1968
When you read this month's column, please do one thing immediately. Stop and reflect upon whether you have yet sent in any Alumni Fund contribution this year. There are many who have not contributed in the five years we have been away from the College, and I urge you to please consider some small gift. We are all working very hard to have the Class and the Alumni Fund succeed. A special thanks to all who have sent money in. Your participation makes a big difference. And a very special thanks to those who have sent second or third contributions, no matter the amount. It all adds up to help Dartmouth.
A postcard received in April tells us that the Marine Corps has been good to Cathy and BurtQuist. Burt was recently promoted to captain, and the Quists are moving from North Carolina to Boston, where Burt will be recruiting officers and visiting Dartmouth College officially. He signed the card L.O.T.F.
Joe Medalie, who graduated from Tuck and is president of Northwest Industries, Inc., Bowling Green, Ky., was recently graduated from the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School. The three-month advanced management program was established in 1943 and prepares experienced executives for the responsibilities of top management. "Students" participating in the program with Joe came from the United States, Canada, and 22 other countries.
Jim Kurtz, who joined the bank in 1968, has been elected a trust officer of The First National Bank of Chicago. He is now working toward an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago, and living at 2 East Oak St. Jim played hockey at college and is now a coach in the Wilmettte Hockey Association and a registered referee in that Association, the Illinois Amateur Hockey Association, and the Amateur Hockey Association of the U.S.
From the desk of John M. McNamara comes a memo that Pete Stevens and his wife Gayle (Wheaton '70) are off to a surgical internship at the University of Utah. Fred Palmer and DickArbene will be out there too. Dick will be graduating from the University of Rochester Med School this month. Fred is already out in Utah.
Ford Cashion has written after these many years. We are glad to hear from him. June 8 will be the date of his graduation from Baylor College of Medicine. Ford has signed up for a rotating internship there in Houston. Ben Benner '69 and Jim Bocell '69 will also be graduating with him. I liked his last sentence particularly: "This is my first communication with the Class Secretary, but hopefully not my last." Thanks for the news, Ford.
A NEWS FLASH was fired off to me from the Harvard Medical School Family Health Care Program offices from Ken and Jill Dardick that Lauren Erica has joined the family. Her feet are so big, says Ken, that she'll be able to make the "downriver trip" solo!
Dick Lappin has been appointed a vice president of HII Construction Co., Inc., and is assistant vice president of the parent company, Housing Innovations, Inc., a Boston-based real estate developer. Dick got a master's degree at Columbia University School of Business in 1970, and Jives with wife Judy and their daughter at 38 Charles River Road, Waltham, Mass.
A note from fellow class secretary Charles Raymond '30 informs us that his son Alan Raymond received a master's degree in public communications from Boston University and is the news director for WGBH-FM, a public radio station in Boston. Alan's wife Charlotte is working for the Beacon Press there, and the Raymonds are residing in Brookline.
As the class officers of Dartmouth met last month at the College for their annual weekend of lectures and discussions, and as I am fortunate enough to live here in Hanover, I was the only 1968 officer Present You will be reading about the highlights elsewhere, but I did want to comment on several things I observed: The first is that despite some annual spring rites, or the "boys will be boys" syndrome, the first year of coeducation has passed smoothly and productively. There was not a great difference on campus nor, from what I gather, was the classroom any more or less stimulating than before. We are now getting ready for "Phase II" and can expect about 600 girls in the fall.
Also, for those of you lucky enough to pass by this summer, you will notice the first summer of the Operation program taking place, with College business as usual and a full house of students.
One observation: The tennis courts are always jammed full; whether this is due to girls on cam- pus, or the national trend I cannot say. But be prepared to wait if you come to Hanover to play that game!
The class notes section of the Alumni Magazine is the best in the country. This is due to many people s efforts, but I want to single out one particularly: Charlie Widmayer '30. Under his guiding editorial hand we have all gained great pleasure from the Magazine. He told our gathering in May that the publication strives to (a) inform alumni (b) promote the Dartmouth Fellowship by informing them about one another, and (c) to serve as an intellectual link between the alumni and the College. Individual alumni have always received special attention for their efforts in the world at large. We shall miss Charlie, as he retires this year. And we sincerely hope he will be writing occasional pieces in his newfound "spare" time!
Finally, I think it is significant that 99% of our class is still receiving the Magazine. Now go back and re-read paragraph one!
Secretary,
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