1974
Don't you wish you were going to the Harvard game in Cambridge - trying to find the Charles River, partying with friends on Storrow Drive, and then finally making it over to the stadium for the action? Well, here is a deal you should not be able to ignore: Come watch the Green sit on the Johns and make fun of the bowtied Harvies with their minked dates on October 25! The Class of '74 is about to start a pre-game tailgate party on the Storrow Drive side of the Charles near the old boathouse. The beer will flow if we can arrange it (working on that), but all can bring something along with them to sure up the beverage details.
Even bigger, better, and really organized, we are proud to announce the second '74 informal reunion, before the Penn game, October 11, around noon-time across from the gym (in the area between Sphinx and Fayerweathers). This may be anachronistic by now, but in case this notice reaches you in ample time, plan a trip to Homecoming Weekend, a peak in color, events, and beery raging!
Jack Thomas has recently been awarded the dignified position of Assistant Dean of the College, taking a year off from St. Louis School of Law. Don't we all wish we could have such a comfortable surroundings?
Now for the news: Our president, Willie (Bruce Williamson), in handing over the secretarial duties to a dubious author, sends the scoop on Chris Baldwin, who was working in Illinois' windy city over the summer for Continental Bank as a rest from Stanford Business School. Willie claims that Chris is "taking advantage of the Neon Light District of Chicago's Rush Street area." Likewise, Jeff Corelitz has been moved from Chicago to take over as assistant sales manager for an Industrial Floor Polishing firm in Minneapolis. He writes that Jerry Bowe married Eleanor Cummings of Hanover as many Kappa Sigmas got back for the rites, including Tom Eggleston, Bill Newcomb, Phil Smyth, Willie, and Doug Shufelt. Jerry worked as an accountant for the New Hampshire Charitable Fund for the summer before starting a second year at Tuck. He also understands that Mike Draznik was wed in late August to Anne Blaisdell, a 1973 Smith graduate and 1971-72 exchange student at Dartmouth. Chris Pfaff, the best man, painted houses over the summer before returning to his second, year of Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs in Washington, D.C. DonCasey also supplied the house-painting market over the summer to relax from Cincinnati Medical School. Finally, he says, Steve Dietz works in New Jersey for a chemical company, looking toward Business or Law School for the fall of 1976, and Bill Hart works like mad at a daytime job at the Northern Trust Company in Chicago and an MBA program at Northwestern at night.
A recent college news release cites Jan-Roberta Tarjan as an assistant to the director of admissions. Congratulations. Also cited by the college news service was a cross-country bicycle tour by former Assistant Dean Bruce Kimball '73, Mark Thomas, and David Hyde '75. They flew to Seattle for a dip in the Pacific before setting off through the US and Canada for Massachusetts. Mark has accepted a position with Price Waterhouse of this fall.
Another wedding was the May rite uniting Peter Coutrakon to Jo Anne Williams. She is an assistant buyer for Bloomingdales while he is currently an account manager with the First National City Bank in New Vernon, N.J. Also Frederick (Rick) Escherich got hitched June 27 to Mary Cushman at West Point. Mary is a 1974 graduate of Wellesley and was at Dartmouth for a year of exchange.
Graduation last June was of course a lure to many members of our Class. This gave me a good chance to get first-hand information on '74s. Bob Grondine is heading for Japan for two years so he can learn his 21st foreign language. Bob Clymer, having finished his first year at New York in Hanover Manufacturers Trust, hopes to spend two more years there before entering business school. Greg Pulis finished a difficult year at the University of Virginia, where he studies law. Al (Big Al) Ziegler doubles as a bank teller and a member of a barbershop quartet in Philadelphia, Ty Nutt was there on a few days break from Hollywood's Chico and the Man. He is head dialogue coach for lead Jack Anderson. Also in the performing business was BernieWaugh, who fiddled this summer at the local contest on the green. Excellent show, by the way. Dave Birdsong wants to investigate a Ph.D. program in French after finishing his M.A.
Oh boy, here come the weddings again: JeffScott and Anita Traver (August 16), DuncanTodd and Debbie Yurgelen, Dickie Spellman and Deb Bourassa. All three men were in Psi U and all three women are graduates of Holyoke. Some trend, I think. Also John Knight and Meredith Shaver were wed, according to RickBettes (Chet) and Paul Mesches (both these guys return to Tuck for the fall - Rick worked at Price Waterhouse in NYC and Paul worked for Prof. McGee over the summer). Tom Csitari was wed in Hanover to Judy Burrows with noisy parading after the ceremony. Such an event was enhanced by the presence of RonFunk, Pat Stone, Jim Miller, Bill Hansen, and many others: Congratulations! Finally announced are Jody Hill to Rick Simpson (Harvard '74) for next May. I wish to congratulate Jody on a promotion in the Trust Department of New England Merchant's Bank in Boston and on becoming the first treasurer of the newlyformed Dartmouth Hub Club of Boston and immediately-surrounding towns. As new members of the executive committee, she and I are privileged to invite all Dartmouth people and their friends to the first social event of the club, a Harvard game primer for cocktails on Thursday, October 23, six o'clock at the MIT Faculty Club, 50 Memorial Drive, on the Charles.
Unfortunately there is a word-limit on the column, so many for whom I had information will have to be mentioned next month. Having just spent the previous 39 days in solitary confinement writing this thing, I can certainly appreciate Rick Woolworth's diligence as last-year's secretary. Good luck at Stanford Business School, Rick. We expect you to make the October 25 roadtrip between classes!
Secretary, 60 The Fenway Boston, Mass. 02115
Treasurer, 1127 Office of the Dean Parkhust Hall, Hanover, N.H. 03755
