1970
Well, another month has passed without a single '70 sending me information as to his whereabouts, triumphs, joys, or misfortunes. I realize that a number of you sent in reports with your class dues and that material will be circulated in the class newsletter in the coming months. However, there must still be many who have not yet been heard from, and I can only renew my plea that you write. If you occasionally glance at the other columns in the Magazine you'll notice numerous references to letters received by the class secretary. These letters can really help to enliven a column and to eliminate the necessity of accepting secondhand information such as the following:
A change of address notation from the College included information that Mike Renner is teaching math, French, and Spanish at St. Stephen's School in the McLean, Va., area. The Alumni Office also sent along a photostat of an ad presumably from the good ole "Daily D" announcing the Fourth Annual Student Alumni Career Seminar. The series is entitled, "Yes, There Is Life After Dartmouth." I will be happy to accept any comments from the peanut gallery on this subject for publication in future columns. At any rate our Class had the honor of supplying the only recent alumnus on the panel, Wally Ford, who spoke about career opportunities in the fields of speech writing, advising those in politics, and service as a law secretary to a justice of the New York Supreme Court. A newsletter from the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York City also revealed that Wally serves as a vice president of that organization.
I also received a copy of information which I hope will appear in the "Give a Rouse for" section indicating that Joe Garrett was recently elected chairman of the Berkeley, Calif., Housing Authority. I was able to reach Joe by phone and learned that he has quite a background in the public housing field, having received an M.B.A. in housing finance at Berkeley. He spends most of his time teaching economics on the faculty of St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif. In addition, he acts as a consultant to the California Department of Housing and Commercial Development. The Berkeley Housing Authority helps to oversee the running of the various scattered site low income housing in the area and Joe also finds himself traveling a bit in search of the necessary funds from the private financial markets now that the federal government has cut back on its funding.
Always in search of additional sources for news I scanned the Dartmouth Anthropology Notes which Mary Wesbrook, the secretary of the department, so carefully compiles each year. I learned that Jim Lemke is reported continuing work on his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Illinois-Urbana. Paul Inashima is also an anthropology grad student, pursuing his degree at American University in Washington, D.C., having already passed his general comprehensive exams. Paul's summer was spent on an archaeological dig in Pennsylvania, which covered some ten thousand years and "an artifact for every year." The Anthro Notes also in. dicated that Dave Gilmour is now a doctor, having completed studies at Hershey Medical Center. His final year of studies was spent in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, working on a study in infant mortality. After trips to Kenya and Tanzania he returned home and has been interning in pediatrics at Case-Western Reserve. I hope Dave will write in and tell us a bit about his climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Finally, I had a chance to talk with Nick Brand at a meeting of class officers and spaghetti feast held at Pete Geary's this fall. Nick is in his second year in a Master's program in regional planning at the University of Massachusetts. He eventually hopes to work for a consulting firm in the field of economic development or transportation, perhaps in a developing nation. In the meantime he has been busy writing up a study done for the United Nations Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and Transportation regarding the status and future of metal recycling. He found that industrial-reuse has been fairly efficient but that we consumers are not cooperating very consistently. It seems that our performance varies greatly from one metal to another. Much progress is needed with regard to all those aluminum beer cans. Vermont has taken the lead by requiring that the sales price reflect a refund for each can. Think of the size of the refunds in the Hanover area along for beer bought in Vermont!
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