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It's a pleasure to hear from classmates living abroad whom we seldom have a chance to see in person. Tony Reiche notes that since November 1977 he has been living in Cognac (where that noble brandy comes from, in the Charente Department of southwest France) and has been marketing manager for Remy Martin Cognac in Scandinavia, Germany, Holland, and Austria. He was in Hanover for a weekend in October 1975 but is perpetually traveling around the globe. Tony lived in London from 1967 to 1971 and in Paris from 1972 until 1977. He married Vicky English in 1974.
Roger Wolf is definitely planning to make the trip from Tucson, Ariz., to Hanover for our 20th reunion. This will be Roger's first trip to Hanover since 1961. Roger specializes in immigration and nationality law with offices in a 100-year-old adobe building with walls two feet thick. He recently obtained his glider pilot's license and has been having some great flights on the spring thermals of Arizona, reaching heights of 8,000 feet.
Alan Shaver became counsel to the beverages and breakfast foods division of General Foods Corp. a year ago and has been very much involved with a Federal Trade Commission antitrust suit against the cereal industry and proposals regarding children's television. Al's wife Ellen has started a three-year master of divinity program at Yale Divinity School and hopes to be an ordained Episcopal priest upon completion of her studies in 1981. Al and the children, Steven and Laura, like to ski at the Dartmouth Skiway, particularly since their grandmother lives just down the road. Laura is rapidly becoming a soccer star.
Sol Rockenmacher is entering his tenth year in pediatric practice in association with three other pediatricians in Durham, N.H. Linda is on the Oyster River School Board and Sol is trying to save enough to send his three daughters to Dartmouth.
Jack Sommer is now the dean of the school of social sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. His children are approaching college age and his daughter is interested in Dartmouth, although his son probably will remain at Texas. Jack enjoys Dallas even though the countryside does not rival New England. The Sommers live on a golf course which doubles as a place to run. The University has good squash courts. After a decade as an instructor at Dartmouth, Jack hopes that the College will continue as an undergraduate school with some good professional schools appended. He believes it would be a mistake to enlarge the graduate programs in arts and sciences. He also cautions against over-administration.
Dr. Jerome Bart recently completed his black-belt exam in aikido, and Sandy ran her second marathon in New York City. Aaron, age 11, plays hockey, and Joelle, age eight, hopes to be another Nadia in her gymnastics. In between athletic events, the Barts squeezed in a trip to Australia.
John Appleford moved from Michigan to Monterey, Va., in 1977. Monterey is a beautiful town in the mountains of western Virginia, and John was elected mayor this year. The Applefords have six children. Patty, the oldest, is a freshman at the University of Virginia.
Bryant Barnes is still in Kansas City working now for Kidder Peabody as an investment advisor for pension and profit-sharing plans. The company he previously worked for merged with Kidder. Last summer Bryant went to the U.S. Amateur Golf Tournament.
Bill Evans was in Hanover last fall doing research on Robert Frost in Baker Library. Bill and Eileen live in Union, N.J. Bill didn't mention whether or where he was teaching.
Gary and Nancy Stass had their first child last May, a daughter, Kyle Austin. Gary is a stockbroker with McDonald & Co. in New York City involved primarily in institutional sales. The Stasses live in New Canaan, Conn.
Dick Chase has a real estate consulting and management business in Connecticut. He has five boys, ages 19 and under, one of whom opened his own kite shop on Martha's Vineyard.
Urban Hirschey is vice president of marketing and a director of Climax Manufacturing Company, a family business in Carthage, N.Y. The company is integrated to the extent that it has a waste-collecting division in Syracuse, a paperboard mill in Carthage, and a converting division in Castorland, N.Y., that makes folding paper boxes and paper bags, mostly for use by department stores and retail shops. During the past two years the company has been expanding its distribution to the West Coast, and Urban has been able to get together with Dick Foley on several occasions. Urban and Sally are planning to attend the reunion. Their twins, Tyler and John, are now one and a half years old.
Hal Burdge writes that his old roommate, Navy Captain Bruce Hulbert, and Bruce's wife Margaret drove from San Diego, Calif., to Mountainside, N.J., in July 1978 to visit Sandy and Hal and to buy a new home in Geneva, Va., in contemplation of Bruce's transfer to the Pentagon. In August, Sandy and Hal and their daughter Suzanne drove across the United States to San Diego to visit the Hulberts as they packed for the move back East. Lets hope these travelers find their way to Hanover for reunion, June 15-17.
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