecticut Health Center at Farmington. He had been at Middlesex a relatively short time after moving up through the ranks at Grace-New Haven Hospital.
Mike Monroney resigned as executive assistant to the U.S. Postmaster General to run for the Democratic nomination to Congress from Maryland's Montgomery County (suburban Washington). The clipping is a few months old, so I don't know whether he got a nomination or not. I say "a" nomination because reapportionment litigation then in process might have led to all Maryland congressmen running at large this year.
Also in the Washington area, Pierre Han is an assistant professor of English at American University, having previously taught at the University of Maryland. After leaving Dartmouth, he earned a B.A. in English at Catholic University, an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia. In the process, he held a University Fellowship at Columbia and a Fulbright in France for his Ph.D. dissertation.
More News Shorts: Pink and Kay Pfaff added their third child, first daughter, Sandra Bentley, on March 9. Ed Lathem is co-editor of "Selected Prose of Robert Frost" and editor of "Interviews with Robert Frost," both published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Back in April, BrookieDodge came in second to lead Dartmouth to a win over Harvard in the annual slalom at Tuckerman's Ravine on Mount Washington. The Crimson captured only first out of the first six places.
On that slippery note, we slide off the end of this fall's first column. And, if you don't come up with some more news soon, it will really be downhill into winter. Hope to see some of you during the football season, if business allows me that much time on the East Coast.
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