1958

Champion International Corporation recently announced the election of Richard W. Lowry to the position of senior vice president. A Tuck School graduate, Dick has been with Champion since 1960 and has had a variety of responsibilities, including running Champion's distribution division and heading Trend Carpet. In his new post, he will oversee several corporate staff functions and serve as special assistant to the president. The Lowrys live in New Canaan, Conn.

Among our several classmates who travel in the Eastern Hemisphere is Don Moday, who is export sales manager for Bluebird Body Company. Don travels extensively through Asia, Africa, and the Middle East selling buses and motor homes. His base is Fort Valley, Ga., about 90 miles south of Atlanta. After graduating from Wharton with an M.B.A. in 1960, Don joined Alcoa and spent ten years in Hong Kong in sales and marketing, covering Asia. He left Alcoa in 1974 to join Bluebird Don and his wife Peggy have four children From observation, I can attest that he keeps remarkably trim by jogging. At reunion, he and old pal Ron Zwart looked like they had stepped out of a 1958 snapshot.

From Newport Beach, Calif., comes word that Coleman Colla, "thoroughly enjoyed" the 20th reunion and is "already looking forward to the 25th." Coleman is manager of advanced planning for the electronic devices division of Rockwell International. He will have the pleasure of receiving his M.B.A. from California State University later this year, after "doing it at night" — a "long, long pull!" The Collas have three children.

With SALT II and the missile system bargaining chips in the news, it is interesting to learn that Bill Cutcliffe of Ballston Lake, N.Y. (near Saratoga) is working as a consultant for a California firm on the geological aspects of the new southwest missile program. Bill, president of Dunn Geoscience Corporation, describes this project as "exciting and challenging." The Cutcliffs have three boys away at school, including a son ('81) at Dartmouth. In August they joined Cary and Pat Rhoten on the Rhotens' sailboat at North Falmouth, Cape Cod. Bill extends an invitation to all '28s traveling through or attending Saratoga events.

John Diggs wrote from the Mid-Maine Medical Center in Waterville, where he is director of physical medicine and rehabilitation, to say that he enjoyed reunion "ten times more than I thought I would." During our chat in Hanover, John told me how much he relishes sailing along the spectacular coastline of Maine. At the clinic, John has become interested in chronic pain syndrome and has developed a pain clinic and treatment program for the Medical Center. John looks like a cross between a lean cowboy and a Grand Bank old salt. He would be an easy physician to relate to — or a delightful sailing companion.

Robert L. (Nate) Nathanson missed reunion due to a death in the family. He is looking forward to the 25th. Nate became tax attorney for the New York Telephone Company in March after spending seven years with AT&T in a similar capacity. The Nathansons live in Randolph, N.J.

Also from New Jersey comes word from Dick Darby of Holmdel that reunion was "great." Some of our over-stressed executive types may be interested to learn that after 14 years in the "textile rat-race" in New York City, Dick started his own construction company in Monmouth County, N.J. He specializes in renovation and restoration. Recently remarried, Dick is renovating a 300-year-old Dutch farmhouse for his own family of eight, which includes himself, his wife Eleanor, and three children each of his and hers. "There is always some cheer for Dartmouth [alums] at that stop."

Tryg Myhren has some, interesting business news and a timely invitation to old friends who may be skiing in Colorado. "Business life has been both exciting and exhausting lately. As senior vice president of marketing and programming for American Television and Communications, I have been lucky enough to be involved in all aspects of an extremely fast- growing industry. We are now the second- largest cable company and will pass the number one (Teleprompter) during 1980. In addition, we are buying broadcast television stations and already own and manage over-the-air pay television services in two markets." Tryg and three children enjoy the winter weekends at their condominium in Vail, Colo., where they "love to ski the socks off oxygen-short flatlanders who come by to visit. We're listed in the Vail and Denver phone books and welcome calls from old Dartmouth friends." In his spare time, Tryg coaches two kids soccer teams each fall. Commenting on reunion, he observed, "If more classmates knew how relaxed the atmosphere is at these get-togethers, I am sure even more would attend."

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