1957
The 1968 Award for the Letter From the Classmate Farthest Away goes to Reginald Van Raalte who is in charge of the loan office of the Agency for - International Development Mission in Quito, Ecuador. His work consists of monitoring the Ecuador loan program, and preparing and presenting new projects as needed. He handles problems which are political, legal, financial, and technical, and the projects are in widely divergent fields as malaria eradication and school construction. Reg reports still being single, but promised a status report on a change early next year. All is not work, however, as there is time for golf, tennis, riding, hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, etc., in country he describes as "scenically fantastic," with the jungle, the Sierra, and the coast all within one day's drive from the capital. The climate at 10,000 feet is perpetually air conditioned and sunny.
In my home county of Morris, there are four new scholastic football coaches, one of whom is Ed Nelson now head coach of Chatham Township (N. J.) High School. Ed spent six years as an assistant at Nutley High School prior to going to Chatham Township, and one of the things he must get used to is that Chatham Township High is in the group of smallest schools in the state, while Nutley is in the group of the largest. Ed, taking over a team with a 1-7-1 record in 1967, has a long road to climb toward the victory trail. I'd say he is on the right trail as he is stressing fundamentals from the varsity right down to the freshmen. Good luck, Ed. and I'm sure you'll produce some future "Big Green" material.
A former football star, Lou Rovero has recently been endorsed for a position on the Board of Education at his high school alma mater, Putnam High School, in Putnam, Conn. Lou is presently teaching at New London High School, and has held other teaching positions in Plainfield and Old Saybrook. He was head of the Mathematics Department at Putnam High before accepting his present post.
One of the youngest college presidents in the nation is Gordon Bjork who, in early September, assumed the presidency of Linfield College, in McMinnville, Ore. Prior to accepting this position, Gordon was an associate professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, in New York City. He says the recent student strife was not a factor in his leaving, but rather he had a strong desire to return to his native Pacific Northwest where he grew up in Seattle. Gordon feels that his youth and physical stamina will be helpful in keeping pace with needed educational changes. He says, "I am still close enough to the classroom (a graduate student only seven years ago) to give intellectual leadership." After graduation from Dartmouth. Gordon was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England. He earned a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Washington and then taught at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, before going to Columbia. A frequent contributor to professional journals, Gordon will have a book published soon by Prentice-Hall entitled "Private Enterprise and Public Interest: The Logic and Development of American Capitalism." He and his wife have three daughters.
MacDonald Heston has been named special accounts manager for Film Operations of American Viscose Division of FMC Corporation. He will serve in a duel capacity while continuing as industrial sales manager for film. He and his wife and their three children live in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
John Nuveen & Co. Inc., distributor of municipal and corporate securities in New York, recently announced that RylandChase has joined its short-term securities department. Prior to joining Nuveen, Red was assistant treasurer of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.
Jim and Diane Dalton announced that James Fillingham Jr., potential Dartmouth graduate, joined Julie, 6, and Janet, on August 14.
Larrie Calvert has taken a position with Halquist Stone Co., in Sussex, Wis., which quarries stone for all types of building construction. Larrie says that his responsibilities will be in sales. Prior to this, he has been with Nopco Chemical in Newark, a division of Diamond Shamrock Corp.
JOTTINGS: Alfonso Escalante is in Buenos Aires with the Union Oil Co. of Argentina. Dr. David Levis is a pediatrician at Treasure Island Naval Dispensary in San Francisco. Dr. Dennis Sanidas is a radiologist at Falmouth Hospital in Falmouth, Mass. Bob Young is with Holden-Day, Inc. in San Francisco. Chip Corley is in Paris as European district manager for Warner and Swasey Co. John Cusick is a division manager for L. H. Green Electric Co. Dr. James Ryan is associate Professor of Medicine at University of Miami School of Medicine. Dick Leavitt is a partner in Tankel, Toll, Lertyman & Leavitt, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Frank Sherman is assistant Geologist for the Illinois State Geological Survey. Dick Sunderland is vice-president of Chesapeake Rug & Drapery Cleaners.
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