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Reality confirmed memory; the Nose Dive is still an exquisite challenge. Early reports from Stowe were true. Although the snows were a little late in arriving, their eventual onslaught resulted in record December accumulations. Mt. Mansfield's slopes were covered with 50 to 60 inches of powder, and no ice appeared during the entire week. Skiing was obviously superb, except for a few chilling days with biting winds swirling additional flurries around.
If you are not an avid downhill skier, the hills surrounding the Stowe valley include excellent opportunities for touring. The renowned Trapp Family Lodge offers a package of equipment and instruction that quickly converts a novice into an enthralled participant. Miles of trails surround the lodge, generally on level runs perched high on the mountain's shoulder. The views from every turning are spectacular. After a thrilling day on the trails the spirit of gemütlichkeit prevails in the lodge. By cramming and absorbing some techniques from John Caldwell's "The Cross-Country Ski Book," you might discover an enjoyable pastime.
For once efficiency led to confusion. Col.Henry P. Meijer, USAF (he has been promoted) had been slated to move to Randolph Air Force Base in Texas. However, the Air Force in its infinite wisdom decided that he was still needed at the Medical Center at Keesler AFB in Mississippi. Hank is a general internist and is currently occupied as director of clinics with the responsibility of overseeing the medical care rendered to patients visiting the clinics. Whether his transfer will be fulfilled remains a question. Constant moving precludes too deep an involvement in community affairs, but Hank and Lily are active in the PTA, and they have brought some New England insights into the problems of integration in the deep South. Hank reports it as an interesting but not surprising experience. One daughter is attending the University of Connecticut. Since her major is English, she will probably be tutored by Joe Medlicott.
At the December meeting of the directors of the Lake Shore National Bank in Chicago, DickFrey was elected to the board. He has held executive positions in several departments of the bank during the past 15 years and is currently executive vice president. Dick is certainly diversified: he is a lawyer, director (also of the Executives Club of Chicago], trustee (the Museum of Contemporary Arts), treasurer (Bank Marketing Association), and member of a number of clubs, committees, and associations. Dick and his wife Mary live in Winnetka with their two daughters, Martha and Susan.
Bill and Mary Jane Patten, together with their three children, still live in West Chester, Pa. Bill commutes the short distance to Wilmington, Del., where he is the chairman of the social studies department at Brandywine High School. He is currently the president of the Delaware Council for Social Studies and is still associated with the American Historical Association's history education project. Bill reports that his involvement in the project over the past two years has been both interesting and exciting. In addition to traveling throughout the country, it has been refreshing and rewarding to participate in developments that focus on new teaching materials and methods for social studies. Otherwise, Bill reports that life remains routine. He still lives in the same house with an addition (to the house, not the family) and term papers periodically confront him to take away time from bridge and tennis.
The pieces of the puzzle have fallen into place. Dick Ziesing married Jane Haussmann in March 1969 and now reports the birth of their daughter, Jane, last May. She joins two older brothers, two older sisters, and a St. Bernard on a 40-acre farm about 35 miles west of Philadelphia. Dick cares for thoroughbred horses on the farm as an avocation and hopes that racing will eventually come into its own in that part of Pennsylvania. Dick's primary job remains as a partner in Woerner and Ziesing, manufacturers' representatives specializing in supplying food chains with packaging supplies and non-food merchandise. Between farm, office, and family, Dick was a little too busy last fall to see any football games.
A Christmas note from George and Valerie Duffy recapitulates their past year and reviews the future. Dick has retired as executive vice president of Harper Atlantic Sales to return to his first love, the campus. He has moved to the Baltimore area and become development director and assistant to the headmaster at the Garrison Forest, a girls' boarding school that is moving to a new campus in a lovely setting of rolling hills and open meadows beyond the city limits. The Duffys and their two children are eyeing a place on an island in Penobscot Bay where they hope to spend their summers. Their only regret is leaving their old home and friends in the Connecticut countryside. Incidentally, Duke had two hip operations last year; his recovery was certified with victory in a doubles tournament in September.
News caught up with Dr. George Woodwell when he presented a lecture on "World Circulation of DDT" as part of the environmental study program sponsored by the Noyes Foundation of Bennington College. After receiving his Ph.D. in botany and plant ecology from Drake, George taught at the University of Maine for two years before going to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he is head of the ecology program in the biology department. Home for him and Alice is in Long Island. Interesting projects that he has performed include a study of the effects of gamma-ray radiation in forest ecosystems, the measurement of community metabolism in terms of carbon dioxide levels and changes in rates of photosynthesis, and the analysis of various effects of the circulation of DDT in ecosystems and the biosphere. George has been active in the Ecological Society of America and is a consultant to many groups concerned with environmental affairs. He is the author of numerous technical research papers and has published articles in Science, The Scientific American, and other periodicals.
Briefly noted: the interesting title of an address given by Bill Broadbent to a local meeting of insurance underwriters was ' How to Butcher the Other Agent." As director of advanced underwriting for the Guardian Life Insurance Company, Bill should know his subject, which is more technical than the flip title suggests. Suspense items for next month include notes from Allen Wrisley and JohnNorton. Milton L. Diemer Jr. has been promoted to controller of Osterman Jewelers in Toledo. A $40-million residential complex advertised as a new town within a city in the Milton area has been proposed by H. Bruce Parker, a principal of the Massachusetts real estate developers, Minot, DeBlois, and Maddison. VinnieHill, billed as an authority in the field of jazz improvization, is directing a new course in popular piano playing at the Hoff-Barthelson music school in Scarsdale, N.Y.
The 1971 Alumni Fund drive starts soon, and assistant agents will be contacting you. These words by Terry Sanford, president of Duke and former governor of North Carolina, may give you an insight into today's college students and focus your thoughts on Dartmouth. "The deep troubles of our society do not begin on college campuses, are not bred there, and are not centered there. Instead, our possibility for resolving these troubles find their greatest hope on our college campuses, in the resources of faculty and research capacity, and in the hearts and minds of the students. To damage the support of colleges is to damage the very hopes of society." For this reason Dartmouth depends upon your loyalty and your support.
Exercise is great, but let the kids continue to shovel the walk.
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