1969

Wallowing through my last month as the Swamp Fox reincarnate, I'm trying to remember what snow, skiing, etc. look like. Since I can't, I'll dedicate this column to the mosquito who bit my ear lobe last night or to the legendary toad, whichever appears first.

"Bamboo" Gandy has graciously accepted the sceptre as Edinburg, Texas' "Uni-King" and is busily erecting a suitable and appropriate floating palace. Plans have a 36-foot ferro-cement ketch sailboat to be christened "Kiss-My-Ars' early next year. Galley slaves and oarsmen are urgently needed and all inquiries are earnestly invited.

Now a retired U.S.A. finance officer, Bamboo brings tales of our brothers of the cloth. Sp. Jim Ross knocked off his master's in Geology at Stanford so he could test soil in Viet Nam. He determines suitability areas for road construction to carry tanks and trucks. lit. John Hanshus was a special instructor in U. S. Army Infantry School and now limbers up his thorax leading a platoon in S. E. Asia's deepest bush. Lt. Jack Bauer is in charge of a dispensary in Cam Ranh Bay, R.V.N. He garnered assignment after a successful year of vehicular management—185 ambulances at Fort Carson, Ore. Rumor also has it Jack landed a bride while Stateside. Let'S hear about it, someone!

1st Lt. Garry Greibel has been awarded the United States Army's Meritorius Service Commendation Medal. Garry is a combat operations and electronic countermeasures expect and received plaudits for his superlative performance in the 1970 NATO service practice conducted on the island of Crete, Greece. Garry is now serving a tour of duty in Viet Nam.

Class civilians have been active, too. Kent Sargent and Dick Anschuetz are finishing up their medical studies at Harvard University. Last June, Knt received the High Honor Award from the Medical School faculty for his "unusually distinguished academic record." Scheutz received the Dartmouth Research Award given to a student "demonstrating outstanding ability in investigative work." The other Research Award recipient was John Bolyoi, who now studies at the University of Washington Medical School.

Other members of the Fourth Estate have been equally active. Returned-from-Mendocino Carlos Japilese is now with Standard Oil of Cleveland. His new duties in the Editorial Services division include writing many of the company's internal publications. You always were kind of internal, Carl!

Seth Adam Alpert is the new houseguest of Marianne and Bruce Alpert in Baltimore. His grandfather Judge Milton Alpert '32 registered him at the D on his literal birthday. His daddy is in his third year at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the whole family is doing quite a bit of globe-trotting. Next scheduled stop in June is Melbourne, Australia, where Bruce will be working in the Pediatric Pathology Department of Melbourne University.

Joe Mina is still a master of New England prepdom. He's moved from Mt. Hermon down to Easthampton to join the Modern Language Department at Williston Academy. Joe spent the summer studying at the University of Vienna, Austria, and has been just about everywhere anyone can be in three summers.

Finally, let's ring out 1971 with the annual awarding of the Class of 1969 Obligato Esoterica Award. The coveted kudos this year go to, of all people, a member of the Class of 1970. Outstanding among the nominees was Micheal Lyle "Mitch" Wonson. Mitch is a graduate teaching assistant at UNC, Chapel Hill, specializing in environmental geography, He finances his educational endeavors in kind by stocking rainbows, brookies and brown trout in the Chapel Hill arboreum. Mitch is married to the former Katherine L. Scheehowe, Endicott '70.

Well, have a good one and remember the latest Gallup Poll shows that I am not the leading class contender for 1974 reelection. Maybe that's my Christmas present?!?

Secretary, 2573 Bouganville Dr. Camp Lejeune, N. C. 28543

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