1968
Greetings from the windy city. If you're wondering where to stay during your travels this summer, why not let Arthur Gramer of Ramada Inns be your host? Art is now director of advertising and promotion for the worldwide association of nearly 700 Inns and is based at world headquarters in Phoenix. Art has been with Ramada for three years. Prior to this he was with Leo Burnett Advertising Agency in Chicago after earning an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Class President JohnMcNamara is now an assistant vice president Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank (November '76). You will recall that Mac was' his own solar heating business and previously associated with Industrial National Bank of Providence. His current responsibility is as ' marketing manager in charge of pension fund business development.
Happy Jack's Restaurant, Lewiston, Maine was the January 12 setting for an address by Bill Kendall, president and treasurer of Payment an-Transfer Incorporated (PATSI), a compute service licensed as a consumer bill-paying program (no pun intended). He addressed the members of Credit Women International We trust your wife and three kids were there to protect you, Bill. Dr. Dave Sigelman has joined Holyoke Pediatric Associates in Holyoke Mass., and has been named to the staffs of Providence, Holyoke and Bay State Medical Center Hospitals. Dave attended Dartmouth and Harvard Medical Schools, completing the latter in 1972. This was followed by internship and residency at Mass. General Hospital. Boston, and a year as a visiting instructor in pediatrics at the Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. Dave and Patricia have a daughter Kate.
Dick Birnie, now assistant professor of geology at Dartmouth, is working on a project "aimed at increasing the self-taught capability in courses on optical mineralogy." The project, funded by the National Science Foundation, will result in the assembly of video cassettes with color motion pictures and sound, to aid geology students in learning'how to use petrographic microscopes. Another class geologist is WoodyThompson, now working for the Maine Bureau of Geology while wife Louise teaches high school. Woody completed his Ph.D. at Ohio State University last year, followed by a trip to Romania, sponsored by Russell Sage College. The Thompsons took in one of Dracula's castles!
Pete and Phyllis Hoffman built a wood and solar heated house in Canterbury, N.H., where they now reside with daughter Gail. Since 1974, Pete has been working on a major environmen- tal impact statement concerning the location of 1-93 through the White Mountains in the vicinity of Franconia Notch. Boston ... DennisWolshonak has been dancing in the production of Oklahoma at the Chateau De Ville Dinner Theatre and teaching at U. Mass., Boston, and at the Joy of Movement Center (which, says Dennis, "is not a dispensary for laxatives, despite its name") where Don Miller also instructs. Last summer Dennis choreographed NoNo Nannette for the North Country Community Theater (Upper Valley area) with a helping hand from Jim Tonkovich (production manager) and Eric Jones (program).
Bill and Jini Martens, along with three children, have been in Manila, Philippines, for a year. Bill is a lending officer for the World Corporation Group of Citibank, dealing with multinational corporations located in the Philippines. He was in the Navy from '68 to '72 and graduated from Tuck in '73. Say hello to Subic Bay for those of us who remember it well! Andy and Jane Montz and daughter are in Delmar, N.Y., where Andy is an environmental policy analyst for the New York Public Service Commission while also working on a Ph.D. af SUNY Albany. As a civil servant, And) attempts to "cut through all the bull ... but try not to pass it any further."
Bob and Ellen Florin have been in New Haven for the past eight years (seven of which married) for medical school and residency in psychiatry at Yale. Ellen is a social worker and they have a son. Dr. Bob reports that Richard Gass is attorney living in Boston with his wife and Haunter, and Bill Barker is in Canada pursuing a ph.D in English. Bob would like to know the thereabouts of Andy Epstein and Bill Escovitz where are you guys? Steve Calvert is now director of the Dartmouth Alumni College and Seminar Program. The Calverts have a new house, their first child and saw Dale Marshall at the Portland, Ore., seminar last September. Bob and Linda Haslach are in the Netherlands where Bob works for the Dutch World Broadcasting System and Linda is a soloist. Bob mentions that Ford and Carter looked very strange from his side of the Atlantic. In Scandinavia, Hans and Marianne Mehren "received boy number three" in January '76. They are hoping to make the Oslo to Hanover trip in '78 and had a great tour of Kenya and Tanzania which included a safari, fishing and climbing Mt. Kenya!
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