1949
It looks like the theory that the cold weather zone is moving south is true. It seems as though we have had more snow in Chicago than we've had during the last ten years combined. I hope they are getting some of this in Hanover so there will be no question about skiing conditions. At least we have our big 30th to look forward to this summer (if we survive). I trust everyone is starting to make their plans.
I just heard from Bob Muenzberg and preparations are running along smoothly for the big three days in June. Many of you have indicated you are coming and it looks like a good turnout. You will hear about the program in a mailing that will be out early in March. It will give you the details about everything — banquets, the picnics at Storrs Pond, glee club concerts, John Kemeny's address, golf, tennis, cocktail parties, bands, tents and more tents, and other special events. Don't forget the date. June 12, 13, and 14.
John Robinson can't understand why any of his classmates would be interested in hearing what he is doing. He says he's still alive and disgustingly healthy, "a condition I attribute to heavy drinking, smoking, and a voracious appetite." He's still happily married and has an older daughter married and living in Ithaca, N.Y. He's involved in the management of Arthur Young and Co.'s office in Portland, Maine, where he says the weather is atrocious, but fits his personality perfectly. The only identifiable classmate he's seen in ages is King Ball.
In case you didn't see it, the December 19, 1977 issue of Business Week included a picture and comments about Marv Durning who's out after the big industrial polluters as EPA's newly appointed .assistant administrator for enforcement.
Dave Raynolds is now a Wyoming rancher. He resigned from the foreign service early in 1976 and went west with his wife May. They are running a small herd of buffalo which they hope to expand. He's been writing some novels; one is in the hands of an agent and the second will be completed early next year. He and May canoed the Missouri Breaks, the last wild stretch of the Missouri River, last summer after the hay crop was in. Their next project is getting a new house built on the ranch. They have five kids; two have graduated from Dartmouth. His son Robert is back at Dartmouth working on his Ph.D. in geology and also is teaching.
Pete Schumacher writes that he is firmly entrenched as an M.D. in Cleveland where he has been a consultant in endocrinology at the Cleveland Clinic and assistant professor at Case Western University for about 20 years. He is medical director of a camp for diabetic children in Cleveland and a director of the American Diabetes Association. His most recent excitement has been a term in Greece and Iran where he was Physician Pro Tem. His family is grown, one in Arkansas, another in architectural school, and a third at Case Western Reserve. He finds snowshoing and cross-country skiing more suitable to the Ohio terrain than downhill skiing.
Shep Robinson sent me a whole envelope of material about his activities. He went into the publishing field after graduating from Dartmouth and ended up as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Barrington Press Newspaper, Barrington, Ill., in 1970-73 (strange place for a geology major). He has managed a number of business magazines and three community newspaper groups. He currently is publishing the Manufactured HousingNewsletter and has recently authored a book titled, Land Use Guide For Builders,Developers And Planners. ('Can't understand why I haven't run across him, for our company is quite involved with the manufactured housing industry.) Shep and his wife Louise have three daughters. Two have graduated from college and the other is working at it.
A clipping from the DartmouthAnthropology Notes states that RalphGreenhouse is now working in the research section of the Agency For International Communications. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia in anthropology. His specific topic of interest is "Elite Communications."
Bob Schmitz writes that he has just completed a four-year term of duty as president of the Dartmouth Club of Cincinnati. He has just changed jobs, taking on a position as controller for A. M. Kinney, Inc., a large national consulting firm of architects and engineers based in Cincinnati. He and Joan have a growing tribe of prospective Dartmouth men ranging from eight to 12. They live in Modeira, just outside Cincinnati. He keeps busy playing tennis and serving on the Modeira School Planning Commission.
A long letter from Bob Rooney gives a good account of his activities since we last saw him back in 1949. He says things have been less than smooth for him, yet not too rough. He put in 18 years as an editor with the Houghton Mifflin Co. of Boston, but that all fell apart in the spring of 1971. He then went to work as an editor at the National Academy of Science for several years, spent two years at the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs in Austin as director of publications, and now is back at the National Academy of Science. He's currently using the computer as an editing tool and is finding it very fascinating, in spite of a long-term prejudice against the black box. He sees BobDeForest occasionally and looks forward to these visits. He and his wife have parted. They have three children scattered around the country: Washington, D.C., University of Texas, and northern Massachusetts.
One very sad note: Bob Reineke died suddenly on November 17, 1977. A note from his wife Cecelia said he had been very ill with a back problem and had an operation in July.
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