1944
A friendly phone call from Malcolm McLoud, out there in Cincinnati land, inquiring after my dreams, my hopes, my aspirations - and my girth and hairline: (Girth not bad; dropped 18 lbs. mostly by keeping my mouth shut; and hairline holding its own). Anyway, the Boog is pretty much into tennis, what with taxiing son Pablo around the countryside to appear in various junior tournaments, and his nibsship hisself acting as linesman at various grand prix events. He calls 'em as he sees 'em for the likes of Connors, Laver, Natase, that crowd.
Also had a good connection to Lynchburg, where we exchanged pleasantries with Doc EarlOwen, whose sense of humor is as sharp as his scalpel. Surgeon Earl reports grandfatherhood, first time, via daughter Molly '73; wife Betsey painting professionally; and no dream of retirement with another seven years of college tuitions to face. Earl slipped into a rented cap and gown April 7 to represent Dartmouth at the inauguration of a new president at Randolph- Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg.
Kudos to Dr. Bill Trier, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, " who has been elected president-elect of the American Cleft Palate Association. Bill, a professor of surgery and dental ecology in the schools of Medicine and Dentistry, will become president in May 1980 at the next annual meeting of - the association. He was elected to the position during a February 25-March 1 meeting in San Diego, where he presented a study course on the surgical treatment of secondary lip and nose deformities caused by cleft lip.
Then there's the word in on Oscar Goedecke who was honored in March as the RCA special products division's outstanding salesman for 1978. With RCA since 1956, and district manager in Oklahoma City since 1975, Osc also becomes president of the RCA Distributor and SPD's Excelsior Club, an exclusive group of ten of the division's top sales personnel chosen each year on the basis of sales performance in the preceding year.
Honors, too, to Don Sheridan, president and chief executive officer of L. J. Sheridan & Co. in Chicago, who was feted at a Palmer House dinner April 26 for his 30 years of volunteer work for March of Dimes. Don has been a volunteer since 1949, having served on the Chicago chapter executive committee since 1959. He was chapter treasurer in 1976 and has been vice chairman for campaign since 1977.
A double-header as it concerns Monte DuVal. Founding dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine and U. of A. vice president for health sciences until this past March, Monte was presented with the A. H. Robins Pharmaceutical Company Community Service Award in an April 28 ceremony. Beyond that, Monte resigned his University of Arizona post for San Francisco, where he becomes president of the National Center for Health Education. You'll remembelr that Monte served as assistant secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) 1971-73, and he received an honorary degree from Dartmouth in 1972.
A handsome photograph of my plain old roomie, Bill McElnea, in the March 5, 1979 copy of Forbes magazine, and a still handsomer write-up of the man who heads Caesars World. Story said Bill was knocking on Wall Street doors seeking support for Caesars World expansion into Atlantic City.
"A well-written and thoughtful study," says the International Affairs reviewer of Professor Bill Turpin's book Soviet Foreign Trade: Purpose and Performance. "A stimulating book," the reviewer concludes. "Both the clarity of the writing and the breadth of issues raised should recommend it to more than the very specialist readership indicated by the title." Bill is in the department of economics at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C.
If you're looking to buy the Ledyard Bridge or Bartlett Tower, realtor Bob McLaughry is, of course, your man in Hanover. He's also your man on Main Street and he has new real estate digs, Robert McLaughry and Associates, one flight down, next to Lou's, under Brown's of Bermuda. He's also had the good sense to bring wife Ann into the picture, and lord knows, you'll have more fun talking to her than to him.
Every man, woman, and Highland Terrier in the country knows by now that Dartmouth reached the national hockey finals in Detroit and wound up third-ranked in the country. A member of the first line, of course, was HankHughes' Dennis '79, a defenseman and a ruddy good one. So good and so ruddy, in fact, that he won the team's unsung hero award, presented annually by the Friends of Dartmouth Hockey.
A late flash: Bruce and Puss Thomson became twin grandparents in late February when Cathy, wife of Tommy '75, gave birth to twin girls in Hanover. Tommy is in his last term at Tuck; Bruce is in orbit. He did come down long enough to head to Hanover, with Puss, to see how one diapers a pair these days. Tommy, incidentally, was named a Tuck Scholar in recognition of scholastic accomplishments.
That's it. Blessings.
The father-and-son underwater-photography team of Stan Waterman 46 and Gar 78on location in the South Pacific, filming a television special on shark behavior.
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