1975
It seems as though everyone took their pens out of cold storage during March and April so there is much news to report. Steve Gaige is in law school at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord. Steve writes, "now that we have our new building complete we are all helping President Robert Rines with his continual search for Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster. So far no signs of him in the White Park Loch."
Walt Evans recently wrote that he, PatMac Donald, and Larry Johnson are all "isolated in Washington Heights at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons." Walt continues, "Occasionally we receive word from folks downtown, like Duke Hart, that the business world is alive and well. Most of the Dartmouth males at P & S play rugby football and have beaten Cornell Med and Jim Thiel and Tom Snickenberger, also '75s.... I start a rotation in medicine at Harlem Hospital soon and can't wait to finish basic science."
Word from Midland, Mich., is that ChrisMcConnell received his M.S. in chemical engineering in September 1976, "regrettably from Purdue, the unquestionably most conservative and backward school in the country." Chris goes on to say, "I met one girl - I think. Then I promptly started work with Dow Chemical in Midland, Mich., as a production engineer. Good job, good pay. However, I was wrong about Purdue. Midland is far more desolate. Any Big Greeners in Michigan, please stop by (especially female types)."
Bob Sullivan's note is worth quoting verbatim (well, almost verbatim!). "Things are awesome in Hanover where I'm working for Profiles magazine. Loving my work - writing about a feature a month and editing a boatload. Just returned from a Florida vacation with JohnKilmartin and Kid Vaeth of our Class. They re both awesome. The sun was awesome. Orlando was awesome. Fort Lauderdale was awesome! I hear Dan Magee's out in California, law- schooling it somewhere. It's not that I can't leave Hanover, It's just that..."
When asked recently if he ever had any desire to leave Hanover, Sully replied, "Aw, some." Since February 1, Tom Meigs has been working for Theta Delta Chi as a national field secretary all over the country. When not on the road, Tom lives at the "Grand Lodge" in Boston. When he is not drinking with John Reidy '76 in Beantown, he finds himself drink- ing with him in Hanover.
Mike Sites is finishing his second year at the New England School of Law and is working part-time at the law offices of Keith, Reed, Wheatley, and Frenette, for two Dartmouth alums: John R. Wheatley '24 and John C. Wheatley '56. Mike recently organized an alum- ni dinner for his alumni club in April and just concluded interviews for prospective '81s.
Clark Keith reports, "Upon terminating my undergraduate career with the rest of my '75 classmates, I entered that beloved Thayer School and am just now (after 17 months of underwhelming engineering) about to enter the illusive world of work. I will soon be departing from this beautiful Hanover plain (with its solitary Thayer School eyesore) for the wretched life in sunny, smoggy Los Angeles to work for Systems Development Corporation as a computer-type with the responsibility of telling the Air Force that the rest of the world is crazy - such is the way of life's little ironies!
Bonnie Carey, certainly one of the Class of '75s best correspondents, recently sent me a nice note which included her disagreement with the Magazine's policy of not printing wedding pictures. Bonnie is definitely not alone in her view and I am sure that the issue will be raised at the annual Class Officers Meeting.
In concluding her note, Bonnie wrote the following, "It's hard to believe we've all been gone nearly two years. I guess Dorothy felt the same way about leaving Oz. (God - you can certainly tell that I'm teaching creative writing and film criticism. I do apologize.)"
Glen R. Tryson has joined the General Electric Research Center in Schenectady, N.Y., as a chemist, according to an announcement by Dr. Peter C. Juliano, manager of the polymer properties and reactions branch. Glen received his degree in chemistry from Dartmouth and his M.S. in chemistry from the University of Chicago.
Six representatives of Dartmouth, including Gregory B. Northcraft, have received the highly competitive National Science Foundation graduate fellowships. According to the Dartmouth News Service, only 550 of these fellowships were granted this year in the entire United States.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth, Greg won highest honors in psychology and high honors in Russian. He also graduated summa cum laude and received a James B. Reynolds Scholarship to study for an honors B.A. degree at Magdalen College, Oxford University, and plans to study sociology at Stanford University.
Another note from the News Service indicated that "An unrestricted grant of $3,500 was recently voted by the board of directors of the AMOCO Foundation, Inc., for Dartmouth College. In giving the funds AMOCO noted its long-time interest in engineering and earth sciences at Dartmouth and the College's development officials indicated that the grant would be spent in those areas.
"The presentation of the grant was made by Jeffrey Barndt, a member of the Class of 1975 at Dartmouth. An employee of AMOCO, Jeff is currently on leave from the company in order to complete his master's degree in geology at Dartmouth."
We're out of room for now. Please remember the good times at Dartmouth and, thus, the Alumni Fund. See you next month.
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