1962

Sorry about last month, gang. Still recovering from the holidays, I guess.

Bob Sprafkin sent on a welcomed note from Syracuse. Bob has certainly kept busy the past 12 years and sports a list of impressive credentials. He pulled down a Ph.D. in Counselling and Psychology from Ohio State and began teaching full time at Syracuse University in 1968. Two years ago Bob took on the direction of a day treatment center for psychiatric patients for the Veterans' Administration. He has stayed in the academic world and is on the faculty of the SUNY, Upstate Medical Center and is an associate professor of psychology at Syracuse University. Somehow Bob finds time to work with the Institute for Community Development, an organization directed toward the application of psychological knowledge in dealing with community problems. With the leisure time he does find, Bob spends it with Barbara and their three sons (Jeff and the twins Neal and Noah) skiing, skating and playing tennis. The Sprafkins are anxious to keep in touch with some old Dartmouth types and welcome all to 941 Comstock Avenue, in Syracuse.

The public communications division of J. Walter Thompson, Dialog, has made Gel Gelman a vice president. He went to the Chicago office of JWT in 1971 as account representative in public relations and was promoted to account supervisor the following year, being transferred to the New York office this past year. Gel had previous experience with several Chicago-based companies as well as a European consulting firm he joined in 1969.

If you've been staying up nights worrying about Interaction and Communication in aPhillippine Barrio, a Study of Social Space andSocial Distance, give John Parsons a call. That was the title of his doctorial dissertation at the University of Hawaii. On the way up the academic ladder, John stopped off in 1967 at John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in D.C. to pick up his MA in International Relations. When John's not out on the beach with Ann and their two children, Alison and Timothy, he teaches world regional geography, analysis of spacial behavior and political geography at the University of Hawaii. (Makes me happy I'm no longer a student - it's hard enough to write it.) Keep in touch, John.

Making it big in the banking business is BillObenshain who earned the title of a second vice president in commercial banking for the Continental Bank in Chicago. Bill joined the bank in 1968 and was elected an officer in 1970. Seems like a long time since we've heard from Bill. We do know, however, that helping Bill keep the affairs of the bank in order is Mick Friedman '63.

The Acton (Mass.) Minute Man recently carried an interesting story featuring Bill Emerson. After moving around quite a bit Bill and Carol settled in Acton five years ago and Bill is now the Director of Acton's Living and Learning School. Bill holds a Masters Degree in child guidance and uses this specialized training in the school by emphasizing that children are able to produce a "terrific amount of imagina- tion, creativity and self-entertainment" given the right involvement. The school looks to the children to be productive in this area without too much "entertainment" from parents and teachers. According to Bill, the best ideas for creativity come from the children themselves. The Emersons also practice what they teach and their two children, Ben and Jon, help with the fruit, vegetable and flower, gardens, and the entire family is active in community life in Acton. Sounds as if Bill has found his spot.

Winter is on its way out and soon spring will return to New Hampshire. Let's hope the freshness of the season is contageous and the problems of '73 and early '74 will be behind us.

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