1949

Those of you who have been asking about Ted Barnett will be happy to know he is still living in Winnetka (1100 Crescent Lane). He spent a number of years in San Francisco with Foote, Cone and Belding, but is now back home. His oldest son is at the University of Wyoming, another is at Middlebury and his youngest is at New Trier High School. He is still writing and producing TV commercials with Foote, Cone. He took a year off from the advertising business to try real estate, which in his words was "not so much a debacle as a catastrophe." A book of his short stories will be coming out soon. He is president of California Morning Star Gold Mines Corporation, near Lake Tahoe (nice location) and he promises that if everything clicks that he will donate a polo field to Dartmouth. (Bill Chapman better get there first).

A letter from Dick Bandfield states that he has been and still is leading a very active and successful life in the field of financial counseling, particularly as it relates to life and health insurance and employee benefit plans. He is associated with Lambert M. Huppeler Company in New York. They design and service insurance plans and also provide consulting services. As if this hasn't been enough to keep him busy, he also has formed his own company to distribute a revolutionary "voice response" computer terminal that is used by financial planners. The company was established in 1972 and is called KEYPACT of New York. The computer fits in an attache case and provides financial consultants with the capacity to solve the most complex financial problems instantaneously right in the client's office or home. Dick's son David is in his senior year at Dartmouth and seems to be enjoying himself. His daughter Diana, 11, is keeping things interesting at home for Chesta and Dick.

Ray Bankert writes that he has just passed his 25th anniversary with General Electric Company. He is financial manager in the Large Steam Turbine generator operation in Schnectady. His oldest son, Jim, is in graduate school at the University of Virginia, and he has two sons at Dartmouth: Ray in the Class of 1977, and Steve in the Class of 1979. Three daughters are still at home with Pat and Ray: Betsy, 17; Sue, 15; and Tish, 11. He's living in Scotia, N. Y., and has been working with Ken Soule interviewing Dartmouth prospects at Burnt Hills - Ballston Lake High School.

King Ball sefids a brief note about his children, Kingsley and Lillian, both of whom are busy in Cambridge, Mass., in handweaving. Apparently doing very well after apprentices in Mexico, Denmark and other European countries. King is busy with the Standing Committee in his church and arranging the monthly meetings of the Dartmouth College Alumni Club, Inc. at the Cumberland Club in Portland.

Nels Abrahamsen sends a detailed description of his activities. He still maintains a private practice of optometry in Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland. The practice was started by his grandfather in 1902. His father, who joined the firm in 1930, still practices with him three days a week. He also donates his time to the eye clime at St. Vincent's Charity Hospital in downtown Cleveland and is presently a trustee of the Ohio Optometric Association. He's concerned about the future of private practices like his in the face of the "dehumanization and depersonalization of all professional service in this country." His wife Kay is an R.N., working almost full-time in the emergency room at St. John's Hospital, Cleveland. His daughter Christine, 20, is at Goucher College in Baltimore, his son Eric, 17, is a senior at Lakewood High School and has applied at Dartmouth along with several other New England colleges. His youngest Laura, 12, is a student at Harding Middle School in Lakewood. Nels is also a trustee of the Lakewood Little Theater, which has just broken ground for a new $2 million Center for the Arts and is president of the Lakewood High School Music Parents. He keeps busy interviewing Dartmouth candidates from the Cleveland area and has attended the Dartmouth Alumni College with his family the last five Augusts where he says he doesn't see many of his '49 classmates. When he's not involved in the above he and his family hide away in their retreat in Holmes County, Ohio.

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