1932

Last fall at the Harvard game in Hanover, I sat next to Deak Mack and his wife Lois. Deak retired as chairman and chief executive officer of Natural Resources Company on July 1 and is now very active in a number of community activities in Detroit. His long and distinguished career is better covered by Mark Short's newsletter. His classmates are proud of the fact that in 1975 the magazine Financial World named him one of the outstanding chief executive officers of U.S. corporations. During halftime at the game, Deak introduced us to his beautiful daughter Meredith '79. It was the first time I had met a Dartmouth daughter of our class, and it resulted in a little research with the Dartmouth computer as to which one of our classmates had the first daughter to graduate after four full years at the old school.

It turns out that she is Hope McGowan, the daughter of Carl McGowan, our distinguished Justice, U.S. Court of Appeals, whose photograph appeared in the November issue. Hope will graduate in June.

Pete Ostatin, now of Ann Arbor, Mich., was runner up with his daughter Elisa Ann '78, which places Meredith Mack third.

By the time this is printed, Ed Eichler and wife Lois will have returned to Del Mar, Calif., after spending Christmas in Hawaii. Ed is doing a great deal of traveling lately and makes this interesting comment about life in California: "That's one of the troubles of the state. Too many places to go and too many things to do. We love our lovely home in Del Mar, living in a sort of the boondocks, near the ocean with every conceivable sport at our fingertips."

And another Californian, Ray Bartlett, from whom we haven't heard news in too many years, writes a long and interesting letter containing some of our own thinking: "I don't know what I would do if I retired completely. I would like to sail around the world, and I had the perfect boat for it — a 60-foot Alden Schooner, which we lived on in Long Island Sound. Unfortunately, I could not spare the time. So I dreamed about it and read books by men who had done it." Ray, you have company — many other classmates have had similar dreams and hopes. Ray is still active with the Crocker Bank in Fresno as regional manager, supervising the financing of farm machinery, irrigation, and pre-fabricated steel buildings.

Speaking of dreams and travel, there seems to be an unusual amount of wanderlust in our class. During the past few months we have had reports of Jim Corbett on a trip to Europe and then South Africa, sponsored by the Brookby Botanical Gardens; and Ben Drew in Japan last September and again in London in December with Howdie Pierpont. Bo Wentworth sends a card from Puerto Rico last November, and EdMarks hops over to Europe at about the same time. This makes other old travelers like ArtMayes and yours truly get itchy feet. I did see Art Mayes last fall in Stonington, Conn., while we were visiting with the John Zimmermans. Art, who is now retired, was about to check out his winter home at 612 Acacia Drive, Litchfield Park, Ariz. I guess I'd better check out some schedules myself, as I plan to leave for Australia about the middle of February. Keep the good news coming in — its great to hear from all of you.

Your obedient servant,

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