1975

Thanks to Class Treasurer Bob "Animal"Hittle there is much news to report this month. 'Nimal has been receiving class dues at a better rate than last year and many '75s have included notes with their dues. Please don't forget to send in your money — our reunion is not far away.

Through January, Bob says, 140 inches of snow have fallen in South Bend, Ind., where he is in his second semester of Notre Dame's M.B.A. program.

Dave Beaty, responding to my plea in the December 1977 issue for suggestions on how to get a date, wrote to tell me that he had been leaving my name and address in bathrooms all over the western U.S. Thanks a lot, Dave. When he is not in a bathroom, Dave is working on his Ph.D. in geology at Cal. Tech. At the annual conference of the Geological Society of America in Seattle last November he ran into Bill Beyer, who is working on his master's at Montana U. David Hyde is also at Montana working on his M.S. in geology. Davis is in his first year.

Andy Gait received a master of science degree from lowa State University in November. Not wishing to knock himself out, Andy picked a simple topic for his thesis "The valence bands of Cr-rich Fe-Cr alloys determined by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy." I once saw the Valence Band, but didn't like the lead singer, Plumbum.

The news of the wedding of Ron Gatzke and Patricia Gayle Fisher on October 1, 1977 was just received. Ron is involved in marketing analysis programs with the Union Pacific railroad in Omaha, Neb., where the couple will reside.

Dr. Mark Moeller, graduate of Dartmouth Medical School and an intern at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., is engaged to Phoebe Sands Montgomery. A winter wedding was planned, which means that by the time you receive this magazine, Mark and Phoebe will probably be married.

After studying cooking in Paris, Robin Derry went to Princeton, N.J., a year ago to open her own catering business. In June she decided to get in on improvements at the local Nassau Inn and spent most of the summer and fall assisting new management upgrade the food quality. Robin writes, "the restaurant business is fascinating and demanding, but my real interest lies in teaching cooking or perhaps a small high-quality restaurant."

While job-hunting in Springfield, Mass., EricMartin had a Dartmouth reunion with FredPelczar and Michael "Spaceman" Knapp '74 at the Springfield Marriott Hotel. Eric has decided to accept a job offer with Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, and McPherson, a Washington, D.C., law firm. Those two items may not seem to follow logically, but I left out a part of the story about the reunion in Springfield. The party broke up at 4:00 a.m. and Eric had a 9:00 a.m. job interview. There's more to do in D.C., anyway.

Jim Evans has been working as a field engineer for Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel on projects in Oklahoma and Texas. He is moving soon to Rockford, Ill., to do some work on a nuclear plant.

Figure this one out from Tom DeLancey: "In July 1977 married to Hanneke Pompe in Maiden, The Netherlands. Married a second time to same on August 6 in Keene, N.H."

Tom spent 1976-77 in Paris getting an M.A. degree from Middlebury College and is currently in a Ph.D. program at Cornell.

Lee Graham writes, "I'm enjoying life in the Big Apple. Living with three friends from Wharton in a four-story townhouse around the corner from Grace Mansion and working since August at Citibank in Merchant Banking. The job's great, but this Christmas' season, with its two big 'three-day weekends' is a bittersweet reminder that the schooldays "are over!" How true, Lee.

After Officer's Candidate School in Newport, R.I., Robin Felix was commissioned on January 20, 1978 as an ensign in the field of communications. Robin has also completed the enlisted nuclear program with the Navy and expects his first duty station following commissioning, to be-Japan.

A. G. Medlicott '50 wrote that his son, PeterMedlicott, is working for Lufthansa Airlines and is based in Frankfurt, Germany. He'll be flying the European routes for the next six months, then hopes to fly trans-Atlantic after that. For the past two years he's been living and working in Seattle.

Lee Gotshall-Maxon is now in his first year at Hastings College of the Law after spending two years with Unionmutual Life Insurance Company. Jake Dann is finishing up a master's program in geology at Michigan Tech. MikeCaldwell is working in legal research in the law library of the Vermont Supreme Court in Montpelier.

Sometime ago Rick Pummill wrote me a note for inclusion in the column. Unfortunately, he just missed the deadline for the last issue and thus the delay. Sorry, Rich. Anyway, this is what Rick had to say: "I was married on November 19, 1977 to Carolyn L. Poff of Miami University and Centerville, Ohio. Standing up with me were Bob "Action" Jackson, Bill James '74, and Marty "Clam" Mehlberth '74. Also in attendance were Byron Anderson '76 and Tom Gillaugh '46. Following was one glorious week in Nassau. The bachelor party the evening before was one that all Big Greeners would have been proud of. Will be travelling in February to Chicago to witness the wedding of Bob Jackson."

That's it for this month. Please note my change in address if you want to write and don't forget to send your dues to Bob Hittle. Thanks to those who have already done so. See you next month on the golf course.

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