1973

It's always good to start on a high note, so congratulations are certainly in order for Bob Barr who has recently been promoted to area sales manager for Boise Cascade's housing division. Bob covers New England and part of Pennsylvania overseeing the sale of Boise's complete line of panelized homes. He has also been active as a Heorot alumnus, involving himself in efforts to reorganize the house corporation.

Bob reported that he recently saw another Heorot alumnus, Jon Low, who will complete his graduate work at Yale this spring. In addition, he noted that Dave Bracken has finished his Ph.D. at Georgia Tech and has accepted a job with Xerox. Dave, his wife Liz, and daughter Anne have already moved to Rochester, N.Y.

Several weeks ago I got together with PeteSmith when he was in Boston on business. Pete is another Dartmouth capitalist who is rising through the ranks. He is now the assistant vice president of the Barnett Bank of Florida. One of the regions that he covers for the bank is the Northeast.

Bruce Ling will be receiving his M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, this spring. After graduation in 1973, Linger was a sales executive for the Aetna Life Insurance Co. in New Hampshire. After a year he returned to his home turf to manage a restaurant in London, Ontario. He worked for the Royal Bank of Canada last summer and after graduation this year may be joining that institution in Toronto.

Chuck Thomas will also be receiving a degree this spring. His will be in medicine. After workins as an admissions officer at Dartmouth for a year after graduation, Chuck moved to Philadelphia where he worked as a medic at an inner-city hospital while taking courses at Temple University. He was subsequently accepted at the Dartmouth Medical School, from which he will be graduating this spring.

Another Dartmouth doctor, Phil Maloney, is busy with his orthopedic residency at Tufts New England Medical Center. Next year, Phil moves over to the Mass. General Hospital to complete his residency. Phil, his wife Sue, and their one-year-old baby, Molly, are living in Cambridge.

And yet another Dartmouth doctor, Russ Kelley, is in the midst of his residency at a hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y., under the auspices of Columbia University. By the time this column is published, Russ's wife Pat may have already given birth to their second child.

Doug Donahue, former captain of the varsity squash team, is continuing his winning ways with his racquet while working for the investment banking house of Brown Brothers, Harriman, in Boston. Digger joined Brown Brothers after his graduation from Harvard Business School.

Ted Daiper is also living in Boston, keeping up his tennis game and practicing law with a downtown firm of McLaughlin and McLaughlin; Ted joined the firm after his graduation from Boston University Law School.

Bill Kellogg, the recently married former co- captain of the varsity tennis team, has put his considerable tennis talents to further use as a tennis professional in Southern California. Bill's avocation has become his vocation. Nice combination.

Finally, I have news about John McBratney. John joined the Peace Corps in 1975 when he elected to go to Thailand to teach. He attended two teacher-training colleges, in Chachoengsao and in Hyuthaya, for teachers of English as a second language. All in all he spent two years working and traveling throughout the country.

The Thai language is considered by many experts to be the most difficult in the world. John explained that "you can tell someone to come and call him a dog using the same syllables and different tones." Luckily, John did not have any unfortunate experiences; he found the Thai people to be very friendly.

That's it for this month. See you next.

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