1947

Every time our family drives past Keene, N.H., which is quite often, I think about stopping in to say hello to Ham and Dottie Chase. But somehow we never seem to have time - or feel we don't have time.

So I was especially pleased to get a note from Ham, along with a statement on energy he presented to Rep. Morris Udall's subcommittee on energy and environment at hearings in Boston toward the end of '75. As a part-time interest, Ham has been studying alternative forms of supplying energy. (It's appropriate; energy and Ham Chase just naturally go together).

Our classmate is associated with a firm in Massachusetts which has applied for a patent on a system to produce hydrogen directly from water for use as fuel in cars or homes. The presentation - Advocating a Hydrogen Economy - makes an excellent case for the widespread use of hydrogen as a fuel.

The highway past Keene also takes us close to the home of Charlie and Joan Schofield - and again there's a temptation to make an unscheduled stop. Before the snows came, the Schofields had two great weeks in Honolulu where he was an alternate delegate to an American Medical Association meeting. Young Mark Schofield '74 is studying for his Master's at Boston College. His sister Karen will graduate from Dartmouth in June, while another sister Anne is a freshman at the University of New Hampshire. There are two younger Schofields in grammar school.

The Ralph Roths shifted climates last year - and how! While he was director of production for Ridder Publications, Inc., the Roths lived in Denver. "Our family got back into skiing with a vengeance and really had a ball." Then last summer, Ralph was named vice president/production for Knight Ridder Newspapers - with headquarters in Miami. He is responsible for research, data processing, and production for 35 daily newspapers in the group, a truly demanding job what with the amazing technological advances being made in the business today. Oldest son Harold is a junior at the University of Colorado. Another son is a sophomore at St. Scholastics College in Duluth, Minn., while the two youngest boys are in elementary school. Meanwhile, the skis have been put away and Ralph is sharpening up his golf game.

From the School of Engineering at Stanford University comes a report on the highlights of a most interesting year for the John Fondahl family: a three-month winter stay in Zurich while John was on the faculty of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; a visit to Nairobi and Treetops in East Africa; an assignment in South Africa for the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors that involved presenting seminars in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and Stellenbosch, and also a trip to a private game reserve in a company jet that was the first to land and take off from the local air strip. (All of this with two of their four daughters, plus a third who attended the University of Paris and visited them in Zurich.) There was also the purchase of a new house with a beautiful view of Lake Tahoe and two ski runs and completion of the freshman year at Dartmouth by another daughter, Gail. How are they going to match that in '76?

All apparently goes well, too, with the Hardy Hendrens of Chestnut Hill, Mass. Hardy is chief of pediatric surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard. The latest on the five young Hendrens is this: Sandy did graduate work at Dartmouth and is now employed in research at Dartmouth Medical School. Doug, a Harvard graduate, recently married, is in partnership in his own business. Will graduated from Dartmouth in June and is at Cornell Medical College in New York City. Robert is in the Class of'78 at Dartmouth. And the youngest Hendren, No. 5, attends the Choate School.

It was a busy Christmas season for George Gerrish and family in Kensington, Md. Oldest daughter Meg was married on Dec. 27 .... Henry Brezinski is in his seventh year as supervising principal in the Berne-Knox-Westerlo Central School District in New York State. Son Bruce '70, is working in the Boston area. Son Steve teaches fifth grade in Sharon Springs, N.Y. Hank often sees Larry Bartnik '46,Schuyler Cornthwaite '35, and Larry Davis '35Tom Gustenhoven's two oldest daughters have graduated from college Margaret from Mount Holyoke and Kathleen from Smith. Son Carl is in the Class of '78 at Penn State and daughter Mary in Class of '79 at Russell Sage.

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