1961

Pat McManus has a key role in the fight to save the Itel Corporation. He's been named executive vice president and chief financial officer. Pat previously served as treasurer and vice president, transportation avtivities. Noted the New York Times: "Following a disastrous plunge in computer revenues earlier this year, Itel divested itself of all computer activities to concentrate on leasing transportation equipment. Mr. McManus will be chief administrative officer of the slimmed-down corporation as well as its financial chief."

Kennett Kendall, president of Kendall Insurance Inc., has been elected president of Berwick Academy, Maine's oldest educational institution, in existence for 188 years. He previously served as president of the school's board of overseers.

From your notes to Class Newsletter Editor Bert Rowley:

John Barnes: Director of Esselte Meto's northern European operations until April, when he additionally became responsible for U.S. operations of Dymo Retail Systems Inc. Wrote his wife Betty Ann: "We certainly feel like globe-trotters versus jet-setters. Since we married five years ago, we have lived in New York, San Francisco, Germany, Switzerland, and now London. Though John relocated with an American firm, that firm has since been acquired by the Swedes. So now we are running about always respectful of Bjorn Borg and ABBA and, of course, trying not to insult the Queen at the same time."

David Lincoln: Practicing orthopedic surgery in the North Carolina mountains for seven years. Three kids Matt, six, Chris, two, and Sarah, six months. "I am raising quarter horses, continuing to hit the little white ball, and sailing for extra activities."

Joe Dean: Pediatrician in Roswell, N.M., for the past four years. He's married to Karla and Has two children Shelley, 13, and Billy, six.

Tony Oestreicher: "After 13 years in the Chicago area, I'm moving back east to the Morristown, N.J., area. Left the ad biz after 17-plus glorious(?) years and have joined a computer systems company in Wharton, N.J. Still married to the same wonderful lady (Georgette) and very proud of my three children - Lisa, a high school sophomore, and Cara and Jack in grade school."

Paul Kaplan: In Nepal for two years working for the Midwest Universities Consortium in an AID-funded project with the Institute for Agriculture and Animal Sciences as rural development specialist for a four-person team. His project is to set up a network of pilot villages in the hinterland for testing out agricultural and social/economic projects. His wife and three children accompanied him.

News notes: Charles Chapman was named president of Chesebrough-Pond's health and beauty products division, after a term as president of the company's packaged foods division. He lives in Weston, Conn., with his wife and four children. Doug Zipes hosted a major symposium on sudden death in early December at the Krannert Institute of Cardiology of the Indiana University School of Medicine, a major center for the investigation of cardiovascular disease. George Breed has, been appointed director of sales planning and control for Data General's North American sales organization in Westboro, Mass. He previously worked for American Optical and Hewlett Packard. He'll be responsible for planning and cost control of field sales activities in the United States and Canada. John White has begun making speaking appearances, including at the Meriden, Conn., public library, to promote his new book Pole Shift. Finally, Hank Eberhardt and numerous others in the class are already talking about next fall's mini-reunion. We'll let you know the date when it's set. But from the reaction to this past one, count on having another. Maybe this time the folks who couldn't come at the last minute, like Tim Lawson, Oscar Arskanian, and William Mazeine, will make it. It's worth it.

Hank notes, by the way, that there are numerous '61s living in Greater Hanover, including Al Rozycki, Bill Cogswell, and Ford Daley in Norwich alone. Hank is, as most of you are aware, working full time for the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. He wrote: "To fill the time between the daily trek to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund office and coordinating weekend activities of Mike, 16, Jennifer, 13, Heidi, ten, and Rob, eight, I have gotten involved in Norwich" as a Scoutmaster, Sunday School teacher, member of the Norwich Lions Club, and coach of a mosquito hockey team; also "still looking for the right woman four years after."

I guess for many of us, the forties are characterized by pocket calendars that regiment the vast majority of our outside-the-office time. It seems that way, anyway, Hank. The only thing keeping my sanity is forcing some time in for exercise.

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