1956
If inflation and business conditions have demolished your budget and reduced your income then you are, no doubt, imposing austerity measures and doing everything you can to assure that customary revenues are at least maintained, hopefully increased. The financial picture at the College reflects this situation, too, and our contributions to the current Alumni Fund campaign are of critical importance. It is striking to me that the Ford Foundation has given a quarter of a million dollars with no strings and to be used at the discretion of President Kemeny on new, non-budgeted programs. This is an indication of high confidence in John Kemeny and in Dartmouth and we should have at least as much. Furthermore each of us continues to have his own set of compelling reasons to plough back into Dartmouth part of the gains we enjoy these days to meet the continuing obligation of being part of the Dartmouth association.
With just over a month to go before Reunion weekend on June 18, 19 and 20 there is enough time fo find someone to babysit the house or work out additional vacation plans and decide you really can be away from the office at that time after all. It is not too late and Stu Klapper feels that he has a weekend program to compete favorably with the well done Tenth.
Nominations for the class officer positions are still being received by Dick Rosen and a mail ballot will be conducted during this month. Whether you make nominations or not, return ballots promptly to indicate support for the classmates leading our class activities over the next five years.
A popular teacher and author, classmate Rus Mead has been named Headmaster of Concord Academy where he has been on the faculty for the past nine years. Rus and his family will be on a two-month sabbatical in Europe before moving on to the Concord Mass., campus in July. ChuckSoule is vice president-underwriting of The Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. and in addition to serving as chairman of the Central Massachusetts Heart Fund he was names one of Worcester's outstanding young men by the Jaycees.
Rick Webb has gone into business for himself as a manufacturer's representative selling lighting equipment and architectural products in the Massachusetts and Rhode Island areas and he and Libby and their two girls are planning to be at the Reunion in June. Although the Clif Phalens have moved back to Massachusetts from Vermont they still spend a lot of time there skiing and putting the finishing touches on a chalet. Rounding out the Massachusetts news Win Bridge has been named director of the Trust Division of the Massachusetts Bankers and has set up his own law practice in Bedford.
Tom Rosenwald has left Young and Rubicam where he was executive director of medical advertising, to become Vice President and General Manager of Healthmark, Inc., a subsidiary of Medcom, Inc. Rosey will be responsible for the growth of Healthmark as a marketing communications company for medical and health care products and services. He'll continue to perform his labors in the big city and home will continue to be Chappaqua, N. Y„ for the Rosenwald family which includes wife Jean and the children Jennifer, Tim and two-year-old Marianne.
The youngest judge in the history of Steuben County is Don Purple who was appointed by Governor Rockefeller earlier this year. Although he was previously associated with the county prosecutor's office, a local newspaper draws particular attention to Don's development of a drug education program. Pharis Horton is alive and well in Madison, Wis., and "aside from an occasional whiff of tear gas (our offices border the campus) and brief forays into the realm of politics (supporting, not running) and local great issues (they never taught us at Dartmouth how to convince the city a street light was needed)", he indicates nothing new. Glad to see his sense of humor intact.
Time Inc. Comptroller Dave Dolben and Jeane remain active in Alpine, N. J., community affairs. Over in Morristown, Arthur Geller is Chief of Medicine at All Souls' Hospital.
Bill Tell is associate general counsel in the legal department at Texaco Inc., Inc., and back in the law business is JohnLiebman, partner in the firm Watkin and Liebman in Los Angeles.
After fifteen years and no word a news clip from the "Claremont, N. H. Eagle" tells us that Tony Spiss and his family including sons eight and four are living in New Hampshire, and that Tony heads a Mt. Sunapee area ski club junior program and coaching at summer camps in Montana and at Mount Hood.
The Brad Leonards are back in Reston, Va., after almost two years in Illinois.
'I helped set up a Bureau of the Budget for Governor Ogilvie. The experience was fascinating, exhilarating, frustrating, exhausting Modernizing state government is going to require tremendous energy. I have a good deal of respect for the Governor, who has been tackling some very difficult problems Now I'm back in the Office of Managemen and Budget in the Executive Office of the President, as among other duties, liaison to the Chicago Federal Regional Council. I spend more time in Chicago now than when I worked for the State of Illinois!
My single free-time activity in Illinois was helping to coach youth hockey. My two sons, Erik and Arne, participated actively, and we all miss it. We spent a week skiing at Taos last winter and several weeks with relatives in Norway last summer. Reunion is the next scheduled vacation! The only '56's we saw out in Illinois were John and Dawn Palmer and Dick and Marsha Michelson. John, the Stoic, has become both a doting father and a quite sophisticated patron of the arts. Dick has preserved his excellent sense of humor, which in this day is a considerable accomplishment!'
And on that note I'll close saying be sure to give Reunion plans a double-think and give the Alumni Fund some extra thought this year, too. See you in June.
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