1965

Events of the world, when spread before us through the news media, provide life dramas as captivating as fictional writers have always tried to create. One of the rewards provided by the work of piecing together this column is the sustained sense that Class of '65 men are becoming more and more akin to bit players in those front-page dramas.

For instance the Alaskan pipeline venture held little real interest for me until we learned that one '65 was providing helicpoter support services, another was protecting the wildlife, and yet another was driving a dynamite truck. President Ford's re-election campaign took on added interest once we realized Bruce Wagner was managing the advertising. For a while he was right in there when things were happening. Now Bruce is back in a more routine job as a newly named senior vice president with Grey Advertising Inc. That has resulted in a move to Michigan where he has opened an office serving American Motors. He and Betsy have been joined by an April baby, name of Sage Elizabeth.

The comings and goings of Iranian leaders and foreigners have focused attention on the airport at Tehran. That same airport is of real interest to Glenn Currie, who now heads up a new logistics support center in Houston for Avco International Service Division. AISD is one of the largest private airport maintenance com- panies in the world, with the Middle East being their prime location. As airports of the world continue to be cordoned off, occupied, strafed, and/or attacked by mobs of students, think of Glenn's incoming mail box and the TELEX's that greet him in the morning. Before his move to AISD in 1978 he was vice president, investments, for the Paul Revere Companies (insurance).

Whether you really cared or not, in the past year we were all told by the media that Betty Ford went through a face lift as part of her self recovery. Steve La Sauvage is not in a position to say "so what!" because cosmetic and other plastic, reconstructive surgery has been his business for three years now in Tyler, Tex. A recent big event for Steve and Joan, more earth shaking than any national media event, was a. basic cottage industry: twin girls!

Who among us doesn't recognize the name of Wounded Knee and the shotgun-to-M-I stand-offs there? Those days and events portrayed by AP, UPI, CBS, NBC, et al. reached out far enough to affect the Rev. W. Shepley Curtis Jr. At the time, Shep (alias Bill) was an Episcopal priest operating out of Montrose, Colo., serving four small churches - and running a highschool program of fixing up church property in Pine Ridge, S.D., as well as Colorado. Wounded Knee led to the end of this program with the Dakota youths. Now he is an assistant priest in Billings, Mont., via other clergy assignments in Denver.

Dartmouth Anthropology Notes served as a source for the following items:

Albert Dekin was awarded tenure this year at SUNY - Binghamton as chairman of the Anthropology Department.

William Koolage is an associate professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Skip has a grant to study the effects of hydro development on native groups. Part of his university work involved teaching an anthropology course to 93 first-year nursing students.

Lynn Mason is associate professor of anthropology and chairman, Department of Anthropology, for California State University at Northridge.

Raymond Newell writes from an unpronounceable address in Groningen, Netherlands, that he is an archaeologist at the State University, Groningen. Celebration of the end of a long lecture series took the form of a fortnight of cross-country skiing in Norway. While he is preparing manuscripts on Mesolithic burials and fishing equipment, his wife Joke is into village council politics, teaching, and gymnastics.

Lewis Wheaton is a journalist with Associated Press using his master's in journalism from Columbia with past service in Richmond, Vermont, and in New York City. From Caracas, Venezula, AP moved him to San Juan as news editor for the Caribbean. This assignment involves island hopping and rum tasting on tropical patios and beaches!

When you pay your class dues this time around, or send in a reply to Alumni Fund mailings, take a few seconds to jot down what steps your life and career have taken since your last check-in. Speaking of checking in, Allen Zern stopped off this summer at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge to check up on the Class of '65 bunkhouse. "I can report that the bunkhouse is (a) not quite yet complete, (b) spartan but comfortable for the purpose and (c) apparently fully occupied, based on my limited sample. The Ravine Lodge is a beautiful spot, and I'm glad our Class has been able to help make it available to more students than would otherwise have a chance to stay there."

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