1958

The big news for our Class is that our own Ralph N. Manuel has been named the seventh Dean of the College. Ralph succeeds Carroll W. Brewster who was dean since 1969 and who resigned this summer to become president of Hollins College. Ralph assumed his new duties on September 1. This is a significant achievement for Ralph and everyone who knows him will agree that it is well deserved. An intensive search was conducted by a special committee culminating in Ralph's appointment.

Dean Manuel has had several Dartmouth careers. As a student he majored in economics, attended the Tuck School his senior year, earned three varsity letters in baseball as a first baseman, and was commissioned an ensign after successfully completing the Naval ROTC program.

After four years in the Navy, Ralph returned to Dartmouth in 1962 as an assistant director of admissions and for several years he was responsible for recruitment in the southeastern United States and was also responsible for the recruitment of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. During this time he went to graduate school in counseling psychology at Boston University where he received a master's degree in 1967.

He again left Dartmouth in 1968 to begin work at the University of Illinois toward a Ph.D. in higher education administration which he received in 1972. While working toward his doctorate, he was appointed academic advisor at the General Curriculum Center of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in 1969, also serving during one year as administrative aide in the office of vice chancellor for academic affairs at the university.

In 1971 Ralph returned to Dartmouth for the third time as Assistant Dean of Freshman and Director of Counseling and became Dean of Freshman in 1972.

Ralph and his wife Sally are the parents of four sons who, as we are, must be quite proud of their father.

Congratulations Ralph!

Bill Tindal is presently living in Egypt (the Land of the Pharoahs as he calls it) as technical advisor to the Ministry of Reconstruction involved in organizing the master planning of Canal cities of Port Said, Suez, and Ismailia. Bill, his Australian wife Karen, and three children sound like they are having a fascinating experience living in the Middle East.

It is education and politics for Chet McGuire who is living in Berkeley, Calif., with his wife Julie and three children. Chet recently earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, is teaching city planning at the University of California at Berkeley and just won his first bid for public office by being elected to the board of directors of the Alameda/Contra Costa County Transit District.

Also out California way practicing orthopedic surgery and raising kids and cattle is Dr. BennyMcAdams in San Luis Obispo.

Across the continent in Beford, N.H., Chuck Solms is practicing law in partnership with the firm of Eaton, Eaton, Moody & Solms. Chuck's hobby is raising horses and he recently moved to a new house with a small barn. Chuck's wife Andy says the whole thing is crazy, but fun.

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