1966

What has two banks, plenty of pubs, a Mac Donalds down the road, girls (even on Tuesday's), an always game but seldom victorious basketball team, budget problems, and a tuition that has risen from $2715 our senior year to $5657 beginning next September.

Need a hint. Here are two. The name of the place can be found elsewhere in this publication and it will be the site of a reunion - our reunion - in just three, count 'em, three months. June 13 thru 15 will be a perfect time to reqcquaint yourself with the institution, as well as some of its most friendly, affable, good-natured, cheery, and pleasant offspring - us.

This literary burst is prompted by the success of Bill Epstein, whose full-length biography of the author of Fanny Hill, entitled JamesCleland: Images of a Life has been published by the Columbia University Press and received good reviews. Bill's an assistant professor of English, at Purdue.

Bill Ferris may appear to be a mild-mannered English teacher in Longmeadow, Mass., devoted husband of Ann and father of two daughters, Laura (7) and Ellen (5). Not so. Bill's just about got his doctorate in Communication from RPI, Ann's closing in on one of her own in food science and nutrition from UMass, and together they are leaders in the ABC of Longmeadow Program, with students attending Longmeadow High. Cynthia (Mrs. Tim) Paige is a reading tutor in that ABC location.

Everybody talks about the environment, and more and more classmates seem to be doing something about it. Larry Forcier took his Ph.D. from Yale in forest ecology out where the action is and is now coordinator of graduate studies in forestry at the University of Montana. (That's the heart of Big Sky Country) Larry and Clare, whose 10th anniversary is coming up soon (can you top that?) have two girls, Natalie (8) and Margret (3) and one son, Larry (6).

Same field, different continent, Robin Foster, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Chicago, is continuing his field research in the ecology of tropical forests in Panama and the upper Amazon Basin.

We've got more than 800 outstanding young men in our class, but not all get recognized quite the way Capt. John Garrison (probably a major by now) of the Air Force has been. He was selected one of the Outstanding Young Men of America by the organization of that name. The Air Force selected him, too, for early promotion to major. John and Carol live at the Air Force Academy where he's currently assistant professor of political science.

No one path can be compared with another, but Bob Gilbert's seems to reflect the decisions and timing of many of us. U.S. Army, 1966-69 (lieutenant, Germany). Columbia MBA '7l. Married 2/9/74, product manager, General Foods, White Plains, N.Y.

The economics major at Dartmouth is now the most popular. Understandable to Rick Godfrey, assistant trust officer at the National Bank of Detroit; to Jim Hawkanson, assistant vice president, corporate lending, at First National City Bank in New York; to Steve Hayes, international economics program officer with the U.S. Treasury Department; to Bill Higgins, vice president, investments, at Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Cincinnati; to Rick Reiss, vice president, investment banking, at Shearson Hayden Stone, NYC; or especially to Larry Herbst, assistant professor of economics, at Vassar.

Dave Goldstein's back in New Hampshire and he's allied himself with one of the old Green Mountain boys. Dave is president of the Ethan Allen Furniture Store in Dover, N.H., and if one of his couches is ever under-stuffed he'll have nothing to worry about. Dick Kranz was just elected Strafford County Attorney, and Dover's in Strafford.

In Anchorage, Toni Hinderman is a consulting exploration geologist, a fancy name for, what Toni points out, is a prospector. ... In New York, Edgar Holley is director, operations analysis at Hertz Corp. ... In Sylvania, Ohio, Saleh Abd el Karim Jabarin is a senior research chemist at Owens-Illinois, engaged in polymer R & D. ... In Philadelphia, Dave Johnston is planning service consultant at Human Resources Network (a corporate responsibility/education consultant) and he's a guy planning early retirement when his wife Hera completes medical school in 1979.

Yes, we've still got some soldiers. Like DickJones, working on the environmental aspects of deep water ports (those oil rigs) at the Coast Guard's Washington Headquarters, and Jonathan Leach, Air Force captain and pilot currently attending Squadron Officers School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.

And we've got diplomats. Joff Keane has returned from Lima and is chief, political affairs, Office of Mexican Affairs at the State Department. . . . Art Lewis is director of the U.S. Information Service in Ethiopia (he says he's a public diplomat). . . . And Jim Cason, political officer at the U.S. Embassy in what must be a very interesting Portugal, has a little boy, Jim Jr., who holds U.S. (Dad's), E Salvadoran (Momma Carmen's) and Portuguese (his birthright) citizenship.

And educators. John Lonergan teaches 4th grade at Brighton Avenue School in Atlantic City. ... Tom Louis is an assistant professor of statistics at Boston University. . . . Bill Morgan is an assistant professor at the University of Louisville's Hite Art Institute. . . . and three classmates are all teachin' 'n learnin' at the University of Kansas in Lawrence - Pete Shortridge, assistant professor of cultural geography, Jim Campbell, Ph.D. candidate in soil mapping, and my correspondent, Andy MacCornack, seeker of a master's in map evaluation techniques.

None of us should need a map to find our way back to Hanover (if you do, let me know, we'll send one) for Reunion, now close enough to write on your calender. June 13-15 - a good time to see good friends, grown better with a little aging.

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