1958
We in New England can't take too much pleasure (at least not on a continuing basis) in our New England Patriots football team, but we in the Dartmouth family can surely enjoy the continued success of the Dartmouth football machine under the guidance of our new head coach. The otherwise prejudiced Boston papers have praised the team strongly after our win over highly touted University of Massachusetts.
By now you have all received your bill for Class dues. Try to get them in as soon as possible. Take note that $30.00 will remove your obligation right up through our 15th reunion. I make a personal plea here for you to use the reverse side of your dues bill to provide me with some fodder for this column.
This summer I received a fine letter from Mike Wygant in reply to my request for response on the question of coeducation. I have forwarded that part of it to the interested parties in Hanover and will not go into that here, but I do want to relate the rest of his letter to you: "I have been in the Foreign Service since shortly after graduation and have been here and there for the past 12 years—most recently in Moscow. Undoubtedly the Vietnam war is the single most crucial foreign policy problem of today. Although I have no knowledge or experience of the Far East, this issue is becoming a personal one for ever more individuals—especially those who have made foreign service a career. Rejecting the notion that we can throw our hands up in horror and head for the boats, it would appear that the only honorable course is to disengage as rapidly as possible without leaving Hanoi to preside over the ashes. A tall order—perhaps unachieveable. But I have asked for an assignment there in the hope that some halfway decent solution may yet emerge from our tragic Vietnam involvement. As part of the joint civilian/military organization which advises South Vietnam on economic development and pacification problems, I will be leaving for Saigon in September. The assignment will be for 18 months in the Vietnamese boondocks and could be either the most challenging or disasterous of my career. I hope I enter it with my eyes open. For understandable reasons, Lee and the children will not be able to accompany me. This is the most serious drawback to the assignment, but we think we can handle it and Lee is a strong woman. They will take up residence in Amherst, Mass. near her parents and I will have three trips home during the tour." Thanks for your fine letter, Mike. My thoughts and hopes are with you in this endeavor.
Don Voss wrote that Ben Fuller was married on June 19 to the former Christine Bailey at Hawley Chapel in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania. Hoby Van Deusen was also helping celebrate. Don is with Merrill Lynch in Morristown, N. J.
Bill Cutcliffe has become president of the Troy, N. Y. engineering firm of James H. Dunn and Associates. Bill was previously vice president and is the author of numerous papers dealing with geology. He is actively affiliated with a number of societies dealing with geology, mining and oil exploration. Bill and his wife and their sons live in Elnora, N. Y.
"Rink" DeWitt has been named to the board of trustees of Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N. H. Rink is a 1954 graduate of Brewster and is currently vice president and manager personal banking group at the Manchester Bank. Rink received his MBA from Tuck in 1965. He has served as a trustee of Franconia College, director and treasurer of the Mid Merrimack Valley Health Planning Center, director of Manchester Citizens Scholarship Foundation, councilor of Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, and is currently a trustee of the Manchester Boys Club. Rink and Dorothy have four children.
Archie Whitehead has undertaken an ambitious program to raise money for small independent minority businessmen. Archie is director of the minority enterprise program for the state of New Jersey. He is optimistic that upward of $14 million will be granted for projects in the coming year. "He will fight hard to get more money into the program to help low income residents from economically depressed areas throughout the state develop, own and operate business ventures. He will continue to visit federal officials in Washington in efforts to convince them that more money will be needed for the program." Archie directs the operations of the Urban Loan Authority, a quasi-independent agency within the Department of Community Affairs and the State Development Corp. He is a specialist in urban economic development. New Jersey is believed to be the first state to undertake an effort to promote minority group enterprises, with the objectives of providing the necessary technical and financial assistance to enable minority group members to create, administer and eventually own their own businesses. The major part of his time will be spent raising money for the program. He says that his department will set up training programs that will make the small businessman "independent."
He rejects the normal type of technical assistance that is offered the minority businessman. "This country has neglected the small businessman in terms of gearing to him an entire learning system of owning and managing a small business. The department will set up a training curriculum conceived, designed, and developed for the small businessman which will be remedial, beginning, and advanced. The teaching staff will consist of minority businessmen, accountants, lawyers, black professors from business schools and professors from black universities. When we finance him, and he's in business, then we'll give him technical assistance." The maximum amount the authority can lend to a single borrower is $250,000. The loans and guarantees may not exceed 10 years. Archie has received an unlimited leave of absence from the post of director or economic development of the Urban Institute of Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has served as president of five business management consulting firms and has founded and directed Research Concepts, Inc., a New York based management consulting firm. He is studying at NYU for a master's degree in urban sociology and plans to enroll in Fairleigh Dickinson's doctoral program in urban education on a part time basis.
Connecticut Bank and Trust Company has made Dave Payne executive vice president. As such, he is in charge of the bank's administration division, including the auditing, bank real estate, controllers, economists, marketing, personnel and public affairs departments. He was named head of investment research and elected an assistant secretary in 1961, and subsequently took responsibility for the trust investment department in 1965 and was appointed assistant vice president. He was promoted to vice president a year later. Dave and wife Beverly plus three children live in West Simsbury, Conn.
Lee Wesselmann is the director of accounting and financial analysis for Owen-Illinois, Inc. of Toledo. to the newly-formed position after serving as manager of the financial analysis and control department. After graduating from Cornell School of Business Administration, Lee worked for Owens Illinois in Bridgeton, N. J.; Brockport, N. Y.; and Fairmont, W. Va. The new post reflects both company growth and increasing complexity of accounting procedures. Lee and wife Beatrice and Todd, Mark and Bryan (aged one, four and seven) were most recently listed at 4463 Holly Hill Drive, Toledo, Ohio 43614.
Secretary, 43 Cornell Rd. Wellesley, Mass. 02181
Treasurer, 505 South Mattis Champaign, Ill. 61820
