1970
There is some required reading for this course. The first assignment is Joel Heath- cote's column, which can be found on reserve under '61 in October, November, or January issues. There is almost always a provocative discussion of things in general and Dartmouth in particular. I tend to find a ten-year perspective provides me with a sense of continuity which makes our experiences of the last couple of years seem almost the natural fruition of paintsaking institutional introspection. I don't think we understand our debt to those who suffered through the incipient crises which we found so clearly defined. "You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing," said Bob Dylan in 1965.
The second is Prof. Noel Perrin's article on the draft reprinted in the class newsletter. My reaction to it was one of smug satisfaction; it's kind of like we all lettered in conscience or something. Well from all reports The Allies invaded Laos yesterday. How many years of eligibility do we get?
Once you have completed the above and written me a five-pager entitled "What I would say if I had access to the media like my firebrand class secretary," you may wallow in the following news.
Dick Whitney is at St. Louis University School of Medicine. That's a blurb from the Quincy, Mass., Patroit-Ledger and the only other information is the address of his parents. But everybody knows where Old Whit lives, don't they?
Doug Burnell is an engineer in the Peace Corps and will be in Agadir, Morocco, for two years. He is involved in surveying and drafting, and also with irrigation projects.
Marriages? I must be the only bachelor left. Mr. and Mrs. David Rowe were married October 3 at Wellesley College. They now live in Thetford Hill, Vt. She is the former Miss Patricia Anne Thuma, Wellesley '7O. Pete Bradstreet married Susan Scott, Cornell '7O, in Elmira, N.Y., August 1. Among the ushers were classmates Phil Robertson, Mike Thai-man and Don Sweeney '71. Peter is now a law student at Colorado.
Robert S. Witte and Joan Lange were married December 22 in the Interfaith Chapel, Rochester, N.Y. Bob is at the Medical School. Bob Jorgensen was best man and William Badger was an "official" photographer (Just exactly what that entitles him to I'm not sure).
Time out for a quickie. Tom Evans is teaching in the French department at Williston Academy, Easthampton, Mass.
Miss Janie Samuels and Robert Sills were married in Atlantic Beach, N.Y., November 25. Bob is presently associated with an art gallery in New York City. His wife, teaching at Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, is a graduate of the State University at Albany and received her Master's at Brown University.
The old Beachball himself, GregChurch, wed Susan Tenander in December. Susan is Briarcliff College graduate. The Fitchburg, Mass., ceremony attracted more than its share of run-down jocks, including ushers Lynn Breedlove, DennyO'Neill and Dave Hill. Beach and his wife live in Indianapolis, Ind., where he is a graduate student at Butler University.
Mr. and Mrs. John Langley were married October 24 in Clearwater, Fla. JonOplinger served as best man. Jay's wife is the former Miss Mary Hicks, a recent graduate of Colby Junior College. He is presently a writer for the "Hunterton County Democrat," in Flemington, Conn.
An informant who prefers to remain anonymous has reported on a number of you. Whether it is his style which he feels suffers in comparison with this art, or whether he understands libel and slander better than I do, I don't know. Anyway, anyone who finds the common denomina- tors in this report and identifies him (write me for a xerox copy of the original).
Gary Ellsworth is an ensign on the "USS Windham County" in Vietnam right now. Dick Morton and George d'Heme- court are at B.U. and U. of Texas Law Schools respectively. Gary Brooks is working as a legislative assistant to Florida Congressman Dante Fascell in Washington and will start at Yale Law in September. John Chittick, who was elected to the city council in Fitchburg, Mass., last fall, is currently planning a campaign for mayor of that city. (I can't tell whether that's straight or not!) Tack Burbank, who served in the Army this summer, is back in Norton, Mass., and rumor has it he is an assistant dean at Wheaton College. MarkPfeiffer, who is finishing up at Dartmouth this month (December), will take a job with the Nixon Administration. Last year he was a White House intern during the summer. Lou Young- is planning a February marriage to Mary Grimard (Mary Hitchcock '70). He's working for Bell Telephone in Philadelphia in a management training program. Tom Quinn, who married Pat (Quinn, I guess) in June, will be a father in May of '71. (How can they tell?)
Anyone who has narrowed this down to Alpha Theta is wrong.
If you've done something you're proud of, let me know. If a classmate has done something any one other classmate might conceivably be proud of, let me know. Otherwise, keep it to yourself. Unless I get a little poop, next month we'll have a special cumulative report on all weddings to date!
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