1965

Those of you not living in eastern Massachusetts probably have no conception of what it's like to inhabit such a densely Dartmouth-peopled area. One out of every three casual conversations with complete strangers invariably ends with the revelation that both of us spent time at that small college on the Vermont-New Hampshire border. Every civic committee, no matter how small, has at least one other alum. Commuter buses and boats and subways are full of them. Sometimes you are at a loss to know whether the familiar- looking fellow who returns your glance on the elevator or in the restaurant or in the Bruins ticket line is a long-forgotten classmate or a neighbor's cousin or just someone looking for a different kind of game. New England is rumored to be full of legitimate ghosts and the sense of being haunted by former associates is very real.

For instance during one of our senior-year ROTC marches Ed Thomas dropped out of line and "disappeared" from view. Thirteen years later he materialized from under a black wool cap and stared me down in the aisle of the 5:30 bus to Hingham. Like many of us he has done a hitch in the army, formed a family, raised children, gone to work for a bank, and kept a low profile — aided by a mustache.

Crossing an icy street in Boston one cold January evening enroute to an est seminar I glanced left and saw a vaguely familiar profile doing likewise. Same story. Thirteen years of nothing and then suddenly Andy Anderson is skating across the deserted street with you. I wonder if Ed and Andy realize they both live in the same small town of Norwell?

This month we have reports in from a variety of sources. Kris Greene sent as a Christmas card a postcard from our namesake town on the British Isles. His question is "how many classmates have made the pilgrimage?" The Earl's Dartmouth sports a Royal Naval College and a more navigable river (The Dart) than the Connecticut.

A newspaper clipping announced the marriage of Gerald Armstrong to Kristina Becker, a client-service executive with the A. C. Nielson Company. Jerry is a vice president in the corporate banking department of Chase Manhattan Bank.

Dartmouth College News Services informs us that Allen Koop (a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania) is a visiting professor this year in the Dartmouth History Department. Since 1969 Allen has been on the faculty of Colby- Sawyer and is assistant professor of history there. D.C.N.S. is also our source for the news that Larry Duffy has been appointed as Boston regional director for the $160 million Campaign for Dartmouth. I imagine Larry will be stirring up quite a few of us ghosts in the next few months of fund-seeking.

Jean Bordeau writes that her good husband Dick Bordeau was recently elected an assistant vice president and officer of Kidder Peabody — where he has been for almost five years since spending seven years with Eastman Kodak. Jean is currently development director for their third child.

Exerpts from Dartmouth AnthropologyNotes indicate that Al Dekin is the current administrator of contract archaeology at SUNY- Binghamton; Skip Koolage is doing research on the impact of Hydro development on northern Manitoba's Cree and Metis inhabitants; RayNewell is back in Ezinge, the Netherlands, after a stay in Alaska; and that Eric Engstrom has a legal practice going on in Wichita. Somehow he has wrangled a membership in the American Club of London through his annual trips to England.

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