1936

The mail during this past month has been a mixed bag of seed and bulb catalogs, travel now and pay later folders and a few straggler information cards for our directory. We still haven't received answers from everyone. If you find one in with the unpaid bills, fill it out quickly and send it along. We have a large group of classmates in California and they are doing their best to fill the California colleges with their children. No doubt Dr. Lou Benezet, president of The Claremont Graduate School and University Center, is much involved with the current controversy over California state college tuitions. Lou was in Los Angeles in December to speak at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple - his subject, "Another Look at the American University." In addition to his many other educational assignments, he is currently chairman of the American Council on Education. Ralph and HelenCockroft live in La Canada, Calif., and their son, Daniel, has been attending the Claremont Men's College. Their oldest boy, Timothy, graduated from Dartmouth in '65 and their youngest, Chris, is still in high school. Dr. Joe Carson is practicing in Palo Alto, Calif. Joe and his wife, Ruth, have just about the youngest child in the class -a daughter, Christine, born June 25, 1965. Their son, Davey, is twenty and was recently drafted after spending three years at Whittier College, in Whittier, Calif. They have two older daughters, Jean who is a freshman at Humboldt State, Areata, Calif., and Ruth, a high school student.

Ren and Fran Ostrom report from Walnut Creek, Calif., that their youngest, Chris, is in his senior year at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Their oldest boy, Charles, graduated from Stamford and is presently teaching at San Francisco State while working for his doctorate at Claremont. The other boys are Peter, a graduate of the University of Southern Cal, and John, a graduate of the University of the Pacific.

Some of the doctors in our class have inspired their sons to follow in their footsteps. Dr. Roe Thompson's son, Bill, graduated from Colgate in '65 and is now attending the University of Penn. Medical School Roe is a physician in Albuquerque, N.M Dr. Gene Austin is a practicing physician in Evansville, Ind., and his son, George, graduated from Duke and is studying medicine at the University of Indiana.

If you are in lower Manhattan and want to talk about a personal trust, walk into the Irving Trust and ask for vice president Don MacNeary. Don has just been promoted to that position after having served as assistant v. p for several years. In Boston the Boston and Maine Railroad has appointed Bill Kirk vice president of real estate and industrial development. Bill has been with the B & M since 1940 and resides in Stoneham, Mass. He is a member of the Society of Industrial Realtors, the New England Railroad Club and is serving on the Industrial Development Committee of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. If you are a resident of Greenwich, Conn., and are contemplating some non-conforming use of your use of your property suc as raising chickens or establishing a used car lot in a residential zone - Beware! Paul Lynch has been appointed as an alternate member of the Greenwich Planning and Zoning Board of Appeals.

Announcement was made during the holidays of the engagement of Deirdre Marsters to Ensign Benjamin McCleary, son of George and Nancy McCleary of Asheville, N. C., and Little Compton, R. I. Deirdre, a graduate of Briarcliff, is presently teaching at the Brearley School in New York City. Ben is a graduate of Princeton and is stationed at Newport, R. I.

Budd Schulberg's Writers' Workshop in the Watts section of Los Angeles continues to attract much attention in the nation. In December Budd testified in Washington before the U.S. Senate subcommittee on urban problems along with one of his proteges, a young Negro writer, Johnie Scott. On Feb. 19 NBC's "Experiments in Television" produced and taped in Watts a script by Harry Dolan entitled, "Losers Weepers," originally conceived in Budd's Workshop. This is a remarkable effort which Budd is making to counteract the sad plight of the Watts Negro.

If any of your daughters are applying to Skidmore College, a sympathetic ear is available in their Admissions Office where Jerry King's wife, Charlotte, is employed on a part-time basis. Their son, David, a graduate of Duke, is employed by General Electric in Bridgeport, Conn., where he is a trainee in their Financial Management Course.

Our sympathy is extended to Dick Treadway and his family on the death of his father-in-law, Reverend Roy B. Chamberlain, a resident of Hanover. Rev. Chamberlain was a familiar figure on the campus during our years at Dartmouth. He retired as professor of religion in 1956.

During January the Juilliard String Quartet appeared at the Hopkins Center in the Dartmouth College Concert Series. This was a homecoming for violist Raphael Hillyer. He has been with the Quartet since its founding in 1946 and can take pride in its enviable position in the concert world today. In addition to being the Quartet-in-Residence at the Juilliard School, the group has also been selected for Quartet-in-Residence for the Library of Congress.

In Manchester, N. H., Nancy Parker, daughter of Tom and Jean Parker, is working with the N. H. Office of Economic Opportunity. Nancy is a recent graduate of the VISTA training program at Northeastern University in Boston.

If any of you are in need of assistance in getting that return off to the Internal Revenue and you live near Milford, Mass., just look in the yellow pages for Hank Billings, CPA. Hank opened his own practice in December in Milford. His residence is in Framingham Center.

Another Massachusetts accountant, Dan Poor, keeps busy with extracurricular activities. From Ipswich his good wife, Betty, writes that even with golf all spring and summer, bird hunting in the fall, Deer Week in November at the Dartmouth Grant, Dan still finds time to oversee the family project of raising thoroughbred horses on their Candlewood Stud Farm.

Hank and Maria-Rosa Dearborn are still representing the State Department in Bogota, Colombia, but miss their children who are attending school in Washington, D. C. Pamela is a freshman at Trinity College and Henry is a sophomore at Georgetown Prep. With Jim Buyoucos in Ithaca, N. Y., the situation is reversed. His young son, David, is on leave from high school and is spending his junior year in Bologna, Italy. Boyce andBets Price are probably well settled now in Georgetown. Boyce is president of Wood Marketing, Inc. with offices in the Barlow Building in Chevy Chase, Md. Both their son and daughter are students at the University of Vermont. We wonder how the Prices will like sailing the Chesapeake rather than Long Island Sound.

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