1963

Pete Slavin, who says he's making ends meet by freelancing in the Washington area, editing a magazine (apparently nameless) and helping to write a book on the 1972 political campaign (I thought Teddy White was already into '76), has passed on this month's prize suggestion. It is his contention that if I encourage members of this class to write NOT about themselves (modesty prevails?), but about classmates they know or bump into, I'll get more material for this column. Since I'm willing to try anything once, and certain other things twice or more, I am offering the first installment in this genre of '63 class news - namely, Pete's own slightly yellowed report of an encounter last summer with Denny Emerson. I hope others will note the style and tone and assume that they are free to apply whatever literary techniques they wish in revealing to us the character and activities of fellow '63s. Pete writes:

"A lot of us would envy Denny. He's become a rural Vermonter and is raising horses, always his first love. It's exhilarating to find someone doing something he always wanted to do. Not that it's easy to find Denny and Mae. They live about 15 miles and several mountains from Hanover outside Strafford, Vt., along as windy a country lane as you'd ever want to drive at night. Denny's place is called Tamarack Hill Farm. He's been there since he gave up working as a private school administrator four years ago. He's still the champion manure shoveler in the Class, and a mean man with a scythe, but he makes his living mainly by selling local real estate in partnership with another fellow. Business has been good, but he expressed real misgivings about the coming of development to Vermont.

"His real love remains horses, both riding and breeding. When I was there last summer his stable contained about 10 horses which he was raising to sell. And he had no hired hand helping him except a girl in high school. 1 don't know where he finds the time to shovel all that manure. He still rides competitively and in 1972 was voted the nation's horseman of the year. With his usual exasperating modesty, he claimed it was because all the Olympians were in Europe. He said he's given up the ambition of making the Olympic equestrian team. He can't afford to take off for months and do nothing but train. Too much else to do. But he does not seem to regret it.

"We talked about the fact that when we were at Dartmouth so few of us took advantage of the New England countryside, how rarely we spent time in the outdoors. Denny is making up for those neglected opportunities. No doubt a lot of us wish we could do the same."

Dave Rosenbaum of The New York Times Washington bureau found his way into the news himself recently as one of four journalists whose telephone records were turned over either to the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI, or the Justice Department as part of a government effort to trace news leaks. The others involved (as of late February) were Columnist Jack Anderson, Les Whitten, and Dick Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dave is traveling in fine company.

I have a number of short items to dospose of, as well. One of the more interesting alleges that Fred Jones, former vice president and general manager at New Hampshire's major ski resort at Waterville Valley, has been appointed vice president for operations of Copper Mountain ski resort near Dillon, Colorado. He'll also be directing the firm's real estate sales and property management.

Meanwhile, this information carefully retrieved from the crumbling remains of a newsletter evidently published by the College's anthropology department. Jorge Dandier is reported at the Universidad Catolica in Lima, Peru. And Don Sutherland and family spent five weeks in 1972 (Let's call this history rather than news.) in Colombia, doing reconnaissance work in Aruaca. More recently, he spent last summer giving a field archeology school for the University of South Carolina, digging a shell midden (or heap) on the South Carolina coast.

And finally. Bob Silverman, has been appointed to the board of directors of Junior Achievement in the Schenectady, N.Y., area, Bob is vice president of Sweet Associates and has an MBA from Columbia University.

This note for our viewing audience. The Class has donated $1,000 to Dick's House to purechase color television sets for the use of students hospitalized there. The gift was voted last fall by the class executive committee and the check recently presented by Dave Schaefer. Dave noted that more than 500 members of the Class have paid dues since graduation, this making the gift possible.

By the way, don't forget to pay your dues. And if you can think of some useful gossip jot it down on the back of the dues card. Better jet, look around for an unsuspecting classmate and do a profile, a la Slavin on Emerson.

Secretary, 11 Nelson St. Keene, N.H. 03431

Class Agent, 185 East 85th St. New York, N.Y. 10028