1966
It doesn't seem as if a year has passed since we waited nervously in Spaulding for Comps, took that last walk around the Bema, sat in the warm sun on Baker Lawn. There's another summer ahead, and we pass along best wishes for a healthy and happy one from all '66's, and the growing sixty-six family.
Dave Kennedy and his wife Sue (UCLA '66) will be celebrating their first anniversary this month, while Dave - his work towards a master's degree in chemistry at the University of California at Riverside.
In January John Voss, specializing in film and stage design in Hanover, married Claudia Scanlan Slade, a graduate of the University of Michigan whom John met when she was with the Dartmouth Summer Repertory Company. Claudia is teaching school in up-river Orford.
Second Lieutenant Don Ries married Linda Louise Bent of Etna on March 16 in the Lawry Air Force Base Chapel in Denver, Colo. Ens. Chris Scott and Sherly Joan Brooks (Skidmore '66) were married in Jamaica, N. Y., on March 18. Chris is based in Norfolk, Va. Another serviceman, Ens. Mark Blanchard, also came ashore for a long hitch. Mark, who is serving aboard the "USS Finch," married Katherine Elizabeth Hilgendorff in Fairfield, Conn., on April 15, with Bob Cohn serving as best man. Katherine is a senior at Vassar.
Dave Owens graduated from Army Officer's Candidate School, Fort Eustis, Va., at about the same time last month he married Linda Fay Farnsworth (Mount Holyoke '66) in Springfield, Mass., with Paul Murphy holding the ring. Linda is a teacher in the Audubon, N. J., school system. Murphy will be walking the aisle himself in August, when he marries Carol Amory Sullivan in London. Paul met Carol during a year of study at the University of Madrid. He will graduate from Dartmouth this month.
Another recent wedding was that of DaveBryan, a ski instructor at Jackson, Wyo., to Lee Ware (Colby Jr.) on May 27 in Stowe, Vt.
At least half a dozen '66's will take the plunge during June. Warren Riley took time out from his MBA cases at Stanford to report that his roommate, Bill Gibson, will be changing addresses this summer. Gibby will marry Becky Gould from Converse College "somewhere in South Carolina." Bill's buddy from the days at the Corner, Bob MacCarty, will marry Gretchen Van Lith this month after he completes the first year program at the University of Saskatchewan Med School, in Saskatoon, of course.
Cynthia Lewis, a 1966 graduate of Russell Sage College and a research assistant at Beth Israel Hospital in Brookline, Mass., will marry Larry Robbins, now studying nearby at MlT's Sloan School of Management. This will also be the month Dave Dunlop takes time off from his duties at the Mobile, Ala., Merchants National Bank to exchange vows with Martha Jane Rambo, a graduate of Alabama College and the University of Alabama.
Richard Brigden, an MBA candidate at Ohio State, and Betsy Tolar have set the date for June, and Brad Laycock is scheduled to marry Rudi Van den Elsakker (Green Mountain '66) in New York City on the 16th. Brad is at Bowling Green's graduate school of business administration.
Other classmates plan to add tax exemptions later this summer. John Pearson, at the Business School of the University of Buffalo, sends word that Larry Haas, now studying zoology at the University of Rhode Island, is engaged to Betsy Maguire (Penn State '67).
Dennis Chamberlin was one of 37 Peace Corps Volunteers who departed last month for Nigeria to teach in secondary schools in that country's Western Region. The Volunteers completed three months of training with Educational Services, Inc., in Wellesley, Mass., and during the first two weeks in Nigeria they received additional Yoruba language training while living in a small village for orientation.
As the war in Vietnam continues, more and more '66's are entering the military, sometimes by force, usually by choice. JohnRobison graduated from an Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga., and TomLoomis is still in training there. Rick Godfrey is scheduled for an eight-month Vietnam cruise aboard the "USS Boston" after completing Combat Information Training. George Reese is stationed on the "USCGC Vigilant" based in New Bedford, Mass. WaltKnoepfel gets his commission in Army Artillery in July at Fort Sill, Okla.
Lt. Jim Campbell is the executive officer of a basic training company in Colorado, and Buck Skinkman, always a radio bug, has finished his basic signal officer's course and is receiving training in psychological warfare in preparation for Vietnam duty in September.
Ross Baylor is a "Donut Daddy" in Korea. He's in charge of the "Donut Dollies," Army entertainment girls. Bob Knight is also in Korea. Rod Thompson is studying German at the Defense Language Institute in Presidio of Monterey, Cailf.
With the summer coming you may be wondering what some of the guys have been doing all year. Park Smith and Joe Barker have been roommates and classmates at Vanderbilt Law. Bob Morgan has been completing the first of his three-year program of study with the Stanford Repertory Theater in design and directing leading to a Master of Fine Arts degree. Steve Posniak has been studying political science at the University of Minnesota. Dave Cross, Perley Grimes, Roy Jaffe, and Andy Seidman have been having a ball at Georgetown Law School in Washington, which Dave says "really swings out."
John Wakeman plans to teach botany and biology in Latin America after completing graduate studies at the University of Kansas. Mike Bromley is studying international relations in Geneva and vacationing "in as much of Europe as possible." Carl Serbell is in the enviable position of acting assistant at Smith College, living at 61 Paradise Road in Northampton (I bet it is).
Three men have won Reynolds Scholarships this year to continue their studies abroad. Dick Dellamora will be at Cambridge's Queen's College in English literature, Steve Hladky will study biophysics at King's College, Cambridge, and philosophy-politics-economics will occupy Pete Reichard at Worcester College, Oxford.
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