1965

A Harvard game is worth a thousand letter. If you stood long enough in Harvard's Briggs Cage on the afternoon of that game you eventually would see everyone you ever knew from Dartmouth. And this year with an unbelievable (that word says too little) game as part of the program it had to be one of the great Saturday's of all time. Enough will be said about Ted Perry's super field goal and the sequence of events which brought it about elsewhere in this Mag. Suffice it to say that seldom have more Big Greeners assembled in one place had more to cheer and drink about.

Among those who strolled, staggered, or crawled by the Briggs crossroads: DickHorton, now a Humble Oil exec and a resident of Bohemia, N. Y. Big Red looked great and had another good looker on his arm. Colin Chvany is with a Boston-based scientific instrument firm, and is a new dad—#1 son born in late August. Ex- plumber Charlie Dolben knows now that not joining the union can put even a pipe engineer into the poorhouse, so he has sold his tools and enrolled at the Harvard B. School. He and Donna are living in Wellesley.

Stu Keiller is in Hanover, and after a year as a research assistant at Tuck, is with a N. H. firm whose name was lost in the translation. He says that Joe Picken is also back in the Upper Valley with Creare, Inc.

A week later at the historic Yale tilt in Hanover, '65 was again well represented, and the football result was equally exciting. Bill Webster was a keen observer at the freshman football game. He and Vicky live in Stamford, Conn, and he commutes to his job with Riegel Paper Co. in NYC.

George Martin had come all the way from Detroit, where he rooms with BillBrown. George received his MBA from Michigan in 1970 (ranked first in his class there), and is now with the accounting firm of Ernst & Ernst.

One of the '65 faces which is most familiar at all kinds of Dartmouth functions is worn by Al Shepard. Homebase for him now is West Hartford, Conn, where he is putting his Boston College Law degree to good use as an attorney for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.

The written word from Harry andNancy Hansen of Norwich, Vt., is most happy. Harry is in his second year of an orthopedic surgery residency at Mary Hitchcock. They may also be in line for '65's "family of the year" award, having recently added a third child. The players and their numbers are: Sonja 5, Christian 3, and Inga Ann 6 months. All of the Hansens are anxious to see classmates whenever they're in the vicinity.

We've also heard from Eric Engstrom via John Richardson. Along with Eric's letter, John sent the xerox of an I'm For Cosmo lacavazzi bumper sticker, the original of which is now in the fast hands of Ed Keible at the Harvard Business School.

As for Eric, he has just completed a twoyear captaincy in the Army. Most recently he was the morale and welfare officer of the Saigon Support Command, an organization which is dealing with the problems of human relations and drug abuse in the armed services. Having shed his captain's bars, Eric is back at the practice of law in New York.

Dan Morgan, who was a business research analyst with Monsanto in Clayton, Mo., now has a Caracas, Venezuela address. He's still in the chemical business but whether with Monsanto, I don't know.

Lee Mercer has earned his law degree from Boston University and moved to the Granite State to practice. He and Debbie are living in Concord.

As I write this Jake Crouthamel has guided his Dartmouth team to a 6-0 record, a remarkable job when you consider the facts. We Dartmouth fans have come to take winning for granted, and, thus, rarely stop to consider what is behind this tremendous success. A new head coach, a completely new staff, the loss of 20+ lettermen, and yet the Big Green keeps rolling. The coaches and players deserve much more credit than we give them—and they've earned it regardless of what happens in the last three games of the season. There's character written all over this group of young men and coaches—all of Dartmouth should be proud.

Now that many of us have to start believing in Santa Claus again for the sake of our children, the year-end holidays are an even more special time. Best wishes to all of you and your families for a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy start to the New Year.

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