1958

Do you remember Hanover in December? Walking around Occum Pond with the air cold and crisp on your face, you can still hear the rasp of skates on new ice. The basketball team was always taking shape before the holidays. If you stopped at a practice in the old gym, you could watch Dave Carruthers, Henry Hof, HalDouglas, Randy Austin and John Jones listen to Doggie yell. What admirable athletes led the Green Ski Team. They had everything muscle (Bob Gebhardt), grit (Bill Smith), grace (Dave Harwood), and determination (JohnCeely). In my memory, they never lose. Do you remember longing for the holidays and counting the hours until you could drive away, then driv- ing back up the hill into Hanover and feeling a catch in your throat? Wherever you are as you read this, take a moment to think back and then send a Christmas greeting to your Dartmouth friends around the world.

Speaking of Christmas, when you are shop- ping for toys and games, you may look longingly at a Lionel train or a Kraft Master hobby kit, both products of the Fundimensions division of General Mills Fun Group, Inc. Richard Harris was recently named vice presi- dent, research and design, at Fundimensions, Mt. Clemens, Mich., where he had been v.p., marketing. Dick started his career in marketing at Proctor & Gamble, then became product manager-games for the Milton Bradley Com- pany. We will be looking for a B & M replica in the Lionel line, Dick.

Owen Johnson, formerly director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission, has become a member of the law firm of Akin, Gump, Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C. Owen’s new partners main- tain offices in Washington, Dallas, and Houston, with the firm originating in Dallas. Their gain is the consumers loss, as Owen did a splendid job at the FTC.

Congratulations to Dave Hoffman who married Ellen Rose Wheeler in Scarsdale in September. Ellen was formerly a theatrical agent and is a graduate of Marjorie Webster Junior College. Dave, who is an alumnus of both Dartmouth and the Tuck School, is a senior vice president and director of Cross and Brown Real Estate Company.

Hobart Van Deusen married Nanch Vaughan recently in New York. Don Voss was the best man. Hobart’s bride is an assistant trust officer of the Chemical Bank, where Hobart is vice president and head of the estate-administration department. She received a master’s degree in cinema studies from New York University after graduating from Emmanuel College.

b The Wheeler School of Providence, R. 1., recently announced that Mel Alperin is the new president of the school’s board of trustees. Mel and Patty Alperin have a son at Dartmouth and a daughter at Wheeler. The Alperins maintain a j summer place near Hanover, which they love, j Mel is the president of Carol Cable Company of Pawtucket and senior v.p. of Avnet, Inc., of New York.

My wife spends more time with Bill Race than I do, because they serve together on the Northbrook School Board. Bill is a commercial banker with the First National Bank of Chicago. Bill, Ann, and children lived in Paris one year while Bill served in the bank office there, but they returned to Northbrook after their tour.

On a visit to California, I had a delightful dinner with Phil and Marcia Drescher in Ven- tura. Their crescent-shaped home has a view over the pool of the coastline and ocean that can’t adequately be described. Phil has a thriv- ing law practice and Marcia manages the home and takes care of their handsome and talented children. She has also been taking some law school courses.

Mark your 1978 calendars for the mini- reunion in Hanover on October 14, 1978, before the Dartmouth-Yale football game.

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