1951

The calendar seems to move a little faster each year. It seems that only yesterday we stowed our swim trunks and canoes and already we are taking the skis out of storage. The football season is winding down and we have started interviewing for the Class of '83.

More news from the mini-reunion: DickHalloran is going to take over the class newsletter from Joe Spound who is going into retirement after doing a fantastic job. Dick reports he has been in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times since he came home from Tokyo two years ago. He covered the Korean scandal for about 18 months and is now on energy policy, which he says "is more mysterious than anything I found in the Orient." He occasionally writes for other publications and does some broadcasting for the BBC.

Dick's son Chris is in the Class of '81 and his older daughter Laurie is taking a high school postgraduate year at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa. When Dick took her there in September, he saw Buck Scott and SamRoberts at Paul Staley's bash celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary. Dick said that Paul had a serious leg injury but is recovering and "other than a few gray hairs around the temples, looks fit enough to lead the Big Green back on the grid." Dick's younger daughter Catherine is in the ninth grade.

"I've had three truly wonderful experiences at Dartmouth since I got home," Dick wrote. "One was the splendid reunion organized by Buck Scott and his helpers. That was home-coming to America, reunion with children, and renewal of ties to friends, class, and Hanover- all wrapped into one. The second was being invited to Hanover to talk with members of Casque and Gauntlet and to address a class in international relations - the same course I took about a hundred years ago. The third was an invitation to address members of my son's class and their parents at the weekend for parents of freshmen last spring, an honor any Dartmouth man would have savored. . . . I've missed a lot of Dartmouth by being abroad so much of the last 25 years," Dick said, "But I'm making up for it now."

Chet Cotter has one of the more enviable vocations, being a sales representative for the House of Burgundy. He travels New York and New Jersey promoting fine French and California wines to restaurants and selected stores. Chet is a confirmed New Yorker, having recently purchased a house in Manhattan. "I enjoy the Big Apple's delights and head a tour to Europe every summer. My avocation is my vocation, except for my two weeks with the Army Corps of Engineers."

The academic community was represented by Bill Boynton who is associate professor of English at Holyoke Community College where he has been teaching literature and composition for the past 13 years. In the summer Bill and Jean own and operate the Blue Ship Restaurant in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Bill has seven children who are growing up and beginning to scatter. This term Bill is on sabbatical leave writing some fiction.

A 1 Sweet is a mechanical engineer living in Pinehurst, Mass., where he leads an interesting, if sometimes frustrating, existence. Reports Al: "Had a good garden this year but plan to do a better job of mulching and spraying next year. Son Tom, Class of '73, is a captain in the Air Force while my youngest daughter is studying accounting at the University of Hawaii. A granddaughter was born on July 10."

The banking community had two members present. Jim Culberson is president of a bank in Ashboro, N.C. He reports that son Matt is a junior at Washington and Lee while daughter Sarah wears the green with the Class of '81. Dick Hulbert is the general auditor for the Chemical Bank in New York. A later departee from bachelorhood, Dick and Debbie have a three-year-old daughter Katy and a new-born son Kimball.

From Kalamazoo, Mich., we were pleased to welcome Bill Beasley. He has been with Upjohn International Inc. for more than 20 years. Currently pricing coordinator for the company, Bill sets product prices and inter-subsidiary rates.

Bob Hopkins is an independent insurance agent after many, many years with the Avon ladies. Joan and Bob have been rather steady visitors to the Hanover Plain what with Libby '78 and Susan '81. During the Yale weekend there was a "Fall Fling" concert with Wellesley, Princeton, and Dartmouth. Dartmouth was represented by the Woodswind close harmony singing group, of which Susan Hopkins is business manager.

That uses our allotted space for this month. So long for now.

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