1963

It is a peculiar sensation to be writing my last class notes after six years of monthly efforts. I hope the column has served its purpose of informing each of you of class news and helped to keep us together.

I am sure that the Reunion scheduled for June 20-23 will be a great deal of fun and very interesting for all of us. I was back at the College early in May for a meeting of class officers along with Bill Subin, SkipMattoon, Art Williams, and Bob Finney who is helping to handle the reunion arrangements from Hanover. Art and his committee have planned the right kind of weekend for us; plenty of activities but also some time for wandering around and reminiscing. We are aiming for a turnout of 300. A small part of the weekend will be taken up by a class meeting at which we hope to turn over our duties to new class officers. Bill and a committee have been working on nominations for new officers but frankly this one has been the hardest to fill. If any of you have suggestions, please call or write me prior to the Reunion for we want to be sure to have the new officers present if at all possible.

Class officers weekend provided an unusual opportunity for news of '63s. It also provided an unusual opportunity to get in the middle of the SDS uprising. I am sure that everyone has been filled in on that incident sufficiently to be quite aware of all the facts.

As far as news is concerned, a bull session at Bob Finney's new house provided news that Al Palmer is clerking with Justice Potter Stewart of the Supreme Court. Pete Suttmeier is working on his doctoral thesis on economic development in China in the Library of Congress in Washington. He expects to obtain his Ph.D. from Indiana University in the near future. Kevin Lowther has taken an administrative position with the Peace Corps in its African program. Several '63s have done some Peace Corps work including John Sanders who met his wife who was also a Peace Corps volunteer. Sandy was in Ecuador and Jackie was in Chile; they were married in July 1967 just after Sandy received his Master's in agricultural economics from the University of Kentucky in June of that year. He is working on a Ph.D. in the same field at the University of Minnesota. John Houston 3rd was born on January 9, 1969. Dave Boldt is also in Washington working with the Washington Post.

While we are talking about '63s and the Peace Corps, Bill Subin mentioned that JimBieneman was about to go on a Peace Corps assignment and particularly to assist in family planning and birth control problems when he discovered his wife was pregnant and so was unable to go off for his assignment.

Other '63s in Hanover were Don Wertz out of the Marines and into the pool as a coach of a swimming team and Bob Greenwood, back from the Ford Foundation and into Hopkins Center working on its busy and diverse schedule. You will also see in Hanover Steve Garland who was teaching Math; Mike Herschonsohn, Romance languages; Bob Gitt, who apparently is doing some work with Dartmouth films; Bill Marshall who is tutoring in the ABC program; Doug Kerr who has returned to study at Tuck School and, I am sure, several others.

If anyone arrives in Hanover late Thursday, June 19, you might give Don Wertz a call; we will all be over at his house stuffing reunion kits and ourselves. Formal registration begins Friday at noon.

One of my tasks is awarding prizes in various categories. I am considering one for the '63 who has not yet paid income taxes. If any of you know a classmate who falls into that category, let me know, for it is a special award. I will also be glad to have any suggestions for other prizes.

A brief mention is in order about the Alumni Fund drive and Bill Russell's efforts. We are holding our second place position in the Green Derby rankings but are falling behind last year's pace particularly in number of donors which is of some concern to Bill. I hope that by Reunion we can have a report that looks healthier. Please do your part.

It has been an exciting and satisfying six years of responsibility for me and for the other officers and while Bill Subin will express our sentiments at the Saturday evening banquet more fully, I do want to say that the opportunities presented for service to the College and demonstration of appreciation for what Dartmouth gave to us, are truly gratifying in service as a class officer. I hone that each of you who enjoy this kind of work has an opportunity to serve as a class officer. Just receiving five or six letters in one day from the College with all sorts of inside information, questions, reports and requests is "worth the price of admission."

See you June 20.

Secretary, Apt. 1-A Madison House 3120 West School House Lane Philadelphia, Pa. 19144

Class Agent, 54 Bryant Ave., Metuchen, N. J. 08841