1968
How do I know that spring is really here? President Dickey walked by as I was working in the front yard; he wasn't wearing a coat. The Green Key Society is selling tickets to the Laura Nyro and Richie Havens Concert. The famous Mud Season shows on my shoes and on my car. Bodies are strewn along the Gold Coast, in front of the houses, around the Bema, and up among the pines in College Park; shirtless, barefoot and prone with the hopes of changing white indoor-faces to red, healthy ones or simply trying to hang on to that expensive tan from Nassau or Bermuda. And the usual books are there too, lying unopened in the just-barely-70° sun.
Burt Quist writes from Greenwich, Conn., to say that he is teaching there as part of a grad program at Wesleyan. Anyone on their way to NYC is welcome to share some golden bubblies with Burt at 357 Shore Road. He also tells me that Jim Henle is teaching at the University of the where it only took the sly devil three weeh to find a girl, teach her to play bridse and reminisce about those long-ago days'of beer and mono-education. Also, another Richardson Hall man, Dave Reichgott, is discovering what spring is all about at the I University of Washington where he discovered the current light of his life.
Dave Peck recently took his semester break at home in Williamstown, Mass., and left New Haven for just long enough to write a letter. He tells me that he spotted Jim Topinka at a Wheaton mixer and that Jim was drafted out of Stanford Law I School. Jim now sports a very short haircut, a mustache, works in Intelligence ' School for you-know-who, and plans to be married this summer or late spring. Bob Lynn is with the Peace Corps in Nigeria currently, with a collection of horses, goats, and other paraphernalia. Bob is somewhat disenchanted, however, and plans to leave sometime in June when he can finish up there. Harlem is the setting for Pete Zack who is also teaching while going to grad school on the side (NYU). He loves teaching, Greenwich Village, and is still seeing Margaret. Dick Jones is finishing up at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Ordnance, where he has been driving tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers through swamps. He is currently on his way to a station in Missouri. This month, by the way, smiles on Dave Peck when he and Diane get married on the twenty-fourth.
Richard Wison, former Varsity Sandwichman, writes in "drunken sincerity" from Newark, N. J., that his wife DeRae (Dartmouth National Bank Class of '68) delivered unto him a manchild named Bradley Leland on February 18. Dick asks me to announce that any classmates or other lesser persons possessing either of these names may rest assured that no consideration of them was made in choosing the name. Dick further informs me that Bradley Leland is but the first of a long list of successors to the task of keeping Moe Halgren's Village Store in business for many years to come. Thanks for a great letter, Dick, and best wishes in August when you receive your M.B.A. from Rutgers.
Jeff Garten married Ina Rosenberg during the Christmas holidays and is currently at Fort Bragg, N. C., as a Second Lt. in the 82nd Airborne Division. Bruce Ehrenberg is making plans for a number of major undertakings currently. He is getting married to Sandy Rubinstein in June, he finishes his second year here at the Med School and starts as a third-year Med student at Penn. next September. Bruce is also planning to work in Research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md„ this summer. Good luck, Bruce. That's a very hectic sounding schedule.
Finally, something all of us have to become more concerned with immediately: our own Class of 1968 participation in the Alumni Fund. Gene Ryzewicz is doing a terrific job with only moderately encouraging results. It is easy to put the letter aside until later, even to forget it, thinking that a reminder will always be sent later anyway Don't let the Class or the College down by forgetting. See if it isn't possible to find five or ten dollars that you could send along today. Small amounts do make a difference Anything you can spare will help. Instead of giving to some huge amorphous charitygive something to Dartmouth . . . where you that your contribution will directly benefit those trying to improve and carry on the day-to-day business of the place.
Secretary, 5 Clement Rd. Hanover, N. H. 03755
Class Agent, 508 S. 41st St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104
