1970

By the time all of you get a chance to read this column, another class will have left the Hanover plain and joined us as alumni. If the experience of our Class is any indication, the Class of 1978 has much to which it can look forward. For example:

Dave Gilmour reports that after medical school he went off to Samoa on a Peace Corps assignment. Before returning to the States he married a bright, beautiful Samoan lady, Fa'asaulala Mekuli. Within a month of the couple's arrival they were off to Gallup, N.M., where Dave is serving in the U.S. Public Health Service. Most of his patients are either Navaho or Zuni Indians. Those of you out in the New Mexico area, or passing within the vicinity of Gallup, have until August 1979 to catch Dave and his wife there.

Congratulations also go to Stu Zuckerman who was married in early April to Carol Masius at the St. Regis Sheraton in New York City. Stu has been working as an account executive with Metromedia Television. Carol is assistant director of subsidiary rights at G. P. Putnam's Sons, the publishers. The New York Times, in writing up the wedding, failed to take note of the significant representation of the Big Green at the wedding. Our own Chuck Thegze, Avon Books' West Coast editor based in Los Angeles, was the best man. Also in attendance were Don and Gina Balcom, Jeff and Ellen Kelley '69, Dave Kemp '69, Dolph Cramer '5O, Dick Menin '47, and Stu's brother Richard '72 and his wife, Linda Yowell, an exchange student in Hanover in 1971.

We are also well represented on college and university faculties. Tom Tiemann has written to say that he has joined the faculty of Wabash College where he will be teaching economics. Speaking of facultuy, Michael Piatt, who taught in the English and Comparative Literature Departments at Dartmouth during our senior year, is now associate professor of English at the University of Dallas. He would enjoy hearing from any of his former students and can be reached through the university there or in Etna, N.H., during summers.

I am also happy to bring you news about classmates Steve Bruemmer, Bill Badger, and Bill Bailey. A word of apology is first of all in order as I intended to include a report of their activities in an earlier column and had forgotten that I had not ended up doing so. Steve and his wife Margaret have been in Wisconsin for the last several years where Steve has been treating the students of the University School of Milwaukee, a private co-educational day school, to some very special teaching in the non-Western and American history fields. Margaret has been attending Marquette Law School where she has been an editor of the law review. Those contacting Steve should ask about his experiences in India on a Fulbright grant, and an exciting trip to the Middle East last summer which included visits to Turkey, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt.

Bill Bailey is back on the East Coast after several years in California at Stanford studying electrical engineering. Also at Stanford during Bill's stay was T. J. Rodgers. Bill is now happily settled in Hanover, having married Ellen Marchewka, who is from the area. His interests in short-story writing and art have been put aside temporarily and Bill has been concen- trating on designing equipment for Hypertherm, which is in the plasma arc cutting business. This is a process for cutting steel, among other things, with an electric arc.

Bill Badger, for his part, has also been designing in the North Country. Bill earned his master's in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. He has been working for the alpine slides which many of us have enjoyed at resort areas. Although based at the Bromley ski area, he has been spending much of his time travelling around the country designing slides for particular resorts.

Finally, I hope that those of you who have not yet contributed to the 1978 Dartmouth Alumni Fund will take a couple of minutes to sit down and write a check. The toughest part is sometimes getting to the chair, finding the envelope, stamp, etc. and putting it in the mail box. Anyone who has gone to Dartmouth must have been impressed at one time or another with the need for alumni contributions to private higher education and the fact that Dartmouth alumni in particular have long taken pride in their support for their alma mater. Be a part of that effort. Sitting on the sidelines is, as usual, not very satisfying in the end.

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