1953

Success breeds success but also complacency, so it is particularly satisfying to start off the college year with a quick summary of our Class' Spitz-like achievements in the 1972 Alumni Fund. Setting a new class record, we gave $53,968, increased donor participation to 82%, raised our average gift to $106, and won the Green Derby competition again — the 13th time since graduation. Fred Stephens, head agent, led a hundred class agents and regional agents in their highly productive campaign efforts. The traditionally generous and thoughtful response of the Class, consistently demonstrating loyal concern, provided a significant contribution to Dartmouth's future, not only in needed funds but in an awareness of the importance of that need.

A great letter from Ted Spiegel arrived early in the summer: "Back in early April, Lt. Col. Karl Zimmerman, U. S. Marine Corps, was transferred from the Glenview Naval Air Force Station in Glenview, Ill., to the Far Eastern Command of the Marine Corps. Karl, as you know, is a pilot in the Marine Air Force. At Glenview, he was Safety Officer for the Marine Corps Air Reserve Program. His tour in the Far East will probably be for a year, and he envisioned that his squadron would be detached to Vietnam. Since he left the Chicago area, I have not heard from him, so I do not know exactly where he is stationed. A few days before he was transferred, a few of us got together to have a farewell dinner with him. The enclosed picture was taken at my house and includes Dick Calkins and JackTukey, as well as Karl and myself. Karl was in the Chicago area for about a year and a half, and while he enjoyed his tour here, he was anxious to get back to the flying business. He was not too anxious to get back to Vietnam, since it will be his third tour there. As most of us, he has misgivings about our present involvement. The thought of being separated from his seven-year-old daughter, Karen, for a year's time was particularly unappealing to Karl, but in true Marine Corps fashion, he took his assignment in the course of duty." The excellent picture Spieg enclosed is in living color and obviously taken before the farewell dinner; we'll see what the Hanover printer can do with it.

Bill Vitalis has joined Smith, Barney & Co. Inc., investment bankers, as vice president in the firm's corporate finance group. Bill recently graduated from the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program, an intensive three month stint, with 160 other senior executives from business, government and the military. Bill and Jean, with Billy, 13 and Rita, 11, live in Manhattan.

Bill Andre has joined Harvey Hubbell, Inc. as General Counsel. Previously he was legal counsel with Freeport Minerals Company, in New York City. Bill and Margaret live in Weston, Conn., together with Christopher, 4 and his baby sister born this past March.

John Harris has been elected president of the Boys' Clubs of Boston, Inc. John is vice president of Harris, Upham & Co., Inc., a major NYSE brokerage firm.

There is a rumor (truthfully, a one-page press release) that Don Bigham has changed jobs. He is an account supervisor at Advertising Assistance, Inc. of Weston, Mass. Don has been in the same line with several firms, most recently State Mutual Life, all in Massachusetts, so it is probably logical that he and wife Nancy live in Massachusetts — at 45 Brook St., Wellesley.

Col. Dick Davison has received the U. S. Air Force's Meritorious Service Medal for "outstanding professional skill, innovative leadership, and ceaseless efforts [resulting] in major contributions to the effectiveness and success of Air Force Medical Service programs." A veteran of 14 years in the Air Force Medical Service, Dick is currently assigned to the Aerospace Medicine Division, Office of the Air Force Surgeon General.

Remember how Fred Carleton always came up with good ideas? A unique autobus to solve (?) the Smith and Holyoke transport problem, a string quartet at Tuck's dining hall, class banners made in Japan . . . and the list goes on. Weil, as we endured a typical blah New York winter (writing that Alka Seltzer commercial had to be easy in January) Fred planned his summer vacation . . . and mine! As a result, your scribe and wife Gail (with progeny, one girl and one boy, in that order) joined Fred and Molly (wp,ogaob,ito) for a super wholesome family August holiday on Little Sunapee. This is a great way to get your Dartmouth batteries recharged and to obtain solid assurance that, while interstate highways, condominiums and other signs of progress may appear, the character of New Hampshire is what it was when we all first encountered it 23 years ago. Hanover denizens Associate Dean (of Tuck School) Paul Paganucci and Marilyn, and Judge (of New Hampshire) Billy Johnson and Nancy graced us with a visit and left us secure in the knowledge that Tuck School, the N. H. judicial system, the Big Green football machine, the Inn porch, Campions, and the Nugget (alas, Tanzi's is no more) are in capable hands. In Hanover I saw John Kurtz briefly (up for Alumni College), and also John Rogers, on his way to Canada. The campus was loaded with summer students, perhaps a third of them girls. The principal effect this advance taste of Dartmouth coeducation had on me was that I thought my seven-year-old daughter looked stunning in her forest green sweatshirt. Though not quite so natural somehow as the same garment on her four-year-old brother.

Gene Gabianelli, partner in the St. Louis law firm of Lewis, Rice, Tucker, Allen and Chubb, has been elected to a two-year term on the Alumni Council, the governing body of Dartmouth's 35,000 alumni. He will represent District I of Region VI, the southwestern states. Gene joined Lewis, Rice, Tucker in 1958 and was made a partner in 1967. He is a member of the Bar Association of St. Louis. He and Nancy live in Brentwood, Mo., with Gino, 13; Nina, 10 and David, 7.

Bob Douglas has become a partner in the New York law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, having resigned as secretary to Governor Rockefeller, a post he has held since January 1971. Bob had served as a close assistant to the Governor for almost eight years and was one of a select group of state officials with complete access to Mr. Rockefeller. Bob has also been appointed a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the 50-year-old bi-state agency with mammoth operations and impact on the New York port area. Bob and Linda and their three children have just moved to Green-wich. where Bob can ponder the wonders of modern transport while experiencing the perils of the New Haven R.R.

Four '53s gathered for a farewell dinnerfor Lt. Col. Karl Zimmerman of theMarines, about to begin a tour of duty inthe Far East. L to r: Dick Calkins, JackTukey, Zimmerman, and Ted Spiegel.

Secretary, Reynolds Securities, Inc. 120 Broadway New York, N. Y. 10005

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