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For the past few weeks most of the small towns around here have been conducting their springtime ritual known as Town Meetings. Those of you fortunate enough to have participated understand that not only can these meetings provide entertaining debate among colorful town fathers, they also reaffirm the notion that when we as individuals speak out, occasionally we can have an impact on the world we live in. One of the rewards of working with this column has been getting insights on not just what former classmates are doing, but what impact they are having on this country.
By way of example consider John Ruml, who was on my list of contacts for the Alumni Fund. John is a GS-16 with the government in Washington where he serves as director of analysis and evaluation for Manpower Planning. That's what he does. However, the impact he has is to affect our federal tax levels by continually shaking the tree full of sleeping older managers and getting them to be more efficient in utilizing tax-supported people.
You and I read about the Alaskan pipeline which may assist us in gaining energy independence. From John I hear that Bill D'Olier is doing his part to make that a reality by quitting his financial analysis work at Ford Motor and moving on to Alaska to be an explosives truck foreman. Easy-does-it, Bill! There's a difference between impact and detonation.
David Feldshuh has been very active since graduation according to a feature article in the Dartmouth. His field is the theater, for which he prepared following graduation by going on to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Minneapolis and the prestigious Guthries Theater captured him thereafter where he not only acted but became associate director in 1971. Meanwhile David was also researching Zen and mime as part of a doctoral dissertation relating theater to personal growth. Such has been his activity. The impact he leaves with the world is (1) initiating a hospital touring program for the Guthries Theater and (2) returning to Dartmouth this summer to direct summer repertory presentations and also to pass on his skills by teaching Drama 32 to another generation of potential actors.
We as U.S. residents are beset by increasing costs of health care matched by lessened ease of obtaining such. Malpractice insurance rates have even earned headline status. But, one of our guys is "in the trenches" on this one, too. Chuck Atkins has wrapped himself up in Harvard as he administers a program on health regulators. Impact, Chuck!
If your memory has not failed you completely yet - as mine does too frequently - you may remember that our Class along with the Class of '4l provides career seminars for Dartmouth undergrads to give them contact with alumni who are still striving as well as those who have already achieved. Roger Rines, a labor relations specialist with Department of Commerce, represented us in January - along with his wife Charlotte, who also was a panelist. Charlotte spoke with the authority of a program officer of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
As the stockmarket's Dow Jones Industrial Average climbs past 1,000, I can't help but wonder if Vickie Webster understands why. Her husband, Bill has just done such a fantastic job as stockbroker with Blythe Eastman Dillon that he has been promoted to assistant vice president. Bill is spreading his influence elsewhere by serving as treasurer of the Wilton (Connecticut) Community Nursey School and secretary of the local Dartmouth Club.
The Anderson County (Tennessee) Attorney, Jim Ramsey, achieved a recent and remarkable legal coup dealing with sex discrimination in high school baseball. As a result of Jim's efforts, a federal judge has ordered the Wartburg Central High School to allow Ms. Jo-Ann Carnes to play in post-season tournament contests. The order extends to the whole Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association to avoid sanctions against Jo-Ann's school. As Jim says, it is fitting that a Dartmouth grad have a hand in a sex question such as this. The girl hopes to qualify for a college baseball scholarship.
John King sent me a recent picture of the Queen of England which I appreciate for its simplicity of form and clarity of execution in spite of the postmark covering the regal chin. It doesn't seem fair that postage from Saint John, New Brusnwick, to Boston is 80 while postage from Boston to St. John is 130. John was writing to let me know that he now works for Irving Pulp & Paper, Ltd., in Saint John. You vacationers to Canada's Maritime Provinces may recall that the famous reversing falls of the Saint John River get their color and, uh, texture from Irving Pulp's effluent which is a few yards upstream. Please don't call John to task because he is manager of Purchasing, Stores, and Traffic and has only been there since June of 1975.
Down in the Big Apple ol' Willis Fugate must have foreseen all the documented achievements of this Class. Several months ago his Willis Gallery opened its Art and Framing Shop specializing in quantity frame orders. Let me know, Willis, what honors and awards you glass in for classmates!
One of the residues of an annual alumni fund drive in addition to money in the bank is a long chain of news about classmates. Here's hoping all of you will see fit to link me up with what you know.
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Class Agent, 6 Old landing Road Durham, N.H. 03824
