1951
I regret to announce the untimely death on March 18, after an illness of several months, of Bob Tyler, one of the Class' truly outstanding athletes. An obituary will appear in next month's Magazine.
This unsettling reminder that our lives can prove to be all too short provides an unsettling lead into telling you about how plans for our 25th Reunion next June are shaping up.
We spent four of the best and most formative years of our lives together in an unique experience. We are now dispersed among almost all of the 50 states and five continents. While we may have kept in touch by Christmas card and occasional letter, each of us has many friends from the Class whom we have not seen since June 1951. Reunions will continue beyond the 25th; but unfortunately, on each successive one, there will be fewer of us around.
Reunion Chairman "Buck" Scott, 408 McClenaghan Mill Rd., Wynnewood, Pa. 19096, is still forming his committee and would welcome any volunteers. In a recent letter, Buck reported that he had filled two key spots with Al Brout as reunion treasurer and Woody Klein as our 25-Year Book editor.
For years, I had been laboring under the delusion that Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., for which Jim Culberson worked, was the only bank in North Carolina. I recently learned that there is at least one other, the First National Bank of Asheboro, and that Jim had become its president in December.
Following graduation, Jim spent three years as a staff sergeant in the Army Counter Intelligence Corps. He then joined Chubb and Son, insurance underwriters in New York, later serving as a marine underwriter for the midwest territory in their Chicago office.
Jim headed south to join Wachovia in Winston-Salem in 1960. A few years later, he moved to the bank's Greensboro office, where he was mortgage officer and senior lending officer. In 1968, he was transferred to Morganton as city executive when the First National Bank of Morganton merged with Wachovia. April of last year, he moved to Durham as a Wachovia senior vice president and Durham city executive.
During his recent six years in Morganton, Jim served as president of the County Chamber of Commerce and the United Fund, trustee of the North Carolina Symphony, treasurer and member of the executive committee of Grace Hospital, member of the executive board of Piedmont Council of the Boy Scouts, and officer and director of the local Kiwanis Club.
Jim also served as lay leader of the First United Methodist Church and Sunday School teacher of the Men's Bible Class, member of the Finance and Administration Commission for the Western North Carolina Conference, and a director of the Ministry to the Deaf. He and wife Joan have four children.
College Librarian Ed Lathem has been elected to the nine-member Board of the Association of Research Libraries, the governing body of a 90-member group of leading research libraries in the United States and Canada. With time out for graduate work, Ed has been on the College Library staff since 1952.
He holds advanced degree from both Oxford and Columbia, as well as diplomas from the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute of Historical and Archival Management and from the American University-National Archives Institute. Ed became Dartmouth's 15th librarian in 1968 and was also designated dean of libraries in 1973.
I never cease to be amazed by those occasions when I receive news items about classmates from non-'51 members of the Dartmouth family. Recently I received from such sources in Menlo Park, Calif., before and after stories on Herm Christensen's reelection to the governing board of that South Bay City's School in March.
The before story came from Larry Leavitt '25, retired to Norwich, Vt., who happened to notice an article in a copy of the Menlo Park newspaper sent him by a granddaughter who works for it as a reporter. The after story came in a Palo Alto newspaper clipping from DanMarx '29, a Menlo Park resident.
The before story carried photos of Herm and his two opponents who were running for two available seats. Herm looks like he hasn't aged at all, and his hair is only very slightly longer than in his Aegis photo. He sports neither beard nor mustache, which both of his younger opponents did, as well as more luxurious locks.
In any event, Herm racked up 3,138 votes as against 2,320 for a 35-year-old Stanford Graduate School of Business professor and 1,886 for a 31-year-old management consultant. Herm holds a Stanford M.B.A. and is in business as a general contractor. He has been on the school board for four years, serving the past two as president.
Last year, Sun Oil transferred JakeLivingston from Pittsburgh to Youngstown, Ohio, as a marketing representative. Wife Susan has a real Dartmouth pedigree, daughter of Nate Parker '26, sister of Nate Jr. '52 and Charles (Pete) '60.
Between them, Jake and Sue have four sons. Jake's two are the oldest. Bruce, 19, is a freshman at Miami U. (of Ohio); Stuart, 16, is a high school junior. Sue's two are another Bruce, 15, and Brad, 13. All four boys are athletes, and Jake is continuing his Boy Scout activities in Ohio.
In Minneapolis, Dave Leslie is now an assistant vice president of Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood investment brokers. Wife Mary writes: "Oldest daughter Cynthia married in August; and oldest son Chip hopes to be married in June, then graduate school in the fall. Leaves us three at home, one more college-bound next year. We're truly looking forward to Reunion! Be there sure!"
To follow up my March story on RedBalaban, his jazz club, Eddie Condon's, opened March 4 at 144 W. 54th St. in midtown Manhattan. Four of the six in the core band - "Balaban & Cats" - played with Condon. TheNew York Times reported the opening the next morning with 12" of headline and type. I've been there. If you're an aficionado of New Orleans and Chicago jazz, you'll be carried away. While not a restaurant, there is a substantial variety of food, as well as drink, available (no cover, no minimum).
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