1965

The Christmas mailbag always includes good words from far flung classmates, and this year was no exception. We received holiday greetings from many '65's, and I'll try to pass some of that cheer on in this column.

The 1969 prize for distance goes to JoePicken, whose card came all the way from Hawaii. He, wife Dee, and year-old son David are living there while he finishes up his Navy hitch. Presently Joe is commanding the "U.S.S. Force" out of Honolulu, and is also keeping his hand in academia by lecturing in statistics at the Univ. of Hawaii. When he gets out of the Navy in July he hopes to head either back to school for a Ph.D. in economics or right into the world of high finance.

Jake Miller is out of the service and back at Northwestern finishing up work on his MBA. He and his wife Paula are living in Whitewater, Wis.

Dick Fite has also completed his tour of duty with the Navy, and is using his Tuck MBA with Sears Roebuck & Company in Chicago. Home for him now is Cold Stream, Ill.

Steve Banta is teaching science for the Peace Corps in the Philippines. He was married last summer to the former Miss Jean Raymundo (Univ. of Minnesota). Steve had done two years of work toward a Ph.D. in microbiology at Cornell before hooking up with the Peace Corps in 1967.

The 1969 itinerary of Ray Newell is impressive indeed. At last word he had completed his Ph.D. work in archaeology at the University of London, and he presumably has his doctorate now. In July (the 4th, naturally) he married Miss Johanna Maria Nieuwendijk, and they now keep house in Groningen, Netherlands, where Ray is studying at the Biologisch-Archaeologisch Institut.

Lynn Mason and his wife Marilynne are currently in Alaska, both doing field work as part of their studies at UCLA. He is combining anthropology and public health in looking at the "community ecology of health" on the tundra. Meanwhile Marilynne hopes to do film work toward her film/drama degree.

The Christmas card the Harris Saxons sent indicates that their first, a son — Brooke, has arrived. We can't be sure of the birthdate, but it was sometime between the Harvard game and Yuletide.

Another '65 has found his way back to the Hanover Plain. Mosby Harvey is in his first year as a member of the Romance Languages department at the College.

Nearby, in Manchester, N.H., Bob Hurd has joined the law firm of Wiggin, Nourie, Sundeem, Pingree & Bigg. He had been a clerk for the state Supreme Court.

Ned McCook has terminated his teaching career, at least temporarily, to become a graduate student of mathematics at Drexel Tech in Philadelphia. He had been teaching math at Chestnut Hill Academy in Philly.

Pete Rosmarin has joined the establishment. He's a staff accountant with Touche, Ross & Co. in San Francisco. He had been a graduate student in math at Berkeley until recently.

Two of our flock have chosen the Twin Cities as the site of their internships — in fact, both have ended up at the same hospital. Dr. Bob Stafford, who graduated from Tulane Med in June, and Dr. John Tobin are interning at Hennipin County General Hospital in Minneapolis.

Jim Smith is in Atlanta, where he is associated with the law firm of Sutherland, Asbell, & Brennan. He has been with them since his graduation from Duke Law School in '68.

The West Coast has continued to be attractive to John Shevlin. After three years at Stanford Law he has become a research attorney for the 4th District Court of Appeal in California.

We understand that Tom Barnett is also on the coast. He has received his law degree from Northwestern and is now working in the attorney general's office in Los Angeles.

Lt. Mike Flannery tied the knot late last fall with Miss Carol Pate (Florida State '68). Both are in the Navy; Carol as a nurse and Mike as a pilot stationed at Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Fla.

Yet another wedding is in the offing. BobGiven and Miss Susan Maier plan to be married this winter. She is a UNH grad. Bob is back with Raytheon in Bedford, Mass., after a stint in the service, part of which was spent in Vietnam.

The Trustees of the College, on the recommendation of the Thayer School faculty, have awarded the Master of Engineering degree posthumously to Steve MacVean.

The Lexington (Mass.) H.S. football team showed the effects this fall of Jack Heidbrink's tutelage. Though the team had only a mediocre season, their defense - Jack's responsibility - was the second best in their league. Hydrant also teaches history at Lexington,, and lives in nearby Bedford with Sue, and 15 month old daughter Kris.

Steve Knutsen and Miss Lynette Carol Dannenberg were married on November 29 in Aurora, Ill. They are now living in Millbrook, Ill., and both teach at Yorkville (Ill.) H.S.

As I write this column the Big Green varsity basketball and hockey squads have both come off successful holiday road trips. George Blaney is starting four sophomores and high scoring Alex Winn on a team that beat both Vanderbilt and Memphis State over vacation and also gave highly regarded Purdue a run. Ab Oakes' pucksters also used a lot of underclass talent in copping third place in the Cleveland Cup hockey tournament. They beat McGill and Bowdoin and lost to eventual champ, Western Ontario. Both teams are exciting to watch, and their improvement over the '68-'69 season is a good indication that Dartmouth will have to be reckoned with in the winter as well as in the fall. Get out to see them play if you have the opportunity.

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