1961
It was beach weather at Dartmouth the last weekend in April, or at least the hills were littered with sunbathing bodies as we hurried from one session to another at Class Officers Weekend.
Only Vic Rich, your treasurer. HankEberhardt, associate Alumni Fund chairman, and Dennis Dinan, editor of the Magazine, and your secretary could make it. Dennis was reelected editor of the Magazine at the class secretaries' meeting.
Vic brought his wife and two very wellbehaved kids, Melissa, seven, and Jason, ten, and allowed as how he was getting along well as a CPA in New York. Jason showed how to make dachshunds out of balloons.
Hank was talking about seeing his son Michael driving by in a car on a learner's permit, and shuddering a bit. Later he was seen in the sporting goods section of Campion's with two other young'uns.
Dennis showed off the spacious new offices for the Magazine on the second floor of the Nugget building. But there's a photo showing Dennis holding up a dead bird. Apparently, the birds just love to commit suicide outside his window. Something about love at last sight.
Gossip time: all three had heard tidbits about fellow '61s+ Vic says he had lunch recently with Jim Nova, who's living in Chappaqua in Westchester County, N.Y., and is working for New York's Chemical Bank in leasing specializing in leasing airplanes, mostly corporate jets - almost a dream job for a guy who pilots his own plane.
Vic also says he's heard that Neal Davis, a Cleveland advertising man, had just become the father of a baby girl, Melissa.
And Vic says Jim Watson's working for Bloomingdale's in White Plains, where he's responsible for more than one-third of the store, including home furnishings and gifts - just about everything but ready-to-wear. He and Joan are living in suburban Connecticut.
Larry Levy, who's in real estate, reportedly loves to ski, and has been spending a good bit of time in upstate New York.
Dennis says Bob Hargraves is now president of Dartmouth Time-Sharing Services Inc., is adjunct associate professor of math, and "has the fanciest office in Hanover."
He says Skip Bean is an assistant principal in Hanover, while Pamela Bean has been reigning as mayor of Lebanon.
We tried to reach Al Rozycki (a Dartmouth Medical School pediatrician), Hargraves, FordDaley, Matt Friedman, and Bill Cogswell, but got only unanswered rings.
Rod Plimpton also wasn't home when we called, but his wife Betty says Rod's in business for himself as a management consultant after his years of teaching at Tuck School. He's moving to Concord, Mass., this month from Hanover, partly because he's got lots of clients in Boston, and partly because bad weather in mid-winter caused too many cancellations of out-of-town business meetings. But the move is "with mixed feelings," Betty assured, particularly because of the peaceful life of maintaining offices in their home, where the couple are joined by Laura, nine, and Scott, seven.
Frank Mahady answered his phone in his White River Junction law offices where he and two associates are the lawyers for the Quechee Lakes Corporation, which he says is the biggest developer in Vermont. That takes about half his time. The rest of his practice is in litigation.
But he's also keeping busy outside the office, with wife Sherry, Tara, seven, and Shannon, one-and-a-half; as a member of the Republican state executive committee; and as a member of the Lebanon Regional Airport Authority (his hobby is flying).
Frank says the airport is about to undergo extensive expansion, including a new terminal building, a considerable lengthening of one of the runways, and an instrument landing system, also geared to allow routine landings of 727s (if traffic demands it) and to "greatly reduce Air New England's weather cancellations." With the expansion, both runways could accommodate the big plane.
On politics, Frank says, "I don't run for things myself," but he does get active in the campaigns of others, including Vermont's present governor, and as a result has gone to the last two Republican National Conventions as a delegate.
Commercial message: Vic Rich says response on class dues has been "good so far, but there's still a ways to go." Please send checks to Vic at Rich, Levine and Co., 230 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
Geography: I just got the latest class list off the computer, and boy, you guys move around a lot. The list therefore amounts only to a momentary snapshot of our Class.
But our Class offers solid proof of the national impact of Dartmouth College, with 104 classmates now living in California, followed by New York (67), Massachusetts (59), Connecticut (41), Pennsylvania (39), New Jersey (34), and Illinois (29).
If you arrange the entire list by regions, you'll find 155 in the Mid-Atlantic states, 153 in New England, 125 on the West Coast, 118 in the Midwest, 81 in the South, and 37 in the plains and mountain states. Another 41 are living outside the country.
Contrast that, if you will, with the way we started, courtesy of our Green Book: Only 38 came to Dartmouth from California, but 117 hailed from New York State, 61 from New Jersey, 46 each from Pennsylvania and Connecticut, and 60 from Massachusetts.
The final word: Baker Library, lit up with stark, white lights, seems even larger than life when viewed from a bedroom across the campus in the Hanover Inn, and of course that's part of the memory. So is the emotion-evoking slide-and-sound show the College just produced. But there's also lots of memories just out jogging around town - past the Wilson Museum, New Hampshire Hall, Topliff Hall, and Alumni Gym (which look the same), then turning the corner down Park Street and being awed by the sheer size of Leverone Field House and Thompson Arena, and being impressed with the changing face of Hanover - the Co-op Food Store, near Lebanon and Park Streets, with lots of parking.
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