1953
Harvard is coming north October 25-26 and we hope you are too. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Suisse Chalet Motor Lodge at the junction of Interstate 91 and 89 at Route 5 in White River Junction. We have rooms reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. When you send in your requests, please state that you are a member of Dartmouth's 1953. Saturday morning there will be a class meeting at 10:00 a.m. in room 102 Reed Hall. After the game there will be a cocktail party with '52 at Hopkins Center and then a dinner. Should be a great weekend!
Mayes and Larry Barnett have moved from London after spending almost ten years in the U.K. Larry has joined Gould International. He is president of Gould Gottardo and headquartered in Milan. They lived there many years ago when Larry was with Honeywell. The new job will involve considerable travel with immediate trips to both Iran and Brazil. Gould is headquartered in Chicago, so keep your eyes open at O'Hare for an Italian-speaking American businessman in British clothing.
Speaking of airports, the next time you wrestle with suitcases, skis, and boots at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, you may be interested to know that you are in the second fastest growing and one of the most profitable airports in the country. Bob Michael is the general manager. With a fiscal base of general revenue and special facility obligation bonds, the airport last year grossed $13.6 million. With profits astutely positioned to meet operations costs and capital improvements, the airport's fiscal condition continues to be robust in face of unprecedented rising costs. The current expansion program estimated in 1969 to cost $35 million, quickly jumped to $43 million and now is tagged at $80 million. A new 12,000-foot runway is under construction. The "B" concourse area is being greatly enlarged to relieve congestion which will interest those who fly United's friendly skies an BranifFs rainbowcolored fleet. Bob managed General Billy Mitchell Field in Milwaukee before coming west.
Charlie Buchanan has been named to the board of directors of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. In making the announcement, the chairman of the board stated, "The addition of Mr. Buchanan brings an outstanding Wisconsin business leader to the board of the Medical College." Charlie has been with Appleton Wire since 1957. He was named president and chief executive officer in 1969. In 1973 the company became a division of Albany International, and Mr. Buchanan was named vice president and director of the Albany Corporation. Charlie has also been very active in civic affairs serving as vice president and director of the Outagamie Corporation and director of the First National Bank of Appleton, the Wisconsin Manufacturers Association, the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, Murray Machinery, Inc., and the YMCA. He is a former member and president of the Appleton Board of Education. Charlie and Charlotte have four children and live in Menasha.
Allen Davis has been honored on the recent publication of his book, American Heroine: TheLife and Legend of Jane Addams. Allen's major study of Jane Addams' life observes that the founder of Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago, was the best-known woman in America during the first decade of the 20th Century. The book has received a Christopher award for 1974 in the adult book category. Christopher awards are presented in the fields of writing, motion picture, and television. Allen received an M.A. from the University of Rochester in 1954, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1959.
Jim Courtney has given up the panelled walls and thick carpets of Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis, one of Cleveland's most prestigious law firms, for the business world. He is now vice president, international, for Hanna mining company, also here in Cleveland. They have fairly big interests in Brazil and Columbia so Jim is doing quite a bit of traveling. Says that the change is great. He and Debbie have moved to the suburb of Lakewood on Cleveland's west side.
Bill Beutel was the principal speaker at graduation exercises for Darien High School in June. It was the Connecticut school's first outdoor commencement in history. As everybody in greater Gotham knows, Bill is anchorman on Channel 7's "Eyewitness News." He joined ABC in 1962 and served as its London bureau chief from 1968 to 1970, travelling to virtually every news center in Europe and Africa. His most memorable story, he says, was at the end of the Nigerian Civil War when he was the only member of the ABC crew to get into Biafra after the war ended, which meant he had to act as his own camera man. An assignment in Vietnam resulted in the award-winning documentary "Doing Xoia The Town the Viet Cong Couldn't Kill." Bill is also frequently seen moderating indepth news programs and documentaries.
Dave Godschalk, associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been elected to the board of directors of the American Society of Planning Officials. He said the board will have two major issues before it in the immediate future: the consideration of some recommendations from the planning field for new national urban development policy in planning for the next federal administration, and how to get more effective citizen participation in the planning process. Prior to joining the UNC faculty in 1969, Dave taught planning at Florida State University at Talahassee. He was the planning director for Gainesville, Fla., and vice president of a planning consultant firm in Tampa. From 1967-71 he was editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Planners. Dave is a member of the executive committee fof the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and a member of the board of directors of the Warren Regional Planning Corporation of Soul City.
Tim and Joan Reed are back in Nigeria again. This time they are opening the bank for real. Tim writes that it is an exercise in patience and perseverance, but they'll make it. They promise to keep in touch with their progress as they flail away at the obstacles. Tim is with Citibank.
Dave Picker, who elected to leave the presidency of United Artists last October and who was given an independent production arrangement by U.A., has left for what he hopes will be greener pastures. Dave will become president of First Artists, the independent production company formed by Sidney Poiter, Barbra Streisand, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, and Steve McQueen. Dave's deal may be the largest independent production deal ever made: he has a piece of the action of the next ten pictures to be made by First Artists plus a separate deal for five of his own independent productions.
That's it for this month. Hope to see everybody in Hanover.
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