1962
Since Paul is polishing off his education with a two-year finishing course conducted by the Selective Service, this column will be attempted by this transplanted Californian doing service as a budding attorney in the Granite State. Anyone desiring equal time can contact me during the reunion, which thanks to Dick Hofinann and his crew promises to be quite the affair. I'll be in the '02 room booking.
Those of us who have difficulty pushing away from the table at night (and other times) can only envy Tom Laris who won the two-mile race at the USTFF meet in Madison Square Garden with the best time of his career, 8:40.2. Jim Murar reports that he can barely get out of bed that fast. Another athletic type making it big is former Big Green football captain Jim Lemen who will be Cornell's defensive backfield coach starting next fall. Can you imagine an entire backfield with bird legs?
The blissful state of matrimony continues to call many of us. Culver Adams will be married to the former Miss Bonnie Wick of Edina, Minn., by the time this is printed. Culver is in the architecture school at the University of Minnesota. Jack Seymour was recently married to Miss Marshall Lea Metcalf, a graduate of Sweet Briar. Jack and his new bride are now in West Berlin where Jack is studying for his master's degree in political science.
Lt. Richard Alan Highter is also headed down that aisle. Miss Dorothy Harrington of Chelmsford, Mass., has announced her engagement to Dick with the wedding to take place this August. Bob Andrew, who stayed in Hanover to get his master's at Tuck is now a married man. Bob and the former Miss Janet Vance, a graduate of Wilson College, were married in March.
Jere Hawkins is also headed that way, and in April he will exchange vows with Miss Jeanne Giroux of Grosse Pointe, Mich. Jeanne is a graduate of the University of Michigan and is attending graduate school there. Jere has completed his tour with the Marine Corps.
Gary Clark has gone international for a bride. He is engaged to Miss Inga Tedin of Svaloa, Sweden. Gary is pursuing his advanced degree at Boston University following his graduation from Harvard Law. JohnDennis will add to the Dartmouth family shortly when he and Miss Carol Roxnoy of Westport, Conn., are married. John is a doctoral candidate in botany at Duke University while Carol is presently a senior at Duke.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Parsons recently celebrated the arrival of their first daughter, Sarah Elizabeth. Tom is now a minister and working on the college campuses in Maine and New Hampshire. He is currently situated in Dover, N. H.
Mike Stephen was recently appointed a career Foreign Service Officer by President Johnson. Following his graduation Mike served three years in the Army. Presently he is attending the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Va. Mike is married and the father of two young children.
Mike Hobbs also spent some time with Uncle Sam. Mike was just graduated with honors at Chanute AFB, Ill., from the training course for U.S. Air Force aircraft electricians, and will be devoting this new talent to the Air National Guard. Earlier Mike had received his LL.B. from Harvard Law.
Dick Maynard recently returned from Brazil where he spent a year engaged in governmental studies. Dick is just one of several of the Class to have spent some time abroad lately. J. Sanford Parsons was in Viet Nam for two years serving with the International Voluntary Services. On his return to the States, he began studying for an advanced degree at Johns Hopkins in International Affairs, and is a contributing author to a study on "Counterinsurgency in Haiti" to be published this spring.
Chuck Preuss is in Viet Nam now. Chuck is in the Marine Corps and writes that he hopes to be discharged in April, and perhaps make the reunion. Chuck is one of many of our classmates engaged in the Viet Nam conflict, and I know I speak for all of us in praying and hoping they will return safely.
That's all the news via the written word. I can add a touch of hearsay however. Word has it that Von Beebe is teaching Spanish in California, that Lou Setti is in Laos working for Uncle Sam, and that Gary Spiess is finishing his legal education at Harvard. BillHayes took and passed the New Hampshire Bar Examination, and is working for the Internal Revenue Service in New York.
My wife and I have made a few trips up to Hanover and can report that the College hasn't changed much, and that everyone and everything appears eager to welcome us back in June. See you then, and in the meantime send in the mail and see your name in print.
1962 Class ReunionHanover — June 17-19, 1966
Acting Secretary 58 High St. Somersworth, N. H.
Class Agent, VMA (AW) 533, MAG 24 2d MAW, MCAS Cherry Point, N.C. 28533
