1969

That time of year has arrived once again when local student bodies will soon be peeling off to and at Union Village Dam. According to my fuel bills, however, the warm weather is about three months late.

Turning to the news, Paul Tuhus has been elected a vice president in the U.S. division of Wells Fargo Bank's corporate banking group. After receiving his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1974, Paul steadily worked his way up the corporate ladder and, until this latest promotion, was chief shotgunner on the Denver-Salt Lake stage. Also being kicked upstairs is Jim Gardner, who is involved in sales development for Proctor & Gamble. The promotion of course means that Jim gets to move his belongings from Connecticut to the Cincinnati environs where company headquarters are located. Scuttlebutt has been overheard to the effect that he will soon be tapped as a replacement for Mr. Whipple, Chief Defender of the Charmin, and himself a much-squeezed-after commodity.

Promotionitis has apparently been running rampant the past few months. Another victim, Lowell Richards, erstwhile deputy director of Boston's Office of Fiscal Affairs, has been elevated to the post of collector-treasurer by Mayor Kevin H. White. In the past, this position has been known to serve as a springboard to even loftier office, notably class head agent. Having done time at MIT and Harvard Law School, Lowell has been with the White administration since 1969 when he served as a research analyst for the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Recently elected to the board of directors of Baybank United was Ted Leach. He is currently a senior vice president of Leach and Garner Co. in Attleboro, Mass. Active in many civic organizations, Ted is a participant in the Annawon Council, Boy Scouts of America, Attleboro Mental Health Clinic, United Way of Attleboro, Attleboro Chamber of Commerce, the local chapter of the Red Cross and, for good measure, is a trustee of the North Purchase Cemetery, presumably in case he should get tuckered from other activities.

Residing in West Newbury, Vt., just north of Bradford, Ray Clark is doing his bit to preserve a slice of New England history. As a contractor, he became interested in early American construction techniques while doing restoration work and by visiting Sturbridge Village, Mass., and Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth. Concerned that many of the area's old houses are being razed in the name of progress, Ray rescued an eighteenth-century home from the bulldozer in Taunton, Mass. The structure was carefully disassembled and trucked to its present site on Lyme Center Road in Hanover. Said Clark, "I know it would take less time to build a house with all new materials cut to standard size, but it still seems more viable to preserve the workmanship that went into these old houses." Too bad the furnishings can't be supplied at eighteenth-century prices.

On a final note, assuming their engagement was concluded not without a hitch, StevenBarrett and Christina Nahatis are now man and wife. Armed with his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School, Steve pursued his post graduate training in family practice at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver. Figuring he would need a family on which to practice, he has apparently decided to start his own and is currently practicing in Manchester, Mass.

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