1966

Mead Over is leading a charge by '66s back to and through the halls of academia in quest of advanced degrees. Mead spent two years with the Peace Corps in Upper Volta, West Africa, helping villagers drill water wells, and was so inspired he came back to earn two degrees at the University of Wisconsin—an MA in Administration of Developing Countries and an MS in Economics. Now Mead's in Paris at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique as a Research Assistant but plans to return to Wisconsin for a doctorate in development economics. Mead's fiancee, Eileen Julien, will also go for a Ph.D. at Madison in, hold on, French and Francophone African Literature.

Bill Epstein is finishing requirements for his Ph.D. at Columbia while serving as an instructor in English Literature at Purdue. And Josh Grindlay received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from Harvard and is now a Harvard Junior Fellow, with plans for a study trip to Australia (with wife Sandy) this March.

Tom Louis, with a Ph.D. from Columbia, is teaching at Morningside Heights in the Department of Mathematical Statistics. And Ed Grew took his doctorate in geology from Harvard to the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington as a Research Associate. His appointment ends next month, so if you know anyone who needs a good geologist...

That good geography department at Dartmouth has inspired a number of classmates. Larry Goss, who had served as lecturer in geography and administrator of both the Urban Studies and Environmental Studies Programs at Dartmouth, is now an instructor at the State University of New York at Oswego. And then there's the University of Kansas, where Andy MacCornack,Jim Campbell and Pete Shortridge are all instructors and advanced students in the geography department.

Fred Junger spent five years in front of an elementary school class, picked up a wife. Theresa (Minnesota '66), and an MA in education from Michigan State, and is now an elementary principal in the Durand (Mich.) School System.

Capitalist Corner: Mike Burnett is Supervisor of Retail Development in Northern New Jersey for Mobil Oil, and, with Diane, the father of two... SteveLanfer has the impressive title of Vice President and General Manager of Rocky Vermont Inc. Steve hasn't said what he does, but he's located halfway between Stowe and Sugarbush in Waterbury, Vt.

Caleb Loring, husband of Bronwyn and father of one-year-old Caleb IV, is a management trainee at the First National Bank of Boston. . . . Wayne LoCurto is up to his neck in blades—as product manager for Techmatic Products and the Orbiter 40000 Razor for the Gillette Co.—and girls, with Kathy and three daughters, Jeanne (4), Anne (3) and Carolyn (3 months).

Walt Knoepfel received a Stanford MBA and is now with the San Francisco accounting firm of Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery.... And Jim Jourdonnais took his Master's to Cargill, Inc. in Baton Rouge, La.... Dick Jones has decided to stay in the Coast Guard, and is currently a lieutenant and operations officer on a 378-foot high endurance cutter out of Boston.

Pete Prichard, city editor of the Greenwich (Conn.) Times and one of the foremost touch football players in Fairfield County, married Ann O'Donnell, editor of New York City's Urban Research Inventory in Albany, N. Y., on November 13. Over Christmas Ed Larner and Judy Drean of Sierra Madre, Calif., were married in Anchorage, Alaska, where Ed is Assistant Station Manager for Northwest Airlines. Now he's flyin' high.

It's not too early to gas up for the reunion June 16-18 in Hanover.

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