1961

The June reunion will be history by the time you read this, but you'll have to wait for the September issue for a full report on who was there, what they did, said and drank, when, where, why and how. For now, let me just express publicly the thanks of all to the hardworking and innovative reunion committee: Bill Collishaw, Vic Rich, Henry Eberhardt, Dennis Dinan, Tom McDonough, Chip Serrell, Tom Conger, Dave Armstrong, Jack Reno, Skip Bean, Frank Greenberg, John White, and last but not least, Dave Prewitt, our chairman and Philadelphia lawyer, who got all the "T's" dotted and his eyes crossed in a tremendous year-long effort.

Getting back to the workaday world, we have news that Bruce Callahan has been appointed vice president for business development at Continental National Assurance Company. Working out of CNA's headquarters in Chicago, Bruce is charged with developing objectives and plans for sales production, manpower and sales office profits. He earned an M.B.A. at Harvard and a graduate certificate from the University of Copenhagen, and 'was the regional sales manager for Metropolitan Life in Indianapolis before joining CNA.

Secretary Joseph Califano has appointed Richard Beattie as HEW's deputy general counsel, making him second in command of a staff of 350 lawyers. Richard, his wife Diana, and their two daughters will be moving from Rye, N.Y., to the Washington area, and Richard will be leaving his partnership position with the New York law firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, where he has specialized in corporate finance. On the pro bonopublico side, during his years as a practicing lawyer in New York, Richard has served as trustee of one nonprofit corporation providing legal services for the poor and as a board member of another supporting public education in the City, and he was a member of the legal assistance committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Terry Ortwein now heads the drama department at Choate Rosemary Hall, where he recently directed a production of Jean Anouilh's Antigone. For a while Terry was director of drama at Hanover High and directed a summer congregation of the arts at Dartmouth before going on to become director of the humanities center and chairman of the drama department at Wabash College. During his career Terry has directed such popular shows as Pajama Game,Guys and Dolls. Boy Friend, and Thurber's Carnival, all of which sounds like more fun than work to those of us whose dramatic careers began and ended, all in one night, in the interfraternity play competition.

Professor Larry Gleason donned his cap and gown again to represent the College (you know which One) at the inauguration of a new president of the Texas Woman's University in Denton, Tex., where Larry is on the faculty. He certainly knows which kind of non-coeducational institution is preferable.

We also have a postscript on the careers of two artistic classmates we reported on earlier this year. First, an acrylic plastic sculpture by Bruce Beasley entitled "Titiopoli's Lighthouse" has been loaned to the College by James Wicker '21, with the intention of donating the work at a later date. Mr. Wicker and his wife have been active in promoting the arts in Oakland, Calif., and nearby East Bay communities, where Bruce has worked since leaving Dartmouth.

Second. David Birney bounced back from the cancellation of the "Serpico" series to star in a six-hour television production of "Testimony of Two Men." immodestly billed as "Taylor Caldwell's gripping novel of two surgeons' passion for their work and their women" in the ads in TV Guide. This independently produced program was shown in our area in May, but may be scheduled in your part of the country later. It's worth seeing.

This column concludes my interim term of a little over a year as class secretary. It has been enjoyable, at least for me, to become reacquainted with so many classmates, if only by mail. I have learned that while we seemed to be a pretty well homogenized group as undergraduates, a lot has happened to and around us since, and contrary to the popular belief at the time, it now appears that we didn't know it all when we were certified out in June 1961.

Finally, to put a reverse twist on Richard Nixon's 1962 farewell to the press, I realize as I give up the column that I won't have the Class of '61 to kick around any more.

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