1962
Last month was a big month for Dartmouth out on the West Coast. It started with a visit from our new football coach, Joe Yukica, who had lunch with the Dartmouth Club here in between recruiting visits to some of the prospects in the Bay Area.
Everyone here was extremely impressed by Mr. Yukica, and worked with renewed fervor to get football players for his new program. We just received word that four top prospects have been accepted and will go.
Then on April 6, President Kemeny was in town. He attended a small luncheon hosted by our West Coast trustee. That evening there was a large dinner with approximately 400 people in attendance. The '62s at the dinner included yours truly, as well as Dave Muhlitner and Chuck and Barbara Preuss.
John Clark has been rounding up a collection of notes about our alumni, and this month we find we seem to be concentrating on successes in the education field. Doug Pease is teaching physics at the University of Connecticut. Also at U. Conn, is Nelson Orringer, who is teaching Spanish. Richard O. Norman teaches at Hanover High School and also works for the DCAC Sports Information office, where he may come across Bob Aiken. Bob has done some nifty artwork for football program covers, and his art hobby brings in requests for freelance cartooning and illustrating. With his wife Edwarda and his daughter. Bob lives in Jericho, Vt., and is assistant director of welfare medical services in the Department of Social Welfare, Vermont.
Folke T. Kihlstedt ("Tyko") is chairman of the Art and Architectural History Department at Franklin and Marshall College. Dick Dillon, now living in Quebec. Canada, is a teaching psychologist and is developing micro-computer software for use by psychologists. Dick is in- terested in perceptual aspects, as is Al Dick. Dillon is living on a working farm, raising cattle.
As Clark says, "Dick isn't the only '62 who throws the bull. John Hust does it for a living." Clay Vaughan's farm in Weston is a full-time job, too, occasionally interrupted by his fulltime orthopedic surgery practice. Clark was a former patient of Clay's.
Bob Needham gets a Bigelow on the floor with his new job and title of vice president of the Arlington Trust Company of Lawrence, Mass. Formerly a trust officer at Industrial National Bank of Providence, R.I., he enjoys the shorter commute (from Lexington). Clark declares that he hopes (but doubts) the move will help Bob's tennis game... "Nothing can hurt it!"
Bob said Bill Whaley called him to say he was running in the Boston Marathon on April 19, and would Bob stay at a check point to pass him candy bars. Now Clark knows where Whaley found the time to dream up all those original (and ever more obscene) verses of "Hot Nuts" he revealed at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning of reunion. Whaley has a medical practice partnership, West Paces Ferry Medicinal Clinic, and lives in Atlanta with his wife Jane and their three children.
David C. Morse, who has been a stock broker in Portland for the past nine years, has left Burbank & Co. and opened a Portland office for the firm of Fechtor, Detwiler & Co., Inc., Boston. This firm concentrates on researching and recommending high quality smaller companies that are being overlooked.
V. David Schwantes has been appointed treasurer of Medtronic, Inc., a promotion from assistant treasurer. Vern lives in Burnsville, Minn.
Rep. Paul E. Tsongas, very active Democratic Representitive for Massachusetts, received further coverage in The New York Times, Sunday, March 19, 1978. Plans for a citizens' congress that will map a regional energy program have been announced by the New England Congressional Caucus, a nonpartisan group made up of the region's 25 representatives. By January, the congress is expected to produce proposals for energy savings and alternate energy sources that would meet local needs. The New England Energy Congress will divide its 60 members into committees on energy supply, energy needs, energy conservation, regulatory and institutional remedies, energy financing, and economic development through alternate energy sources. Input will be sought from representatives of the banking community, consumer advocates, industry, poor people, and a variety of other groups.
By the time you receive this, the annual Alumni Fund campaign will be coming to an end. At last reading our Class was still leading the other classes in our group with respect to our participation and donation amounts. As we all know so well, the Class of '62 has been the leader for the last few years for the Alumni Fund, and we trust that any of you that have not yet given will take this last opportunity to make a donation this year to a truly worthwhile cause - the continuing excellence of Dartmouth.
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