1959

Mike Hirsh has spent the last five years in private practice working in the pediatric hematology clinic at Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester and since December, 1973 has been acting director of the Nursery at Genesee Hospital. Mike somehow finds time to serve as a board member of the Local YMCA day camp and the Brighton, N.Y., Rotary Club. He and his wife Carol have two children aged eight and five.

At this writing, the season is over for the New York Knicks, but the Rangers are in the thick of the Stanley Cup playoffs, which must delight Stu Freeman who is a senior vice president of the Madison Square Garden Corporation, owners of the Rangers Hockey Club. Stu also wears a vice presidential hat in that organization.

George Hess, president and chief executive officer of Hess Shoes, was named to the board of trustees of Baltimore's Peabody Institute in April. George is active in Baltimore civic and social organizations, including the Greater Baltimore Committee, the United Fund of Central Maryland, and the Retail Merchants Association, as well as the director of the Baltimore Chapeter of the American Jewish Committee.

Vidar Corp., a member of the Continental Telephone System and manufacturer of automatic data acquisition instrumentation, recently appointed Dave Spaulding as manager of technology planning. Dave, previously affiliated with Bell Labs where he was involved with the development of digital models for voice-grade telephone channels, earned an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford. Dave Gavitt chalked up more accolades this season, as he was named Rhode Island coach of the year for the third consecutive time, achieved his 100th victory as coach of the Providence College Friars, and guided the team to a semi-final finish in the N.C.A.A. playoffs. Dave has also been named New England Coach of the year four times, once while varsity basketball coach at Dartmouth.

Pettway Oil Co., an Amoco Oil jobber in Chattanooga, is diversifying into convenience stores under the guidance of president BillPettway. The company, founded in 1939, owns 18 stations and supplies 26 others, handling in excess of ten million gallons annually. It has opened a total of six stores already this year. Bill was recently elected president of the Tennessee Oil Mens Association which must be quite a challenge in view of the current energy situation.

Les Larsen is busy managing the Rockefeller brothers' real estate investments throughout the U.S. and particularly in Washington, D.C. (L'Enfant Plaza) San Francisco (Embarcadero Plaza) and Atlanta (Regency Hyatt House). Les and Carol live on Long Island and have a four-year-old daughter.

Random phone calls this month netted the following information: Andy Mehalick works for IBM in Ithaca and, not surprisingly, Cornell is his largest customer; Dick Frankenberg is moving July 1 from the University of Georgia in Athens to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, to become director of Marine Sciences, and has not been on skates since graduation; Bill Gray lives on Long Island and works for a printing company; Al Werthemier runs a communications company in Syracuse; Harvey Galper is with the Urban Institute, a non-profit research organization in Washington, D.C. specializing in methods of financing state and local governments; Terry Davies is also in Washington working for the Council on Environmental Quality, and is writing a book under the auspices of the Ford Foundation; and Ariel Halpern is a vice president with Wood, Struthers and Winthrop Inc., a major New York City brokerage firm.

With this column, my last deadline has been met, and I must admit to mixed emotions now that the final edition has gone to press. On the one hand, it is a relief that the first of the month won't mean a column is due along with the bills, but on the other, I will sincerely miss the rewards of involvement with Dartmouth that this office permits. I also want to express appreciation to all of you, wives included, who helped me fill this space by communicating, who one way or another; for without your assistance, this column wouldn't have been.

Hope to see you at Reunion, and don't forget the Alumni Fund.

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