1961
A mini-reunion is on tap for next fall. Class President Gerry Kaminsky says members of the executive committee already are at work on the effort. The precise weekend is still to be chosen. Watch this space for details. But the idea of an extra reunion halfway between regular reunions is exciting.
Working the phones: Chris Hearon is chairman of the language department, Spanish teacher, and soccer coach at Christ Church Episcopal School in Greenville, S.C., where he's been for four years. He also recruits for Dartmouth in the Greenville area. All those school-related activities keep him pretty tied down during the fall and winter months, he says, though he did work at a camp in Maine over the summer. He's still in the ranks of class bachelors - and by bachelors, I mean those of us who have never married, not you who have come back to the ranks of single life after an unhappy marriage (or two). He says freshman roommate Larry Shaw, who finished at George Washington after leaving Dartmouth, is living nearby in Piedmont, S.C., and writing an economic column that appears in the Greenville paper, and his other freshman roommate, David Hally, is nearby in Athens, Ga., where he's on the faculty at the University of Georgia.
Jim Gifford is associate professor of community and family medicine at Duke University where he teaches history of medicine to medical school students, a history course to university undergraduates, shepherds Ph.D. candidates in the history of medicine, and serves as the medical center archivist. He's also written a book on medical education and the elective system, tracing how Duke, and Dartmouth, broke out of the lock-step mold that had characterized medical education for generations. It's Jim's second year at Duke after eight years at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C.
In Greensboro,. Oak Winters is executive director of the New Carolina Humanities Committee, which he says has the responsibility of spending half a million in federal money to develop humanities projects aimed at out-of-school adults, under the aegis of any nonprofit organization, ranging from tiny projects to the $30,000 statewide Great Decisions program sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He's having so much fun "it's almost like not having a job." He described how they reached one illiterate community through story telling, rather than through more traditional means. He's not presiding over a big, red-tape bureaucracy, but rather over what he calls a "small, free-lance operation" with six people, four part-time. The programs he sponsors are nontraditional, no-credit approaches.
Up in what natives call the city, Class Treasurer Vic Rich reports: "Money coming in good . . . more needed. We finally got through paying last year's bills." He's put his 27-foot boat away for the winter, and says he's really busy now (he's a CPA). But he was looking forward to a part-business, part-vacation trip to Florida and perhap some skiing in the winter, before tax season hits, and he burns the midnight oil for awhile.
News notes: Roger K. Baumberger, who is vice president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, has been named head of the corporate finance department, a new department that will provide loans of up to $10 million to small- and medium-sized firms. He's been with the firm just a year, after a l6-year career at Marine Midland Bank. He lives in Rockville Centre with Ann and three children.
Peter M. Palin has been named vice president for corporate trust marketing for Hartford National Bank and Trust Co. . . . Robert A.Fuller is a partner in a newly-merged law firm in Norwalk and Wilton, Conn. He's been in practice since 1964 and is currently Wilton town counsel as well as a member of the executive committee of the planning and zoning section, Connecticut State Bar Association. He and his wife have two children. . . . Scotty Locker reports he's a lawyer for Dow Corning, a silicone manufacturer. He stresses the company neither makes Corning Ware (that's Corning Glass) nor Napalm, (that's Dow Chemical). He and. wife Carol have two daughters, Beth, six, and Kathy, four. . . . Sam Bell reports roommate Stan Bates is dean of humanities at Middlebury while other room- mate Bob Hodder is a physicist with Pratt and Whitney. Bob's sister Virginia is Stan's wife, and the Bateses travel to Florida to visit the Hodders in Palm Beach, putting them close.to Sam's base in Daytona Beach.
Remembering November 1960: Our Class votes for Nixon over Kennedy by a margin of 215 to 168 - 54.6 per cent for Nixon. . . . Dave Birney stars as Jimmy Porter in Look Back inAnger. . . . Dave Blake, John Zabriske, Larry Holden, and Fred Fields star in soccer victory over M.I.T. . . . On the eve of the tug of war, when freshmen, if victorious, could shed their beanies, speaking as chairman of the IDC, Hop Holmberg says "the hat-wearing this year has been better than it has in the past few years."
... Al Rozycki, Jack Kinderdine, and KenDeHaven cited as stars in victory over Columbia before 9,100 fans. . . . Stan Bates takes on job of evaluating three-term system, saying "it is time to express some form of student opinion about the way the College is educating its students." (Eight years ahead of the nation, perhaps.). . . . Hank Gerfen named to all-East football squad. . . . Jim Cowperthwaite says UGC isn't meeting enough, which could "foreclose the possibility that student government at Dartmouth will ever become anything." That sets off days of controversy.
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