1964

My hat is off to Jerry Palm for this great letter bringing us up-to-date on his activities. Jerry was married last year to the former Nancy Himes. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he settled in Seattle to practice law. He is presently an associate with Williams, Lanza, Kastner & Gibbs. Other '64 Seattle barristers, he notes, include Read Langenbach, BruceCross, and Bill Neukom.

Jerry is currently serving as president of the Dartmouth Club of Western Washington. In addition, he holds the distinction— validly, to my knowledge—of having travelled overland further than any other '64 to attend our Fifth Reunion. Seems he just couldn't get a decent beer in Seattle!

Jerry mentions that Paul Drenkow and Kent Howard are working for Boeing in Seattle, and John Arthur is doing a residency in surgery at the University of Washington Hospital. Mike Molvar, Jerry reports, is currently serving in the Army as a dentist. Mike and his wife, Gigi, are stationed in Germany.

The American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago has promoted Bob Engelman to vice president. Bob began his career in banking while still in college, working for American National on a part-time basis. He joined them permanently after graduation and served in various capacities prior to being named assistant cashier and assigned to the commercial loan division in 1967. Home is Highland Park with his wife Ronnie and their three children. Bob is a trustee of the Highland Park hospital and is also on the Medical Research Institute Council of Chicago.

Bill Becker's secretary was kind enough to respond to my plea for class news recently. She tells me that Bill, following graduation (with honors) from Harvard Law School in 1968, worked for Community Legal Assistance in the Boston area, and then did a stint with Vista. Bill is now in the Law Firm of Ralph E. Becker in Washington, D. C. He and his lovely wife, Carol, have a daughter, Kirsten Anne, who was born on May 9, 1969.

John Peltonen and his wife, Katherine, are reportedly living in Ostuni, Italy. John is Assistant Staff Judge Advocate at the San Vito dei Normanni Air Station there. My sources tell me that John, a member of the New Hampshire Bar, plans to return to New Hampshire to practice law after his stint in the Air Force.

Roger Hull, a practicing attorney in New York, deserves a warm wahoo-wah for his appointment last spring to the Board of Trustees of William and Mary.

This month's '64 Career Spotlight shines brightly upon Henry Scharling, ex-Bones Gate social chairman, reknown to his classmates for his deadly version of a festive beverage called "The Fogcutter," who has won recognition, fame, and probably fortune by being named recently as Plant Superintendent of the Lincoln, N. C., Plant of Burlington Industries. Rumors that Henry's formula for fogcutters is responsible for the remarkable qualities of Burlington's line of men's socks which "never fall down" are totally false. Henry s fogcutters always had precisely the opposite effect.

Representing Reading, Mass., as a "loaned executive" in the recent United Fund campaign there was David Kruger. Dave is a management trainee with the Credit Department of the First National Bank of Boston.

Tom Clark, a member of a group of volunteer attorneys in the Hartford area who represent indigent criminal defendants, is currently drafting some procedural guidelines for the handling of drug cases for the Connecticut Junior Bar Association.

That's about it for now. News is once again becoming a scarce commodity; please drop me a line with some news about yourself or other '64's. Later.

Capt. James Weiskopf '66 (l), tour director of the Army Field Band, receivingthe Meritorious Service Medal from Lt.Col. Hal J. Gibson, conductor, at FortMeade, Md„ prior to reassignment to FortBenjamin Harrison, Ind.

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