1951
Yes, Dartmouth classmates of 1951, there is an Ouagadougou. It's the capital of the landlocked West African sub-Saharan country of Upper Volta. If you want to learn more about Ouagadougou and Upper Volta, come back to Hanover for our 25th Reunion June 17-20 when lawyer John Hoskins hopes to be back for a visit.
John has been with the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) since 1961. He started as a regional legal advisor in Saigon and Bangkok, then returned to Washington to serve successively as assistant general counsel for Legislation and Program Coordination and assistant general counsel for Africa.
In September 1974, John went to Ouagadougou as director of the AID Country Development Office. The work started as direct relief from the catastrophic drought which hit the Sahel sub-Saharan region. It has now broadened into a more general agricultural development program to help the Voltans improve their food production potential. (One of my atlases shows all except the northern tip of Upper Volta as tropical grasslands.)
John's wife Marilyn is an anthropologist and works with a private African research organization in Ouagadougou. Their children - Laurel, 17; Donald, 15; and Susan, 10 - "all have learned to speak French and More (local language) and are having a great time."
As of December, Bill Krauss works for the State Department in Hong Kong as chief, Non-Immigrant Visa Section, American Consulate General. Bill switched to the Foreign Service after ten years in operations research, where he put "to limited use the mathematics [he] studied after Dartmouth." He started with State in Washington, then was with the Consulate General in Frankfurt, Germany, for two and a half years. Bill has a son, Erich, 19.
Sticking with our government types, we return to the States where Boulder, Colo., resident Karl Starch is an economist with the Department of the Interior, working mostly in inter-agency water and environmental programs. He and wife Marne have three children: Buck, 10; Osa, 8; and Thor, 3.
Immediately after graduation, Karl joined the Air Force. After almost two years of training, mostly in Texas, he spent a year in Korea and a year and a half in Japan and Taiwan. He returned to the U.S. and obtained his master's from the University of Nebraska in 1956. He then worked three years in the machine too! and aircraft industries in the St. Louis and Denver areas.
Karl moved to the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1960, where he earned his Ph.D. and taught for a couple of years. He joined HEW in Denver in 1964 and went to Washington in 1966 with what is now the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce. Karl returned to Colorado with Interior in 1969.
You may recall that we have two RichardWilliam Ellises in the Class. The insurance Dick Ellis was designated (Conn.) in our undergraduate days; the Navy Dick Ellis, (Mass.). In 1974, the Navy screwed everything up by sending Cdr. Dick Ellis to Connecticut as supply officer at the Groton Submarine Base. The Navy has now rectified the confusion by sending him to Nashua, N.H., as chief of the Defense Contract Administration Office there.
After graduation, Cdr. Dick "started college all over again in the somewhat less relaxed atmosphere of the Naval Academy," graduating in 1955. He married high school classmate Barbara Randall; and they have two daughters Kimberly, 16, and Pamela, 19.
The Navy sent him to Athens, Ga., and then Norfolk, where he served on the U.S.S. Boston and the U.S.S. Waldron. From 1957 through 1960, Dick was an instructor at Annapolis. There followed tours of duty in London, Washington, the Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard, and as a supply officer on the U.S.S. Jason in Vietnam waters. 1970 saw Dick return to the academic world on the faculty of the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk.
In August, Herb Knight became vice president marketing for Newport News Industrial Corp. in Newport News, Va. His responsibilities include sales and marketing, long range planning, and product development. (As I recall, the company used to build ships and hydroturbines.) Herb and wife Nancy have twin sons, 10, Tom and Sherm. In his copious free time, Herb golfs, gardens, hunts, and fishes.
John Bransten holds forth in my favorite U.S. city, San Francisco, where he is vice president of MJB Co., a family business, responsible for marketing, sales, and overseas operations. (My failing memory has a vague recollection that MJB was involved, possibly among other things, in coffee.)
In any event, after Dartmouth, John earned a Stanford M.B.A. and then was an army lieutenant in Japan and Korea. He has three children: Peter, 18; Patricia, 16; and David, 8. John has served on the San Francisco Public Library Commission (two years as president), on the board of trustees of the Society of Asian Art, on the board of trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, etc.
As an erstwhile Philadelphia suburbanite, I still regard Bucks County, Pa., as an idyllic rural area. Unfortunately, they appear to have some crime. Russ Keep is executive director of Probational Volunteer Services, Inc., in Doylestown, the county seat. He provides counseling services for probationers and parolees, and advocates bail for detainees.
He and wife Nancy have seven children. Russ is also a director of "Woodlea," a group home for girls in Ridgewood, N.J. 1953-54, he was private secretary to Dartmouth Prof. of Philosophy Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy; 1955. 58, an assistant account executive with Benton & Bowles; 1959-66, a farm manager for Golden Acres Farm, Inc. (organic, I believe); 1966-7] director of education at Job Corps Centers in Poland Springs, Me., and Jersey City.
John Shultz of Naperville, Ill., is general manager of Delta Rail Corp., a small manufac. Turing company. He and wife Marie have two children, Sue, 15, and Jim, 14. In his spare time John plays golf and runs a number of harness racing horses in the Chicago area.
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