1960

For a while it appeared that Massachusetts would get through this winter without any snow to speak of, but it finally arrived and will probably be with us until summer. I understand that the ski areas to the North have had their best season in years. Whenever I consider looking for my old hickory barrel staves in the basement, someone I know breaks his or her leg on the slopes and gives me pause to reconsider. Perhaps I should take up snow shoeing.

I recently received an Easter Seal News Release from Nashville announcing the election of Dan Wilkinson as president of the Tennessee Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Dan has lived in Memphis since graduation and is a member of the firm of Wilkinson & Snowden, Inc., a firm of real estate brokers. He is a member of the Society of Industrial Realtors and the Memphis Board of Realtors and is very active in his community. He is past president of the Memphis Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Shelby County Episcopal Planning Commission and has been a member of the board of directors for Goodwill Industries of Memphis. He has devoted much time and talent to other state and regional agencies involving the Easter Seal Program.

Dr. Thornton Kline participated in a seminar last November entitled "Cancer Update" presented by the Nurses Committee of the American Cancer Society in Joliet, Ill. Dr. Kline's presentation was entitled "Update on Early Detection and the Newer Treatment Modalities." He is an associate professor in Therapeutic Radiology at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, and is also on the medical staffs of Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, and St. Joseph's Hospital in Chicago. After graduating from Boston University's School of Medicine, Dr. Kline served as captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and as general medical officer for the U.S. Soldiers Home in Washington, D.C.

Art LaFrance, a professor of law at the University of Maine, was recently elected president of Pine Tree Legal Assistant, Inc., a legal aid group, at its annual meeting held last October. Art is a graduate of Yale Law School and was a professor of law at Arizona State University and Boston University before joining the law faculty at the University of Maine. He has also engaged in the general practice of law and has extensive experience in povery law. In 1973 he co-authored a treatise on poverty law entitled "The Law of the Poor" (West Publishing Company). He has served as a consultant to the Office of Economic Opportunity for Legal Services and the National Legal Services Training Program. In Maine he has also been the project director of the American Judicial Council Criminal Standards Comparability Study and a member of the Governor's Task Force on Corrections.

In January, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. announced the admission of 11 new general partners to the investment banking firm effective January 1, 1975. One of the new partners is T. RichardFishbein, a former vice president in the firm's corporate finance department. Dick is a graduate of Harvard Business School. Let's hope he can figure out a way to get the economy back on its feet.

Bill Hadley has been appointed general agent at Columbus, Ohio, for Massachusetts Mutual Life, in a switch from Connecticut Mutual Life, also in Ohio. Bill was listed in the 1969 edition of "Outstanding Young Men of America, was elected "Outstanding Jaycee" of Columbus in 1968, and in 1972 was voted one of the city's ten outstanding young men. Small wonder, when you consider he is a past director of the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce, trustee of the County's United Community Council, and a director of the Upper Arlington Civic Association.

Arnie Sigler has passed along a few more notes written on the back of the class dues statement. Incidentally, please send in your 1974-75 dues to Arnie if you have not yet done so.

Our roving ambassador, Dennis C. Goodman is now with the American Embassy in Madrid, Spain. Dennis writes that he is living in a small house on the edge of Madrid and would welcome any Dartmouth visitors.

David Horn notes that he has moved to Walnut Creek, Calif., and has opened his own G.P.A. office. Let's hope that the 1975 tax season will get his new firm off to a good start. It will probably ruin the rest of us, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to have any income.

Mel Converse of Leesburg, Va. notes that he has recently joined the staff of Auto-Train Corp, and is working in the areas of reservations and marketing at the corporate headquarters of the firm in Washington, D.C.

Rev. Guy and Jo Piltz and their three daughters are all well and living in beautiful Kamuela, Hawaii, along with the newest member of their family, a horse. Guy serves as minister at three locations, and Jo has been very active as the Mt. Holyoke Alumnae Fund chairperson for the State of Hawaii. Jo urges all of her alums to put Mt. Holyoke in their budget on a monthly basis and suggests the same for Dartmouth. That seems like a good suggestion.

Phil Kron is off to an early start getting things organized for the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. Let's make his first year as head agent an overwhelming success! Try to get your contributions in early.

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