Class Notes

1959

May 1979 BARRY R. BLAKE
Class Notes
1959
May 1979 BARRY R. BLAKE

This will be the final reminder in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE about our 20th class reunion. The reunion dates are June 15-17. Bring the whole family; a separate kids program has been planned

Jim Perry writes that he left education after 15 vears and has joined All State Insurance Co. as an agent. He is already beginning the climb up the management ladder from sales agent to assistant district sales manager. Good luck!

Cary Stiff and his wife have hired a couple to run their Idaho Springs weekly newspaper while they spend a year at Stanford University. Cary is a professional journalism fellow (one of 12) 'who received grants from the National Endowment for Humanities for a year's study at Stanford. His wife Carol and their three children, Mike, nine, Katie, seven, and Chip (Cary III), three, are spending the year in California with him.

Dave Foster reports that he has recently moved to Forth Monmouth, N.J., and has recently been assigned as an assistant project manager for a new computer rated command and control system planned for use in army divisions beginning in the mid-1980's. His two children are currently in college at the State University of New York.

After spending ten years with the Chemical Bank in New York City, John Perley has moved to Manchester, N.H., where he is currently senior vice president and director of the Amoskeag National Bank of Manchester. John's daughter Linda is currently a freshman at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, and his son Stephen is a sophomore in high school. John and his family are looking forward to the 20th reunion in June.

Jim Groundwater reports that he is practicing dermatology in downtown San Francisco and living in a four-unit building (which he owns) near the San Francisco waterfront.

Howie Geiger is an investment analyst in the investment department of Investors Diversified Services of MPLS. Howie has daily contact with Dick Warden and Ed Labenski. Howie's oldest child Melissa is" currently a senior at Skidmore.

John Mandaville has taken a sabatical from the history department at Portland State to go to Sana'a, North Yemen, as first director of the American Institute for Yemeni studies - cosponsored by several American universities as well as the State Department. John has moved with his family to Yemen for a two-year stint.

John Schonblom has moved his practice from Vancouver, 8.C., to Salem, Ore. John is pleased to report that it is a p.leasure to be in a location where the local newspapers report the Dartmouth College football scores.

Read Heydt is now in his senior year at Virginia Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria, Va., and is looking forward to his ordination in June. He plans to attend the 20th reunion with his wife Babbie and year-old son Charlie.

Scott Palmer and Ted Gude ran a special course on Central America and the Caribbean last summer at the foreign service institute for an army reserve group. This spring, Scott has been teaching "Military Governments in Latin America" at Princeton.

A mysterious newspaper article which included the following story arrived at my house: Dr. Nick Procino was the latest to join the hole-in-one club when he aced the 172-yard twelfth hole at the Mohawk Golf Club during the club's annual championship event." Allegedly (editorial comment), Nick used a 3 iron to complete this feat.

Ross Farrar, the chairman of our 20th reunion committee, wants to say, "Don't forget the 20th - the committee didn't forget you!"

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