1972

Spring may be on its way but tonight Chicago is buried beneath a mid-winter blizzard. Fortunately, the mail has been cascading down nearly as much as the snow. The month hiatus in the publishing schedule has left a lot of catching-up, so here goes:

Class President Peter Heed was the subject of a recent article-in the Keene Sentinel, which described his activities as a lawyer with the New Hampshire attorney general. Pete investigates and tries murder cases, and for comic relief plays rugby and acts in amateur theater.

Taking the marriage vows recently were Joe Worthen and Cynthia Lord at Aquinas House in Hanover. They will reside in Spofford, N.H., where Joe is an attorney with the firm of Faulkner, Plant, Hanna, Zimmerman & Freund. Also, Bud Lynch was recently married to Terri Wright in Cooperstown, N.Y. Bud is an orthopedic surgeon there, and his wife is a nurse. This spring they will move to Hanover where Bud will begin a three-year residency at Mary Hitchcock Hospital.

Word comes from the Dartmouth Anthropology Notes that Ted Brown, who spent the last two years in the Peace Corps in Equador and a year at the University of Chicago divisional master's program, is now at the University of Texas studying for his Ph.D. DickDetwiler is now at Southern Methodist University in Dallas where he is a teaching assistant in anthropological linguistics. Also, Mike Brownstein and Steve Himmelman have formed a picture-frame corporation in Seattle and Mark Lindberg is in the contracting business in the Boston area. Barry Weeks is working in New York City, and Bob Averill is practicing internal medicine in Hartford, Conn.

Bill Carney wrote in recently to describe a cross-county bicycle trip which he took last summer. Bob stays in touch with sidekicks BobJeffe and Rog Yazgi, of whom he states, "Rog is still working for the same company and getting tired of flying to Romania all the time." Bill is living in Herndon, Va.

Jonathan Fauer writes from New York City that he recently concluded a round-the-world film assignment including stops in Japan, Hong Kong and Spain. Jonathan made a documentary film called Living sponsored by the Coca- Cola Company.

Capitol Hill honcho Frank Sullivan dropped a line to inform the Class that it has been awarded the Roger C. Wilde 1921 Reunion Award for its efforts in the 1977 Alumni Fund campaign. Frank also sent some suggestions for fund-raising in the future, noting that the Class will be expected to redouble its efforts in the next five years. Frank is currently the administrative assistant to Indiana Congressman John Brademas.

Jesse Spikes, who recently graduated from Harvard Law School, passed the Georgia bar exam and is an associate attorney with the Atlanta firm of Alston, Miller and Gaines.

On the local scene, Jim Tilden writes that he and his wife Gini have two daughters. Jim, who earned an M.A.L.S. at Dartmouth in 1976, now works in Chicago for the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Jim passes on news of TomChin, who is at law school in Denver, Colo., and Peter Kron, who is working in computer operations in Seattle. He also notes that MaxMcGee is "still alive and well, living in LaGrange, Ill., with his wife Julie." Pat Martin, another Chicagoan, is a mortgage broker with the firm of B.B. Cohen.

David Carroll's acting career continues to flourish with a recent role in Joseph and theAmazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a musical in New York. Paul Tyson and his wife Ann are living in Bad Godesberg, Germany, where Paul is the assistant labor attache at the U.S. Embassy. He sends word that John DiVierno is an attorney with the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C., and that JohnRockwell "is making some very unusual videotapes in New York City."

Other items from the mailbag: SteveSwinscoe is married to Claudine Scharf, his French foreign study "sister." They live in a farmhouse in Gascony, France, where Steve says a man's wealth is measured "not by his bank account, but by the size of his manure pile." Steve says that by these standards he and Claudine have it made. Doug Beall is living in Boulder, Colo., where he is working toward an M.A. in Buddhist studies at Naropa Institute. He married Heather Ferguson, a Canadian girl, in April 1976. Hans Stumm reports from Cambridge, Mass., that he and his wife Priscilla saw Brenda and Grover Baxley, Dorothy and AlStevens, Camille and Bob Borofsky and JohnMusser and his wife at the Dartmouth-Harvard game this past fall. Dick White writes that he earned his Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania last August. He and his wife Chantal are living in Philadelphia where Dick is teaching at Drexel University.

Fred Bickford reports that he "graduated from the University of Wyoming with a master's in rocks last summer" and is now a member of a geologic exploration concern in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Miles Harbur received an M.B.A. from Sloan School at M.I.T. and is working in Washington, D.C., for a private management consulting firm. He and his wife Meredith, who is an elementary school teacher, live in Chevy Chase, Md.

Bob Winterbottom wrote a lengthy letter detailing his coming trip to Upper Volta, Africa, where he will work for an international committee as an ecologist coordinating drought relief control. Bob has been in the Peace Corps in Africa and studied forestry at Yale. ChuckEaton writes that he and his wife now have a baby girl, Jennifer Eaton, born September 19, 1977.

Ned Brooks is living in Tokyo, where he sees Bruce Routman and his wife Barbara. Bruce has set up Weight Watchers of Japan, according to Ned. He also reports that Tom Pratt was married to Ruth Ledbeatter in August. Last but not least is Peter Benzinger, who was awarded the degree of master of international management from the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Ariz.

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