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The publishing year for these columns, like the academic year, is screaming to a fast finish - just this one and one more before the summer doldrums set in. I'm sadly aware that I haven't made very good progress on my resolve to write a paragraph on every classmate, but it's difficult to do so without asistance from the troops. So if you have not seen your exploits extolled herein lately you understand why - and please do something about it!
It seems as though Steve Jewett no sooner finishes one community-oriented project than he undertakes another. The latest in a long line is as president of the Belknap County Bar Association. That is over on the other side of the state so I haven't been able to personally gauge Mary's reaction to yet another responsibility on her husband's part, but in the picture announcing this new election she was smiling, so I gather she is pleased and proud.
Another guy with a new, big extracurricular job is Bill Squier who has been elected president of the Boston Alumni Association. It is one of the largest and most active of the Dartmouth clubs which promises to keep Bill busy during the next year. Congratulations to both Bill and Patty.
It was sad to read of the death of FrankReeves' wife in February. Tuffy and Gladys added much to many reunions, and I know I speak for the entire Class when I say that we will miss Gladys at future gatherings of our Class. Our sympathy goes out to Tuffy and their daughter Robin.
Don McMahon, director for area development of the Colorado Interstate Gas Co., travels all around the West talking about "Federation of Rocky Mountain States and the Future of the Rocky Mountain West." After thirteen years with the gas company he "knows the territory" and is a big booster of his adopted state, functioning as vice president of the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry and also as chairman of the Governor's Economic Development Council.
Last fall Dick Goulder, having left the plastics business earlier, became his own boss as a manufacturing representative selling components like insulation, infrared heaters, sash systems, and a number of other items not ordinarily carried by the usual metal building suppliers. He finds enough prospects within a 200-mile circuit of his home base, Cleveland, to keep him on the go pretty steadily, except for a recent trip he and Zelda took to Spain and Portugal, an area they both would like to see again.
Jerry Schnitzer is commuting frantically between Hollywood, New York, and Maine shooting interiors and location scenes for the "America" documentary on the West Coast and sailing shots on the East Coast. Be sure to watch your favorite paper for the showing of "Sail to Glory" in the late summer so you can see the finished project. Jerry sees Jack Rourke from time to time out in the Golden West. Jack, by the way, wrote that Fred Fuld and Tom Braden worked on a fall TV show he produced entitled "How Do You Vote?" The straw vote telephone poll was so successful and accurate in predicting Governor Reagan's percentage win that Jack might extend his operations to other big cities and other controversial subjects the TV fans would want to express an opinion about. If he sets up shop in your hometown he might be able to use you too in some capacity on the show - but don't tell him I sent you.
Beezie Smallwoocl wrote of a return to his former company and his former territory. He and Ruth happily moved to 54 West Lake St. in Skaneateles, New York, in the fall when he rejoined the General Crushed Stone Co. as their Syracuse division sales manager. With a married daughter in the Peace Corps in Chile and a son working in Boston with a printing company they are rattling around the big old house with only Pam still in high school. They are in a lovely part of the world and with the New York Thruway now luring all of the traffic northward I can imagine their village is even lovelier than when Karl Bruch, HerbFoster, Bill Duncan and I used to stop there for coffee on some wintry rides to Cleveland from Hanover. Viva Route 20!
Evidence that Percy Rideout is still in top condition came to light recently with the news that he entertained 25 of his daughter's classmates at a ski weekend at the DOC of Northern California cabin where he, as the only male, had to pack in all the food and supplies for the group himself. It was a good half mile too from the nearest plowed road. Perc, by the way, has been named European trade promotion director for the Cling Peach Advisory Board. Based in Brussels, he will be involved in advertising, merchandising, and product publicity programs in ten northern and western European countries. He expects to be gone two years before returning to his own fruit ranch in Marysville, California.
Speaking of Brussels, Elmer Browne has a new address there. For you European travelers he can now be found at 45 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt. Other recent changes put Larry Keeler at 125 County St., Attleboro, Mass.; Dick York at Rutland Heights Hospital, Rutland, Mass.; John Cooper has moved from one borough of Big Town to another and now hangs his hat in Apt. 14-P, 700 Victory Blvd., Staten Island, New York. Allen Hessler, on the other hand, stayed on the same street when he moved to 5519 West 97th St. in Overland Park, Kansas; but Art Ostrander left the Midwest and settled into 268 Briscoe Rd., New Canaan, Conn.
Don't forget the Alumni Fund which is churning along now. The stakes are bigger than ever before and our competition is tougher so the challenge has been drawn. Hugh Dryfoos has surrounded himself with a good crew of agents - listen well and react generously when they come knocking at your door. In other words, give until it feels good!
That's it for another month. Be in good health until we meet again at the same spot next time around.
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H. 03755
Class Agent, 200 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. 10010
