1955

Pickings were pretty slim this month until Web Wilde came through with a slew of postcards bearing answers to his provocative questionnaire that was sent to all classmates. Before that bonanza arrived we had gotten on the horn to try to get some interesting material with some pithy results.

A call to East Greenwich, R.I., interrupted Bill Wesselhoeft as he made a tossed salad of the Sunday paper. Bill is a pediatric surgeon at the Rhode Island Hospital. He and Pat have four children. They range in age from a daughter who is a sophomore at Vassar to a son who is in the third grade. In between are a daughter in business school and another girl who is a junior in high school.

What passion Bill has left in him at this advanced age is reserved for flying. Bill owns a Bellanca in which he spends as much time as possible. Last summer he and Pat flew to Montreal for the Olympics. The year before they flew to the Bahamas for a little R & R.

Bill offered to pick up Susan and me in his plane and fly us down to his home for dinner. The last time we had dinner with him he fell asleep before dessert. His hours are a little better now (he was a resident then) but we were still a little concerned about a flight home. Bill assured us he could fly in his sleep but we decided not to risk it.

A call to Bob Fanger produced the news that Dick Brief has been teaching in Rio de Janeiro since September. He is on a sabbatical from N.Y.U. Graduate School of Business. Dick's field is accounting and he has had several pieces published over the years.

Bob also reported that Dick DuBoff is teaching at Bryn Mawr. He is an economic historian. Dick's wife Solange teaches French (her native language) at the college level. They live in Haverford, Pa., with their eleven-year-old daughter Amanda.

The College informs us that our Class was greatly in evidence as 55's represented Dartmouth at the inaugurations of various college presidents this past fall. Frank Chase was at the inauguration of Andrew Billingsley as president of Morgan State University. Harry Weil was present at Bethany College when William Tucker was installed as president of that West Virginia College. Mike Fletcher attended the inauguration of Richard Gottier as president of Western New England College and Bob DeBruyn was present as Richard Schleusener became president of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

A clipping from the November Dartmouth Anthropology Notes reveals that Alan Cook is working on various native land-claim projects from a base at McGill University. Since Alan lived in the Indian village at Schefferville in 1961 he should be very familiar with the Schefferville Naskapi Band claims. Wouldn't it be ironic if the courts hold that New Hampshire really belongs to the Indians (along with Maine and Mashpee, Mass.) but that if they want to settle in Hanover they'll have to call themselves "woodsmen."

A card from Mickey Stultz says, "Just back from three months in South Africa, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and timed to have me on hand for Transkei independence in Umtata on October 26. This experience was the highlight of my academic career to date which has been focused on South Africa since I first went there immediately after graduation in 1955."

Tom Roulston writes that Gus Aberle joined his investment firm, Roulston & Company, Inc., in December. He will head the London office. That's a far cry from Miami for Gus but they are both excited by the prospect of exroommates getting together again after 21 years.

Lt. Col. John Lewis' wife Jean, knowing that her husband would "never get to it," returned the card bearing the information that John is currently the student commander at the Defense Language Institute at Monterey. There are 2300 students studying more than 30 languages at the school and the Lewises feel it is a super assignment.

Prior to this post they were stationed in Belgium for four interesting years.

Let's hope more of you wives take pen in hand in the next few months. I guarantee if I think it is in good taste (and that implies broad parameters) your items will appear in print. Then you'll be able to tell your cocktail companions that you've been published.

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