1959
In case you haven't heard, Dartmouth is coed this year. That's right, coed. Seventy girls from colleges as Smith, Vassar, and Mount Holyoke are enrolled in a one-year experiment which will help determine whether coeducation will be permanent. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, the issue of coeducation is highly emotional, and so far sentiment on campus is anti-female even though two girls have accepted invitations to join a fraternity. The reunion questionnaire indicates that the biggest percentage of our class feels Dartmouth should remain as we knew it although quite a few like to see combined classes with a coordinate women's college located nearby. Well, we shall see.
Retired Head Agent Jim Wooster's final tally for the 1969 Alumni Fund Campaign shows that the Class contributed a record of $15,166 or 109% of our goal. This was accomplished in spite of a 4% decline in participation which was less than the overall decrease in contributors for the entire fund. All in all, Jim feels 1959's campaign was a success and I feel we owe him, as well as his relentless band of agents, our thanks for his work as head agent during the past six years.
If the New York Knicks have as good a year as the Mets, pity Stu Freeman who was recently elected treasurer of Madison Square Garden Corp. when it comes time for ticket request for the playoffs. Stu was with Arthur Young & Co. prior to joining the corporation in 1966 as assistant to the treasurer, and currently lives in Teaneck, N. J. The number of bachelors in the class dipped below thirteen percent when George Bligh married Maureen Gormley last July in Norwalk, Conn. Duke, a regional sales manager for J. M. Fields, and Maureen are living in Cherry Hill, N. J. Congratulations, Duke. Ray Becker has been named general chairman for the Raytheon Company's 1969-1970 United Fund drive, having served as assistant general chairman the previous year. Ray is manager of the Management Systems at the Bedford Laboratories of Raytheon's Missile System Division, and that says it all.
Larry Toal is still climbing upward at the Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., where he was recently promoted to vice president. He is the director of the Bank's community economic development division. After joining Chase Manhattan in 1961 as a member of the special development program, he was assigned to the global credit department in 1962 and was transferred to the metropolitan department in 1965. That year he was appointed an assistant treasurer and in 1967 was promoted to second vice president. Last year he received an M.B.A. from N.Y.U.
In the political arena, John Burkhardt has been appointed executive director of the Republican Finance committee of Pennsylvania, which means he will probably lose his turnpike pass as he will be leaving his post as special assistant to the state secretary of highways. Tom Chatfield has been elected assistant secretary, National Division of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company of New York. Tom will be contacting the bank's customers in Illinois and Wisconsin. Ken Rogers has moved from Canaan, N. H., to University City, Mo., as he has been named Director of International Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. In July, Dr. Jim Longcope became a member of Acton Medical Associates, Acton, Mass. specializing in general family medicine. Jim received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his internship at the Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington, Vt., before entering the U.S. Navy where he served a year in Vietnam.
The airline strike last summer kept Peteand Leslie O'Neill from attending reunion although they managed to get stuck in Bermuda, at least that is what I heard. Some people have all the luck. Pete is manager of the Building Products Division of Boise Cascade Corp. and recently became the father of a third daughter; they also have a son. Roger O'Kane's wife just had their fourth boy, Ryan Jeffrey.
Here's some lukewarm news collected at reunion: Pablo Lozano is a systems analyst for Utah Mining and Manufacturing Co. in Lima, Peru. Andy Mehalick is with 1.8.M. in Elmira, N. Y., but has an office in Ithaca since Cornell is his largest account. DaveRichards is a stockbroker in Jackson, Miss., specializing in profits only (he says) and TedRobinson is a real estate agent in Greenwich, Conn., providing services to corporations in connection with housing required by personnel shifts.
Because the success of this column depends upon information about you, I hope that most of it will come from you. Dont be modest about your accomplishments or fear having your name in print. If you can t find the time to drop me a line, ask your wife to do so - she probably handles all the correspondence anyway and will be happy to blow your horn. The questionnaire indicated that you would like to have more news about classmates living outside the Northeast, so let's hear it from everywhere.
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