1969

Welcome back to Year Two. Belated grats are in order for a number of ’69’s who are swelling the ranks of the Dartmouth family:

During our summer absence, Kirk Johnson was married to the former Margaret Danielson, Duke ’69. Ushers included DaveGilliatt and Dennis Moore 70. Don Bigda no sooner picked up his Tuck M.B.A. than he wed the former Barbara Burnham, Univ. of Mass. ’69. Rick Glogau ushered for this affair. The Bigdas will live in Lawton, Okla., where Don will serve his second lieutenancy with the U. S. Army.

The Manhattanville Chapel in Purchase, N. Y., was the summer setting for the nuptials of the former Erica M. Rizzo, Manhattanville ’69, and Tom Kenney. The healthy 1969 contingent present included Bob Erwood, Ned Symes, GeorgeStauffer, Brooke Jackson, and Don Hess. A Boston area ceremony united the former Jean French with Dick Glovsky. BobGlovsky ’7O was best man. The Glovskys reside in Brookline while Dick is finishing his B.C. law program.

. . . Another tack for variety’s sake. More weddings will appear next time. One final salute to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Yellowtail back in Hanover. Add one to their nuclear family with the arrival of Kimberly Dawn on May 9.

Many of you must remember some of the legendary names in the class of ’69 who did not complete the four-term of Hanover with us. Some of those guys have been indulging in some truly exotic behavior patterns. GiftFoley emerged unscathed from his Vietnam stint as a machine gunner for the USMC and has been spending the past few months as a salesman for his father’s machining firm in Madison, Wis. The word is out that the Bullet has laid claim to Foley’s bod. He received a thick packet of Linebacker plays this summer and joined the Green squad, August 31. Another great was Dimitrius“Cretan Bull” Gerakaris. Dimit is working on a runway construction crew at Chicago’s O’Hare Field. He’s debulked and stream- lined and amuses himself by torturing opponents as a scrummer for the Midwest Rugby League’s Chicago Lions. A third name is Dan Chandler, also back from Vietnam and returned to Dartmouth.

The past returns vividly. Five years ago we were “experimenting with alcoholic beverage in a socially conducive situation,” taking our maiden road trips, entwining the Beta House, and making a dollar a week sitting in senior seats at G. I. What has happened to some of those great personali- ties of our early Dartmouth career? Where is Roily Crocker? 800 Gallas? The Rail? . . ■ Do you remember Bob Cole and Steve Amundsen? Five years is certainly no nostalgic eon, but where are these brave souls?

We’d like to hear from wayward ’69s. A recent directive to Class Secretaries re- marked that we should “argue for newsy and pertinent items rather than bull sessions in miniature.” So, rescue us with titillating tidbits before the column is sucked into a protoideological morass.

Next month we can promise several thrilling installments. The features will include: “Action under the Charter Oak,” “The Clock Ticked in Costa Rica,” “A Tripping Camp on Pike’s Peak,” and “Toad on a Hot Tin Roof” (if he writes and tells us about it.)

Joint winners of the Dean’s Medal in the1970 graduating class at Dartmouth Med-ical School were Andrew Saxon ’6B (I)and Steven Barrett ’69 (c). With them isDean Carleton B. Chapman.

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