1951
One of the advantages of working for ski resorts is that you get to go north and enjoy winter activities. We have made several trips to New England this season and have been able to get back to Dartmouth and visit son Robert '82. On our last trip we were given a tour of the new Collis College Center. This facility has been built where Freshman Commons once held sway. Among the amenities is a pub that serves beer, wine, soups, salads, bagels and omelettes. The quality of the food is excellent and the ambiance agreeable. The common or main room is a multi-purpose facility, useable for receptions, dances, lectures, and films. It is open for everyone's use. Should a group want to hold a dance, all they have to do is book it in advance. Upstairs from the common is a circular balcony with easy chairs and tables for studying, socializing, or just sitting. The facility also contains offices for student organizations, meeting rooms for any group that needs them, plus there is a basement game room. The architecture combines the old and the new in a very compatible manner. This is certainly a fine addition to the College.
Once again the annual Alumni Fund drive is upon us. As a Class, we showed remarkable improvement last year, and Jim Bovaird and his crew of agents are getting geared up to improve on the record. According to Jim, "the 1979 goal for 1951 will be $82,000, which would be a new record for 28 years out of college. Our 1978 goal was $65,000 and we raised $75,700 - we are being asked for a ten per cent increase in 1979 - certainly attainable. The average gift was up to $196 and participation was 62 per cent or 386 men - aiming for 425-250 this year. When the call comes, please answer it. Dartmouth is a live, vibrant, growing, and changing institution that must be constantly nourished by those who care."
Gary H. Mansur has been named vice president of the Paget's Disease Foundation, a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the health interests of the estimated two million American men and women who suffer from the painful and deforming chronic bone ailment called "Paget's disease of bone." Gary is a director of corporate communications of the Damon Corporation, a multinational clinical diagnostic company in Needham Heights. A medical communications and continuing education specialist, Gary developed the nationally-accredited Damon Clinical Colloquium, a continuing medical education series in laboratory diagnosis, which has published continually since 1974. Before he joined the Damon Corporation in 1971, he was affiliated with Smith Kline and French Laboratories and the Sterilon Division of Gillette and was editor of Industry magazine.
Our newly annointed newsletter editor, DickHalloran, was married on November 11 to Fumiko Mori. Congratulations! Imagine someone taking on two awesome responsibilities within a few weeks of each other.
Apparently the training he received as head of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund has been very valuable to Charlie Breed. We now find that he has been elected a senior vice president of Kersting, Brown and Co. of New York. Charlie represents the firm on fund raising and counseling matters in New England and Texas.
Woody Klein has been moving up the IBM corporate ladder once again. Reports Woody, "1 have been appointed manager of management communications in IBM's system communications division headquartered in White Plains. This, after a little more than two years in which I served as manager of communications and community relations for the company's manufacturing complex in the Mid-Hudson Valley. As you know, I was editor of THINK, the company magazine, before that." This sure is a long way from sports editor of the DailyDartmouth.
One who has embarked on a new career is JimAsker. With two other partners, Jim has opened a woodworking shop in New York City that does cabinetry, carpentry, and spacial creations.
Howie Reed has done what many of us have wistfully dreamt of doing - he is dropping out for a couple of years. He and his wife are living on their boat and, according to Howie, are in "perpetual motion." He plans on doing this until they have had their "wanderjahrs." Good for you!
So long for now.
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