1956

Welcome back to the new school year. It couldn't come soon enough around our house, the same of which is true in all homes with many small siblings I would guess.

You will shortly receive a series of return cards for information which I hope you will all use as well this year as last to report news of your whereabouts, etc., for the benefit of your classmates. Your help is greatly appreciated. While we are complimenting ourselves, a well deserved bow should be taken by all the class members who contributed to make the Alumni Fund drive a smashing success. I know that Em is most pleased and hopes that next year will see our progress continue.

Pete Conroy was named to take charge of the "Mini-Reunion" held this year on the weekend of the Holy Cross game, October 4. Hopefully, it was well attended and last year's mark of 106 classmates and wives was exceeded. I will report later on concerning any news of the gala event.

Dave Dolben has been appointed assistant treasurer of Time, Inc. He joined Time in 1963 as assistant manager in the accounting department A C.P.A., he had previously spent five years with Price Waterhouse & Co., in Newark, N. J. When he left, he was a senior accountant. He went from Dartmouth to Columbia, where he received an M.B.A. degree in 1958. With Jean and their two children, he lives in Alpine, N. J.

Bob Browne has been appointed an instructor in English at St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y. Bob received an M.A. from Columbia University and is a Ph.D. candidate at Case Western Reserve University. Russ Brace has been elected to the board of trustees of Hebron Academy. Russ, who is president of Journal Publications in Camden, Me., is putting together quite a publishing empire in Camden according to a most interesting article in the "Portland, Me., Herald Press" of August 7, 1969. Our congratulations to Russ not only _ on his commercial success but on his election as a trustee at Hebron as well.

Richard M. Barnett has been appointed to serve on the advisory board of the First National Bank of Washington. He currently serves as a director of Reliable Stores Corp. Charles W. Barrett Jr. was recently elected as a member of the governing body of the Boston Bar Association. He is a member of a Boston law firm and received his LL.B. from Boston University Law School in 1959.

Herbert J. Dahl has an interesting location - he is an accountant at Harrah's Club in Reno, Nev. I'd like to talk to Herb about some of my grudging donations to his books on all too frequent occasions. Forrest L. Fraser Jr. has been named vice president programming for RKO General Inc. Marion L. Gribble is with the Department of State where among other things, he is involved in organizing conferences for global communications satellite systems.

Lcdr. George W. Holiday is now attached to the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, Calif. Another sailor, Tom Harper, is attached to River Patrol Flotilla #5 out of San Francisco. I assume he is in Vietnam and if he is the commanding officer, congratulations to him. Take care of yourself.

Walter Hoshal has been named product sales manager for Saran Wrap at Dow Chemical. John C. Kirscher has been named an officer of Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago. John is in the financial and economic research department. John Kramer is professor of Sociology at State University of New York in Brockport.

Ab Oakes, who really is a first rate correspondent, sent me a note this summer in which he tells me of his elation over the quality of boys who are hockey players and will be entering Dartmouth this fall as freshmen. They are from the Midwest as well as the Northeast and he has several Canadian boys from as far away as Sault Ste. Marie and Calgary. It appears that his recruiting system is starting to pay off. BobMackay, the entrepreneur from West Berlin, has offered his services to Ab as soon as Dartmouth goes co-ed. He has a line on some Russian women who go about 210-220 pounds, stand 6'2", and really know how to check them on the boards. I think it's real sporting of der Konzernherr. Ab and Len Clark are developing some real fishing prowess for smelt although their style lacks polish.

Bill Neely and family have moved from Kansas City to Dallas with Union Carbide. I haven't seen the house yet, but the address — La Cabeza — is wonderful. DonSmith is manager of the Insurance Dept. for Westvaco Corp. in New York. Don and his wife recently welcomed their first child, Stephen Donald Smith. Frank Terhune is a sales representative for Sealright Co. Inc. Frank and his wife, Sarah, have two children, Debbie 10, and Christopher 7.

Al Tompkins is a Navy doctor who is chief of the Pediatric Dept. in the U.S. Naval Dispensary, in Washington, D. C. AlVoulgaris, who I believe is a Boston banker, and his wife Rita recently welcomed a daughter Alexis. Skip Woodruff, who lives in Virginia Beach, Va., and practices law in the area, received his Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree from William and Mary in June 1969. Congratulations, Skip, on the long pull.

That's it for this month — keep up the mail, Chuck.

Gordon C. Bjork '57 delivering his inaugural address as the 18th president ofLinfield College in McMinnville, Oreg.

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