1961

During the summer we received an interesting letter from Tim Knox, who resides on Old Hinsdale Road, Ashuelot, New Hampshire 03441. He wrote: "An important event in my life is coming up that I would like to share with my classmates. Rough Magic, a feature film which I wrote, produced, and directed, is scheduled to open the New American Film Makers Series at the Whitney Museum in New York this fall. It is my first film. It was filmed on location in New Hampshire in the summer of 1970 and I have been editing it, recording the rock score, mixing the sound track, and selling it, since then.

"I have been teaching English at the Dalton School in New York City in order to make a living until I get this film to the public. I am already working on another script, but the reception of this film is all important. New Yorker Films, who is distributing it, predicts a critical success.

"The film is about a New York painter who moves to the country with his six-year-old daughter after the wife drops out and leaves them. Some things work, but both find it difficult without mother and lover. So when an English girl on vacation shows up, he pursues her, wins her, but the little girl is jealous. Eventually the conflicts between the girl and daughter are smoothed out, but new ones arise in the father's relationship with the girl, particularly when her holidays come to an end.

"The film will be at the Whitney from September 21 to October 9. I hope that as many '61s and other Dartmouth people as possible get to see it. I would be interested in their critical responses which could be mailed to me in Ashueiot."

Tim's letter probably will appear in the Magazine after Rough Magic has played at the Whitney. Hopefully, many of our classmates in and around New York will have heard about the film through other channels and will have seen it. We wish Tim great success with this venture. Perhaps he could arrange to have the film shown in Hanover on a weekend when some of us are likely to be in town.

Paul Kaplan, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati, was named winner of the fifth annual $ 1,000 George B. Barbour Award at UC's commencement exercises last June. The winner is selected by a faculty committee and goes to the UC faculty member who has contributed the most to furtherance of good student-faculty relations.

Another faculty member accepted the award on Paul's behalf since he was engaged in a research project in the Philippines. He had been to the Philippines before, in 1967-68, when he conducted research in the Nueva Ecija Province under the auspices of the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction and the International Agricultural Development Program at Cornell.

Paul, since the number of classmates that have been to the Philippines probably can be counted on the fingers of one hand, why not write and describe your experiences to us?

While Paul Kaplan has been busy working on the environment on one side of the world, John Willis has been actively trying to improve the environment on the other side. As a project engineer with Camp, Dresser & McKee in Boston, John last spring was named a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, after completing the specialty certification examination given by the Environmental Engineering Intersociety Board. Established in 1955, it is at present the only engineering organization certifying to the professional qualifications of the practitioners of its specialties.

After getting a B.A. in Engineering Science from the College, John got his B.S. in Civil Engineering at the Thayer School and his M.S. in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University. Following two years as an officer in the U. S. Public Health Service, he joined his present firm in 1964. He is a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers and the New England Water Pollution Control Association.

Bill Zeilman, whom you may remember as a three-year varsity track man, has been advanced to associate actuary, individual insurance department, at Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. He spent two years with the Peace Corps in Nigeria before going into insurance and acquiring increasingly important titles, the most recent being assistant actuary in his present department. Jeanne and Bill have a son Timothy, 2.

Hank Gerfen (sometimes known as "Gerf") is a new vice president and director of marketing at The Mennen Company of Morristown, N. J. Hank, a Tuck graduate, was with Warren, Muller, Dolobowsky, Inc., as a vice president and management supervisor on Mennen products. His first position after graduation was with Scott Paper. With wife Margaret and six-year-old Hank Jr., he lives at 6 Brigade Hill Road in Morristown.

Last spring several of our friends took on new responsibilities. Bob Vincent was elected a director of the First Westchester National Bank. Art Bloom became chairman of the department of theatre at Loyola University of Chicago. Peter Bleyler became an assistant vice president in the Chicago office of Alexander & Alexander, one of the nation's largest insurance brokers. We wish these fellows continued success and urge the rest of our Class to let us know when they take on something new so that we all can take pride in their progress.

Soon we will be following the Big Green on the football circuit. Whenever there is a '61 gathering at one of the games, please be sure that someone capitalizes on the occasion to gather some news and send it in to the column. It doesn't matter if the news comes in scribbled on brown wrapping Paper, just so long as it comes in!

Pete Schwartz '60, chairman of theRepublican Town Committee of Glastonbury, Conn., greets Nancy Bowden'76 at a luncheon at which she washonored as a government intern and"Outstanding Republican Teen." Pete ispresident of the Dartmouth Club Officers Association.

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