1959
Just back from a trip - I think I'll get this column off my chest first. I apologize for the pretty much staccato style this time, but I've got to get on to a few other matters.
Other than the large number of '59s on the local scene here, I didn't see too many classmates up for House Parties Weekend and the Columbia game. It was the first time in a long while that I've heard so many Dartmouth people cheering for the Tiger when the score of the Harvard Princeton game was announced during the afternoon.
A few new '59 offspring can be heard crying, too - in the wee hours of the morning. Butch and Cle Priest just announced the birth of Kimberly Cle (Kimmie for short) on October 30. Nick andJanet Procino have a new future hoopster. David Anthony was born on September 20. Also back in September, on the 14th, Judyand Alan Hurlbut added Keith Alan to their family which now makes them a happy threesome. Alan is a senior analyst for the Ford Motor Company in the Financial Analysis Department. He has been with Ford for five years and recently bought a home in Farmington, Mich. In his letter Alan writes that Bill and Lou Truex and son Scott along with their German Shepherd stopped in to say hello while touring the country last spring. Bill graduated from Harvard School of Design back in 1963 and has been in Puerto Rico for the past few years. The Truexes ran into Barry andAnne Mahoney in a Michigan State Park.
Bill Duggan has sent along some of your dues slips with some interesting news. TomOtter writes from Viet Nam that he saw Jim Longcope before Jim left for home in September. Tom is with the First Medical Battalion and was about to leave Chu Lai for the DMZ where most of his division had already been sent. He noted that "Charlie" had begun to harass the remainder of the division rather steadily. When a guy in Tom's position can react warmly to the note Bill included with his request for dues, it can cause you to look with added appreciation and thoughtfulness at the Thanksgiving just past and the special warmth of the holiday season ahead. You are on our minds Tom.
From out in Palo Alto, Calif., Marv Sezak writes that h6 has just returned from a year in England where he taught German and Russian at a College in Birmingham. He had a chance to see a good bit of the Continent. He is presently teaching high school but is looking forward to starting full-time work on a Ph.D. next year. He is still one of our happy bachelors. BillWoolley writes from Bloomington, Ind., that he received an M.A. in History at Indiana University back in June of 1965 and is presently working on his Ph.D. there. A son William Allen Woolley was born in February of '65, so there have been a few interruptions to his studies, I imagine. Read Heydt writes that he left the banking profession in June after four years to begin work on a Master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University. He'll probably run into Ted Glide who is a member of the Political Science Department there.
There is even a Southern accent in the handwriting as Dave Allen (or rather his wife) writes from Charlotte, N.C., that BillColehower stopped by in September and was quite amused when Dave had to go to a Girl Scout Punch Party with the Mrs. rather than stay and drink with his old buddy. (With the right ingredients, the punch might out-sell good old Girl Scout cookies!) Al Snider notes that he has one more year of practicing medicine in the Air Force and then plans to set up shop down in Texas. He says the hunting is great in Wisconsin and that his wife and three children enjoy eating all he can shoot down. He can think of worse places to have a tour of duty. Bill Brigance is back in Omaha, Nebr., as District Manager for Piper — I assume that's Cub. Dick Schmidt is in Ohio, Marietta to be exact, where he just associated with the law firm of Hausser and Rawson. Incidentally, if I goof up on a few of these names and spellings, it's because, even with the exposure to some 6,000 different species of handwriting during the year, I haven't yet become a handwriting expert. Dick, that's not a dig at your attempt, but I had the thought when I looked at your "R."
One more, then I'd better save the rest for next month's column, in case most of you decide that Christmas and dues don't mix or that giving news with dues is above and beyond the call of duty, and the Secretary screws up the information anyway. Stu Freeman indicates that he has just changed his job and is now assistant to the treasurer of the Madison Square Garden Corporation. I'll have to tell Gavitt about this.
That's it for now. I hope your holidays are good ones. Please advise us if Dartmouth should start a course on how to assemble kids' toys!
Secretary, Canaan, N.H. 03741
Treasurer, 140-70 Ash Ave., Flushing, N.Y. 11355
