1974
Conceptually difficult, refreshing, or surprising may be the fact that another new year is forcing its presence into our lives. In the same league with this faction is the realization that not all of the news that's fit fits! As reiteratively promised at the finale of each column, hopes are to include those left behind last time. Making the exception the rule, several items require sabatical along with sincere apologies.
Our former assistant dean, Jack Thomas, returned to law school this fall but not before writing last July that "it will be strange to sit on the other side of the desk again." Feeling strongly that it was a great year in Hanover and one of his greatest experiences: "I will always treasure my time in the Dartmouth administration and the time I had to serve my College." Old news from the dues-collection process passed on from his office includes word from Peter Davidson that, even though he had already sent his dues, he was contributing again; he had been "working in the summers and vacationing in the winters" - Mexico, Aspen, etc., and is trying to reach Dan O'Haire ("last seen testing frozen tundra for its valuables") - since Peter owes him ten dollars. Of aid to Peter may be a note from Dan that after six months drilling for oil on Alaska's north slope, he was studying geology in a graduate program at Montana State University.
Likewise responding to the dues notice was the mother of Daniel Delly, noting that he was teaching English in Tehran, Iran, after finishing his master's degree at the University of Chicago. In the bunch with these was a note from Dave Goodrich, who "bummed around for a year" ('74-'75) - "hitched across the country twice, did a lot of hiking in Colorado, worked on an offshore oil rig in Louisiana, spent a couple of months on a lake in upstate New York trying to write short stories, and some job-hunting" - then got a steady job. He became an officer on board a hydrographic ship for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration doing survey work for nautical charts. After a January in the Virgin Islands, he spent a summer in Cape Cod and then returned to his job, completing what has to be an admittedly amazing schedule!
Another, from the mother of Bob Grondine, explains that he is still in Japan and should send us details soon. Also writing to Jack back in fall of '75 was John Lamond, then on leave from Boston University Law School and working as a transportation planner with the Northern Middlesex Area Commission, a regional planning agency in Lowell, Mass. His party after the Harvard game last fall welcomed Keith and Ann Shenberger, Bruce R. and Karen Williamson, Paul Mesch.es, Rick Castello, Steve Larmon', Matt Putnam, Dave von Loesecke, Wayne Whitmore, John and Meredith Knight, and Lynn Knight '75. A blurb from Tim Lunney relates his work for the Greater Portland Council of Governments, South Portland, Maine, as a draftsman and junior planner. Another verifies the obvious absence of Rick Sample, still teaching in Lugano, Switzerland (the lucky cuss!).
A good excuse for late dues sent to Jack came from Dave Thrasher who, having lived in motels last fall before finding an apartment in Chicago, was ready for his job as a coal and ore traffic representative for the Norfolk and Western Railway after eight months in a management training program in the Appalachian coal fields. Randy yon Wedel accompanied dues with his new assignment as a graduate student doing research in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.
Jack's notices continue with one from Bob (Purple) Hayes, who finished a ten-week training program for the group and pension division of the Aetna Life and Casualty. He and John Fisher, stationed next to him in class, kept "the instructor on his toes, except Mondays after Carnival and the following weekend, both spent in Hanover." By spring, both were to head for field assignments, entailing sales of group contracts. Recently, he has seen Bruce (Stuey) Stuart, now in Toronto for the Inter Provincial Steel Company, and Duke Edgeworth, now playing for the Baltimore franchise of the American Hockey League.
On a similar notice, a knowledgeable source relays that Jeff Corelitz is in business with his sister Judy, commanding a wholesale distribution center in Columbia, Md., for Charmglow gas and electric barbecues and for Trewax steam rug cleaning machines. One from Steve Allison reveals that Aetna Life Insurance Company moved him from San Francisco down the coast to Newport Beach, in the midst of budding business. Finally, a note from the mother of Dana Bisbee describes that he was serving his second year in the Peace Corps in Gabon, Africa.
Jack's own notes recall those at commencement last June: Herb Hopkins, Jody Hill Simpson and Candy Neville. Others he met were Drew Newman, just returned from Iran and planning to attend graduate school in Middle Eastern Studies, Mike Heyl, recently married and managing the Lake Morey Inn (about 15 miles northwest of Hanover), and Greg Pulis, now in his third year at the University of Virginia Law School after a summer in New York with a leading law firm. Jack draws on his knowledge to reveal that Dave Thrasher was married atop a Virginia hill on July 4 and that skyrockets were involved! Tom Eggleston visited Jack over the three days Tom spent with the Alumni Council during reunion week, a break from his work at a law firm in Indianapolis. Jack's records show that Doug Lind is still working as the assistant manager of Henry Africans, a "well-known San Francisco watering hole," and John Fisher is in Seattle with Aetna. His ambiguity is how Dick Ellsworth did in his race for mayor in Anchorage, Alaska, relating the rumor that Dick "used his position as manager of the town's only Burger King as a political stepping-stone." He saw George Vorys in Nantucket last summer, there for relaxation before starting a law degree at Capital University. A prodigious record of news from Jack, he is thus dubbed St. Louis '74 correspondent! Thanks, Jack, for your service as treasurer, administrator, and loyal greener.
The award-winning letter in July from Mark Haley also expounds that Bob Whelan, after graduating at the head of his class from the Stanford University School of Business Administration, has gone to "New York to work in one of those elite, money institutions - apparently, he can't get the color green out of his system. He recalls that Jon Dale worked for International Paper Company last summer and now has returned to the Columbia Business L 00 He claims that Jon "loves New York but seems to spend an inordinate amount of in Boston." (visiting?) Mark spent July 4 with Craig White, who finished his second year of law school at Indiana University, in addition to teaching a first-year course, before a summer job with a Chicago law firm. Also on Mark's list was Brian Pritchard who, having spent last year looking for a job in Vermont, worked for the summer at Camp Pinnacle in Lyme, N. H. Mark finished his first year at the Stanford University School of Business Administration, along with Rick Woolworth and Bob Whelan, where the weather was ideal though some snow sneaked in while we weren't looking."
In other dated news of July, seen on the cobbled streets of Amsterdam were Peter and JoAnne (Williams) Coutrakon, both enjoying a vacation away from their jobs - National City Bank and Bloomingdale's. Here is proof of the world's smallness!
A wedding announcement not to be delayed is that of Richard Alan Brown and Diane Colony Fiero on October 9, as related by the next day's New York Times. Putting his Russian major to good use, Rick works as a linguist for the government and lives in Alexandria, Va. Diane, a graduate of Mount Holyoke and holder of a master's degree from the University of Toronto, is an administrative secretary with the Sperry Univac Corp. in Washington. Congratulations!
Still not forgotten, Chuck Post's letter will appear next time. Until then, have pleasant holidays!
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