1933

Vern McKane recently wrote: "Moved "ere October 1 due to the fact my employer, Vulcan Electric, subsidiary of ITT, closed their operation in Danvers, Mass., and consolidated with their branch in Kezar Falls, Maine. So I decided to go along with it and bought a house here in Gorham—s4 miles of commuting—round trip—but not a bad one until the snow really arrives."

The Dartmouth Club of the Lakes Region held their December meeting in Laconia, N. H. Bea and I enjoyed visiting with Joe and Polly Levansaler.

The Saturday Evening Post has named Fred Birmingham associate publisher for editorial supervision and associated responsibilities. Fred joined Curtis Publishing as managing editor of the Post and consulting editor for Holiday Magazine. His editorial career has also included key positions with such publications as Status, Reader's Digest, Apparel Arts, and the Gentleman's Quarterly, a magazine he helped create. Fred, who appears in Who's Who in America, has lectured at Radcliffe, Northwestern and New York University, and written books, articles, and a syndicated newspaper column.

George and Marian Hamilton of Chula Vista attended their son Woody's graduation in Hanover last June. They sat with Vin and Anna Merrill during commencement. Woody is presently a teaching fellow at Athens College in Greece largely because of an idea given him by John Meek. Their daughter Ann Michele and her husband Jeff are stationed in Nuremberg, Germany.

Last September Ted and Laura Allen moved from Valhalla, N. Y., to Milford, Conn. It was necessitated by Ted's General Electric component (Corporate Traffic and Transportation) moving from New York City to Bridgeport. Ted is still playing piano with a Dixieland band, the Ivylanders, which is based in Westchester County and has been together for twelve years. DaveFlynn plays bass fiddle in the band. Keep it up because you'll be in great demand at our next reunion! The Aliens have three grandchildren—Mike 6, Lisa 5, and Robert 1½.

Ted Purcell moved from Cambridge, Mass., to Washington, D. C.: "Good to hear from you from the N. H. Mountain country I've left! The Cambridge Center for Social Studies has been modified to support this new, small think tank at Georgetown: Jesuit Center for Social Studies. For news: I'm completing a four-year Ford minority manpower research project ending up with two books, "The Negro in the Electrical Manufacturing Industry," published this year, and Blacks in the Industrial World," issued for The Manager, to appear about February 1, 1972 (The Free Press, New York). Also several journal articles. Planning an article for Dartmouth Alumni Magazine on my Tuck class of '61—revisited '71 on management ethics. Very happy here—tho I miss the granite of New Hampshire. Will have to see what '33ers are in Washington.'

Ted and Jane Holmes have moved from Old Town to Winterport, Maine: "Here we have a view of the Penobscot River, at least while the leaves are off the trees. One of my short stories was one of three that won Emily Clark Balch Prize awards in 1971. Title: "Drums Again". It appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Re- view, Charlottesville, Va. (Summer 1971). I still teach in the Department of English at the University of Maine's Orono campus."

Dick Rice of Rochester, N. Y., retired last August after 26 years with the Rush-Henrietta school system. During that time he helped the district grow from 1,600 pupils to 12,000. He served as social studies teacher, director of adult education, high school vice-principal and principal, and finally as director of personnel services hiring and servicing the needs of over 1,100 personnel both professional and classified. Currently he is keeping busy with some part-time consulting and travel.

Bert Thorstenberg has moved from Reston, Va., to Tampa, Fla. He has retired to the Sunshine State and his wife Beth is teaching library science at the University of South Florida. Their son Eric is a junior at Florida State University in Tallahassee where he is taking pre-law courses.

In the news: Frank Hardy of Lewisburg, W. Va., has been elected chairman of the Board of Directors of the Greenbrier Valley Bank. Gobin Stair of Kingston, Mass., was interviewed by the Boston Globe last December. He is director of the Beacon Press in Boston which is owned by the Unitarian-Universalist Association. The interview was interrupted by a telephoned bomb threat which fortunately proved false. Gobe said, "The fellow who called sounded very calm and serious. Apparently he was unhappy about the sex education series we've published for use in junior high schools." Gobe believes denominational publishers are striving to promote controversial works and "fill the gap left by others." He said Westminster (owned by the Methodists), Abington (Presbyterians), Sheed and Ward (Roman Catholics), and other houses as well as Beacon have "come a long way since the days when they published mostly theological material."

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