1974
Although the current news of a last-second defeat to Yale haunts those of us interested in Big Green football, there is plenty of good news from the Class of '74! The Penn weekend was so wet that many were forced inside for pre-game festivities, but the diehards showed up at our reunion just the same. The bonfire on Friday, the highest in Dartmouth history (100 tiers), followed a parade of the classes, with a small but obvious contribution from ours. At various locations many sere seen both in and out of coherency. Gary Kraemer visited from Rutgers Law School, Tom Guidi announced his party in Boston during Harvard weekend, Bruce (Stewy)Stuart returned loyally before starting a position with Interprovincial Pipe and Steel Company, of Canada, in November, and Bob (Purple)Hayes returned from Switzerland with his wife Mary Lynn to search out a job in the U.S. ChrisGates and another banking executive from his firm, Becky Weinberg (Pomona '74), were there to check on the books kept by our treasurer, Jack Thomas, reporting that they are in good order, Wayne Whitmore and roommate MattPutnam took time off from Dartmouth Medical School to have a few with the bro on the row, as did Keith (Bo) Shenbergerer, with his wife Ann who finds working in the Admissions Office increasingly busy as applications swarm the campus. Gary Wells came from close-by Orford, where he teaches fifth- through eighth-graders, while Larry Litscher came all the way from McGill University Medical School. Boston bankers Jody Hill, Rick Simpson (Harvard '74), and Candy Neville came, as did Rick Gerardi, now a law assistant in Washington, D.C. Carlton Frost reported that he is currently teaching eighth-grade English at the accelerated level in New Jersey. Also present were Ken Canfield, Chris Nicholson, Peter and JoAnnCoutrakon, Dave Simpson, and Bob Atwell.
In other related news, Kirk Hinman writes from the University of Chicago Business School, in his second year, that he and classmates Bruce Williamson, Tom Ludlow,Mark Ransom, and Mark Schulte met RickWoolworth on his way to Stanford, Pete Holden on a visit to Chicago from Indianapolis where he succeeds in business with the Bostitch Staple Company, and Jeff Corelitz on business in Chicago for Trewax Company of Minneapolis. Working in the area is Rick Klupchak, now a banker. Kirk's wife Linda works for the dean of the faculty in the Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. She reports that Joe and Carol Barnes are expecting a baby on December 21.
From Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., writes Al Hirons, with whom I spoke when he was in Hanover this fall, on a trip to line up a job. He graduates from law school this March, hoping to secure a clerkship with a supreme court justice in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Delaware, or Georgia, or work for the New Hampshire attorney general. Others at Emory are Perry Ballard at the Medical School, and Mary Donovan, David Grant Merritt, and Jeff Stewart at the Law School. Al's "Moot Court Team Partner" is Bob Varsha '73, who is taking a year off in preparation for the 1976 Olympics and plans to run the 10,000-meter race.
From the West, derelict George Frost has painted gingerbread trim in the hills of Colorado before starting his second year at University of Denver Business School. He met Rob Schaffer and Carter Yates in Las Animas for the August wedding of Mel Biggs to Marcia Hickham. They return to Hanover for Mel's studies at Thayer School, Rob continues a graduate physics degree program at UC Davis Livermore Labs, and Carter is in the grueling stages of writing a thesis at Thayer School.
North, to Alberta, we have reports from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that GreggKelley, Dick Ellsworth, Fritz Ledbetter, DannyHozak, Bruce Stuart, Herbie Hopkins, and Dana Johnson '73 tore up the town using as an excuse the Calgary Stampede Carnival. Gregg starts this fall with Bancorporation in Minneapolis, Dick manages Alaska's sole Burger King in Anchorage, Fritz returns to Law School in Arizona, Danny farms and plays hockey with his family in Alberta, Stuey will be at grad school in Alberta, and Herbie returns to the business world.
As promised in the last issue, Bill Saupe is the recipient of the first Long-Distance-Letter-Writer Award; It was necessary to withhold his news until there was ample room to sustain its entirety. Writing from Tehran, Iran, Bill first heard from Dan Earley, who finished a ski season in Alta, Utah, to begin with with the Divine Light Mission in Boston. Jay Leonard is working in a Virginia tobacco shop while studying for a degree in economics at the University of Virginia. John Palme, doing work for the Peace Corps in Nepal, claims to spend spare hours as a green-coat in a Tibetan monastery. In Iran, Bill recalls that Drew (News Drewman)Newman is teaching English in Kefmanshah; Tom Watkin, Richard Winkler, and Bill teach for the Iran-American Society. Previous to Tom's arrival in Iran, he made a treacherous journey through Turkey's "badlands." Wink, often hosting the crew from our Class, lives with his mother and father (Gordon Winkler '48) at the American Embassy, where he is occasionally beaten in tennis by Ambassador Helms and usually treats the winner to fried chicken at the local Colonel Sanders after matches. Bill, Tom, and Wink will continue to count their pennies for a trip to Nepal someday.
The Harvard weekend went well, excepting the score, and the first Hub Club Alumni Association cocktail party found several members of our Class in Boston. Thurlow Tibbs, there with Edward Weston, is working like mad to finish a degree at Harvard School of Urban Design in order to start a job in Washington, D.C., this summer. John Barbor made it down from Boston University Law School for a drink, as did Jeff Jones from Harvard Business School, Stanley Palder, and John (Oley) Huisman. At the game the following Saturday were JohnHeywood, Sterling Smith, Steve Morelli, BruceWilliamson, Bob Clymer, and John (Beef)Budai, who is grueling over a physics degree at Cornell.
Jack Thomas was engaged on October 16 to Debbie Trieman (B.U. '74), also from St. Louis. We all congratulate you both! According to Rosalyn Loomis, the announcement came as somewhat of a surprise - a pleasant one, too! Jack informs me of the fine dues-collection progress of the past few weeks, and hopes that more of us will respond when we get the funds. Also, the news produced by dues payers is an excellent show of support. Keep the cards and letters coming (source: Dean. Martin, 1965). Next month this news will be first-release material. Have pleasant vacations, try not get embarrassed under the mistletoe, and remember that it's better to give and receive (source: Peanuts, 1970)!
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