1971
With this issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, we begin our maiden voyage after the admirable job done by Charlie Aalto at the helm for the past five years. He deserves a vote of thanks from the entire Class. Our congratulations to the entire Class which, at the urging of head agent JeffMcElnea, has raised a total of $20,210 for the 1976 Alumni Fund, a dollar total 60 percent higher than the all-time 5th reunion record, exceeding every other class less than ten years out.
This month's talley of class weddings includes only one name. Don Davio wed Vicki Rice in Playa Del Rey, Cal., on May 8. Don returned to school last month to complete his undergraduate degree at U.C.L.A.
Dave Aylward writes that he became an "instant papa" last June when Cary's three wonderful children, Le Anne, Carol, and Scott, came to live with them permanently. As national field director of the Udall presidential campaign, Cary was on the run since January in such godforsaken places as Des Moines and Milwaukee. Dave is an associate at the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C.
Tom Price has completed his medical internship at Harlem Hospital-Columbia University Medical Service in Manhattan and has begun his surgical residency at the Downtown Medical Center in Brooklyn. Tom writes that Frank Watkins has completed Yale Medical School and, following a vacation in Portugal, has begun his orthopedic surgical training at the Hospital for Joint Disease in New York City.
Tom and Judy Oxman will soon be appearing daily in Hanover. Ox will be doing his act as a psychiatry resident and Judy hopes to be doing something "real cool."
After a two-year medical school stint in Guadalajara, Mexico, Al Gabbard transferred to the Medical College of Pennsylvania and graduated last May. He is doing his residency in internal medicine at Akron (Ohio) General Hospital.
After more than two years of archaeological research in Lima, Peru, Jamie Vreeland has joined the Ph.D. program in anthropology at the University of Texas in Austin.
Mike Brooks and his wife Robin have moved from Detroit to Minnetonka, Minn., near Minneapolis. Mike is a sales representative with Owens/Corning Fiberglas.
Peter Etzel has joined Medicus Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of Benton & Bowles specializing in advertising and promotion for the health care industry, as an account executive. Peter was formerly with Pfizer Inc. as assistant product manager for Pfizer Laboratories. Before that, he worked for Avon Products, Inc., as an associate product counselor. He now resides in Greenwich, Conn.
For the past year and a half, Gunnar Klintberg has been working for a large trading company in Sweden. After traveling to the Soviet Union several times each month offering them various kinds of heavy industrial machinery and equipment last spring, he spent five weeks working in Moscow over the summer. At last report, Gunnar was planning to marry a young lovely from California named Jamie.
After two and a half years, David Freyberg left his position with a consulting engineering firm in Boston to begin his studies in the graduate program in civil engineering at Stanford.
Thorn Jenness and his wife Maureen are alive and well, living in their new home in Northport, Long Island. Besides interviewing Dartmouth applicants in his spare time, Thorn is working in New York City as a senior training specialist for an engineering services firm, designing, producing, and conducting training programs for engineering and management. Maureen has been teaching music at a local junior high school for the past five years and has just received her master's degree in music education.
Finally, I am pleased to announce the new slate of class officers for the next five years: JeffMcElnea is our new president, Mark Totman our treasurer and Craig Robelen head agent. Having assumed the secretary's chair, I have turned over the reins as newsletter editor to Steve Zrike. Members-at-large of the executive committee are Tim Driesbach, Mike Hannigan,John Lippman, John Marshall, Randy Pherson and Tom Price. In the offing is a fall reunion scheduled for homecoming weekend (the Harvard game) on October 16. Both before and after the game in Hanover, a class reunion tent will provide the opportunity for thirsty football fans and all tailgating enthusiasts from the Class to get together again to renew acquaintances and partake of liquid refreshment. For additional details, contact Tim Diresbach or Mike Hannigan.
Cards and letters are always welcome. Best wishes for a happy fall...
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