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Alice and I spent a very pleasant evening the other night with Tom and Linda Marx. Although we had been good friends at Dartmouth, it was the first time that Tom and I had seen each other since graduation, and needless to say we had much to discuss. Tom is now running his own firm which provides statistical data analysis and computer programming services to individuals and groups engaging in research. He received his doctoral degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he studied educational statistics and measurement and served as co-editor of the Harvard Educational Review. Before attending graduate school Tom taught Math and English and coached girl's varsity teams at McIndoe Academy in McIndoe Falls, Vt.; and before that he taught high school in Shoreham, Vt. Tom and Linda have both been very much involved in the peace movement. Prior to teaching in Vermont he traveled to virtually every continent, sometimes on fishing vessels, sometimes with the merchant marine and at one point as an oceanographer for the Geodetic Survey. For a while he lived in East Harlem writing poetry and short stories while driving a taxi in Westchester County. After starting his career as a coffee salesman for Maxwell House, Tom attended Columbia Law School and worked for a stock exchange firm in New York. Tom and Linda now live in Cambridge, with their children, Stacey, age 10, Sean, age 9 and Melleta, age 6. Tom has become a habitual jogger and is much trimmer than he was at Dartmouth. He even completed the Boston Marathon in 1973.
An editorial in the December, 1974 issue of Plastics Engineering discussed a new regular monthly column for that journal to be written by Alan M. Shaver. The column will be entitled Plastics in the Balance" and will discuss legal Questions of particular interest to the plastics industry. The first column will consist of a status report on the flammability proceedings initiated by the Federal Trade Commission. Later columns will provide answers to specific questions submitted by readers. Alan's column reflects an awareness of the increasing extent to which the plastics industry has come under examination by governmental agencies. Alan received his law degree from Yale Law School ana is now assistant house counsel at Foster Grant Co., Inc., in Leominster, Mass.
I recently received a clipping from a December issue of a Milwaukee newspaper announcing that Carl Backus would resign his post as an assistant district attorney for Milwaukee County in order to seek a judgeship in the County Court. Carl has been serving as a Fox Point municipal judge for the past year and has been a village trustee since 1966. He was appointed an assistant district attorney in the middle of 1973 and is leaving that position to devote all of his efforts to meeting voters and discussing with them his qualifications to serve as judge. Carl has indicated his concern about the alarming increase in violent crime in our country and expressed a determination to do something about it. Prior to being appointed an assistant district attorney, Carl engaged in private law practice in West Allis, Wis., and before that was associated with the law firm of Godfrey and Kahn in Milwaukee. He obtained his law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned a Masters Degree in Law from New York University.
Word from Greenwich, Conn., and Chese-brough-Pond's Inc. is that Bob Phillips has been promoted from divisional vice president, marketing, to general manager of the Health and Beauty Products Division. Bob has also stopped weekly commuting to the West Coast and manages now to spend some time with Pat, Graham, 4, and Laura, 2, in their Stamford, Conn., home. He joined the company in 1968 and has specialized in marketing management.
Two months ago we announced the appointment of Don Betterton as acting director of undergraduate financial aid at Princeton University. Don has now been named the director of undergraduate financial aid and in this capacity will administer a program which currently provides some $6 million in financial assistance to approximately half the undergraduates at Princeton in the form of scholarships, loans, and employment opportunities. Don is currently the chairman-elect of the Ivy League Financial Aid Officers. In addition to professional affiliations with the New Jersey, Eastern and National Associations of Student Financial Aid Administrators, he is a lieutenant commander with the USNR at Lakehurst, New Jersey and is vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Princeton. Don and Pam live in Lawrenceville, N.J., with their three children, Constance, 8, Thomas, 6 and Ann, 3. Pam is a nursery school teacher.
In case you missed it, Bruce Ducker was mentioned in the "Give a Rouse for-" column in the December 1974 issue of the Alumni Magazine. Bruce was named president of Great Western Cities Companies, land and community development subsidiaries of Great Western United Corp. He lives in Denver, Colo.
From time to time the Alumni Magazine reviews books written by our classmates. In the October, 1974 issue Scott Palmer '59 reviewed a book by Peter Klaren entitled Modernization,Dislocation and Aprismo: Origins of the Peruvian Aprista Party, 1870-1932 and in the November, 1974 issue. Professor John Finch reviewed a book by Robert Cohen and John Harrop, a British actor, entitled Creative PlayDirection.
Now is the time to send a check or make a pledge to the 1975 Alumni Fund. It cuts mailing costs if you get your gift in early. I think you are all aware of Dartmouth's current needs for increased financial support from its alumni due to pressures imposed by inflation, high fuel costs, and stock market losses that have undercut the investment portfolio of many private institutions. Try to increase your gift this year if possible. Dartmouth gave a lot to us and is not asking for much in return.
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