1974

Although many classmates have planned far in advance to include the reunion with vacation or business travel, it is hoped that others still will make a last-minute decision to attend. With only a few weeks to go, Hanover now is preparing the welcome mat for '74s.

Now back to news corralled last fall and winter. Don Fredrickson sent a nice note last October to relay news that, with "the patient and inspiring help of Yoriko Chodos," his teacher behind the 88 keys, Don had been accepted to the University of Southern California music school. He's studying piano accompaniment with Brooks Smith, himself a Heifitz accompanist, and loves the work on Schubert and Schumann songs. Keep up the musical and written notes, Don.

More wedding news was found in clips from Portland, Maine, papers, announcing that Dexter Kozen married Frances S. Holmes on September 2 in Sayville, N.Y. She received bachelor's and master's degrees from Cornell, where Dexter earned master's and Ph.D. degrees. Formerly, Frances was a market research analyst for Levi Strauss and Co. in San Francisco; Dexter pursued post-doctoral research at Berkeley. Now residing in Manhattan, Dexter is a computer scientist for IBM in Yorktown Heights and Frances works in New York. Congratulations!

Papers in the Nashua, N.H., area noted that Chas Carner spoke to the public and to school students at the Nashua Public Library on October 12. The clips cited his children's book, "Tawny," reviewed in the September issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

In late November, a news release from Holmes & Narver Inc., engineers-constructors, announced that Brian O'Hanlon had been selected to travel to the U.S. South Pole Station in Anarctica as a meteorologist. The firm manages and operates three stations under contract to the National Science Foundation. Brian will conduct research on the frozen continent until November 1979.

Announcements of the wedding of DougShufelt and Elizabeth Ann Duffield on November 25 in Darien, Conn., appeared in the New York Times and the Darien News. She is a 1977 graduate of Wheaton and works as a paralegal for the New York law firm of Rogers & Wells. Doug received an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and is merchandising comptroller for Cranston Print Works Company in New York. Ushers included SteveMcCormack and Kem Tyler '73.

A news release from Redbook magazine announced in November that a short story by Ralph Fletcher, entitled "The Gift," appeared in the December issue. Excerpts from Dartmouth Anthropology Notes received last December included word on Pete Lankenner, who had begun his two years of general surgery at Tufts New England Medical Center Hospital in Boston; after that he plans a three-year residency in orthopedic surgery at Massachusetts General. Also mentioned was Peter Clark, who had been managing Fitts Photo & Hobby Shop in West Lebanon; JayConger was cited as manager of international marketing for the Solarex Corporation in Maryland, the largest producer of solar electric systems; and John Kovacik related to the Anthropology Department that he was a bond underwriter for financial institutions at Chubb & Sons in New York. The notes also relayed news that Bill and Susan (Walter) Landmesser were living nearby, with Susan working in the Admissions Office and Bill in Woodstock; previously, Bill had studied art in Boston.

In mid-December, a visit with Doug Waldo revealed that he graduates from medical school in Buffalo this spring. At the time, he was exploring internships in Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, and Seattle in internal medicine and primary care. He noted that PeterHaffenreffer had joined Alter Text Inc., a Boston-area word-processing firm, after receiving his M.B.A. from Harvard. Others he mentioned were Wayne Wytrzes, who works as an oil broker; Chuck Bralver, at Chemical Bank and, for a time, in London as a specialist in the loan and finance department for Scandinavian shipping; Mike DeGenring, now at Atlantic Richfield in Los Angeles; and Gordon Wallace, who - after a stay at St. John's College of Cambridge University and a post as an assistant professor of visual studies at Dartmouth - accepted an appealing offer from the New York architectural firm of I.M.Pei. Thanks for the news, Doug.

A note from Ralph Benejam related that he graduated from the medical school : of the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico, in December and that he was to begin clinical training at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago.

The New York Times announced on December 31 the previous day's wedding of JeffBaxter and Gaylen Kemp in Stamford, Conn. Jeff graduated from the Boston University School of Law and is with the Atlanta firm of Arnall, Golden & Gregory. Gaylen graduated from the University of Colorado and the Boston University School of Law and was an associate with Palmer & Dodge in Boston before joining the Atlanta firm of Kilpatrick, Cody, Rogers, McClatchey & Regenstein. Congratulations!

In January, an excerpt from the September/October 1978 edition of a publication entitled UIPA News noted that BruceOakes does long-range planning and resource development for the Boston Indian Council, a service organization for the Indian community in the Boston area. Before joining BIC over a year ago, he was part of an administrative development program for the American Indian Community House in New York City. BIC has a staff of 120 and provides aid to many of the 4,000 Indians in the area.

An item that Dave Marston found in the newsletter of Interactive Data Corporation of Waltham, Mass., recounted that Steve McCormack joined the firm as assistant product manager for a product called Analystics. Steve graduated from the University of Michigan Business School and spent two years in the pension trust department of a major New York bank, according to the letter. Dave's firm, Dynamics Associates, also in the Boston area, is a subsidiary of Interactive. He is a programmer/analyst. Thanks for the news.

Now that nearly five years have passed since commencement, 1974, the coming reunion, June 15-17, provides an excellent and unique opportunity to see Dartmouth friends and to enjoy the campus again. Hope to see you there.

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