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The following message was received from John Gillespie, Reunion Chairman for our 20th milestone to be celebrated June of 1973.
"Special to the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine for Immediate Release: Enthusiasm is no problem as 1954 gathers momentum for the celebration of its first 20 (really 19) years out of college. The Official Class Hat being modeled above by a Reunion Committee Staff member went into production last November. With the big weekend June 15-17 only a few short months away, hundreds of these "once in a generation" classics are already on their way to Hanover. The big question is whether there will be enough hats to meet the demand of a projected record attendance. To avoid disappointment, 54's are urged to reserve their official class hats by indicating their intent to be on hand by immediately sending back the reservation card enclosed in recent Reunion Newsletters."
Gillespie & Company, as you can see by the above hot flash, are already feeling the effects of the trauma of 20 years out. No pun intended, but it would certainly be helpful to John and his hard-working crew to hear from you as quickly as possible as to your intention to attend the big galla this coming June.
We'll start off the December column by catching up on some old news which somehow got buried under a pile of papers in my less than spectacular filing system. From out in San Bernardino, Calif., Harold C. Harris Jr. sends word that his store, The Harris Company, was in the midst of a most exciting and ambitious downtown redevelopment project along about a year ago. He invites us all to come out and see it since he feels it is one of the more extraordinary projects of its kind in the U. S. About ten months ago, he was keeping himself busy with the construction of a new 108,000-square foot building and the remodeling of one of the older buildings of 140,000-square feet, both buildings being connected with the burgeoning retail establishment bearing his name. If Harry did not have flat feet before this project got under way, he must by this time have considerably worn down his arches padding around the new and remodeled premises.
Another bit of old news from the West Coast comes from Granite Falls, Wash., from Dalton D. Dulac presently with the U. S. Forest Service in that neck of the woods. He wrote some months ago that while he had no particular news he had been at this station for about a year and finds it a truly beautiful spot in the Washington Cascades. Dalton had just bought a canoe and spent quite a bit of time paddling around local streams and lakes that past summer. He also got brave enough to take his canoe on a two-week trip to Jasper in the Canadian Rockies and his description of the early snows coming in to the mountain ranges would make some of us in concrete jungles long for such an experience. Dalton signed his little bit of information "The Count of Monte Cristo" and if somebody can enlighten me on what that amusing sobriquet really means, I'd be happy to put it in a subsequent issue.
Moving East I find a news release from the J. F. K. Library for Minorities telling us of six Americans of Chinese heritage and two Americans of Japanese descent who were to be recipients of sculptures of President John F. Kennedy in recognition of their outstanding community service. The presentations called the "American Heritage Awards" were presented on May 7, 1972 at a reception, dinner and dance at the Statler Hilton Hotel in New York City. Among the honorees was Lo-Yi Chan, architect here in the City of New York. Our congratulations to Lo-Yi on this singularly fine achievement.
The geography game continues with a trip now to Columbus, Ohio, where in June came announcement that Colborn M.Addison had been elected to the board of directors of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Columbus. "Cobe" is a member of the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease. Also in the banking field comes word from the Trenton (New Jersey) Times along about the middle of June of '72 telling of the appointment of Charles S. Dickerson to the post of senior vice president of the First National Bank of Princeton. Charlie joined the bank after three years as director of research and coordinator of loan management seminars for Robert Morris Associates. For ten years previously he had been with the First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company where he was vice president of the Commercial Lending Division and head of the Commercial Training Program. He had also been a founding director and first treasurer of the Construction Industry Foundation in Washington, D. C. and presently resides in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
Up in New England, (Wakefield, Mass.) the A M Life Insurance Company named William D. Donovan to the position of assistant vice president in April of 1972. Bill was then director of group sales and association products, and had joined American Mutual in October, 1966 as Atlantic Division group specialist in the Philadelphia office. He transferred to Boston in June of 1967 as field group specialist and became field sales manager two years later. In 1970 he moved to the home office of the parent company, American Mutual Insurance Company.
Dixon Bain has been appointed by Volt Information Services, Inc., to the newly created post of vice president, housing rehabilitation. A former consultant on urban affairs with the Kaplan Fund, he will initially direct Volt's housing and redevelopment division's first site in Hoboken, a project which involves some 400 dwelling units. Dixon has just completed a year's research at the Harvard-MIT Urban Studies Center on converting older factories to housing units.
Richard A. Pearl, back in August of 1972, was reported by the New York Times as being chairman of the Quiet Highways Council, Inc., a group seeking noise regulations on major state highways, particularly on a ten mile stretch of 1-684 in Westchester County that opened two years ago. Dick is a resident of Bedford and a stockbroker and although he lives in what some of us downstaters feel is still a rustic area he writes that "conversation is almost impossible; sleep is disturbed and all semblance of tranquility is lost. Gearshifts on back porches, engines roll through bedrooms, tires whine along halls." I'm sure that Dick will be a formidable foe in a very tough fight to save both the environment and his sanity.
About the same time that Dick was carrying the fight against noise to New York State's Environmental Conservation Department, Dr. Richard L. Kolbe was being elected to membership on the Cedar Crest College Board of Trustees where he is presently chairman of the Department of Politics and Economics. Dick joined the faculty in 1962 and has recently been singled out as an Outstanding Educator of America for 1972. Dick took his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton University where he was both a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Saxnay and Hartshorne Fellow. In 1968 he took a leave of absence from Cedar Crest to teach at Miranda House of the University of Delhi, India, where he was one of six American professors selected to teach under the sponsorship of the U. S. and India Women's College Exchange Program. His wife and two daughters, Lynn Ann and Patti Lee, accompanied him on that expedition. In 1971 he "frittered" away his time on sabbatic leave during the spring semester to complete research preparatory to writing a timely book dealing with the subject of the role of federal administrative publicity in the formation of public opinion.
Well I guess that will do it for now, but let me take this opportunity to wish all of you a pleasant Holiday Season.
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