1955
Your class executive committee bravely participated in the autumn traffic jam which has become New England when the trees turn color. It's a beautiful time of the year but not the same as the good old days before Interstates and long weekends. The meeting was very fruitful in terms of action. Most importantly Hugh Brady was elected reunion chairman for our 20th to be held in June 1976. Hugh will have his hands full matching Sonny Peters' performance at our 15th but I'm sure he can do it if we all pitch in and help. Due to their fortunate geographical location the Boston contingent of Hennigar,Buhler, Thompson, Mount, Harlor, et al will probably do more than their share. Hugh's address is Valley Road, Dover, Mass. 02030 in case you want to volunteer your efforts or suggestions. Send him a Christmas card and tell him all about it.
The committee also decided to increase our support of the two projects we have been contributing to for several years. We will be giving $750 each to the Athletic Dept. and the ABC Program this year, up from $600 each last year. We are able to do this because of our faithful class dues payers and the diligent efforts of John Demas. We learned that Sonny Peters was elected president of the Class President Association and Pete Thompson vice president of the Class Agents Association.
Late in October you received a bulletin from Hanover requesting your views on the ROTC question at Dartmouth. I hope you have sent them to the committee. It may be too late by the time you read this but, even so, send them to President Kemeny anyway. Better late than never. One of our active duty officers, Navy Commander George Fenzl, is now operating aboard the nuclear powered carrier USS Enterprise in fleet training exercises near the Philippines. At last writing George was a squadron commander. George feels very strongly that ROTC should be offered as an elective at Dartmouth.
Ron Hengen is an Air Force reservist with an Information Squadron in New York City. His unit was recently cited for outstanding work in assisting the Air Force. Among other things they wrote and produced a series of five minute newscasts entitled the "Prisoner of War Report." These spotlighted the situations of POW-MIA families. In his spare time Ron is a partner in the firm of Bejan and Hengen, Inc.
Lon Turner is in his fourth year of teaching and coaching at Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio. He teaches Physics, is chairman of the Science Department and coaches football in the fall.
Another denizen of the communications trade, Tom Hamilton, feels sorry for himself because he has to travel to Switzerland for a month or so. Tom operates Hamilton Communications, Inc. in Schaumburg, III. Dr. John Baldwin is chief of surgery at Monterey Peninsula Community Hospital in California. He and Jean have three children and he is still able to find time for ten games of squash daily.
Pete Packard has a daughter Sandy at the University of Kansas and a son John at Northwestern. western- His other son Chris has become the host of an AFS student from Brazil this year. If you ever get a chance to represent Dartmouth at an academic inauguration, take it. Hank Maretz did it recently in New Haven when Sister Francis De Sales Heffernan was made President of Albertus Magnus College. Probably the only chance he'll ever get to wear his academic regalia.
The smiling group you see here was caught with a Polaroid SX-70 camera by Sonny Peters during the aforementioned meeting in Hanover. Only Dell Isola could have made them smile like that early on a Saturday morning. Hennigar looks especially chipper considering the circumstances.
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