1949
Summer must be about over, for here I am writing the ALUMNI MAGAZINE article again. It's been rather nice having one less deadline for several months.
I trust everyone had an enjoyable summer. Mine started with commencement in Hanover. Bea, Amy, Douglas, and I plus our AFS student from Chile all gathered in Hanover for Julie's graduation. It was a fine weekend with wonderful weather. Saw many of the faces that were around in 1949, including Tom Schwartz and Clarke Church with their sons who were graduating. Even saw Mike McGean streaking across the Green looking for someone after the exercises. I suspect there were more '49ers around whom I could have located if I were an effective reporter.
Received a letter from Peter Costich. It sounds as though he is enjoying a rather nice life living in the Florida Keys during the winter and in Center Moriches, N.Y., in the summer. He is president and owner of Horticultural Materials and Systems, Inc. His company specializes in sales and marketing programs for industry and provides consulting services for growers and manufacturers of allied products. He travels extensively across the country on business. His wife Mary helps him with the business as coordinator of his programs. His son Mark, 22, is a student at American University in Washington, D.C. Daughter Denise, 21, is a student at Cornell on leave for 18 months to Friends World College in Kenya, studying wildlife biology and ecology. His youngest daughter Marrilie, 17, starts college this fall and will major in equestrian science.
Bruce Crawford sends word that he is still living in Southborough, Mass., on a delightful hill overlooking a reservoir. When he is not looking at the reservoir, he is performing the duties of vice president, group sales, for State Mutual Life Assurance Company of America. His family has contracted to one 15-year-old daughter, Carolynn, who is still in high school. Son Scott has just completed his freshman year at Wittenburg University in Ohio; another son has graduated from college and is working in Houston, Texas; and his third son is working and living in Southborough with a bride of less than one year. He and his wife keep busy playing tennis, golfing, traveling in Europe and on Hilton Head Island, interviewing Dartmouth prospects, and attending Harvard-Dartmouth games. They regularly meet Pete and Ann Lord at the latter events.
One of our more illustrious classmates, RayRasenberger, has just been named head of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund for 1977-78. I am not sure if that is good news or bad news. Ray has been a member of the Alumni Council since 1973 and has just retired as its president for the past year. As a member of the council, he has been quite involved with the male-female ratio issue that the Trustees have been toiling with. One of the more complicated and controversial issues the College has faced for a number of years. In case any of you have lost track of Ray, he is currently a partner of Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger in Washington, D.C. Prior to that time, he was an examiner in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget after serving as an instructor in the Great Issues course at Dartmouth. He has an M.A. degree from Syracuse University and a J.D. from George Washington University.
Received a letter from Maurie Cole back in April. He and Linda had just returned from the Bahamas, fishing at Green Turtle Cay and golfing at Treasure Cay. He had just finished 15 consecutive weeks of trial, so I guess he deserved the vacation. His son Jeff is a freshman at Castleton State in Vermont. His second son Dan is a freshman at Atlantic City High School, and daughter Lauri is a sixth grader.
New Hampshire College recently announced that Ray Truncellito has been elected chairman of the board of trustees. Ray has been a member of the NHC board since 1972. He is a chartered life underwriter with Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Manchester.
I hate to end on a sad note, but I recently learned that Erk Ingram died of a heart attack on February 13, 1976. We also lost our AlumniMagazine contact, Joan Hier. Joan died very suddenly July 27. She is the wife of Fritz Hier, who edits The Bulletin and is head of the Dartmouth Horizons Program. Both of these friends will be missed very much.
See you all at the Harvard game.
Raymond Truncellito '49, left, is the new chairman of the board of trustees of NewHampshire College in Manchester, succeeding William S. Green '39. The outgoing chairmanreceived an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at NHC's June Commencement.
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