1974
As another class of undergraduates is magically and instantly transformed into alumni and alumnae, the same ceremonial circumstances of three years past come to mind. We recall Class Day orations in a beautifully green Bema, a hot march from the gym, Dean Brewster's admiration and trusty handshakes, and words of wisdom from the President.
News of '74s abounds. Resuming the chronology of last month's column, next is a clip from the Killington-Pico paper, sent last February, that announced the appointment of Steve Murphy as head alpine coach for the Pico Ski Club racing program. A former member of the U.S. national alpine talent squad and co-captain of the Dartmouth ski team, Steve most recently was on the world professional ski racer's tour. Congratulations!
The Sunday edition of The New York Times revealed February 13 the plans of Paul Klaas and Barbara Brockhaus to be wed in July after he graduates from Harvard Law School. His fiancée, a graduate of Smith College, is a marketing specialist at the Shawmut Bank in Boston.
Now at the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Ariz., Rick Sample wrote that after returning to the U.S. from his teaching post in Lugano, Switzerland, he spent the summer at home in Missouri as a carpenter and painter before beginning a position with Time Share Inc. in Hanover. Recalling his nice surroundings, he was glad to have spent three months living near Union Village Dam before school in January. Both happy and busy, Rick contemplates a future in international finance or in importing and exporting.
Another February note came from Dave VonLoesecke, now an applications engineer in the applied research and development department of Air Products and Chemicals Co. in Allentown, Pa. Dave began the new position last November after completing his M.S. in engineering at Thayer School but has still found time to make numerous trips north to visit friends.
A newspaper article sent in early March cites Dave Goodwin as a full-time professional at The Tennis Barn in Newington, N.H., the seacoast area's newest indoor tennis facility. Formerly captain of the Dartmouth freshman team, Dave was manager and teaching professional at the Laconia Lake Shores Tennis Center and played four months of competitive tennis in Amarillo before spending two years as head pro at the Down River Racquet Club in Detroit.
After finishing "budget season" for his job in brand management at Proctor and Gamble, Bruce A. "Willie" Williamson sent more news from Cincinnati. He notes that after graduation this spring from Stanford Business School, RickWoolworth plans to return east for a post with an investment banking firm in NYC. Also, BillNewcomb graduates from Albany Law School this June and plans to work for a firm in his hometown of Buffalo. Jerry Bowe was promoted to assistant to the vice president in charge of marketing at International Paper in New York, and, according to Willie, Jerry and Eleanor expected their first child at the end of April. Congratulations on both scores! He mentions working with Bruce Miller, now working on advertising Crisco oil, and Jeff Jones, at work on Pamper's diapers, adding that JefFs wife Rita works in public relations for Shillito's Department Stores. On a recent trip, Willie visited Perry Ballard, now finishing his third year at Emory Medical School. He cites PaulMesches, an assistant account executive for Compton Advertising Agency in NYC, who works on the account for Duncan Hines, and Al King who is with Drackett Co., a subsidiary of Bristol Meyers, as an assistant product manager for Vanish toilet bowl cleaner. Willie reveals that Al "is frequently seen at three in the morning in the local White Castle burger emporium here, the Midwest equivalent of the Tally House." In a very noteworthy concluding remark, Willie announces plans to marry Janet G. Bagley (Mount Holyoke '74) on September 10. Congratulations!
Through the Rockies on a skiing vacation were Dick and Kim Cates, now in Bozeman, Mont., where Dick prepares himself for a master's program in soil chemistry at Montana State University. Last winter Dick won the admiration of many a Montanan by placing second in the Cow Chip Flying Contest at the Montana State Winter Fair. With a respectable distance of 141 feet 11 inches, Dick lost first place to Clyde Pack by 1 foot 10 inches! He was also believed to have been third in the 17-km citizen's cross-country ski race. The news was shared over vittles and country-western music, along with Fritz Meyer '73, now with Bosworth Sullivan & Co., Inc., at the home of Annie and John Upton, '76 and '75. Dick and Kim met at Vail with Doug Richmond '75, a professional ski patrolman at Copper Mountain, John Richey '76, at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Bill Perell, now in Memphis with Cook Industries, Todd Mosenthal '76, and other former Psi U's. Dick recounted that GreggKelley, still with Northwest Bankcorporation in Minneapolis, skied the grueling 55-km Birkebeiner cross-country ski race last winter, a feat of distinction among cross-country runners.
Sent from Hanover in mid-April was news of two engagements and one wedding. The New Canaan Advertiser (Conn.) reported plans of a May wedding in Hollywood, Fla., for Tom VanBenschoten and Catherine Cowdery. Tom is now with Broadstreet Communications Co., owner of station WELI in New Haven, and his financée, a graduate of Barnard College, receives her master's degree in science this spring from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Gary Wells, a teacher in the Orford, N.H., school system, was wed February 19 to Colleen Stetson of North Pomfret; MikeEinhorn was an usher. Announcing their engagement were Mike Pancoe and Eleanor Degan (Mount Holyoke '74); a May wedding was planned to take place in Glencoe, Ill. Mike receives his M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School this June and Eleanor has been a public relations writer and fund-raiser for Harvard University, according to the clipping. Congratulations, thrice!
Time "in Music City comes to a close soon" for Tom Csatari, graduating this spring from Vanderbilt Law School, and his wife Judy Burrows Csatari '76. He wrote in mid-April of his job in a Hartford law firm and said that they expect their first-born in August. Feeling welcome already, they were lucky to have the help of Eddie Perrin '37 in hunting for a house in West Hartford.
Returning to medical school at the University of California in San Francisco from a vacation at home on the East Coast, John Danforth visited briefly in Denver long enough to recount his success in two vital livlihoods: He was an acting intern in pediatrics at Children's Hospital - an uncommon duty for a third-year student - and he runs a healthy lobster business in the area, serving the best restaurants on Fisherman's Wharf!
Activities under the wing of head agent ChrisGates and assistant head agent Peter Blodgett brought news that Bernie Duenwald will soon enter into partnership with his father's business raising wheat and barley on 2100 acres near Spokane, Wash. In the hectic state of examosis is Jim Miller, soon to be finished at Columbia Law School. He notes that Rick Williams is now a corporate bond trader for Stuart Bros. in NYC. Finishing up with law school at NYU is Charlie Krumbach, who mentioned a recent visit with John Cone, now a vice president of Hartford Mills Inc. (Vt.) under his father. Ken Marable cites interesting work with the New York Federal Reserve Bank as a bank examiner, and Scott Mason, on leave from the New York firm of Marsh & McLennan, was completing his first year of Harvard Business School along with Darrell Vange. Thanks to all these and others, '74s will be able to exhibit a strong showing in this year's fund!
Another school year thus draws quickly to a close. As members of our class reach more permanent modes of employment, may they be reminded of the countless news-readers eager to learn of the latest '74 occurrences!
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