1961

In my short stint as secretary I have come to marvel at the ability of '61s to work something pleasurable into their business activities, and doubtless legitimately claim all the expenses as tax deductions. The undisputed champion business-pleasure mixer for this month is Skip Kendall, mild-mannered insurance executive residing at the enviable address of 3 Dartmouth Lane in Rochester, N.H. I've been wondering whether the Kendalls live at the beginning or end of that street, or both. Anyway, it just so happens that Skip's firm helps manage a group insurance program for about 300 ski resorts across the country. Serving these policy holders enables Skip to leave "the swinging city of Rochester [his phrase, not mine] on a more regular basis." Oh yes, it also just so happens that Skip, his wife Patsy, and their three children are all avid skiers.

Skip reports that he and Patsy get together with proper Bostonians Bill and AnnHaynsworth several times a year, and also hear from Pat Walsh, who is with Pepsico in Caracas. Venezuela, and travels extensively in South America to establish a Pepsi generation with a Latin beat.

By roundabout means we have an update on Peter Holbrook's career as an artist. John Weatherley, 1931 class secretary, requested information from Peter's father, Richard Holbrook '31, and received and forwarded the following: After graduation Peter did the almost obligatory year of study in Paris, and then studied at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art. His paintings now feature representational nature scenes, especially the wild flowers and trees growing in the beautiful underworld in and around California's redwood forests. They are part of a long series exploring the unique characteristic vision of the camera. Peter has long had associations with major galleries in Chicago and San Francisco, and doubtless other places I don't know about, and he is now affiliated with the ADI Gallery in San Francisco, and lives in Redway, Calif.

Will Wood has also been working in Latin America, since 1964, and we have received news of a promotion effec- tive at the start of this year. Crocker Bank has appointed Will as a senior vice president of its international divi- sion. He has been the manager of the Latin American and Caribbean area operations since joining Crocker in 1975, and before that Will held managerial posts with Citibank in Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. Since Crocker Bank is headquartered in San Francisco, the change of employers should enable Will to get back to his old home stomping grounds more frequently.

While the Straits of Juan de Fuca sounds like someplace down in Pat and Will's part of the world, it's actually up in the State of Washington, and the home of Sam and MarthaBaker. Always an outdoorsman and advocate of the Pacific Northwest, Sam has established his medical practice as an orthopedic physician and surgeon in Port Angeles, close to the Olympic National Park. Sam says he and Martha and their son and daughter enjoy living in their lovely small community, and Sam finds his practice "very enjoyable." Shall we all join Doctor Sam in a joyous rendition of "Dry Bones"?

The college secretary's latest roster of alumni officers has an excellent narcotic effect as bedtime reading, but before dozing off, I noted that a number of '6ls are leading the Big D alumni clubs where granite-brained grads gather, "though round the girdled earth they roam." First and foremost are the unsung workhorses who really make things happen in any organization the secretaries. They include Mike Kirst at Stanford, Noel Kuhrt in Wilmington, KenKolb in New Orleans, Mark Grady in Kansas City, Robert Goff in Montana, Lauren Mason in Monmouth County, N.J., and Dave Prewitt in Philadelphia.

Then there are the glory boys, the alumni club presidents: Art Latimer in New Haven, MikeMurphy in the Orlando-Winter Park area of Florida, Dave Cook in Western Washington, Vic Rich in New York's Westchester County, John Henry in Western Oklahoma, and DougHopton in the Philippines. Doug single-handedly justifies the "girdled earth" quote, which was obviously written by an Emmett who never knowingly crossed a longitudinal or latitudinal line in his life, else he would have known that those girdles exist only in cartographers' perverse minds.

On that profound thought I'll hang it up for another month. Don't forget to get organized to attend the reunion June 17-19. Even if you think the rest of your classmates are absurd, you should consider returning for the reunion and writing a best-selling book about the whole affair. An Ivy Leaguer should be able to do better than the people who wrote the study of a Beverly Hills high school class and sold a lot of copies.

Dartmouth family soccer is becoming a tradition in Seattle. Gathered here with theirfamilies after a match are Jack Hodgson '60 (seated, back row), Jack Crowley 56(striped shirt), Dave Sloper '60 and Dave Harrison '60 (both standing).

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