1958
Cheerleaders holding hands while watching and cheering for the Dartmouth Football team? No, there is no problem with Dartmouth masculinity, it is just that there are now female cheerleaders. Quite a surprise to those of us sitting in the stands watching the Penn game. Feeling was mixed among those in our section with the most vociferous opponent Skip Coggin. Skip and wife Win and one child live in Marblehead from where Skip commutes daily to Polaroid in Cambridge, where Skip is product manager in the medical photography field. Sailing out of Marblehead in the summer, he also manages to keep up a sharp squash game playing in a "C" league. I managed to get a few good pointers from him in that area and also a good sound beating.
Among the others watching the Green's sound drubbing of Penn were Ed and SueOlney about whom I wrote this time last year. You may recall they pulled up stakes in the city to settle in New London, N. H. Ed has changed jobs and is now with Profile Ski Wear in Lebanon. Some people really live right. Buck and Miki Osgood were on the scene and reported the arrival of a new son, Bill on August 28. They also have one girl. Dick is comptroller of Paine Furniture in Boston and speaking of that they were sitting with Dave Murphy who is executive vice president of Paine's. Jane managed to get a little free decorating advice from Dave during low points in the game. Dick tells me that Ken Prouty is back in the east working for General Electric at their Danvers, Mass., Turbine Division where he is head of budgeting. I hope that strike doesn't make things too difficult for him.
Other little squibs picked up in Hanover - Andy Peterson after a stint of public accounting is a professor of accounting at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. CareyRoten is executive vice president of Hope Rubber Co. in Fitchburg, Mass. AndyThomas has moved to Medfield, Mass., and is director of cost accounting at Honeywell. We ran into Ed and Liz Burns over at the Hanover Inn. Ed is vice president of Mitchell, Hutchins and Co., a brokerage house. They and their two children live in a Brownstone in New York City where Liz sells English antiques.
Any of you visiting Hanover might try dinner at Ashley Hall (used to be the Keenes'). Jeff and Sally Strayer, Skip andWin Coggin, and Jane and I joined the class of '57 party out there. The food was excellent, the setting beautiful and the atmosphere charming. Harry Dodds and family were staying there while he was lecturing to some of the college classes and speaking up in Littleton, N. H. We are hoping to combine with '57 for a weekend in Hanover next year, possibly for Princeton game.
While the Harvard game did not begin to measure up to the Penn game as far as the quality of Dartmouth football was concerned, the post-game party with '57 at the Ramada Inn was outstanding. Arranged by Jeff Strayer and Dick Canton '57, 132 people turned out for a very convivial party complete with some of the finest hors d'oeuvres I've seen. We have already made arrangements for a repeat next year. I'm sure I will overlook many who were there, but here are a few: Larry and Kay Murphy are living in Hanover, Mass., with their two girls and one boy. Larry is with Keane Associates, Management consultants. Johnand Johanna Murphy have one daughter Tara, fourteen months. John is a lawyer with Robinson, Robinson and Cole in Hartford. Jim and Georgia Braekett sat in back of us at the game in what I must admit were the worst seats we have had in fifteen years at the Stadium. I almost didn't recognize Jim due to the red beard he is sporting. He says that he is trying to see the reaction to its appearance on a stable, respectable individual. So far it has had no effect on his growing dental practice in Hanover, although some of his student trade feels some greater rapport with him. The Bracketts have two children, Becky six months and Jenny, three. Jack and Margo Chapman are about to give up their business-oriented life in Marblehead and head back into the academic world. Graduate school first and then teaching. They have three sons, three, six, and eight. Mary Ann and Ted Harris made it back from Prague in time for the game. Ted said that the situation there is a sad one, with the people bordering on despondency. The day before they left Prague the borders were closed to all Czech citizens with no one allowed even into Yugoslavia. Lin Hall is settled back at work at engineering firm, Metcalf and Eddy in Boston after having his normal routine interrupted by a tour of duty with the Seabees in Viet Nam. Lin feels very strongly that the situation over there is not being accurately presented to the American public, that newspaper reporters are dramatizing too much, and that the Vietnamese are friendly and industrious. Among others at the Ramada briefly were the Dave Bradleys, the Joe Palermos, KentWoodger, Fred Hildebrandt, the Mel Alperins and son Mark and the Joe Slotniks. Joe, by the way, has been named manager of the Boston office of L. F. Rothschild & Co., stockbrokers. John Parker tells me that one of Joe's first moves was to solicit business from his Putnam Advisory Co.
Another of our class bachelors has bitten the dust. Bob Dudley was married back in May to Nancy Pierce of Arlington, Va. Nancy is a graduate of George Washington University and is legislative assistant to Rep. John Buchanan of Alabama.
Bill Manning is the investment manager and a vice-president of the new investment management firm of Kling, Manning & Napier, Inc., located in Rochester, N. Y. A member of the National Association of Security Dealers, the firm specializes in the fields of investment management, venture capital, and tax-shelter programs. Bill emphasizes that they will not engage in the retail-brokerage business to avoid any conflict of interest that could arise between managing money and earning a commission. He previously held the position of account executive and stockholder with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith.
Marblehead lost another son to the big city when George Martinson, Salem District Plant Manager for New England Telephone Co. for the past two years joined the American Tel. & Tel. Co. in New York City as Plant Operations Supervisor-Personnel. George has been with N.E. Tel. since 1961 and has been a communications consultant, and sales staff supervisor as well as Communications Superintendent. George and Mary Jane have three children, Thomas, Anne-Marie and Patrick. They will be living in Berkeley Heights, N. J.
Jane and I wish you all a very happy holiday season and a healthy, prosperous New Year.
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