1969

Once again the summer has flown by and that long list of ambitious projects so optimistically committed to paper in April remains intact. Notwithstanding my own procrastinations, a few classmates did manage to realize at least some of their resolutions.

Assuming their August wedding plans have been consummated as advertised, Jeff Brown and the former Debora Jean Cowell are now savoring that connubial bliss which has infected so many of the rest of us since- graduation. After picking up his degree at the University of Denver Law School, Jeff is presently a partner in the firm of Brown and Brown in Amherst, Mass. Rival lawyers within the immediate vicinity will no doubt be thrilled to learn that Debora, a graduate of the University of Miami and a computer whiz with the Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Co., is the daughter of a local judge. Sounds like the ingredients for a remake of All the King's Men or something. In any event, now that he has finally succumbed. Brownie faces the certainty of hearing those familiar phrases "out of order" and "objection overruled" on more than one front in the not-too-distant future.

In legal maneuverings elsewhere, Leland B.Seabury has become an associate in the nearby Springfield, Mass., firm of Ely, King, Corcoran, Milstein, and Beaudry (pity the girl who answers the phone!). Leland graduated cumlaude from Western New England College School of Law and is a member of the American, Massachusetts, and Hampden County Bar Associations, not to mention the little pub around the corner from the office.

At a recent weekend reunion celebrating what many considered to be illegal maneuverings tens years ago, Brian Kiehm communed with fellow activists of the sixties in an effort to redirect their collective energies in the seventies. "I think the anti-nuclear movement is learning from the mistakes of the antiwar movement. The anti-nukes are much more sensible, broad-based, and informed," to quote Brian. A dropout from political activism in the early seventies, he is a mental health counselor in Ashby, Mass., and is evidently encouraged by the present state of affairs. "People are integrating a spiritual awareness with a social awareness," he said. Others in attendance voiced the opinion that the movement was becoming "too spiritual." However, no casualties resulted from the apparent nuclear fallout.

John Matzke '65, who gave up farming Wisconsin in favor of returning to the Upper Valley last fall, has also been active in the antinuclear movement. Together with wife Lin and two sons, he has recently moved to a newly purchased farm in Lebanon. Joining them there will be Frances Field, a long-time Hanover resident who very graciously opened her home and her heart to a number of Dartmouth un- dergrads and saw them through school. Barring adverse weather conditions, John shouldn't have any trouble raising a bumper crop of granite in the rich soil of New Hampshire.

In case you were unable to make it, you'll be relieved to hear that you didn't miss any novel attractions at this year's version of the Tunbridge World's Fair. In fact, word has it that several of the performers were undecorated veterans of at least ten campaigns, a little older but just as familiar.

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