1961

This is the last column for this, our fifth year since leaving Hanover. I'm sure it seems as long ago to you as it does to me when we walked around in "campus leader shoes" with adhesive tape around the toe and a fine, pink print, 5" wide "GI Tie. Times change, don't they, now we've moved from spit-shining our shoes while serving Uncle Sam to the present bliss of getting them shined at Fred's Friendly Shoe Parlour on a business trip. And the GI Tie is packed away down at the bottom of a messy bureau drawer waiting until we bring it out to show our sons what swingers we were back then. Everything has altered, sometimes so much so that the personalities we were lie deeply hidden and unrecognizable beneath the people we are. Many of us then had little more to worry about than finishing a paper for English 25 or correcting the typographical errors in the proofs of The Dartmouth or getting back to a phone to see if Sue could make it up by noon Friday so she could watch the game between SAE and Beta for the football championship. Now these same men are Ph.D.'s, surgeons, diplomats, business executives, working very hard to learn about market trends, and teachers reading their English 25 papers to their students. Now politics isn't something we found in books or complained about in the house bar but a force we must reckon with and understand. Girls aren't "an occasional thing" but have changed into wives and mothers whom we have to look after all week long, not just noon Friday to noon Sunday. Quite a different world, and quite a different group of men than those who left Hanover.

Even if you aren't going back to Reunions to confront the changes in your old friends as they must see them in you, none of us can avoid the temptation to look back during this Reunion Month and examine how we've turned out. When we do, we discover the biggest change of all, the one that encompasses all the others, we're no longer carelessly dressed boys in a confined, convivial world where nothing really bad can happen but now we call ourselves "men and at last realize that we are responsible for doing, not just learning. In fact, we are surrounded by responsibility, everywhere - your wife, your kids, your boss, your students, your associates .. . they all depend on you for guidance, performance, action... and you can't pass the responsibility to anyone else, or make excuses, or go to sleep or hang up the phone. Yessir, quite a change.

Sorry to bend your ears that long, but as I said, it's impossible not to turn back and think a little. Now to more factual items.

Rick Husband and Julia have their third son, Timothy. Rick is slaving away for Harvey Hood and Sons in Boston. Judging from his letter, he has a side business going.. . they move into an old house, Julia fixes it up and Rick sells it. That's a great system but sooner or later Julia is gonna catch on to the fancy scheme and Husband will be living in a tent in Julia's backyard.

Rick reports on: Hank Gerfen, agency account executive in Boston (I believe); BobElmore who, with wife Betsy, is the proud parent of two fine sons, resident of Marblehead and employed by Arthur Andersen (just Bob, not Betsy, she's probably renovating houses too). Dan Tracy is just about to get out of the Navy and go to work for Arthur Andersen. Scotty Turnbull is now with the Burroughs Corporation doing something rewarding.

The clipping service offered up a few goodies this month too. Bill Walls and Mary Madeline Moor were married in Ontario in March. William and bride have been living in St. Louis till this month when he graduates from St. Louis U Med School. He will intern in Ann Arbor. ...

Dr. Mike Jenkin has accepted internship at the Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco. Mike plans to become a surgeon and eventually practice in the San Francisco area (silicones maybe, Jenkin??).

Miss Sandra Lade is being married this month to Maynard Wheeler in Weston, Conn. Brother Wheeler will be an M.D. by that time courtesy of Columbia.

The weddings roll on and on... by now Patricia Mersman will be Mrs. Thomas K.Dalglish. Tom is a lawyer and is assistant attorney general for the State of Washington.

Last item, Dave Robinson has been promoted to terminal superintendent for the Mobil Oil Company in Boston.

And that is it for the first five years. Your efforts have met with success and your achievements have been many and significant. You are the stuff of Dartmouth and your record is proud.

1961 Class ReunionHanover - June 17-19, 1966

Secretary, Box 599, Cincinnati, Ohio 45201

Class Agent, 57th Floor, 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza New York, N. Y. 10005