1967
Graduation is almost a year behind us. And we're almost a year out into the world - a world of many problems, with rapid changes and age-old truths. A world that allows a tiny state to alter the destinies of political giants and one that still tolerates man's injustices to man. It is an often illogical world, but an exciting one that offers the challenges that young men need.
This is a fateful spring in American history. I hope that we can all take a hand in helping America find a more peaceful, happier future.
Letters keep trickling in, some are very clever, others just informational. They're all a pleasure to read and report on.
After graduation from Damage Control School in Philadelphia last month, Jim Estes shipped out on the "U.S.S. Mazama," an ammunition ship bound for the Mediterranean and elsewhere.
A newly commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force is Brian Patterson, who graduated from OTS at Lackland Air Force base. He is being assigned to Los Angeles Air Force Station, Calif, for duty with the Air Force Systems Command. A member of SAE, Brian while a junior was cited for outstanding academic achievement and received a National Science Foundation award that same year.
Tom Maremaa is in Zurich, Switzerland, studying comparative literature. He writes that he's been caught up not only in the university life but in skiing - at Davos, St. Moritz, Klosters, and Zermatt. This summer, Tom will tour Russia and southern Europe, hopefully adding a few more languages to his current repertoire of German, Spanish, and French.
June will mark the marriage of Mark Sisitsky to Donna Fox, a dental hygienist in a private office. Mark is at the U. of Michigan School of Law.
The Abbey Chapel of Mt. Holyoke College was the scene of the wedding of JohnManaris to the former Susan Yeshilian (Mt. Holyoke '6B) last winter. While John continues his law studies at Cornell, Susan will teach elementary school.
Hal Budd writes that he will be married in August to Gail Risser, a nurse at the Intensive Care Unit at Mountainville Hospital in Montclair, N. J. Hal is also in the medical profession, as a first year student at the New Jersey College of Medicine.
Pete Nistad and the former Kathleen Turecamo (Villanova School of Nursing) also tied the knot this past winter.
In May, Lewis Johnstone will make Cornelia Spelman (UConn, Emerson '68) his bride.
Former '67 baseball great, Jim Shaw will take the vows with Susan Swinburne (Middlebury '67). Currently, Jim is teaching science at his alma mater, the New Hampton School in New Hampton. N. H. Susan is in Cambridge, Mass., working at Harvard.
Marriage is also in the not too distant future for Glen Oxton, now at Navy OCS in Newport, R. 1., and Penny Ellen Parsekian (Lake Erie '68).
Dan Gould writes that he's looking forward to some summer travel between semesters at Jefferson Med. "I've already had my passport shot taken, and between physiology and biochemistry . . . daydream about catching the good rays on the Mediterranean."
A few months back, I wrote that EdEvans and Ruth Todd would be married in December, 1968. Well, at least I had the month right. Eddie and Ruth were married this past December and both are now back to the grind at Rochester Med School.
Hal Bernt and Frank Smith have completed an ordnance officer course at the Army Ordnance School at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland.
Also planning a June wedding are BobMorton and Margaret James (U. of Auckland, N. Z.). Both Bob and Margaret are graduate students at Penn State.
Successful completion of the OCS course at Quantico has led to Bill Smoyer's commission as an officer in the Marines.
Tom Nelson is eligible to attend a 23-week OCS course as a result of his performance in a preparatory course at the Army Artillery and Missile Center in Ft. Sill, Okla.
Also at OCS (Ft. Belvoir, Va.) is DonHansen. However, this has not prevented his planning a July marriage to Joyce Ann Copenhaver (Colby Jr. '66).
As part of his Alternative Service as a Conscientious Objector, Ernest (Terry) Foss is working with the American Friends Service Committee on a two-year project in Royal Oak Township, Mich. - a Black community outside Detroit.
President Dickey recently spoke at the New York Dartmouth Club. After announcing that he "will not run for the presidency of the United States," he got to the more serious aspects of his address. His theme of Dartmouth having to meet, each year, a substantial operating deficit was an old one. But the problem is still a very real one for the College. As in the past, the solution has been the annual Alumni Fund Drive.
Undoubtedly, the '67 class agents have been busy and most if not all members of the class have been contacted. The importance of this year's drive for the class and the College is clear. And to date, '67's seem to have responded as Jim Paull tells me that we are doing well. Let's keep up the good work.
Secretary, Room 703 435 E. 30th St. New York, N. Y. 10024
Class Agent, Lyme Rd., Hanover, N. H. 03755
