1966

There's one place even quieter (maybe the word is stiller) than the Dartmouth Green at 2:00 a.m. on a snowy January night, and Budgeand Anne Gere have been there — Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes. It's the lost city of the Incas and, if you ever find yourself in Cusco, Peru, with a few hours on your hands, don't hesitate to go. (Amy and I spent a breathtaking day and night on the mountain a few years ago.) When not chasing llamas, Budge is pastor of a Presbyterian church in Seattle and Anne is a teacher in the University of Washington English Department. Budge, naturally, devotes much of his time to children. He's currently coaching a girls' soccer team.

Oliver Miller has been appointed director of planning for the McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Company. Oliver will apply his experience from McKinsey and Company, Seagram, and MECCO Inc. to McGraw-Hill's four television stations.

Ned Northrop has been named president of Xicom Inc., producers and distributors of management training films for business and industry. Xicom is a pioneer in filming simulations which recreate the problems and issues people must deal with in the real world. Ned has been a member of Xicom's board of directors for two years and has been with Brown Brothers, Harriman, and Company, private bankers in New York, since 1971. Since 1974, Ned has also chaired the board of trustees of Tuxedo Memorial Hospital.

Tom Hoober is one of 25 students from Lancaster, Pa., Theological Seminary of the United Church of Christ visiting church institutions in Central America and the Caribbean.

Tod Kalif has been named dean of Staples High School in Bridgeport, Conn., where he's been acting dean since last year. Tod earned a master's degree in teaching from the University of Maine and administrative certification from Fairfield University. Henry Clapper is a senior law partner with Monroe, Clapper, and Randall in Monett, Miss. Lori Lee is six, Cari Lynn, three, and Nancy, busy.

October 27 was wedding day for Ed Brown and Valerie Mary Tompkins. They'll live in Indianapolis, where Ed's an attorney with Merchant National Bank and Trust and Valerie works at Methodist Hospital.

Did you know that Pete Dole, a partner in Dole and Dole (one of them is his dad, George '53), Paris, Ill., lawyers, was elected state's attorney of Edgar County, Ill., in 1976! Polly is four, Anna is going on one, and Barbara helps raise Morgan horses for show.

Did you know that Mark Budnitz has resigned as executive director of the National Consumer Law Center in Boston and is now associate professor of law at Atlanta's Emory University?

Did you know that Dick Dellamora now chairs the cultural studies programme at Trent University in Peterboro, Ontario, Canada?

Did you know that Lance Tapley claims he is the happiest '66 of all! It has something to do with his marriage to Peggy Libby in Walpole, Maine, 16 months ago; the wedding poem presented to them by Jack Aley; his adoption of Peggy's son Isaac; the birth on March 29 of twins Adam and Asa; and his work as executive secretary of Maine's Common Cause.

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