1954

The summer hiatus has happily allowed letters to accumulate - the first backlog of news we've had in years. I may even have enough to share with our new class newsletter editor, Bob McCartney. Bob has been kind enough to accept the position as newsletter editor, succeeding Jim Love.

We start off the new year with a super success story. But this success story belongs to the whole Class, led by our most capable and aggressive head agent, Steve Mullins. The Class of 54 has won the Green Derby competition for the 1977 Alumni Fund and has won the competition with a record-breaking performance. The Class, under Steve's leadership, set a new record for a 23rd-year-out-of-school class and broke the alltime non-reunion record of $88,700 by giving $89,410. While Steve is quick to give credit to his whole team and to every member of the Class, the Class has to give credit to Steve for a super performance. I'm sure you're all happy to be part of a winning team.

Bob Levine was kind enough to send a report of the McLaughlin dinner, held in New York on June 13. The report is as follows: "A large turnout of '54s welcomed Dave and JudyMcLaughlin to a dinner in their honor at the Yale Club on June 13, 1977. Dave had just returned from Hanover where he had been elected the new chairman of the Board of Trustees of the College.

"Dave gave a brief state-of-the-College address, and then fielded a number of questions. It became apparent to all of us that change at Dartmouth is just as traumatic as change in other fields!

"Among those seen, mostly with spouses, were Pete Barker, Joe Messics, Hugh Roberts, George Voss, Dave Metz, Jerry Goldstein, Bob Levine, Tony Kane, Dave Mandelbaum, John Gillespie, Don Berlin, Rod Rockefeller, Bob Adnopoz, Jack Christy, Tom Kelsey, Frank Weiser, Dave Levine, Bill Koss, Lo-Yi Chan, Dick Davidoff, Bruck Classon, Ron Lehrman, and Art Rauch. Steve Mullins, our head class agent, flew in with his wife Carol from Chicago to join in the event. Naturally, he had a few kind words to say about our Alumni Fund campaign. But at least he didn't pass the hat!"

It's becoming a full-time job to keep up with Pete Bullis and The New Black Eagle Jazz Band. The following is a write-up that recently appeared in the Boston Globe: "The New Black Eagle Jazz Band, a seven-man Boston amateur jazz group, has won the coveted High Fidelity magazine award for its recent "Kid Thomas" recording, which was voted the best pop record of 1976. Band members are coronetist Tony Pringle, a computer programmer; trombonist Stan Vincent, vice president of a consulting firm; clarinetist-saxophonist Stan McDonald, a college librarian; banjo player Peter Bullis, an architect; tuba player Dr. Eli Newberger, a pediatrician; pianist Bob Pillsbury ['48], a clinical psychologist; and drummer C. H. Pameijer, a dentist. In spite of their careers, the band members rehearse 10 hours a week and give more than 130 performances annually." It looks like Peter will have a problem deciding what profession is his vocation and which is his avocation.

Barry Nova has been promoted to the post of vice president-marketing of U.S. Tobacco Company. Prior to his advancement Barry was director of marketing and before that was director of communications for U.S. Tobacco. Barry joined U.S. Tobacco in 1974 as director of public relations and sales promotion. Prior to that he had been a senior vice president at the Lennen & Newell Advertising Agency, where he supervised major advertising accounts such as Muriel Cigars and Ballantine Beer and was also a director of Campaign Planners, Inc., a political communications subsidiary of Lennen & Newell. Congratulations, Barry, on your new position and your great progress with U.S. Tobacco.

Well, that does it for now. With the fall season upon us I look forward to seeing a lot of you personally and catching up on printable news.

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