1965
Having just watched the Big Green College Bowl team taste defeat at the hands of an outstanding Southern Cal quartet, I feel somewhat reassured as I sit down to pen my monthly prose. I guess the old place hasn't changed much - so long as we keep beating Havud and Princeton on the gridiron, students keep "borrowing" brew from derailed railroad trains, and every freshman bonfire is "the biggest ever built," I won't be too upset by an occasional College Bowl loss. Somewhere there is a delicate balance between punt and the pursuit of excellence, and Dartmouth and its students (and alums?) manage to maintain that equilibrium better than anything or anyone I know of. So long as that's the case I'm a happy man.
Incidentally I don't mean to take anything away from Dartmouth's College Bowl team. They came from far back to make a good show of it against USC. The news this month is meager, but I'll try to stretch it to interesting lengths:
Now that spring is with us, the sap is running again, and '65 stars are re-emerging from their winter dens to become entangled (re-entangled) with the opposite sex. Some, weary of the frivolity of bachelor hood, have become involved nearly to the point of no return. The social obits read as follows:
Brad Dewey; A.B. Dartmouth, M.B.A. University of Chicago, late brother of Kappa Kappa Kappa; employed by the Digital Equipment Corporation in Maynard, Mass., to be wed on June 1 to Miss Marietta Pillsbury (Colby J.C. '63 and Wheelock '65).
George Linton; A.B. Dartmouth, M.D. Tulane University Medical School (June '69), to be married on June 15 to Miss Mary Ellen Murphy, graduate of Manhattanville College and currently on the staff at the University of Colorado Medical Center.
Roddy Powers; A.B. Dartmouth, B.E. Thayer School, M.B.A. Columbia (June 1968), to marry Miss Diane L. Curtis of Brattleboro, Vt. Miss Curtis is a junior high school English teacher in Stamford, Conn. Mr. Powers is survived by the naughty brotherhood of Alpha Delta.
Dave Ruhnke, ex-Clifford Scott H.S. great, now in residence with the Peace Corps in the Philippines, to be wed to Miss Joan L. Detel (Rutgers), who is a social worker with the New Jersey State Bureau of Children's Services. Dave leaves numerous broken hearts and the Bonesgate pit.
Jerry Ogden extends his greetings from Hong Kong, where he is a vice-consul in the U.S. Consulate General. He also sent along a photo of the four man Dartmouth Club of Hong Kong a group that includes Mike Stephen '62, who is one of Jerry's colleagues at the Consulate General, and Phil Sunderland '67 and Gary Jefferson '66, who are Project Asia teaching fellows at Chung Chi College.
IBM is benefiting from the talents of Carl Boe. He is a systems engineer at their Boston operation. Previously he had spent two years with UNIVAG in Switzerland.
Brian Butler will pick up his JD from Northwestern Law School this June. Then he will bring wife Pat, and three-year-old Brian Jr. back to New England when he joins the law firm of Hale and Dorr in Boston.
The Peace Corps has claimed yet another '65. Hugh Lade left on New Year's Eve for two years on the Tonga Island in the South Pacific. His major responsibility there will be to organize a marketing co-op for handicrafts. He comes well equipped for that phase of his work, as he received his M.B.A. from the Univ. of Washington last June.
The questionnaire that Ed Thomas returned looked as if it had been filled between VC mortar rounds. He's an artillery surveyor for Ist Cavalry Division in Viet Nam. He holds the rank of Spec. 5, and will be discharged in June.
Tom Balogh has also been to Viet Nam in his travels with the Navy, but is now back in the States, at Newport, R. I., as a Destroyer division staff officer. He expects to ship out soon for a tour of duty in the Mediterranean and northern Europe.
Pete Bush is busy studying for his doctorate at Yale. Pete has already earned an M.A. and an M. Philosophy down in New Haven.
Bob and Mary Bradley are living in Elmira, N. Y., where he is the assistant personnel director for the Thatcher Glass Manufacturing Co. Brad spent a year with the General Motors Acceptance Corporation before joining Thatcher.
The Kimberly-Clark office in Niagara Falls, N. Y., is the beneficiary of Bill Busker's genius. Bill is putting his Tuck degree to good use with Kimberly as a cost analyst. He lives in nearby Grand Island, but the rumor that he commutes by barrel has yet to be confirmed.
Jim Carr is continuing his ministerial studies. He spent two years at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas, and is now at SMU.
Palmer C. D. Woogliu called the other night to relate the happy news that he has just been appointed chaplain at Goddard College. One of his first functions there will be to conduct a memorial service for all those students who have suffered either shaves or haircuts during the current school year.
Another of our budding young barristers is Dave Cohen, who will graduate from NYU Law School in June, and will then join the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City.
Larry Hunt is in his second year of law study at the University of Chicago. Before he started at Chicago in the fall of 1966, Larry spent a year in Paris as a Reynolds Scholar at the Institute d'Etudes Politiques.
Also in his second year of law school is Mike Kane, who is at Duke. Previous to his move south Mike was with the First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co. He and wife Virginia have a young son, Richard.
John Richardson, our illustrious class prexy, relayed the rather dubious good news __ he' called it "good news" — to me last week that yours truly has been named reunion chairman for our premature fifth reunion in June 1969, along with the classes of 1963 and 1964. As head of this event I am receptive to - in fact, I'm in dire need of - suggestions, ideas and volunteers of any and every sort. Give generously.
Also, keep in mind the Alumni Fund. We're about halfway through the drive, but there's plenty of work to be done yet. Chip in your share and remind a classmate to give, too.
Everyone wants to know where IvarsJanieks is! Ivars, where are you?
Happy spring!
Hong Kong's film industry was the subject for study on this tour led by Movie Producer Wong Yu Lin (c) and including (l to r) Jerry Ogden '65 and Mike Stephen'62, both vice consuls at the U.S. Consulate General, and Gerry Jefferson '66 andPhil Sunderland '67, both teachers at Chung Chi College in Dartmouth Project Asia.
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