1954
The appointment of Seaver Peters to the post of Director of Athletics effective this July 1 is certainly bell-ringing news! Chairman Bill White, writing to Pete on behalf of the Class, paid him the following tribute: "You bring to this job the enthusiasm, loyalty, and organizational ability that are essential to achieving satisfactory results. Red Rolfe's successor is a ... dedicated member of the Dartmouth fellowship who will ably serve the very best interests of his alma mater's athletic future. Your Class is justly proud to salute you."
Several classmates have been responsible for news of the telephone bell-ringing vanety. The New York Times recently described the activities of Volunteers in Action, initiated more than a year ago by Dix Rain when he was with Western Electric. Under this program Western Electric personnel, after working hours, travel to community centers and settlement houses in New York City and tutor disadvantaged children in reading, spelling, writing, languages, and mathematics. Dix, by the way, has since switched over to American Telephone and Telegraph. Also moving up the line with A.T. & T. is Des Tiihonen who, as a sales supervisor, has been transferred from White Plains, N. Y., and now resides in West Peabody, Mass. Bill Pryor has left the legal staff of the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. in Cleveland to join the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. in Washington, D. C., also as an attorney.
Turning now to the subject of wedding bells, on January 21, 1967, Bill Mansfield walked down the aisle with Kirsten Bjorg Ursin in Oslo, Norway. Kirsten, a secretary for the Norwegian Bankers' Association, is a graduate of the Kristelig Gymnasium, Oslo and Benfleet Hall School, Surrey, England. Bill is a second secretary in the U.S. Embassy in Oslo. Kent Klineman had special cause to celebrate this past holiday season. On December 25, 1966, he married the former Hedy Silver, the U.S. representative of a fashionable French shoe manufacturer. Kent is a partner in the above listed law firm.
One of our classmates who doesn't mind having gone to the dogs is Al Bialosky. Now president of the Western Reserve Kennel Club, Al was first bitten (by the bug that is) when he saw his initial dog show some two years ago. Since that time Al has become a highly successful breeder of Australian terriers and a leader of the "pet set." The dog show sponsored by his club in Cleveland last December drew from across the nation 1,500 dogs representing 100 different breeds. In order to keep his brood, which in addition to countless terriers includes wife Peggy and children David, 9, Jeff, 7, and Randy, 3, in biscuits, Al works as vice president of Ontario Printers, Inc. in Cleveland.
From dogs conveniently we turn to fertilizer. This summer in Tulsa, Okla., the Sunray DX Oil Company announced the creation of a new agricultural chemicals department and named Pete Barker to head it. In this position Pete manages and directs Sunray's fertilizer and agricultural chemicals operations, including the manufacture, processing, marketing and development of these products. Prior to joining Sunray, Pete worked for Price Waterhouse and McKinsey & Co. Inc. in New York City and then became a lecturer in accounting at the University of Indiana. He started with Sunray in 1962 as assistant treasurer and three years later became a marketing director.
The new home owners and "lawnscapers" among us should be active consumers of Pete's products in the summers to come. Right now Hank Grebe is too busy to concern himself with caring for the lawn of his new Wenham, Mass., home. Hank was promoted recently to vice president in charge of commercial - at the Essex County Bank in Lynn, Mass. After bankers' hours Hank is kept occupied by the latest addition to the Grebe family, David Henry, born to wife Joan last December. Don McCuaig has recently moved, too. He, wife judith, and their girls, Alison, Leslie, and Adria are in the process of remodeling a big old house they bought in Harrington Park, N. J. In August Don was promoted to finance manager in the treasurer's department of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). Neither Hank nor Don faced the problems encountered by Jerry Post with his new house. He built it himself. Jerry reports that after three years, the ten-room homestead, which he built for wife Rosemary and sons Tim and Matthew, is not yet complete. His advice for others contemplating such a move is "don't." Another of Jerry's tips for you stockmarketeers is to buy MacDermid, the Waterbury, Conn., company of which Jerry is purchas- ing manager. MacDermid, a metal finishings supplier, went public just a little while ago.
If you prefer more professional advice to Jerry's tips, I would refer you to BillRobbins or Dean Hildebrandt in New York City. Last December Bill was elected an assistant vice president of Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc., a leading investment banking firm. Dean has been promoted to associate in the management consultant firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton. However, if you really want to beat the system, then the men to see are Perry Davis and Ted Hartshorn. Perry is computer and systems coordinator for the Ministers and Missionaries BenefiBoard of the American Baptist Convention in New York City. Ted is systems manager for Hillenbrand Industries in Indiana.
This column started with a salute to a deserving classmate and it would seem ap- propriate to close with a tribute to another praiseworthy '54. Dr. Don Belcher and fam- ily are living now in Gondar, Ethiopia, a small town, located in the remote mountain region hours north of capital Addis Ababa by a lumbering DC-3. Don is with the Pub- lic Health College in Gondar, instructing health officers in communicable diseases and supervising patient care in the local hospital and rural clinic. The hospital has 200 beds but serves as the chief medical facility in a province inhabited by some two million peo- ple. Don reports that life is so primitive most patients are transported to the hos- pital by "piggy-backing" relatives. He says that his work has its frustrations but the fas- cination of a culture so different from ours and the great need for medical and health programs create all the stimulation needed. Wife Sheila works in the U.S. supported lo- cal library while children Wendy and Chris are well cared for at home by a housekeeper named Taitu. We wish the best of luck and health to Don and his family in their most laudable endeavors.
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