1944
Those Andy and Kitty McDowell up in Kodak/Rochester are something else. They take the cake, win the brass ring, deserve a Pulitzer prize. They just came up in March with their third boy, third in five years. Talk about late bloomers. ... Or diapers, or whatever.
That snorkel you may have seen in the Bahamas this past winter belonged to JohnMulliken. When V.P. Rockefeller went out of business in January 1977, John, as Rocky's press secretary, moved along, too. From Virginia to Hobe Sound, Fla., to be precise. And while waiting for some new things to hatch, he and wife Helen decided to drop in on the Caribbean. Sun, sand, and snorkeling, those kinds of things. Back up north, son John is a sophomore at Dartmouth, majoring in English like his daddy used to do; daughter Stephanie graduated from Syracuse's School of Communications and is now working for the ABC network in D.C.; and daughter Cynthia is a senior at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y.
Come this season and it's down to the sea in ships for Sarah and Ab Davis. They live in Madison, Conn., just a fo'c'sle east of New Haven, and Ab spends most weekends getting the 40-footer ready for the high seas. Golf and New England skiing also find their place in the Davis leisure plan, while nine-to-five for Ab is taken up with New England Tel, vice president, marketing.
Speaking of old salts, the one pictured here, could only be Barnacle Bird Partridge, who recently joined Mitchell, Hoilman and Associates, registered investment advisers and certified financial planners, whose Boston address is, appropriately, 66 Long Wharf. Bill and Jean hang their sou'westers in Hanover and North Falmouth, Mass., and both are active sailors and golfers. They prowl Buzzards Bay, Vineyard, and Nantucket Sounds aboard their Pearson Vanguard 32½-foot sloop; and just to keep his handicap intact, Bird just served a two-year term as president of the Woods Hole Golf Club.
Priscilla and Bill Orr count themselves among the skiing set (along with seasonal golf and tennis) and just to prove it they've built a second home in Quechee development over Woodstock way. Back home in Longmeadow, Mass., Bill still shepards Orr Cadillac, aided and abetted these days by two of his three sons, Sterling and Bill III. Son number three, Rickie, is graduating from high school.
Nice catching up with' Jack Lewis after all these years. Talked to him in the heart of downtown Miami, where he's been living and running his own insurance business for the past 25 years. He and wife Barbara haven't been napping (or have they?); they have eight Miamians, six girls and two boys, ranging in age from 29 to 13.
Nice, too, getting a run-down on Dr. TomCraighead, out of the Navy these ten years and specializing in internal medicine and allergy in Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore, branch office in Salisbury. He and Mary are also boat people and they fish and relax on their craft in Chesapeake Bay. Their four kids are here and there, from theology in New York to chefs school in Minnesota to the University of London to high school.
Tom reports that both John Englehorn and Rally Scofield have quietly slipped into St. Michaels, Md., just up the road a piece from Easton, and we'll put our bloodhounds on those moves.
Didn't catch John Lesher on the horn, but did chat with wife Marya. She reports that Lesh has gone into racquetball in a big way, so big, in fact, that he's now grooming for the national championships in Detroit in June. He is still in wood with Weyerhaeuser, while Marya does antiquing and decorating "to keep in ski money." Daughter Ann is getting her Ph.D. in biology at the University of Washington; and son Mark, a junior at Western Washington University, has just returned from seven months working at the South Pole. Yup, the South Pole, and getting academic credit, thank you.
Saw in the newspaper that Dick Ettinger, retired chairman of Wadsworth Publishing Co., has been elected a director of Allyn & Bacon Inc., Boston textbook publisher.
On the youthful front (aren't we all?), MelFriberg's Peter '73 is working as a thirdgeneration representative in the family's granite memorial business in Barre, Vt„ and he and wife Sally made Mel a grandpa this past January. Marc Eckels '73 now heads the Denver office for a Wyoming-based exploration drilling company, and Patti and Dave dropped in to see him on their recent western vacation.
Jim Hardigg's Jim 'BO and Fran Dougherty's Park '78 took the spring trip south as part of the Dartmouth kayaking contingent. MerleHagen's Mark was picked for the Who's WhoAmong Students publication. Bob Conroy's Curt '78 published a market survey showing that Dartmouth students pump some $5 million a year into Hanover merchants and markets. Dick Sholl's Bob '77 was one of seven Dartmouth undergraduates who interviewed delegates to the Republican Presidential nominating convention in 1976, and the results of that survey took up almost 40 percent of last December's Political Science Quarterly.
End of the line. Not quite. It's Alumni Fund time again. Give what you can. Youth/education/Dartmouth - I don't see how you can beat that combination.
That's it. Blessings.
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