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Summer has persisted with its heavy, hazy days and long sultry nights. The evening cricket symphony has been strident marking the high heat and foreboding a cold, snowy winter in the North Country. But now Labor Day marks the end of the vacation season. My brief respite is over.
Summer wanes as a callow freshman class prepares for the trek northward. The grand old seniors gird for their final year as we did in 1949. Face it, guys (and dolls), a few years have passed. Fake the arithmetic as you will, it still has been 25 years.
So, mark September gone, October here, and November nigh. Then, briefly, 1975 and June and Reunion. Prepare ye the season and the time.
Nev Chamberlain, your reunion chairman, has spent his summer summoning a committee and developing plans. His enthusiasm alone bodes well for a festive interlude in Hanover, where Len Matless, proprietor of the Hillwinds Shop, will represent us locally and see to the class tent. Dick Ziesing will forsake his Heatherlea Farm in Pennsylvania to organize athletic activities. (Could you stand a tennis tournament?) If there is a prize, Dick Echikson will take care of it along with costumes and favors.
No reunion is an event without people. We want to see all of you. But to whet your interest and see to all those other guys, Chuck Gardner will beat the drums and the bushes with some publicity and lots of promotion. Good food is essential, so Joel Leavitt will see that we get enough of the tasty type. Taking up where he left off at our 20th, Tom Ruggles will attend to the music. Nev used a little special influence in convincing Vally Chamberlain to look after our ladies.
Nev has had several fascinating ideas to recall the more serious side of Dartmouth. One is a Great Issues Form, which John Dwyer will organize and chair. A second forum, which will tap the resources of the Class, will be announced only after a chairman has been selected.
On the organizational side Ed Tuck will be registrar and treasurer. The first two regional coordinators are Dick Dale and Bob McIlwain. The difficult chore of compiling our yearbook (a task that will require a few minutes of your time to fill in your current status) has been undertaken by Joe Medlicott - as if his newsletter were not sufficient. And, finally, Gerry Sarno, our last reunion chairman, has agreed to an ex officio and advisory role.
Our reunion also has a serious side. It used to be a 25-year gift. Now it is a special effort for reunion giving. As a class, we have a right to be proud. Sandy McCulloch, with an unstinting expenditure of time and energy, has led the Alumni Fund to its second record-breaking year. Not only did he achieve difficult goals, but he also exceeded them by greater margins than, any previous fund chairmen. In addition, JackHarned led the Class to another record year and first place in the Green Derby.
Now Bob Kilmarx has taken the baton to lead us to a stellar year of giving. The goal remains to be set and approved by your executive committee in October. But the targets are clear: the Class of 38's record $220,000 this year and, more subtly, the Class of 53's $214,000 for its 20th. The challenge is before us. In a planning memo Bob noted, "The 25th for us presents a particularly apt occasion for the Class to demonstrate our strength and support of the College." In the last analysis it will be up to you.
Mass Mutual Life has appointed Don Hannigan counsel in its Law Division. Don joined Mass Mutual as a trainee soon after graduation. Somehow he became a chartered life underwriter, received a law degree from St. John's University, and passed the bar in both New York and Massachusetts. He became associate counsel in 1962. Don still lives in his old home town of Westfield, where he is chairman of the zoning board of appeals, a corporator of the Athenaeum, and past president of the Y's board of directors.
If you own your own business and are considering selling, take heed, counsels BruceRogal. New associates are not always compatible, as he found out after selling a chain of 39 travel agencies. Tiring of the new owners, Bruce struck into a new field - sales incentive travel to stimulate and motivate sales personnel. The new business requires research into industries, developing sales campaigns, and staying involved with travel, his abiding interest. Success is filling two jets bound for Acapulco every five days for three months. With their two older children off to Yale, Bruce and Phyllis moved to a smaller home in Weston, eliminated commuting, and now spend more time in Rome than in downtown Boston. The client is not the only one well-motivated.
Tidbits here and there: Arnie Bockstruck, one of St. Paul's few certified gemologists, also ranks as a marriage counselor after stating "Gems are not things you should give to your wife and then take back the next year even if gems do rank as good investments Soccer teams coached by Phil Charron, who spent the summer at the Institute Phonetique of the Sorbonne, and John Caldwell oppose each other twice yearly. Phil is at Deerfield; Johm, at Putney. Roger Hillas was elected to the beard of directors of ESB, Inc. Ken Sutherland moved up to merchandise manager for spun synthetic fabrics at J. P. Stevens. The prime mover of Farmington Valley Lacrosse, formed to stimulate a junior league in the sport, and the valley's Canoe Club in Cul Modisette. Jim Farmer has been promoted to assistant clinical professor or radiology at Case Western Reserve. Dick Arnold is building a tennis complex in N.J. with son Dick as a summer pro. The Arnold duo are the 1974 N.J. father and son doubles champions.
This year's mini-reunion is Harvard weekend. The rendezvous is the Woodstock Inn. If we miss you then, see you in June.
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