1974

The variety of events and the opportunity to see classmates already have generated widespread interest in the fifth-year reunion. Also, '74s are showing solid support for the Alumni Fund in this important reunion giving year. Certainly it comes as no surprise that the Class of '74 is. so spirited.

Weddings highlight the chronology. The Holyoke, Mass., Daily Transcript Telegram announced the May 26 rites of Edward Klofas and Martine Yingling last spring in Holyoke. Ed graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and Martine, a Wheaton alumna, received a master's from Rochester University; they were headed for San Francisco. Then, on May 28, Warren Zwecker was wed to Karen Koenig, Steve Koenig's sister, in the Colonnade Hotel in Boston. Warren's cousin, Rabbi Joel Meyers, performed the ceremony. Karen, a graduate of Tufts, attended Suffolk Law School. Warren graduated from Boston University Medical School and took an internship at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Congratulations!

Clippings from the Worcester, Mass., region announced the marriage there of Ed Duszlak and Carla Gresian on May 6, followed by their graduation from University of Massachusetts Medical School. Carla also graduated from Framingham State College. They began studies last fall in psychiatry at the Hershey Medical Center of Penn State University.

In August, a letter from Ray Reinhard said that he had just taken a position as a research associate in public finance at the Urban Institute in Washington after getting his master's in public policy at Berkeley. Ray said Lee S. Friedman '68 advised him on his thesis - a study of school finance reform in California. Also, he spent the summer of 1977 in Washington with the national health insurance section of HEW. Ray said that he has seen Joe Brennan '75, who works in the Puerto Rico office, and that he has visited Wally Gonzales '75 in Puerto Rico. He also saw Tom and Katie VanBenshoten in Boston, where Tom works in sales for the radio industry and Katie is a late-night anchorwoman for the local affiliate of CBS. Thanks for the news, Ray.

Last August, The Wall Street Journal reported a bond plan here in Denver that Charles Ziese of E.F. Hutton helped engineer. He was then a public finance associate. Passing through Denver on business was Bill Suttmeier, who works for Research-Cottrell, manufacturers and constructors of pollution-abatement equipment. Bill got wind of the August picnic of the Dartmouth Association of the Great Divide and was able to join us for the affair.

Clippings sent from Hanover last September included an announcement in the Arlington, Mass., Advocate that Rick Churchill received his M.B.A. from Harvard and joined T.H. Associates in Boston. He and his wife Maria live in Framingham. A clip from a Boston-area insurance weekly noted the promotion of BobAtwell to assistant secretary of North Star Reinsurance Corp., where he has worked since 1977. A North Dartmouth, Mass., paper recounted the July 29 wedding of Mike Steed and Sue Mosny, at which Dave Goodrich was best man and Ken Wachtel was an usher. Mike was cited as a design and research engineer for FAFCO, a solar heating firm in Palo Alto, Calif., where they reside. Sue graduated from Tufts with a B.S. in biology and was a medical research assistant at Stanford at the time. Also in the same bunch was the announcement from the Peterborough, N.H., Transcript that DeanRichardson was married to Laura Morrow of Charlotte, N.C., last July 15. They were cited as seniors at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Ohio State.

In a clipping sent last fall, the Gloucester, Mass., Times noted that Edward Donovan had been awarded his M.D. from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Ed spent the summer of 1976 at the Centre for Rheumatic Diseases in Glasgow, Scotland, and the following summer he studied radiology at the University of California, San Francisco. He also has done research at Boston University School of Medicine and at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Last fall Ed began an internship in general surgery at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton and he plans to do a residency in otolaryngology at the Eye and Ear Infirmary.

Two news releases came in September. Colby College announced that Peter Koons was to begin there as an instructor in geology. After Dartmouth, he was a research assistant with the Museum of Northern Arizona Research Center in Flagstaff before enrolling at the University of Otago in New Zealand for a master's degree. Peter worked as senior demonstrator in Otago's geology department and then did field and petrologic studies of the Darren Mountains and the terrain of Fiordland, South Island, New Zealand. The Bank of New York announced that Steve McCormack had been appointed an assistant secretary; he joined the bank in 1976 and is assigned to the employee benefit trust department. Steve received his master's in finance at the University of Michigan.

The Claremont, N.H., Eagle-Times cited Bob Porter for his service as the local chairman of the Claremont United Way fund drive. Bob conducts a log-trucking business there - a continuation of his work in Connecticut.

Meanwhile, back in New York, Head Agent Chris Gates took a position with IBM in Armonk as a portfolio manager after his tenure at Morgan Guaranty. With Reunion Giving Chairman Steve Dietz, who finishes law school this year at Columbia, and Assistant Head Agent Peter Blodgett, Chris has coordinated the Class's giving and notes the fine progress made so far.

In mid-October, Dick Cates shared the news of his rendezvous in September at the base of Longs Peak with Fritz Meyer '73, Bill Perell,Gregg Kelley, and Dick's wife Kim, who all climbed the back side of the mountain. The following week, Dick and Gregg ascended the Grand Teton by the Owens-Spaulding route (their picture made the December issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE). Fritz works in Denver for the investment banking firm of Bosworth Sullivan, Bill is in San Francisco with Pacific International Rice Mills, and Gregg is with Northwest Bancorporation in Minneapolis. Dick persuaded Andy Laszlo to participate in the annual Homesteader Days competitions in Huntley, Mont, (where Dick won the post- driving event last year and Kim won the cowchip throwing contest). Andy "placed an exciting third by conquering a three-year champion," Dick placed second in the post-driving, and Kim won the pancake flipping. They're both in school at Bozeman; she finishes her B.S. in land resources and Dick an M.S. in soil science in June. Thanks for the news, Dick.

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