1968
Ah, nostalgia strikes and I wonder what I am doing here in Chicago as I read about "Great American Weekend No. 6" in Travel and Leisure Magazine (October). Although many of us know the route, the article covers "Boston to Hanover, N.H." in fine detail, including where to stay and various side (trips out of Hanover. Good recommended reading. I'll be happy to send a copy to anyone who is not an American Express cardholder.
Holiday season will be upon us when this reaches you, but we must not forget all that happened in the fall. The mark of the beginning of fall is Labor Day weekend. Hugh Holman and bride Becky Ruggles chose that time to tie the knot with an all-green cast at Concord Academy. Becky is daughter of Tom '50 and granddaughter of Dan '21. Other attendees at the wedding were Baird Brown '68, John Chamberlin '70, Ort Hicks '20, Dede Ruggles (who is proud to have spent one semester "on the plain"), Dan Ruggles '46, Dr. Georges Peter (Dartmouth Med. '62), uncle to the bride, and of course the groom! Hugh and Becky met at Stanford Business School (M.B.A.'s June 1978) and are now in Washington, D.C., where Becky is an operations and productivity analyst with the City of Washington and Hugh is an operations research analyst for the Environmental Protection Agency studying the economic impact of environmental regulations on the chemical industry.
Much New England area news. Steve Borofsky has opened a legal clinic in Nashua, N.H. This concept was termed an "outgrowth of a 1976 U.S. Supreme-Court decision which said lawyers could not be prohibited from advertising." In my own words, I would term this kind of activity a real service to the consumer and the community. Well done, Steve! Roger Gutner has joined Parker River Medical Associates of Georgetown, Mass., to practice internal medicine and cardiology. Roger is a 1974 graduate of Rush Medical College in Chicago and did his internship at Presbyterian St. Lukes Medical Center there. Wife Stephanie is an R.N. with extensive training and experience in caring for critically ill patients. The dynamic medical team is expecting a first child in January.
Bill Kendall's firm, PATSI (Payment and Transfer Services Inc.), is now over two years old and appears to be going very well according to a writer in The New Englander, Dublin, N.H. The firm is involved in the electronic funds-transfer business and is somewhat unusual in that it is not a bank but an independent agent. Textron's ARD (American Research and Development) division has given the firm and Bill a vote of confidence in deciding to supply ventruE capital to PATSI. Well done, Willie!
Congratulations to Ed Heald, elected vice president of BUrbank and Company (investment securities) by the firm's board of directors in Boston, Mass. Ed has been with the firm since 1971 and most recently was assistant to the president. Kudos went to Richard Parker from the staff of Mother Jones, which according to plan will be the country's first "Left" magazine to break even in 35 years. Dick is singled out as the man who made it happen as a founding editor, publisher, columnist, and "important shaper of the magazine's vision and prime architect of its business planning." Excerpts: "In scorning the business world's values, too many radicals also tend to socrn its skills.
. . . Over the last four years Parker has helped introduce the rest of us to everything from cost accounting to direct mail advertising. He went out and found experts with the needed specialized experience ... he taught us how to use a line-item month-by-month budget; he negotiated contracts, made the difficult decisions and mapped out the growth strategies that have put us on the road to becoming a magazine financially supported by its readers." Dick has left Mother Jones'to move on to several new projects.
Class President John McNamara has embarked on another adventure, having joined the Northeast Solar Energy Center in Cambridge, Mass., this past October. Their mission, according to Mac, is "to promote rapid commercialization of non-fossil fuel technologies." I have always thought that in the city of the baked bean there should be all sorts of energy possibilities!
According to Reunion Chairman JimTonkovich, a good '68 showing of about 30 was on hand for the October 14 Yale game. A good meeting of 13 members of your executive committee was held that date as well, with PeterDunn coming all the way from Oakland, Calif., and Dan and Adele Hedges all the way from Houston, Texas. That's what I call commitment.
Finally, from a Boston-area newspaper came word that A 1 Raymond was headed to D.C. in the fall to "help polish the image" of President Carter. Al has left his position as secretary to Governor Michael Dukakis to join the staff of Gerald Rafshoon, the President's media advisor. Al, Charlotte, and daughter Alyssa will all be in Washington but plan to retain their property and "roots" in MArblehead, Mass. See you next month. Please write.
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