1935

You'll notice that our column heading this month carries the name and address of Head Agent Al Dodd. You are hearing and will be hearing a good bit from Al in the next couple of months as he organizes and leads us in another successful Alumni Fund effort. By now we know the need and the support due such dedication!

This seems a particularly appropriate time and place to tell you more about Al by way of reintroduction. Al and Marianne live in Wayne, as noted above, a suburb of Philadelphia, and also own a seashore house in Avalon, N.J. They have four daughters, one son, and ten grandchildren. Their oldest daughter is married to Tom Donahue '57. Son Steve married a Swiss girl and is studying for a Masters at the University of Bern. Two daughters have returned to college for graduate work and another is contemplating returning. Talk about fund raising!

After Dartmouth, Al went to Harvard Business School and has since spent most of his career with the Travelers Insurance Company in Chicago and Philadelphia retiring as manager of the Philadelphia office in 1972. He now serves as director of Consumer Information of Insurance for the Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania.

Al and Marianne do some traveling, such as a break in St. Croix to get ready for Alumni Fund, and play a lot of golf.

Good luck to Al and his 75 class agents!

A note from Bill Short tells us he is still with the Lockheed Space Science Lab in Palo Alto where he plans to remain at least another year. The program sounds very exciting with Pioneer Venus experiments, gamma ray measurements from outer space, etc. Bill and Tia keep in shape mentally and physically, she, graduating with honors from West Valley College, he, building up endurance to run "again" in the San Francisco Breathers' marathon in May!

Irv and Vera Finkelstein have retired to Florida after 39 years in the ladies' ready-to-wear business. They still have roots up north as Irv says three sons continue to work for a living.

Rey and Laura Moulton spent the month of March at their apartment in Sarasota. As Rey expresses it they were flying lobsters to Ralphand Trudie Specht who are now retired and living there full time. Rey also reports on Maine classmate Don Saunders who "looks great."

A card from Chuck Moon notes that he and the other Detroit "35ers, Dave Williams, RemRyder, and Bud Hulett are active in Dartmouth Club affairs such as a special showing of Russian art treasurers and a lunch arranged for Dartmouth students and applicants. Chuck hopes to make our fall reunion.

Ed Offutt professes to lead a quiet life in Washington but a California trip to visit a daughter at Beale Air Force Base and a possible summer junket to Alaska will, as he put it, "cut into my gardening schedule for sure."

Short notes: Bud Cahoon much better and getting back his strength and sense of humor. Ben Harriman returning to St. Paul from England in July. Don Hagerman, midway in a three and a half million dollar fund raising program at Holderness School. Jim and Marion Berkey stopped off for a quick visit with RudyPacht while en route to Hawaii and Micronesia.

Executive committee member Hal Roitman is one of three from our Boston area. Hal and Betty live at 11 Hillcrest Road in Belmont (02178). Youngest daughter Jenny, age ten, is the only child at home now. Peter '72, is at Princeton working for a doctorate in electrical engineering, Mike is a senior at Dartmouth closely followed by Judy in the class of '78! Hal says that "Between reunions I practice law with a small firm representing unions in collective bargaining problems."

Continuing our thumbnail biographies of class executives, Len and Ada Bryant live at 108 Hunt Drive in Princeton, N.J. Right now Len commutes weekly to Boston since he's still running a company in New Jersey and its parent near Boston. He's looking forward soon to "the good life of a retiree." Five children are all gainfully employed in distant cities but come home often so Len and Ada expect to be in the same home when the next football game is in Princeton. They'll be ready to see '35ers after the game! Len and Ada started a renewed close association with The Great Class of 1935 and Dartmouth when son Bob was a student. Len served remarkably well as our 40th Reunion Giving chairman and from personal experience heartily recommends the annual fall class reunion to everyone.

See you in September!

Secretary, 22 Woodridge Road Wellesley, Mass. 02181

Class Agent, 311 Drummers Lane North Greene House, Wayne, Pa. 19087

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