1949

By the time this is published, our fall get-together will be history. I hope that I will see many of you in Hanover for the Harvard game.

Dr. Bob DeForest writes that he is living in Bristal and has been practicing medicine in that area for twelve years. Prior to that he did a 12-year stint in Navy medicine and teaching at Brown. His experiences have created concerns about the future of medicine as a profession. To quote him, "From it all, including the general social drift, I admit to certain melancholy and anxiety as to the future of my profession. It promises to be so encumbered by red tape and guidance in the future that both the physician and his patients are likely to come out badly." He goes on to question medicine as an honest attraction for the independent spirits coming out of undergraduate school and finds it difficult to recommend medicine as a profession these days. His other concerns are golf, sailing on the bay and rare bachanals when Bob Rooney gets to town.

Diablo, Cal., became the home of Dick Desmond about three years ago. (That's about three miles from downtown San Francisco.) He's still with Avondale Mills as West Coast regional sales manager. His household includes three boys, 15, 2, 11; his wife Meredith; three dogs and two sets of golf clubs.

Paul Denecke writes that he's still living in Minneapolis and working for Carson, Pirie, Scott selling carpeting. Winter and summer tennis keep him in shape. He has two children, Heide 14' a high school freshman, and Daniel 6, a first-grader. Ray Drake reports that he is still holding forth in Portsmouth, N.H., and just celebrated his fifth wedding anniversary. Imagine Ray as an old married man.

Another of our classmates claims he has entered the academic world. None other than Gordon Thomas, New Canaan, Conn., general counsel and vice president of ITT Continental Baking Corporation, and our class leader. His claim is based on the fact that he participated in a new and unique course entitled "Corporate Decision-Making" at Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., and was appointed an adjunct professor. Professor Thomas, as he wants to be called now, taught law and the corporation.

A news release from the Texas State Historical Association from Bill Kerr describes a new book he has written on the effect that capital from Scotland had in developing the West. The book is entitled, Scottish Capital onthe American Credit Frontier. He is currently working on another project sponsored by the Fund for the Humanities and a new book, History of Cambridge, England, 1870-1914. Bill is an economic historian and has done substantial writing in his special field. The research for his current book was done as part of his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge. He collected data over a period of 13 years from various sources at Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, and Dundee. He served as a senior tenured member of the Department of History at St. Andrews University at Dundee. You have to admit that we're a pretty intellectual group!

Tesoro Petroleum Corporation has just announced that Bob Reed has been named executive vice president for refining, marketing, and transportation. It was just last year that we announced that he was named a group vice president at Tesoro. He is also a director of Commonwealth Oil Refining Company, Inc.

The Vermont Consistory of Scottish Rite Masons worked the 12th and 32nd degrees at Bennington, Vt., Saturday, May 1, 1976. Among those taking the consistory was Judson S. Blakely.

Magazine and newspaper articles about Quent Kopp continue to flow in. The San Francisco Magazine published an interesting article in its May 1976, issue speculating on Quent's future political activities in that area. He was also quoted in The Wall Street Journal in May during the San Francisco City Craftworkers' strike. As president of the Board of Supervisors, he described the City's stand concerning the strike and their intentions of holding firm. Another article in the San Francisco SundayExaminer and Chronicle in May, described Quent's reaction to the strike and included some rather impressive pictures of our classmate. Lastly, he spoke at a National Chamber of Commerce symposium in October on the Subject of unionization of public employees.

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