1974

Summer is here and it is hard to believe that a year ago we walked down Baker lawn - at this rate our Fifth Reunion will soon be upon us. The mailman continued his parsimonious deposits in my mailbox, but there are a few entries from this month's bag.

Bob Rooke is working for the U.S. Forest Service in the White Mountains until September, whereupon he will begin studying for his Masters of Forestry Science at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Bruce Jordan reports he is enjoying his year off at home in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. His sabbatical ends this fall when he registers at Albany Law School. On March 1 Bruce was in Cleveland to perform best man duties at Hugh Grimett's wedding to Brenda Bowles. Hugh has landed a good job with Republic Steel - the rigors of his chemistry major finally paid off.

We have just received word that last August Miguel Pulido married a Mary Hitchcock nurse name Christina. Since then he has been running a group home for retarded men in Philadelphia. It appears that the experience Miguel gained in coping with the demented antics in Middle Mass Hall has come in handy. Who says Dartmouth does not prepare you for the real world?

After almost three months of zooming around the country for Linolex Systems, Brian Follett was made a salesman in the Boston area. He spent five weeks selling Magic Typewriters "that were ugly and Very expensive to all sorts of people who were beautiful and in the middle of a deep recession, i.e. poor." After a recent corporate shakedown, Brian became the head of the installation support team which services customers who already have machines.

Paul Davis and his wife Pam recently returned from a Dartmouth Foreign Study Program in Bucharest, Romania. They labelled their experience in the Iron Curtain country as "pleasurable, painful, enriching, excruciating, and memorable." The couple has settled in Seattle where Paul is a CPA intern with Haskins and Sells.

With so much space left I figured I would report about a few of my own doings. It has been an interesting and rewarding year at Andover in the Teaching Fellow program. I taught Human Geography, much like a famous gut at Dartmouth, and Anthropology, which was really wild as I did not know a bone from a vase when I started. (Some of my students wonder if I do now.) I managed to play a lot of squash in Boston as well as coach the Andover varsity tennis team and help with the squash team. Amidst frequent trips to Hanover to visit a certain lass I tried to grease the cream of Andover's seniors into Dartmouth - apparently failing as the Admissions Office accepted only 17 of 75.1 plan to live in Hanover this summer while running a tennis program at the Quechee Club, summer haunt of many alums. Since I am heading to Stanford Business School next fall I am sorry to report that I will have to drop the secretaryship. It is not an overly time-consuming job, but I feel that in order to be conscientious, the secretary should not be in graduate school and should be on the East Coast.

Steve Severson, who will have headquarters at will take over the column this fall. Please help him by sending him news. When grad school is over, I'll probably be back.

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