1951

The football season always gives Amy and me a chance to see old friends. This year was no different. A dreary, threatening Saturday took us to the Yale Bowl to a very exciting game that saw Dartmouth win 3 to 0. Had a chance to visit with Loye Miller. You will recall that Loye has recently gained notoriety by blowing the whistle on Jody Powell, President Carter’s press secretary. Powell planted a story with Loye Washington correspondent for the Chicago SunTimes about Senator Percy. Finding the story to be without any basis in fact, Loye so reported. Also .present at Yale were BobHopkins and Hank Saunders with their wives. Both of these classmates have recently em- barked on new careers. More about that when they fill me in on the details. Also seen were Chuck Eccles, Ed Weisenfeld and, last but not least, Russ Dilks, who rode up with us and supplied the vintage wine that made the day brighter.

Two weeks later we journeyed to Hanover and partook in the Dartmouth Night torchlight parade, a rather recent innovation that has the alumni march around the campus by class, end- ing up in front of Dartmouth Hall. Our Class had a good turnout, with Sam Roberts doing the organizational chores. Prexy Buck Scott was leading the troops including Sandy McCulloch,Jim Keegan, Dave Saxton, Bob Hopkins, TomTrolle, Charlie Breed, and Chet Cotter. The Glee Club was in fine voice, the speeches were thankfully short, and the Class of ’Bl built a magnificent bonfire. Incidentally, the freshman class has a tremendous spirit and this bodes well for the future.

Ralph Watkins reports, “I have a wife, a large mortgage, four children, a long commute on the Long Island Railroad to Wall Street where I’ve managed to survive the sinking of two firms.” Ralph is presently with Loeb Rhodes & Cos. In addition to the squib on himself he reports on other classmates. Chuck Sherman is Polaroid engineering manager operating out of Needham, Mass. Ted Hazen is a professor of chemistry biochemistry at Texas A & M. Recently Ted represented Dartmouth at the in- auguration of Jarvis Miller as president of Tex- as A&M. Bruce Robertson is a “worker in the vineyard of life, stomping on the grapes of the PR business.” He is with Stevens, Kirkland, and Greer in Chicago. Bob Lyon reports in from Atlantic Beach, Fla., where he is v.p. of Medical Oxygen Service, running the branch office in Jacksonville. Curley DeGroff has never left his home town of Amsterdam, N.Y., where he pur- sues the trade of cabinetmaking. Thanks, Ralph, for all the news. Let the rest of you take note.

Don Dahl has joined Exide Safety Systems Division of ESB. Inc., as general manager at Randolph, Mass. In his new capacity, Don is responsible for Exide Lightguard and Exide Couch, both branches of Exide Safety Sys- tems. The Lightguard branch manufactures emergency lighting units and systems. Couch produces fire detec- tion and intercommu- nication systems and accessories for apartment houses, hospitals, nursing homes, commercial, and institutional buildings. Don will make his home in Foxboro, Mass., with his wife and three children.'

A group of St. Paul investors, headed by Hart president Jim Bjork, has bought the Hart Ski Cos., a division of the Beatrice Food Cos. Aside from Jim, who will continue as Hart president, the investment group includes Bankers Mortgage Corp., a St. Paul-based mortgage banking and real estate development company, and Walter L. Bush Jr., an attorney and chair- man of the board of the Minnesota North Stars, a National Hockey League club. According to Jim, no changes in current management are planned, “We successfully introduced a brand new look in our skis at the recent Las Vegas trade show and the response, in terms of both domestic and international sales, has been ex- cellent. With local ownership and control. Hart will now be in a position to be more responsive to the unique needs of the ski retailers and the skiing public." And we all thought you were a hockey player!

Bob McCabe has been named assistant managing editor of the Paris Herald-Tribune and holds forth almost nightly with a host of the great and near-great at La Coupole, Les Deux Magots, and other famous watering spots. We wish you all a very happy holiday and a healthy and prosperous New Year.

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