1965
As the years pass the news about our Class becomes more varied ... children replace weddings as the most frequent '65 happening; this past June has brought us our first crop of honest-to-goodness lawyers, and even a handful of doctors; and this year our premature fifth reunion in June will replace Carnival and Green Key as the weekend to be in Hanover. We're ripening, gang!
The news comes from all over: Tom andLinda Sampson welcomed their first, Jonathan, into their clan last spring. They're living in Brockton, Mass., where Tom is involved with the family firm, the Sampson Funeral Home.
While on the subject of undertakers I should announce that on August 24 DavePerinchief took a day off from his duties at Perinchief Chapels Inc. to marry Miss Maureen Hanna in Mt. Holly, N. J. Maureen had been a stewardess with Overseas National Airways. The wedding was well attended by Big Greeners, including Pfc. TedAtkinson, who took leave from Ft. Dix in order to ush. The notorious Tabard was also represented by five of its finest.
I received a note from Capt. Jack McLean last spring outlining his duties as a military advisor to a South Vietnamese Regional Force. He's due to return from Southeast Asia around the first of the year, and hopes to begin law school then. Incidentally, Jack's was only one of many letters I've received from our classmates who are serving in Viet Nam, and they provide many new insights into that war. I'm sorry that there isn't room in this column to print some of these letters in their entirety, because I think they would help all of us to appreciate the sentiments of the guys who are right in the middle of things over there. Theirs is a point of view to which we, unfortunately, haven't been sufficiently exposed through our mass media.
From Lackland AFB, Texas, comes word that John Kunz has been commissioned second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He is now headed back East and will be stationed at Hanscom Field, Mass. John will be in the Air Force Systems Command which develops scientific concepts and operational systems with emphasis on space programs. He can now put his Thayer training to good use.
Tom Meacham wrote in July to announce his engagement to Miss Jane Camden (Univ. of Tulsa) of Kansas City, Mo. Their wedding was to have taken place in August. Tom is an Army first lieutenant stationed at Fort Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, and I guess he figured that another Eskimo winter alone was not for him - now he's got Jane to keep up his igloo. Their tour in Alaska will be up in January, and then he will return to his law studies at the University of Colorado.
Word has also arrived that Ted Stafford is an Army first lieutenant at Fort Lewis, Wash. Until this past July he had been with the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment in West Germany.
Also still in the service is Navy first lieutenant Steve Fuller, a Viet Nam veteran. He is now stationed at the Naval Air Station in Whidbey Island, Wash. Steve just returned in June from flying sorties in Viet Nam, and while he was overseas his wife Karen presented him with a baby girl, Kathleen Marie.
One of Steve's companions at Whidbey Island is John Case, an A-6 bombardier-navigator. Another big greener that he bumped into in his service travels is Larry Keesey, who is stationed on Guam with a Navy VW squadron.
I've received West Coast news from Tomand Carol Morton too. They're now living in San Jose, Calif., and Tom enjoys his work with Lockheed more than ever.
Still in California, John Simmons has recently taken on a better half to assist him through his final year at USC Med School. He married Miss Vicki Jackson in June. John has had a very distinguished career at USC and last year was president of the Med School Junior Class. He's making plans now to introduce Vicki to Dartmouth at our reunion next June.
Mike Gonnerman has also recently taken a bride. Miss Betsy Weismann (Holyoke '67) was his choice, and they were married in Hanover on June 22. Mike received his M.B.A. from Northwestern in June and is now working for Arthur Andersen and Co. in Washington. Their home is in Wheaton, Md.
Pete and Marcia Frederick have taken up residence in Ridgewood, N. J. He is still with the textile fibers department of Du-Pont in New York. You'll see them at many ball games this fall.
I had an opportunity this summer to visit with Pete and Sue Coker in Allentown, Pa. After receiving his M.A. in economics from N. C. State in June Pete has joined the Finance and Legal Division of Bethlehem Steel. He and Sue are looking forward to the arrival of their first son in November. Their daughter, Dina, was two in August.
John and June Richardson have already experienced their blessed event. Amy arrived on August 3, and all hands are doing well. John graduated from Rutgers Law School in May, and is anxiously awaiting the results of the New Jersey Bar Exam.
A note from the Boston Chamber of Commerce: Those of you who will be visiting the Hub this fall are encouraged to make a visit to The Mad Russian where Larry"Muldoon" Goldberger, carver of corpses, pursuer of wild women, and sometime Boston Common policeman, will set them up for you.
News has reached us of Rob Upton's engagement to Miss Margaret Brooks, a Smith graduate. Rob has just received his sheepskin from B.U. Law School.
Wedding bells rang on June 16 for Charlie Terry and Miss Betsy Macgregor (Wellesley '68). He just graduated cum laude from Harvard Law, where he was editor of the Law Review, and is now serving as a clerk to the Federal Court of Appeals in the Second Circuit in New York. Betsy is a Master's candidate at NYU.
Just a word now about our upcoming reunion. It is a formal one scheduled by the college — we will not have a fifth year reunion in 1970. In other words, it will be our only shot at a genuine formal class-wide gathering until 1975, so set the weekend of June 20-22 aside now. You'll be receiving more specific news about the reunion during the fall.
See you in Cambridge!
These four Dartmouth men recentlygraduated from the American Institutefor Foreign Trade in Phoenix, Arizona,and accepted positions with internationalcorporations headquartered in the NewYork City area. L to r: Sin-Sing Chiu '65,Robert E. Raiser '64, Gregor J. Hargrett'62, and Curtis M. Comstock '64.
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