1961

"From the Halls of Montezuma ..." to where? This question came to recently while looking over the list of classmates in the June 10, 1961 commissioning ceremony program who became officers in the United States Marine Corps. We did some checking and found that all hard-chargers are back in civilian life. The majority are lawyers.

Ray Thompson divided his time in the Corps between Camp Pendleton Calif., and Vietnam, He was an artillery forward air observer. After becoming a civilian again, Ray earned a law degree at the University of Nebraska. He now lives in Lincoln, Neb with his wife Laurie and their two children. He is with the Nebraska Higher Education Facilities Commission which, as we understand it, is a federal agency that provides funds for such things as classroom construed Ray ran into Frank

A few months ago Kay ran into FranKBuethe while they were both passing through the Atlanta Airport. Frank, who was one of our most "gung-ho" Marines, was a pilot operating out of Cherry Point, N. c., and finishing his tour in the Far East Even though he is now a businessman living in Charlotte, N. C., he is able to find time to maintain an active interest in flying. Frank is with J. B. Ivy & Company, which is a chain of nineteen department stores located in the Southeast.

Whitie Dunphy is another Marine pilot who is still flying. In the Corps he flew helicopters at Cherry Point and in Vietnam, but now he is a Flight Officer for Pan American. His wife Sally is a Pan American stewardess. Unlike most of us who think we would really like to spend a lot of time traveling, the Dunphys, constantly traveling around the globe, would like to spend more time enjoying their home in Richfield, Conn. Too bad we can't change jobs with them for awhile so everyone gets to do more of what he would like to do!

Dick and Diana Beattie live in Manhattan with their two children. They get away whenever they can to a second home in Washington, Conn. He enjoys organic gardening, which must be a pleasant change of pace from his work in the canyons of Wall Street as a lawyer for the firm of Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett. Dick is interested in both corporate finance and legal assistance for the impoverished.

Two other ex-Marine lawyers are BobAnderson and Bob Rentto. The former earned his law degree at UCLA and is now living in Maplewood, N. J., with his wife Gay and their two children. The latter stayed on the West Coast and is a lawyer in San Diego.

Since the announcement that Dartmouth is going coeducational was made just before we talked with our Marine classmates, it was to be expected that the subject would come up in most conversations. It is interesting to note that every fellow who expressed an opinion on the matter was in favor of the decision. The only misgivings we detected came from some of the wives who were reluctant to see the all-male tradition disappear or to have Dartmouth lose its uniqueness among the Ivy League schools as the only noncoed institution.

How do you feel about the decision?

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