1965

Experiencing the change to fall weather in New England always stirs up old memories of those first few months at Dartmouth. Many of my own happiest moments back then were spent on the black waters of the Connecticut rowing from late afternoon into dusk. Many of you should also remember the time spent first in the cumbersome barge, then in those ghastly, heavy, cast-off shells with three-eights inches of varnish and fiberglass patches, and finally in the comparativly feather-light “new” shells. Perhaps you remember our disreputable appearance heightened by the smell and stains of the grease we applied liberally to oarlocks and leather oar sleeves. But basically, crew at that time was a disreputable, undernourished, club sport at Dartmouth. Now, so much of that has changed with an influx of recognition, accreditation, and money. To sustain the level of current interest in crew and extend its-impact, a group has been founded called Friends of Dartmouth Rowing. Two of our classmates are listed on the Friends letterhead as directors: Crossan “Bo” Anderson and Bob Ernst. With a bullhorn at his lips and a power boat underfoot, another former “hinge” is also keeping his oar in the water. In Jim Ramsey gave the “Ready.all .. . ready .. / row!” command to 50 shells at the second an-- nual Head of the Tennessee regatta sponsored by the University of Tennessee rowing club. How many of you other 34-year-olds are still blistering your hands and wracking your backs on a long oar?

Another form of stirring the waters around the University of Tennessee is being done by an associate professor of syntax, syllables, and Shakespeare. Jumping into a nine-year-old desegregation case, Peter Jordan is leading faculty attempts to respond to court-ordered ac- tion to remedy segregation in post high-school education. In January a Federal District Court judge ordered the University of Tennessee at Nashville to merge with the predominately black Tennessee State University also in Nashville.

Meanwhile, back at the Charles River en- virons, we have received various news releases regarding other Big Greeners. Stephen Horvath has been appointed business manager and con- troller of Butterworth Publishing Inc. Steve may find a way to storm over the Atlantic aboard the Concorde since he will also act as a liaison on operating plans between the Woburn, Mass., office and Butterworths of London. One part of his job that intrigued me is his respon- sibility for "fulfillment operations.”

William Rust is now vice president of the commercial banking division of State Street Bank and Trust Company where he has been since starting as a loan officer in 1969. We’ve been working in the same building for four years and have never crossed paths.

Across the clogged Southeast Expressway by footbridge from Bill and me is what I at one time considered to be the most ridiculous hotel I had ever stumbled across I could find neither a reception desk nor a bell captain. Later I learned that said building was not one of the famed Sheraton hotels, but merely its corporate offices. Since 1973 Terry Guiney has been part of the Sheraton system and now has risen to the level of director of credit. This puts him in charge of credit policy and receivables for Sheraton hotels worldwide another Concorde candidate. Terry’s path to the Sheraton Building was via Harvard, Adamation Inc., Watts Regulator Cos., and Eastern Gas and Fuel.

The August 4, 1977 Boston Herald carried a five-column spread on a new federally funded agency to attack Boston unemployment. Mayor White announced that leading the Employment and Economic Policy Agency will be that venerable job-hopper Charles M. Atkins. From Hanover he has stopped off at Yale for an M.S. at MIT, at the Department of Defense, at New York City to plan health expenditures and manage drug treatment programs, at City Bank to manage employment operations, at Har- vard’s School of Public Health, and most recently at Public Business Inc. of Burlington. Just refilling his old positions would clear Boston’s street corners!

It is now United Way Fund season and heading the Brookline, Mass., effort is LarryDuffy who is still part of the Brookline Selectmen’s Office. Larry not only continues his role in the U.S. Naval Institute and U.S. Naval Reserve, but also is a member of the Brookline Blood Emergency Action Team.

Those dark waters of the Connecticut flowing past Hanover empty out into the Atlantic at Old Saybrook just west of Groton where you can find Joseph Dolben walking the fence lines as manager of real estate operations for Arkwright-Boston Manufacturers Mutual In- surance Company. Joe joined A-B 1 in 1973 after an M.BoA. at the Yard, and has just been made an assistant vice president.

I To afl-af'you fellows, Anne and I extend a \hdpe of good fellowship for the holiday season and offer a toast of success in your living next year. Please put us on your card list and send pictures of the kids.

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