1974
Spring-skiing, avifauna, new meristems, slush, mud, boardwalks, and spring vacations are now timely. The Einsteinian fourth coordinate seems to be approaching relativistic speeds now as our years accelerate before us. Thankfully there is still news. Here, we look forward to the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Eastern Massachusetts, March 29, at the Sheraton-Boston Hotel, featuring the Glee Club and perhaps even the Vice President. Not impossible would be a repeat of last year's '74 participation, for which we were awarded a trophy (awarded each year to the class which has the highest participation, the silver work stands a prodigious 20.5 cm high and carries the numerals of each winning class; ours was the first ever to win in the first year away from the College). In view of the sizeable number of us in the Boston area, perhaps we will set another record.
Two "holdovers," paragraphs from the last issue, deserve top billing. From time to time, small parts of columns in latter sections of the Magazine must be held until the next issue for economic reasons.
Another reply from Joe and Cindy Hatcher reveals that life in Louvain-Leuven (French-Flemish) Belguim is not unlike life in Hanover since the style is "a lot of beer-drinking, latenight partying, and a humanistic approach to work (two-hour lunch breaks)." Claiming that precipitation is frequent but never crystalline and that the countryside is mostly drab, they left for the summer to see friends in the U.S. - New Hampshire and Vermont among their stops. In two to four years Joe will have his Ph.D. in experimental social psycholgy at the University of Lueven; Cindy paints and draws extensively, "doing well creatively."
"In good fortune" is Lew Warshauer, who has almost completed his work at Dartmouth Medical School and will graduate this spring, according to Warren Zwecker. Lew and Jan Gierlatowicz will "tie the knot" at Rollins Chapel in May. Congratulations to both of you!
Quoting weather of "50's and 60's" is RickWoolworth who is enjoying an excellent education at Stanford Business School. Jill Shaw '76, just recently engaged to Rick, is just getting into another term at Stanford, still finding the atmosphere not as openly friendly as at Dartmouth. They hope to be in Aspen this spring vacation for some powder, then for the summer Rick hopes to work in NYC for an investment or commercial bank while Jill hopes to work in Fairfield. The wedding date is September 11. Now that the weather has turned cooler, Rick has left his job of swimming pool cleaning to start his baby-sitting business during weekends. He claims that youngsters take well to Coors, especially on Saturday nights!
Known for some time is the engagement of Phil Stebbins and Betsey Cox '77. As Betsey continues as an undergraduate, Phil busies himself with his second year at the Dartmouth Medical School.
A last thorough check through this month's news reveals the engagement of Stephen D. Severson and Martha S. Hennessey '76 on February 21. The June 20 wedding will take place at Dartmouth.
Another diehard in the area of communication is Bill Perell, whose efforts have been aimed at "setting up the mechanism to import prefabricated homes" in Tehran. The skiing is absent in the snowless mountains, so Bill bought a four-wheel drive vehicle for a two-week tour through Baluchistan. Bill's six pages of excitement gave a revealing outlook of the innermost regions of Persia, including Qom, Kashan (land of fine carpets), Yazd (the Zoroasteran center), Kerman, Iranshahr, Bam (home of 10,000 Sassanians before the Afghanis attacked in 1250 and where the smallest package of dates costs only $1.19 - 7¢/1b.!), Zeahedan (where smugglers from India and Pakistan bribe the customs officials to get foreign goods into Iran), Zabol (near the Helmand River of Afganistan, rich in archeological digs), the Gulf of Persia town of Bandar Abbas, and the ancient capital of Persepolis. The people, customs, mosques, and Jeep trouble kept Bill and a friend from Omaha busy for most of the trip. He is very appreciative of the broader outlook of his own countrymen, compared to the Persians, and concludes that "you don't know how good we have it."
Recently, the Parish Players of Thetford, Vt., came to the People's Theater in Cambridge to present The Seahorse, directed by Jean Passanante '75, according to Laura Cuetara. Laura, now at the University of Boston School for the Arts, joined Dick Piper to assist with the production, brought to the area by the suggestion of Michael Arnott (brother of Mark Arnott '72). Seen in the audience, she writes, were Rebecca Katz '75, now at Harvard Medical School, Peter Hackett '75, Cindy Bencal, Jean Weinberg, Jack Gundy '58, David Miskell '68, and Dan Sigeiman '72. Fittingly, "feathers are still flying from the raging and revels at the Queensberry (St.) nest; the (Dartmouth) Players cast parties have at long last been definitely outdone." Laura had been in Denver visiting with Mike Miller, a second-year student at the University of Denver Law School.
The news sent to the Office of the Dean carries over into this issue. Nestled into a realtor position is Whit Wall, now at work for Bowers, Nelms, and Fonville, Inc. in Richmond, Va., selling residential and farm property. Whit is scheduled to make his first million by age 30 and hopes to make a trip to the College in the winter sometime. June Butler Kemper writes that her son Harry Butler is on a trip around the world that he says may take "a year, a year and a half, or two years." Somewhere between Seeva, Figi, and Russel Island, New Zealand, Harry is sailing on a 55-foot ketch with a couple to such places as Tahiti, Bongo Bongo, and other tropical islands before turning to more school or business.
The Harvard Business School, in an immediate news release, is pleased to recognize Richard E. Thatcher as the awardee of First-Year Honors, now in his second year of the M.B.A. program. Good work, Rick! The Summit, N.J. Herald reported last fall that Bob Pridham was introduced at the official opening ceremony of the Kent Place School as a new faculty member. Bob is a former participant of the National Theater Institute and the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival of Woodbridge, and a former director of the Morris Youth Company. He teaches middle and upper school drama at Kent.
In Aspen now is Budge Gierke, who has cut short an employment experience with the Copper Kettle where he was number 2 cook and vegetable-thawer. Budge spent the summer with the Telluride Mountain School, got his pilot's license, and now lives with Tom Fisher '73, according to his brother who is a freshman at Dartmouth. Also in the world of climbing is John Cleary who spent some of the summer climbing in the West with Dave Clement '73 and other former members of the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club.
In Cambridge this year for the first time is John Bowman, in a graduate program for a dual degree at the Harvard Schools of Law and Urban Design; also at the design school is Thurlow Tibbs. Recently in the area was a Hub Club event, the January monthly luncheon, organized by Jody Hill and presenting guest speaker Ann Kendall, Chairperson of the Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts Equal Rights Amendment and Co-Coordinator of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization of Women. Also there was Candy Neville, executive at the First National Bank of Boston. Jody is now a Trust Representative for the New England Merchants Bank of Boston.
In the Hanover area are Jim (Pork Roll)Taylor, working at Computac on a project which compiles data on colleges (such as general, course, and degree information) while maintaining a full-time weekend schedule learning the life of a Ptarmigan in the White Mountains, and Lyle Hoffman, a job candidate for Computac and enjoying the quiet life. Jim Miner, just back from instructing the winter program of Dartmouth Outward Bound, is looking for a job in the Upper Valley and skiing as much as possible; Bob Fletcher coaches skiing at Kimball Union Academy while skiing for himself, also. Peter Edson cannot go without mention since he visits the Psi U lodge also and continues his artistry at his farm in Enfield.
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