1953
The Last Day of Winter blizzard saved New England skiing from a total disaster. Bernie Sudikoff wrote that the 24" of powder was fantastic and that most of the East played hooky in order to enjoy it. .
Out West, of course, it has been a different story. Bill Gilges, still a competitor, zoomed through the powder for two Nastar silvermedals and one bronze in three days ofColorado racing at Keystone and CopperMountain.
Shirley and Jim Cobb went to Vail for Washington's Birthday week for a great ski vacation wiht his brother. Patti and Anson Mark came up from Denver for two days and brought along Jean Kettering. Norm Carpenter was also there with some boys from Minnesota. There are no Green Mountains in Colorado.
The Los" Angeles Board of Realtors has awarded the Fred W. Marlow Trophy as "Outstanding Young Realtor of the Year 1973" to Pete who is an industrial real estate specialist in the Los Angeles office of Coldwell Banker Commercial Brokerage Company He was cited for his work on the Board and the committee as well as his contributions to the community Pete has served as governor of the American Industrial Real Estate Association and director of the California Real Estate Association. He has also been active in the Big Brothers of America, Solteros, YMCA, Little League and Dartmouth Club of Southern California.
In mid-February Ray Kroc, Chairman of the Board of McDonald's, Inc. spoke to the students and most of the faculty at Tuck School. His Horatio Alger story has received much attention and does make great copy. Kroc, at Ice 50. headed a small company that made machines to mix malteds. He was intrigued by one company that would order enough machines to mix 48 at a time and went to see them in San Bernardino in 1954. Richard and Maurice McDonald had worked out the techniques of mass producing and mechanizing food production and Kroc wanted to franchise their operation, something they were initially reluctant to do. While Kroc began to franchise he became impatient with the hesitancy of the McDonalds and bought them out in 1961 with the aid of a loan from several insurance companies amounting to $1,500,000. Kroc's net worth at that time was only $90,000 and the daring loan was arranged by Fred Fedeli at State Mutual Life Insurance Company. As the premium on the loan, the companies received 20% of the then almost worthless company stock. A few years later the insurance company sold the stock for pure profit of ten to 20 million dollars. Had they kept it until today, it would now be worth close to 300 million dollars. Fred is now chief financial vice president for State Mutual.
Dartmouth College Films paid tribute to film and TV director Jim Goldstone in a special benefit presentation of two of his films and the world premier of a feature TV work while he was in residence at the College in March. The movies shown were "Red Sky at Morning," "Winning starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and the new film "Dr. Max" starring Lee J. Cobb. Jim's interest in films began when he became involved with the film society at Dartmouth in 1949, returning to Hollywood on summer vacations to work as an assistant film editor. He also directed "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight." He is presently working on "They Only Kill Their Masters" and will next do "The Marksman."
Dave Horlacher has been promoted to full professor of economics at Susquehanna University. He will be traveling in Southeast Asia again this spring.
Dick Glissman has been appointed university architect at the University of Michigan. His daughter Robin is a freshman at Michigan State and daughters Carol and Kathy are at Huron High in Ann Arbor.
George Haigh decided to run for his first political office in November. He obtained the most votes out of seven candidates and won one of the three spots on the school board in Ottawa Hills which is a suburb of Toledo. What was the name of that other guy whose first political office was on a school board?
Kisuk Cheung wrote after returning from a visit to a small village in the Arctic Circle. The energy crisis has a tremendous impact in Alaska. The frozen North Slope facing Beauford Sea is the target for the oil development. He is involved with the permit activity and the necessary environmental impact statement for this oil development in the most hostile frozen windy ocean. Kisuk is also seriously studying the hundreds of hydro-power projects in Alaska. He has the largest environmental staff" there in order to take good care of all the construction programs. Presently they are expanding an underground hydro-power system which is really unique. He travels a great deal to develop various water resource oriented projects. And everything is being done with the utmost environmental consideration.
Insuranceman Don Smith has made a change of firms but remains in the Boston area. He has become associated with MacIntyre, Fay and Thayer in Newton and will bring his 18 years of experience to bear on the areas of management and market. Don had been vice president in sales for Fairfield and Ellis, Boston, and received his initial experience with Home Insurance. The Smiths and their three sons continue to live in Cohasset.
After 15 years in the trenches at Smith, Barney, Dick Stanley has moved to the investment counciling group called Newton & Company. They were a client of his for some time so they are not exactly strangers. Dick and Mary still live in Milwaukee.
Warren Cassidy Ill '76 set a new Dartmouth record in the triple jump at the Winter Carnival track meet. Dad is very proud of that accomplishment and also that Warren's twin Julie made Dean's list for the third straight semester at Colby-Maine. Second son Phillip will be entering Maine Maritime in the fall.
Ben Branch and family are moving to Hawaii to join a non-profit group called "Family Medicine" with the hope of improving medical care to under served areas. They'll be living in a very rural part of Oahu on the opposite side from Honolulu. The North Shore Clinic will be located in Kahuku. For the past few years Ben has been in international population studies involving two major abortion projects in Washington with many trips to India, Thailand, Indonesia, Switzerland, and England.
Jack Auerback is still practicing urology in San Francisco. Occasionally he gets up to the Sierras for a weekend of skiing. He has a meeting scheduled in Boston in June and hopes to visit Hanover.
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