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During the college spring vacation just concluded, a host of undergraduates as well as administration members and faculty fanned out around the nation to give many thousands of alumni and friends a brief glimpse of Dartmouth with its countless interests and activities. The traditional trip South by the spring teams was supplemented by a glee club tour commemorating the College Bicentennial, a tour by the Dartmouth players, seventy faculty stall speaking engagements, and a new "Dartmouth on the Road" traveling variety show emceed by classmate Dean Thad Seymour. I was fortunate enough to see this show which consists of some thirty students demonstrating the vast range of activities open to Dartmouth students while also providing entertainment from music by the Dartmouth five, to water sports, wood chopping, and slide presentations to mention a few. Don't miss this show if the caravan settles down within driving distance. It may also be your last opportunity to see Thad Seymour as dean of the College. The Seymours will be leaving Hanover this summer tor Crawfordsville, Ind., where Thad will become president of Wabash College. We wish them all things good, and we want them to know on behalf of their class that they shall be missed%
As mentioned last month, Slade Gorton won a close election to become Attorney General of the State of Washington. A Republican, he had previously served five terms in the legislature as a representative from the 46th district, Seattle. In 1967 he was House majority leader. After leaving Dartmouth, he earned his law degree at Columbia and served three years in the Judge Advocate's office. Then he had 15 years in private law practice. An active Dartmouth alumnus, he is a past president of the Dartmouth Club of Western Washington. He has recently moved Sally and their three children from Seattle to a new home in Olympia, the state capital.
it was my 'good fortune to meet PhilJohnson for the first time the other day. Phil is a member of the 1969 Gold Pick Axe Award committee and happened to be in New York from Denver to visit the annual toy show. The family consists of Phil and his wife Virginia, young son Doug, and daughter Cynthia. Phil was originally a New Englander. After graduation he and his bride left Hanover in a trailer with no job prospects. They landed in Denver where the local Dartmouth men interviewed him and put him in the wholesale building materials business. Currently he is the toy representative for the AMF wheel goods division, James Industries, manufacturers of that wonderful toy Slinky, and Lakeside Toys. The family is big on camping and skiing, and Phil claims that over half of each year is pretty well taken up with business and the balance wrestling with the outdoor temptations of their vacationland.
The spark plug of the arts council movement, Ralph Burgard, has just completed a book entitled "Arts In The City," a guide to organizing and programming community arts councils. This could be reading for someone in your community.
A Wah Hoo Wah for Zeke Straw who is now chief executive officer as well as president of the Manchester, N. H., Savings Bank.
The Rotarians in Beverly, Mass., were treated to an interesting talk by classmate Bob Smith recently. As vice president of the North Shore Gas Company, he gave a glowing report on the many hydrocarbon by-products of natural gas such as women's stockings twelve times more run resistant than nylons. You can rest assured he had an attentive audience.
A little squib in the local paper about seldom heard from Martin Elinoff informs us that he conducted an interior design seminar to a sisterhood group for his own firm of Brookline interior decorators.
Jack Coleman writes about both the orchids and the onions in his recent life. He claims that he spearheaded a plan to double the size of the local library but in doing so incurred the scorn of the local newspaper for an architectural case of the "blahs." Jack's sons, ages ten and thirteen, love their music, the oldest having been a guest soloist with the Wichita Symphony, but their violin and clarinet lessons are devastatingly expensive. Jack just can't seem to win for losing, but things could be worse if the boys were void of the talent they obviously demonstrate.
An interesting card from Doug Carter who lives at 2404 Paddock Lane, Reston, Va., advises us that he has been working for the past three and a half years with a U.S. Geological survey team cooperating with NASA to utilize space technology in earth resources survey. He predicts that his group will launch its first earth resources satellite in 1971 or 1972. Both the ABC and CBS networks have television shows coming up shortly to explain the program to the public. Doug goes on to say that his brother-in-law Doug Stevenson and sister Kit recently left Bethesda, Md., to return to the General Electric Company in Phoenix, Ariz.
Our Whitewater racing champion from the College Admissions Office, Jay Evans, was recently appointed by President Dickey to a three-year term as chairman of the board of directors of the Dartmouth Outing Club. In his capacity as advisor to the College's Ledyard Canoe Club, he brought Whitewater racing to Dartmouth and became an internationally famous racer. His biggest rival turns out to be his own son Eric Evans, a member of the freshman class. Both have received Sports Illustrated's Award of Merit.
A letter recently came in from RaynoldsDrake who wanted his friends to know that he has just retired from the Air Force after twenty years. He plans to stay in the Portsmouth, N. H., area after an extended vacation to develop some 33 acres that he just bought from the University of New Hampshire. His new address for all his well wishers is 54 Coakley Road, Portsmouth, N. H. 03801.
I just finished speaking on the phone with class president Bob Alden. Bob and Persis just returned from Alta, Utah, high in the fabulous Wasatch Mountains and yet only a whisper away from Salt Lake City. There the skiing aficionado can torment himself with problems such as which fivemile ski run to take before lunch. Bob says that he woke up each morning to the boom of a cannon which was fired as a precaution to knock down potential avalanche build up. How many of you remember that the greatest lodge in the area without a doubt is the Rustler Lodge run by classmate LeeBronson? And how many of you remember that the deadline for 1969 Pick Axe Award nominations is June first? Hurry your nomination along to John Dahle, 310 Jasmine, Denver, Colo.
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