This being an official record of class activities, and no activity is more worthy of recognition, or more official, than the institution of marriage. Dartmouth may not have been coed, but we sure seem to make up for those "four lonely years" once back in mixed society.
None of us are immune; Sam Abram has fallen. On December 21, the shortest day of the year, Sam took his biggest step and married Prudence Carter Beatty in Ann Arbor Sam is working for his law degree at Michigan. Chris Stenger was one of the first victims of 1969, captured on January 7 in Kinnelon, N. J., by Maureen Lee McKatten Maureen is a fine arts major at Montclair State College and Chris is a research analyst with Goodbody and Co., in New York He will be entering the service as this is read.
We've missed some 1968 nuptials and are eager to spread the somewhat late but still pleasant word. Terry Innis is a Procter & Gamble cohort, living here in Cincinnati working as an engineer for P & G, and enjoying the midwest with his wife since last June 15th, Charlene Sue Nelson.
Also on the 15th Paul Babcock married Mary Coggin, and he is now a computer programmer in the Boston Hospital for Women. Skier Bill Bryan was a good friend and teammate of Brian Beattie, and, see Brian used to room with ping pong champ Chuck Horn, and, well, Chuck had this sister, and, one thing led to another until they all came together in Hanover, Pa., when Constance Horn married Bill. He's now a first lieutenant in South Korea. Connie graduated from B.U.
Grape boycott? That's big news in California, and '66 was there in the person of Al Anderson, who was working for the state during the involved controversy. He did manage to work a little for himself, since the third-year Stanford Law student married Gwen Jarius, Nazareth '66, on August 3.
Seven thousand miles away, Barry Ripley was courting Brigitte Korn, who lives in New Ulm, Germany, near Lt. Ripley's Army Engineer Group. They were married on October 26.
DU (whatever happened to DU anyway) brother Jim Grinnell married Christina Wilson on September 21. Jim, who was teaching at the U. S. Army Signal School in Ft. Monmouth, N. J., before being reassigned to Long Binh in South Vietnam.
Dave Smith, a teacher in New York, married Darilyn Keith on October 26 with Gary Bauer and Harry Santangelo in attendance.
Two recent engagement announcements. Bill Hobson plans a summer wedding with Nancy By grave, a teacher at St. Catherine's School in Richmond, and Bill is at Virginia Law School. Gus Southworth and Susan Gillespie Moorman, a Hanover, N. H., resident and Simmons College graduate, will marry in late summer.
John Keane was recently sworn in as a Foreign Service Officer at a ceremony in Washington, D. C. In order to receive the appointment, he had to complete successfully a very tough round of written and oral examinations. We are waiting to hear where his first assignment will be. Before joining the Foreign Service, he served in the Peace Corps as assistant regional director of the Department of Valle del Cauca in Colombia, South America. fh
Read the detailed story of the Dartmouth College Case, and then emulate Webster. He wrote letters to his class secretary whenever anything important happened to him. In fact, he really pestered his class scribe.
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