1937

The closer it gets, the more the realization builds that in only a couple of months we shall be gathering for our seventh formal reunion. You will recall that our fifth was a bust because of the war, but that made the 10th betterattended. Since the 25th we have had annual fall reunions that have proven the cement of class friendships. Singing with the glee club at commencements, we wondered about all those old grey-haired guys bouncing about our campus wearing costumes with name tags affixed. Where did they get all the spirit? Now we know! The spirit and memories are as bright as ever; it's only the flesh that weakens.

Massachusetts politics seem to have taken the toll of one of our classmates. Bill Dwyer, president of the fifteen-campus community college system since 1964, resigned his post last October. Bill, who headed the system through a period of major expansion, felt that administration was getting "too far from education" and said so. There are 77,000 students in that system, in colleges spread all over the state. One of his colleagues summed it up to the press, saying that they were losing one of the ablest educators in the business. We have not heard what Bill and new wife Kathy are doing, but there was talk of travel. We had a similar situation year when Glendora Putnam got squeezed out of her state-sponsored job and ended up in Washington with HUD.

We have been holding a nice letter from BillLyons. Formerly Pan American's UK director based in London, he ended up with them as vice president, Latin America. In 1970 he joined Boyden Associates and is now vice president, Boyden International Ltd., based back in London. This is one of the original executive search companies now operating world-wide. His second wife, Catusha, was born in Portugal, grew up in France, and was educated in Switzerland. They were married in 1953. He frequently runs into Dartmouth men from other classes, but no 37's in the area. He maintains contact with JohnMeston and had a date with Pete Ffolliott in London that had to be postponed because Pete had an unfortunate accident. Hey, Pete, what's that all about? Bill says reunion appears to be out of the picture but sends his very best to all.

Bill Falion answered our request for news from the Denver area. He took early retirement from Johns-Manville and is now happy selling homes. He has been unable to contact DaytMorgan but sees Fritz Pansing and DonMcKinlay frequently. During Fran Fenn's reunion-giving visit he procured news from DonChisholm, who went to Annapolis after our sophomore year and is now heading up a business called Industrial Mineral Ventures in Golden, Colo. Bill reported sadly that DickMacCornack has been very sick for a year and in a nursing home where it has been touch and go between maximum and minimum care. Hang in there, Dick; we're thinking of you.

Big and well-deserved congratulations to Frank Robin, who at the head agents meeting in Hanover last December was awarded the James B. Reynolds Trophy Citation by the Alumni Fund Committee which recognized him as the outstanding head agent of a class 25 to 40 years out of college. (We knew how good he was all along so it was only a question of time before the College caught on.)

Another kudo goes to Charley Blaisdell, who received special honors as the past president of the FBI Alumni Association at a function in New York. Last year Charley also underwent abdominal surgery that kept him quiet for a while, but now he is back fulltime at lawyering. Also, Bob Marschalk, vice chairman of the board of Richardson-Merrell (pharmaceuticals) has been named chairman of the National Urban Coalition's financial development committee. He has been a member since 1974 of this national civic organization to improve the quality of life in our cities.

We have in hand some 260 returned cards for the directory, and in addition some 60 duplicates - but just as well: added or forgotten information on some are worth it, as are a few address changes like Bob Blackmail's switch from Ohio State to Cornell. We wrote to him offering congratulations to our adopted member and adding that it did give us a feeling of uneasiness come football season. The directory goes to the printer the end of April.

Yumi and Jack Smith '36: Neither snow,nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night...

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