1956

Em Houck, our head agent in the Alumni Fund Drive, is getting fired up over both the annual campaign and the men of '56 who contribute most to its success. In a recent letter, he said in part:

"Most of you know, I believe, that our organization consists of 19 regional class agents and well over 100 class agents in total. In contacting these men, one cannot help but be impressed with two significant factors: 1) These are busy men. They are doers, contributors; they are involved. The time they choose to spend on Dartmouth affairs comes from crowded, demanding schedules. 2) They are men who are anxious to serve. They are loyal and dedicated, not only to Dartmouth, but to the many other significant interests into which they also throw themselves.

"I would, therefore, well before we know the results of our campaign efforts, like to publicly thank all of these men for the service they are providing all of us. I would also like to ask those of our classmates who cannot give of themselves in terms of time and effort to thoughtfully consider a larger gift of dollars.

"Although space will obviously not permit us to mention all of our class agents, following are the 19 regional class agents: Doug Keare, Russ Brace, Dusty Johnstone, Dick Taylor, Dick Rosen, Paul Kreindler, Jack Billhardt, Jim Flynn, Tex Fridlund, Les Reid, Tim Sears, Foster Aborn, John Parke, Duke Hust, Doug Stevenson, Ken Fortin, Stu Warren, Tom Harper, and Bill Miles."

President Len Clark feels we have all reached a point in life where we should plan ahead. You all know how necessary it is to plan ahead for a home football game and how some home football games require more ahead planning than others. Len says now is the time to make reservations for the Princeton game in Hanover next fall.

Arrangements have been made for the Class to have the Tom Dent cabin after the game. It's been quite a while since we really worked on a social gathering. Something about Hanover in the fall and a football weekend: plan to be there.

Roger Griffin will be circulating through the Upper Midwest as the new manager of the Mutual Fund Department of Dain, Kalman & Quail, Inc., investment banking firm in Minneapolis. His responsibilities include 15 branch offices of DKQ, which he joined in 1963. Roger has been busy with the Republican Party, Boy Scouts, St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, and the Jaycees, which named him "Man of the Month." He was recently elected a member of the Twin Cities Bond Club.

Bud Shattman and I exchanged several phone calls on his recent and all too short visit to Stowe. We tried gamely to get together for some drinking or skiing. Bud had promised news of Kesang. Bud and Rona have continued to entertain Kesang and supply that personal relationship which has distinguished our foreign scholarship program since its inception.

In our last issue, we had Ben Taylor located in Dover, Mass. Ben writes that he is back in "Bean Town" living at 780 Boylston Street, Apt. 11-F, and looking forward to catching up with other '56's in the area. Ben is with the New England Merchants National Bank and does quite a bit of traveling for them.

Paul Nelson, R.D. #1, Franconia, N. H., recently brought me up-to-date on his happenings which included living and teaching in Hawaii for five years after getting his M.A. in English from Colgate. Last year Paul taught at Colgate and this year at Franconia College which he describes as "the rarest and most vital educational experiment I know." Paul has had poetry in the Spring '67 issue of "Four Quarters" and "The Laurel Review" and should be in the upcoming spring issues of "Vortex" and the "Beloit Poetry Journal" as well as the forthcoming issue of "The English Journal."

Paul and Judy, married in 1958, have spent a couple of summers in Europe, both with and without students. Judy is a painter and printmaker who also taught for four years at the University of Hawaii and worked last year at Yale.

George Records, president of Midland Mortgage Co., an Oklahoma City mortgage banking firm which has expanded its activities and offices to Denver and Tulsa in this past year and more than tripled its loan servicing volume in the past four years, has just been elected president of Sunbeam Home and Family Service Association of America in Oklahoma City. Sunbeam Home is associated with the Family Service Association of America and is one of Oklahoma City's largest united fund agencies providing foster care and family counseling service. It maintains ten full-time counselors, two daycare facilities and a children's institution.

Leaving George and his mortgages, a quick trip North finds Warren Fellingham at the Northern Trust Company in Chicago. Warren is with the bank's savings department and is a recently promoted officer.

I wanted to delay this column long enough to find out what happened to Bob Dumont's candidacy for selectman at the March meeting in Southboro. Bob, as you undoubtedly recall, is a native of those questionable parts and makes his home at 22 Clifford Road.

Herb Kleber is an M.D. and a psychiatrist. After June, 1956, Herb proceeded through Jefferson Medical College where he earned a Lederle research fellowship in his senior year. An internship at the Health Center Hospitals at the University of Pittsburgh and a psychiatric residency at Yale University Medical School, came two years in the military, during that time, Herb did a little moonlighting teaching clinical psychiatry at the University of Kentucky School of Medicine and serving as phychiatric consultant to the Bourbon County Medical Clinic. Many of you will be speculating as to the need for psychiatric service in what we can only assume to be delightfully liquid surroundings.

Now, Dr. Kleber is assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and psychiatric consultant to the Wesleyan University Student Health Service. In these two capacities he has become intimately concerned with the use and abuse of drugs by college students. Herb is considered a leading authority on this unfortunate subject in our present world, lecturing, writing articles and appearing on panels.

By now most of you know that I maintain a law office in Stowe, Vt., which has recently become the firm of Stackpole and Amidon. My new partner is Tom Amidon, a fellow Vermonter.

Saw Cliff Phalen over from Essex Junction for a day of skiing with his family. Bill Magavern and I were recently working on a legal problem together and he scribbled a note indicating he could not come here to ski this winter because he had to go to Europe instead. Hope to see more of you up here in the Heart of the Recreation Country.

See you all at the Princeton Game.

Sprrptarv Box 111, Hyde Park, Vt.05655

Class Agent, Eli Lilly and Co., 740 S. Alabama St. Indianapolis, Ind. 46206