1956

With the Alumni Fund drive in full swing, I am sure your mailbox has ample reminders that the College depends upon your contributions and those of others for a substantial percentage of each year's operating budget. When you consider the cost increases which inflation has added to expenses everywhere, you can well imagine that fixed contributions don't do the job quite well enough anymore. If you have gotten stuck at some level over recent years, say, $lOO, then you know that your contribution is not having the same impact that it had a few years ago. For example, remember when $20 got you an acceptable hotel room in New York City? Today you are at $35 or more with not much to show for it.

It may be a little early to be thinking about fall weekends, but save the Brown Weekend of October 21 for a mini-reunion in Hanover. The Alpha Delt House (opposite the Stadium) has agreed to share its facilities with the Class of 1956. We're planning to have a class meeting, tail gating, cocktail party, bank, catered dinner, activities for the children, help from the College, and our own Alpha Delt minireunion coordinator! The Works! Should be a great weekend to visit with undergraduates and their dates as well as our own classmates—with the kids taken care of. Plan now to get rejuvenated over the weekend of October 21. Complete details to be in the Wha Who Whisper.

Pharis Horton, lawyer in Madison, Wis., is active in Dartmouth affairs to the extent of doing some recruiting and apparently is active in student affairs, keeping up with local interest groups of the University of Wisconsin. Pharis mentioned that Bill Balch is in investment banking in New York and that Jim Hoshal of Midland, Mich., is very busy with two children, a girl 11, and a boy 9, as well as professionally with Saran Wrap.

Carl Hirsch has opened his own law office in Concord, Mass., where additionally he is clerk and general counsel of Minuteman Publications, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Carl had been associated with the prestigious Boston firm of Hale and Dorr for more than five years. Also in the Boston area, Foster Aborn was recently elected second vice president of John Hancock where he is in the bond and stock department. Foster had been with the Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh before returning to New England in 1968.

In the great vacationland of Maine, life has many pleasures and enjoying them yearround are Bill and Ann Skiff, who live at Bar Harbor with their children, Jennifer, James, Catherine, and Billy. Bill has recently been named a partner in the insurance and real estate firm Fred C. Lyman and Co., also of Bar Harbor. Before joining Lyman, Bill had his own company in Massachusetts. He is a director and past president of the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce.

Acting as personal representative of the Governor of Pennsylvania on the Delaware Regional Planning Commission is classmate Jon Blum. The Commission reviews federal funding for local public improvements and evolves plans in conjunction with representatives of the state of New Jersey as well as Pennsylvania. Active in many civic and political action organizations, Jon is also vice president of Kuhn, Blum and Co., Inc. of Philadelphia and New York. Dick Rosen, formerly assistant to New York's Mayor Lindsay, has been appointed general counsel of the real estate consulting and brokerage concern, Kenneth Laub & Co., Inc. in New York. Tom Fead has been for over 14 years in Denver where he and Myra and their three children, Nina, Danny, and Timmy, are glad that winter is over. Tom is in insurance sales with Connecticut Mutual Life and indicates that the home town is gearing up for Olympics 1976. This should inspire some to make a mid-continent reunion event for the Class of 1956. Dr. Richard P. Benoit is associated with two other physicians in Gloucester, Mass., where his wife Judith, and four children, Christopher, David, Richard, and Ruth Marie, are happy to be, following assignments in Spain and Washington when Dick was in the Navy. Dick's medical specialty is obstetrics and gynecology, and it has probably worried his New England neighbors that, while in Spain, he taught a sex education program at Rota High School.

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