1951

I would imagine that most of you in the eastern part of the United States are not too happy with this super-frigid, snowy winter. I must confess I find it great since I do a lot of work with the Eastern Ski Area Association and with several ski resorts.

Word comes from Dave Hall that he is relocating to Hanover to open a branch office of his company, Science Applications, Inc. Dave's company is seven years old and he states that most of their contract research activities are with various agencies of federal and state governments. "We specialize in problems in the physical sciences, or ones which have a substantial multidisciplinary character about them. It seemed that both the College and SAI might benefit, were we able-to establish some joint programs. The most identifiable and most likely of the technical issues seemed to center around the work currently being pursued by John Walsh of the physics department. I expect a number of others to surface as time goes on, yet I think that most will be best cultivated once I am physically in Hanover." Moving time will be June for Dave, his wife Babs and children Jenny Lynn 9 and Nate 5.

My Midwest "stringer" Pete Henderson sends information on several classmates. Reed Badgely was just named a v.p. at White Weld. He and Jim Voarird were with G.H. Walker, which was merged with Laird, which was acquired by White Weld. Fred Chandler, another Winnetkan, has assumed some new responsibilities in the international area for Illinois Tool Works. He's .been circling the globe. Jim Balderston has just finished the nine-week MIT advanced management program. He was sent by G. D. Dearie, for whom he directs new ventures and divestitures. Baldy and Peter are scheduled to co-teach a course in venturing at Northwestern's Graduate School of Management this spring. Bob Hopkins, Dave Saxton and Hank Sanders have all just taken the big plunge by turning in their suits at work and are investigating new careers. Pete also states he was recently given the annual O. L. Simpson award (not O. J., much to the dismay of his kids) for service to the village of Winnetka.

Dwight Allison has been elected president and chief executive officer of the Boston Company, In 1965 Dwight left the practice of law to become a vice president and director of Gardner Associates, a Boston investment company. In 1968 he became associated with C. H. Sprague & Son Co., a Boston-based firm engaged in the mining and distribution of coal and petroleum products, serving as president and subsequently chairman and chief executive officer. Most recently he was chairman of the executive committee of the Boston Company. Frank Smallwood, vice president for student affairs and professor of government at the College, presented the first lecture in the 1976-77 Brattleboro Forum series. These lectures are free and open to the public and are made possible through a grant from the Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Issues. Frank has served as a Vermont State Senator in Montpelier from 1973-75 and has recently published Free and Independent which is "the initiation of a college professor into state politics." Combining public service at all levels of government with his academic career, Frank has been involved in projects for the United Nations, the U.S. Atomic Energy Committee, and an urban studies group. He is chairman of the Vermont Higher Education Planning Committee, a member of the American Political Science Association and serves as "Fenceviewer, Town of Norwich."

I'm off to the slopes - so long for now.

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