1963

Trudy Parton has tired of my short column. Maybe," she wrote recently, "you should appeal to wives, mothers and girlfriends to brag about the '635."

Why maybe? Wives, mothers, girlfriends your husbands, sons and lovers are afflicted with acute modesty. Only you can help them, by exposing their achievements to their classmates. Write to me. My wife will understand.

To underscore her point, Trudy revealed this little-known fact about her husband Charlie: He and his playing partner are ranked tenth nationally in the platform tennis ratings — up from 16th last year. Platform tennis is played on a raised court about two thirds the area of a tennis court. It is enclosed by a screen. A fast game, it is played only as doubles. Charlie evidently finds in the sport an excellent way to meld his tennis and squash experience. From what Trudy says, he and his partner travel across the country to play matches. When not doing that, he is enjoying being a "general" banker in Red Bank, N.J., after having been a specialist for several years.

Trudy also reports recent calls from DougCooper and Vinny DiFiglia. Both wanted to know more about the June road trip to Hanover.

So thanks, Trudy. I hope your idea prompts others to put '63s' modesty in mothballs.

Ironically, I have an unusually plentiful supply of class news this month. A fellow class secretary, Stephen Severson in Denver, sent a clipping from the Denver Post which showed a picture of Evan Lasky presenting a television set to a boy whose apartment had been burglarized shortly before Christmas. Evan was providing the set on behalf of Budget Tapes and Records, a franchise which he and his father operate throughout the Denver area. My thanks, Mr. Severson, for the clip.

I also have to thank Dan Nelson '75, who edits these notes in Hanover, for sending along some items from the Dartmouth AnthropologyNotes. That newsletter scooped me on the return of Denis Bassett to the Hanover area after some time on the West Coast. Denis and Genie are living in Wilder. Denis is working for Lester Chevrolet in Hanover and Genie teaching remedial English in the Hartford, Vt., school system. Their two daughters are in the Wilder school. Also noted is Larry Swift, with M.B.A. in hand, who has joined the personnel department of Commercial Union Assurance Companies. He and Marilyn and their two children have moved into larger quarters in East Gloucester, Mass., near ocean-side.

Now, on to those few classmates who are not, thank Eleazar, modest:

Tom MacCary is getting a book published by Columbia University Press. I can't make out the title of it in his note, but it is an outgrowth of work he did in 1963-65 as a Reynolds Scholar at Cambridge University. When the ALUMNI MAGAZINE reviews the book, we'll learn more about it, even its title. Meanwhile, Tom is now in the department of French and Latin at Columbia.

Cole Letteney never fails to scribble something on the back of his dues notice. He's returning to the Dallas area after a year and a half in Singapore and Southeast Asia, including the jungles of New Guinea. He also found time to teach recently at petroleum engineering schools in Cairo and Dacca, Bangladesh.

Steve Lister has issued a standing invitation to '63s to visit him in Mexico City. Colgate- Palmolive has installed him there as financial vice president.

Peter Stevenson is still with Chase Manhattan Bank, but no longer in their Seoul, Korea, branch. He recently returned fom his three years there to become vice president in New York, responsible for East Asian matters.

Have you got a ride lined up for the road trip?

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