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Reunion chairman Dutch Cotton has been busy over recent months, preparing for the events June 13-15, 1977, and herewith a boatload of details:
We will stay in the Gile-Streeter-Lord dorms, with tent on the lawn in front, on the road sloping west to Tuck and Thayer. '42 and '43 will also hold reunions on those dates, as in 1972, with the former next door on Mass Row. Some sort of event will be worked out for combined fun. Dutch emphasized there will be plenty of free time for visiting, relaxation, local jaunts, and family doings.
Many will recall that on the Sunday afternoon and eve before the 30th reunion began, there was a lively dutch-treat cocktails-and-dinner party, preceeded by golf and tennis, with the dorms open for our occupancy. This will apply again, on June 12, so come up on Sunday for added fun.
The tent will have a piano player evenings, free beer and setups will be available continuously, and golf and tennis tournaments are planned. Younger children will have their special party most of the time, with events, counselors, and a rec headquarters of their own.
At least one picnic or clambake-style feast for all hands is planned, and there will also be a cocktail party/class dinner at Hopkins Center. The Dartmouth Aires and companion Distractions will serenade us at the tent, and there will be one or more concerts by the full Glee Club, as well as a production of the Dartmouth Players.
Not every detail has been settled at this point, but the program is coming together as one appealing to varied interests and all ages. This space and newsletters will present more data as plans take form. Some inquiries have already been made — if planning to come, please advise me, or Dutch Cotton at 9 Oak Drive, Bedford, N.H. 03102, because he wants to start a list. If considering at this point, the reunion is an ideal tie-in with a New England vacation or jaunt. Perhaps you will want to send postcards' to friends you'd like in particular to see in Hanover next June.
Bill Cashel has been named an executive vice president of AT&T, umbrella unit of the Bell System, with headquarters in New York. He has been president of Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania and of Diamond State Telephone; the new post gives him responsibility for the system's human resources development, labor relations, public relations, and employee information. Bill came to Hanover from Brooklyn, and after service in the Marines had spent all but a year of his telephone career with Penn Bell and Diamond. He became their president in 1970 and has been a leader in Philadelphia area civic affairs.
Figures from the Alumni Fund show that the class reached one of its highest totals yet, nearly $41,000, from 319 class, members. The latter total is down by a few, but the added dollars helped the drive top its $4.5 million goal for '76. Many thanks are due Bud Hart, class agent, and the largest corps of assistant agents yet mustered by the class. A 58 per cent participation matches overall alumni participation.
Despite their distant residence and career-oriented need to travel ceaselessly from their home in Tulsa, Jack and Avilla Bates remain active and interested in class and college developments. I hadn't seen Jack, a boyhood friend from Tulsa days, for 35 years until a visit to Oklahoma early last summer. It was one of those most heartwarming times, when one picks up the personal threads long left slack by circumstance; I enjoyed our get-together as few I can recall, and we both damned the clock at break-up.
Jack, chairman of the Reading & Bates Off- shore Drilling Co., modestly told of building it to a $200 million organization producing oil and gas in the U.S. and around the world. Since World War II Navy service, he has been in the oil industry, for a time learning the ropes, then teaming with his father, old New Hampshireman J. W. Bates '10, and others, to develop the present enterprise. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and assets include 22 offshore drilling rigs around the world, awesome things capable of going through 600 feet of ocean and punching down to 18,000 feet. Energy Project Independence was never practical and cannot be achieved, he said in talking of his travels, remarks interspersed with a good deal of laughter over old times and mutual friends. Avilla and Jack met during college days and she joins him for most trips, as well as ocean cruises on a boat kept on the Atlantic Coast.
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