1958

March reminds me of the indoor track season. Can you recall the smell of 30 years of sweat as runners pounded around the tiny track in that ancient wooden building? As Pete Olsen glided effortlessly over the hurdles, Gigi Principi, Bob Timothy, Dave Bathrick, Gary Finerty, and Ben McAdams hurled metal objects through the air. Dick Schaedle had that long stride and Ben Cooper was such a graceful runner. Bob Rapp was the burner with TerrySchein stride for stride at his side. PeteMarshall ran distances with determination. JonStokesbary would quietly gather himself and then soar over the pole vault bar. JackStromberg and Phil Drescher perfected psyching high-jump opponents. Dick Schad was a picture runner with courage to match. As we circled the little track, the crews on the rowing machine grunted above on the balcony. I can still hear Coach Noyes say, "Son, I can't teach you to run faster," but those were fun days anyhow.

Leon Goodrich tended the hockey net during the winter but came out for the sprints in the spring. Now a St. Paul, Minn., lawyer, and rumored to be only a step slower, he writes that Dodd Wilson is a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, where he has been for 14 years. He is the director of the section on gastroenterology, teaches and conducts research in immunology — specifically, research concerning agents that cause abdominal diseases. Dodd and his wife Ginger have three children, one each in senior high, junior high, and elementary school in St. Louis Park which is west of Minneapolis. Dodd is chairman of the long-range planning committee for St. Louis Park schools, considering such problems as school organization and cost increases with declining enrollment. Dodd and Ginger car-pool every morning to the university hospitals, where Ginger is a nurse clinician.

Joe Palermo has become divisional vice president and general manager of the coated abrasives division of the Norton Company. He entered Norton in 1966 as a products engineer and has served as divisional vice president and general manager for vitrified products in Norton's grinding wheel division. Joe lives near Worchester in Jefferson, Mass.

Ron Snow has been appointed chairman of the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission by the state Supreme Court. Ron also chairs the N.H. Bar Association Committee on Drug Abuse.

Those of us who traveled to Norfolk, Va., courtesy of the armed forces during the fifties, should return and experience Norfolk's municipal renaissance, especially along the river. Much credit goes to Dave Rice, who was recently named executive director of the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Agency. After Dartmouth, Dave received a master's degree in City Planning from the University of North Carolina. Before joining NRHA as director of planning and engineering, he served as associate director of the Model City Agency in Norfolk. These agencies, in cooperation with private enterprise, have literally rebuilt that town, and nice work it is, Dave.

Phil Ranney is a partner in a Cleveland, Ohio, law firm. Perhaps in anticipation of the Ohio winter, he accepted nomination as a director of Rohr Industries, Inc., of Chula Vista, Calif. Congratulations, Phil.

Ransom-Everglades School of Coconut Grove, Fla., recently appointed Jim Young as headmaster. Located near Miami, this 75-year- old private school is the successor to the Adirondacks-Florida School, founded in 1903, and Everglades School for Girls, founded in 1955. Jim holds a master's degree from Wesleyan University. Prior to his appointment, he was assistant headmaster of Hammonasset School in Madison, Conn. Before that Jim served as headmaster at the Hawken School, Cleveland, Ohio, where he directed a $2.6 million expansion program. Jim has also taught mathematics and coached soccer, wrestling, and golf.

One of Chicago's own, Jerry Manne, has been elected vice chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade. Jerry is what is called an independent trader. If those words ever characterized anyone correctly, it is Jerry! He thinks for himself. Jerry joined the exchange in 1967 and has been a director since 1975. He and wife Sandy, who live in River Forest, are regulars at Dartmouth events here. His enthusiasm for Dartmouth and his generous help in alumni activities is tremendous.

This column started with faded athletic memories. It ends with a reminder of John Sloan Dickey's advocacy to our freshman orientation class of the rewards of the "life of the mind." One of many classmates who Dartmouth started down the pathway toward intellectual achievement is Professor Stephen G. Nichols, professor of Romance languages and literatures at Dartmouth. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the principal cultural agency for the Federal Government. Professor Nichols competed for this substantial stipend against 1,- 737 applicants, with only 173 receiving grants in all fields and only four in French literature, his specialty. He will spend his year completing a book on literary and artistic work in the Middle Ages. In receiving this award, he joins a distinguished and select group that includes many noted scholars and Pulitzer-prize winners.

On a trek up to the Annapurna Sanctuary in Nepal, Bill Lenderking '55 (right) spotted afamiliar face: Gene White '56, last seen 22 years earlier in Hanover.

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