1943

Another school year begins, bringing with it a resumption of these notes and my opportunity to talk to you. (If only more of you would talk back!) The summer, with its wet weekends (here in the Northeast), has about had it, though one always hopes that September will somehow stretch the season and permit just a little more of the leisure activity we had planned but just never got to enjoy in full measure. For Dorothy and me, a summer highlight was a two-week auto trip (no, no gas problems) to the mid- South, with Washington as a starting point (where we talked with Bob Gray and Phil Bowie, of which more in a later issue). Then to Monticello; the Skyline Drive; the Smokies; Asheville; Petersburg, Va., for a Roots-type visit with relatives, most of whom I had never met; and finally a relaxing few days in the sun and sand (but no surf) of Virginia Beach. The rate of exchange was great, and we had no trouble with Customs as we crossed the Hudson River.

Summer weddings are always special, and we have three to report among class offspring. Bodie Mosenthal's daughter Barbara married Alexander Wood '77 on June 23 in a ceremony close to the campus in Thetford. The bridegroom and Barbara's borther Todd own and operate Solar Mountain Developers in Vail, Colo. Bruce Mosbacher, son of Bus Mosbacher, was scheduled for a garden wedding in California to Nancy Jane Ditz, a Stanford graduate. And according to a note from ever-faithful correspondent Church Leonard, Jim and RitaDoucette's second daughter was married in July.

Speaking of Jim, he has left I.T.T. and is now happily engaged as a partner in the New York management consultant firm of Antell, Nagel, Moorhead & Associates.

Seth Washburn has been elected vice president of personnel and public relations for Bell Telephone Laboratories. He was formerly executive director of the company's technical employment, education, and salary administration division and has been with Bell Telephone Laboratories since 1947. Seth holds a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

And other '43s are still climbing, too. FredStockwell has been named executive vice president of the Massachusetts Business Development Corporation in Boston.

Jim Oppenheimer writes from St. Paul, Minn., with the sad news of the death of his wife Chris in July after a seven-month bout with cancer. All of us join in expressing deepest sympathy to Jim. Jim writes further: "Although the children are scattered (daughters in Rochester, N.Y., and Billings, Mont., with five grandchildren between them, and a son at Tufts) they and the office will keep me busy. I will be maintaining our house on Dorado, Puerto Rico, and suspect I will be able to use it more than I have in the past couple of years. Anyone for Caribbean golf in February and March?"

You can get New Hampshire out of the boy, but ... Aetna's Kelly Coffin writes of attending the Alumni Council meeting in July and then stopping to visit Dottie and Ed Lider. Says Kelly: "We have moved our Aetna office from downtown Miami to Coral Gables and it is just great. The commuting is about half what it was and the business area is remarkably active. I guess I'm getting used to southern Florida, but 90 degrees from mid-April to mid-October is a little much!" Kelly is hard at work on the Campaign for Dartmouth with Walt Pettit and DickEmerson.

Joining the Florida class contingent (in Key Colony Beach) is Sherwood Martin, formerly of Geneva, Pa. Moves in the other direction are Arthur Brockway, from Phoenix, Md., to Woodstock, Vt., and Edgar Driver from Houston (the first defector?) to Wexford, Pa. Within New England, Don Taylor has forsaken Providence for Grantham, N.H., and Chandler Stevens has moved from Walpole, N.H., to Yarmouth Port, Mass. Bob Perkins has changed his residence from Marietta, Ga., to Charlotte, N.C., and — at least at last report, Bill Allman has transferred headquarters from Beirut to Al Krobar, Saudi Arabia.

As you read this, more than one thousand men and women are starting the big adventure of their first year at Dartmouth. And what will their stories be 40 years hence?

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