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It's delightful to write with the summer accumulation of news in hand. For instance, everyone in the Class will certainly join in congratulating Charlie and Tania Pierce on their wedding in April. The genial Charlie and bride live in Lawrenceville, N.J., and report a wonderful evening last spring in San Francisco with Don Klages, Dan Varty, and their families.
The election of Mike Dikman as president of the Queens County Bar Association also deserves congratulations. Mike's well known accomplishments in handball, including the 1974 AAU National Open Doubles Championship, the 1977 USHA National Masters Singles Championship, and the 1977 and 1978 New Jersey State Singles Championship, should not overshadow his service to the legal profession and his community. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, active in numerous other legal organizations, and is the past president of the Jamaica Lions Club, as well as a current member of the board of managers of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce. Mike and Pricilla have two teenagers, a boy and a girl. Mike looks great in the picture enclosed with an article I received but which unfortunately will not reproduce here.
Ernest Zwick sent an appreciated response to my inquiry from his home in Oslo, Norway, where he lives and operates his own business as a consultant tp the pulp and paper industry. He travels throughout Europe and occasionally reaches the United States. The Zwicks have four children and all the family enjoy skiing and boating. Last year the Zwick household hosted a party of Big Green friends, including Chris Bugge '50, Tony Morse '55, Pete Kirby '56, and Egil Stigum '56. After exchanging some ski stories and depleting the liquid refreshments, they called Tom Corcoran '54 in Waterville Valley, N.H., to inquire about snow conditions. Ernie obviously has not lost his sense of humor.
Larry Hampton has been promoted to international managing director of Sarragan, a Swiss company with two French sporting-goods subsidiaries which sell sports textiles, athletic footwear, balls, and equipment. Larry's immediate aim is to expand sales outside France by building a larger network of importers and distributors throughout the world. Dartmouth friends traveling through France can reach Larry at his office at 2 Rue d'Amboise, Paris, or possibly in Strasbourg, where he maintains his residence.
The international executive recruiting firm of Boyden Associates recently acquired the valued services of John Foster for senior-level U.S. and international recruiting assignments. John has been a division vice president of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. He and wife June live in Darien, Conn.
Occasionally I speak to Jim Davidow, who has been the president of the national consumer auto-leasing subsidiary of First National Bank of Chicago. Jim's firm was recently acquired by General Electric Credit Corp., so Jim is now the president of GEC Auto Leasing Corp.
Paul Robertson is the new president of Capital Preservation Fund, Palo Alto, Calif. Paul co-founded this no-load money-market fund which invests solely in short-term U.S. Treasury-backed securities. After graduating from Stanford Law School, Paul has served in a variety of capacities with the firm, most recently as executive vice-president.
Herb Tews and family have taken Horace Greeley's advice and headed for the Los Angeles area. Herb has accepted a position as vice president of marketing for Ducommun Metals Co. of Los Angeles. He previously served as vice president of marketing for Bliss & Laughlin Industries, and has been associated with the metalworking industry for 17 years. The village of Hinsdale, Ill., loses a past president of the DuPage Grau Mill & Museum and a director of the Robert Crown Health Institute.
It may be a bit difficult for John Voll and family to attend our reunion. He wrote in July from his home in Durham, N.H., that he is going to Cairo, Egypt, to do research in the fundamentalist tradition of Islam. This work will be assisted by grants from Fulbright-Hays and the Whiting Foundation. John will be joined in Egypt by wife Sarah who will also be doing research. Sarah has a Ph.D. in economics and has completed a term as a representative in the New Hampshire legislature. John has been teaching history at the University of New Hampshire since 1965.
After camping in Door County in beautiful Pennisula State Park and then in central Wisconsin, Lona, the two girls, and I paid a visit to Minneapolis in August. We had dinner with Dodd and Ginger Wilson, and took a moonlight stroll by Cedar Lake. Dodd and Ginger both work for the University of Minnesota Hospital. His work in internal medical research focuses on the gastrointestinal system. Those who know Dodd would have shared my enjoyment of his wry and amusing comments on a variety of subjects. Ginger Wilson assists critically-ill patients at the hospital. She has the poise and unfailing kindness for this difficult assignment. One of her recent patients was the late Senator Hubert Humphrey. On a light note, the Wilsons look terrific, in part because they jog three to six miles together before going to work. Dodd told me that Bob Ten Bensel has become a nationally recognized authority on the treatment of victims of child abuse. Dr. Ten Bensel also practices and lives in the Minneapolis area.
Although we couldn't work out a lunch date, I did talk by phone with Leon Goodrich, who practices antitrust law with a St. Paul, Minn., firm. The Goodrich family was leaving for the weekend to go upstate to their lakeside retreat. Leon reports that his practice takes him increasingly to other parts of the United States for antitrust litigation.
Last spring this column predicted the Class would break records for the Alumni Fund. The results were above my optimistic hopes. I know that Joel Portugal, our super head agent, and Mel Alperin, special gifts, want to share the credit for 500 contributions totalling over $100,000 with every regional representative, class agent, and classmate who joined in this effort. Only four other classes had over 500 donors and only one other class in the history of the College has ever topped $100,000 in a nonreunion year. For myself, as one who passionately believes in the value of Dartmouth today and for the future, the 500 classmates who joined to support the College is the most significant achievement.
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