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We write these words as summer hangs on grimly by its thumbs, shafts of warm sun flaking the skin of seasoned bronze. Only the occasional thump of pigskin to toe on the local playing fields reminds us what is in store by the time these words are digested. Which means that it is not too early to record that a festive class reunion is planned at Bonnie Oaks over the Princeton game weekend, and we hope YOU have planned to be on hand. But enough of futures, let us move into the past and recount the recent history that has flowed over our desk during the summer months. It is regretably becoming traditional to acknowledge the death of a classmate with each column. This one will not deviate. Bill Harrison and his wife Martha lost their lives on May 24 in one of those tragic happenstances, when their home in Barrington Hills, 111., was gutted by fire in the early hours of the morning while both slept. We have sent on the official class sympathies to William 111, Bill’s 28-year-old son, who worked with his Dad in the family shoe chain.
On the brighter side of things, we had a good letter from Bob Brown that arrived after our last deadline in May recounting the family doings over Gloucester way. Bob Jr. is with W. E. Hutton & Cos., Boston, married, with one daughter. Captain Doug did 200 missions in F4’s out of Thailand, and returned to the States long enough to marry an “A 1 wife” before returning to Thailand for another round. Bruce is in Vietnam playing hide-and-seek in helicopters, and “Gorgeous Gay graduated last June from EvWoodman’s female factory.”
Good news for the continued fortunes of Dartmouth baseball! Lou Highmark is sending up his youngest son this fall. Young Dave is, according to his high school coach, “the type of guy who could be governor or president some day, and no one would gripe.” More to the point, he is a pitcher who won 20 of 21 starts on a championship team this past spring, fills in with a big bat when not on the mound, and like his Daddy, has a superlative think-tank to go with his physical talents.
We have a few job changes to record. BillMac Donald has taken over the labor relations post at the Sandusky plant, New Departure-Hyatt Division of General Mo- tors, after a career with the same company in personnel, safety engineering, and a recent go as senior production engineer. Jocko Vincens has left the National Commercial Bank and Trust Cos., Albany, for another try at the Big City, as a vice- president with the Irving Trust Company. Buzz Waters, President of Rourke-Eno paper company, has just merged his orga- nization with Alco Standard. This in Hart- ford, Conn., Dave Lilly has stepped out of the presidency of Toro Manufacturing Corp., but retains his posts as chairman and chief executive officer.
One of the pillars of the community in Lexington, Ky., is Roy White, owner of Lexington Broadcasting Company which operates radio Station WBLG and WBLG- TV. Lend an ear to these accomplishments: Currently vice-chairman of the Lexington- Fayette County Airport Board, member of the board of the Central Kentucky Concert and Lecture Association, Junior Achieve- ment of Lexington Inc., and the Better Business Bureau along with the Lexington- Fayette County Foundation. Then of course he serves as a member of the Community Health Advisory Committee, the Kentucky Advisory Council of the SBA, the Kentucky Arts Commission and the Mayor’s Citizens Advisory Committee. Now, we’ll spare you the list of former positions he has held just so we can get on with the business of some of the other lads in the class.
Bill and Ginny Risley attended the spring Dartmouth Horizons program, and reported to our correspondent, Bob Kaiser, that his travel consulting biz in Litchfield, Conn., is flourishing. From the same informant, we learned that Bob and DaleBryant were on hand in Hanover this past June to see their son Peter receive his degree and head out into the “wide, wide world.” Also on hand for son Mark’s graduation were Hank and Natalie Glovsky. Both these young men, being Psi U’s, came under the benevolent wing of the Kaisers’ who serve as advisors to the house as one of their extracurricular functions.
Working for the Third Century Fund out of Mexico City, is Jim Parks. Promising to be on hand for the Princeton game, is WolfNaylor, who reports that his son Peter, a graduate of Williams, is now serving his last year aboard the destroyer, “U.S.S. Mc- Caffery.” A daughter, Ruth Naylor Miller, is living in Scotland with husband and Wolfs grandson and grandaughter. Wolf himself was slated to spend the summer as riding master at a girls camp in Maine with 250 “beautiful girls,” he says.
Life Magazine has announced that Bill Conway, circulation director for the past three and a half years, has been elevated to assistant general man- ager. This gives him full responsibility for the line management of Family Publica- tions, Inc., Life Circu- lation Cos., and its subsidiary. Life Com- puter Services. He al- so represents Time, Inc. in QSP, a joint venture with Reader’s Digest. Bill was business manager of Architectural Forum, moved to Time after Navy service in the war, and joined Life’s circulation department in 1957, becoming its director in 1967.
Quickly now, some address changes: PemPleasants to 75 Harbor Ave., Marblehead, Mass. Dick Varey to Christmas Island Cottages, RFD 3, Laconia, N. H. JimWhiting, Box 8446, Coral Springs, Fla. PaulO’Brien to 8709 Riggs Dr., Overland Park, Kan.
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