1965

Hello again! I've got plenty of news both from classmates and from the executive committee meeting held in late December. I'll discuss the latter event first, because many issues were discussed and decided upon - all intended to keep the class active and more in touch with one another.

John Richardson called the meeting to order at the Dartmouth Club in New York City with a clink of his ice cubes, and that set the tenor for the whole evening. Seriously, it was a worthwhile get-together, and many matters were decided upon that have great bearing on how well our class functions for the next two or three years. First, we have tentatively scheduled an informal class reunion for all '6s's living in the Northeast for the weekend of the Holy Cross Dartmouth football game next fall in Hanover. The date on that is Oct. 7. Our hope is that we can arrange a cookout before the game, 'tails after the game, and then a very informal gathering - otherwise known as a beer bust - for Saturday night. We're only in the planning stages now, with Ted Atkinson assuming the lion's share of the responsibility for planning the weekend, but we hope to get as many '65's as possible interested, so that each of us can come back to Hanover assured of seeing many old friends. Start getting up for this one now, because it will be a good show, and a chance to see good friends you haven't seen since graduation. In conjunction with this we have hashed over the idea of having small regional parties on that same weekend for those of you who wouldn't be able to get to Hanover. That way '65's would be getting together all over the country on the same date. John and I would very much appreciate hearing from all of you on this last idea — it will take an immense amount of work, and we don't want to launch such a project unless enough of you think it's worthwhile and would take advantage of it.

This matter of regionalization brings me to the second major issue that we discussed at the exec meeting. The feeling of the executive committee is that we are too small a group to functionally conduct all the class business and activities. Therefore we plan to organize a group of forty or fifty class members, geographically distributed, who will serve as assistants to the class officers and the executive committee, and will aid us in keeping in touch with all the members of the Class, and will help to keep the Class active all over the country. Again, John or I would like to hear from everyone who is interested in helping us in this project.

Larry Duffy, who attended the executive meeting along with his wife Merry, has a month to go to complete his Navy OCS training at Newport, R. 1., and then hopes to ship out of San Francisco on a carrier. Since Duff will be plenty busy for the next three years, he has turned the chairmanship of the Alumni Fund and his job as Class Agent over to Tim McLaughlin. Tim is at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture after a year-long stint as a sales management trainee with Owens-Corning Fiberglass.

Bob and Syd Blumenshme wrote m their Christmas card that Bob has been bitten by the flying bug. He has his private pilot's license, and is now working on his commercial license and his instrument rating, with an eye toward TWA's jet pilot program. Thumbs up, Bob!

Lt. Marsh Wallach writes that he is an aide-de-camp to the Division Commander at Fort Hood, Texas. Marsh finishes his stay with the Army in October, and then will resume the life of a gay young civilian bachelor.

I've also heard from Doug Miller recently. Doug is doing graduate work in education at the University of Buffalo, and seems to be enjoying it. He had news of several other Big Greeners. Doug mentioned that Bill Bos is with the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps, and works out of the Pentagon. George Poland is with the Coast Guard in Brooklyn. Finally Doug mentioned that he frequently runs into Andy Silverman at Buffalo. Andy is at Buffalo Med School and plays rugby for the University team.

I made my first trip to Hanover in three months the week before Christmas, and, believe me, the Green Scene is a busy, busy place even when school is not in session. The two most obvious additions to the campus are the Kiewit Computation Center, which is quite an impressive operation, and the beginnings of the new Hanover Inn. Also, the Main Street area has changed, though not so noticeably, with many of the old haunts having moved, expanded, or just plain disappeared. I guess the change that has had the greatest social repercussions is the advent of the pinball machine to the Hanover Plain. The Indian Shop has been the vanguard of this infiltration - the shop no longer conducts the brunt of its trade in wheat jeans, sta-press chinos, and sweaters; now it sells one of the most valued commodities in the entire upper valley — time on the pinball machines. (A note to '63's: Don't let Letis get wind of this. He may try to move in on Tommy Keane and Co.)

While in Hanover I visited with Ed and Tins Keible and Tom, Carol, and Cheryl Morton. Keibs has just about decided to keep plugging for his Ph.D. after he receives his Master's from Thayer School in June, but he thinks he'll probably pursue his doctoral studies elsewhere than in Hanover. Tom Morton, on the other hand, will hang up his notebook after his graduation from Thayer's Master's program in June, and hopes to be able to find a comfortable position with a firm on his native West Coast. Incidentally, I peeked at Bob and BarbBusch's Christmas card to the Keibles, and Buscher threatens to return to Hanover in June to view Keible and Morton's "third annual graduation."

I've also been in touch with Bob Koury. Bob and his wife, Donna, are in Hanover while Bob finishes at Tuck. In June Bob will grab his Tuck diploma in one hand and a commission as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in the other.

That's about it for now. I hope to hear from many of you soon, both in reference to the matters I mentioned earlier in this column, and just to let me know where you are, what you are doing, and who you've seen. John Richardson is working very hard trying to get the Class well organized and moving, but he just has to have your suggestions and support. Please write!

At the recent wedding of Whit Miller '64 and Ann Francis (Smith '66) were (kneeling)her brother Paul Francis '70, Lynn McCanse '64. (Standing I to r) Mike Wdkin 64,Terry Terhune '64, Bill Parzyook, Whit and his bride, best man Duncan Burke 65,John Kovas '63, and the groom's father Whit Miller '4O.

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