1960

Once again the Class of 1960 was cited for its excellent attendance at Class Officers Weekend in early May. Seth and Kathy Strickland, Bill and Alice McCarter and Phil and Mary Lou Kron made the trip along with Dick Ossen, Rick Lyman and Bob Phillips. Gene Kohn planned to come but was called away on business at the last minute and was unable to be present to receive his award as Class Newsletter Editor of the Year, which was awarded to two recipients this year. Seth presided over the Friday after-dinner program as president of the Class President's Association, and your scribe was somehow able to pull himself out of bed to preside over the breakfast meeting at 7:45 a.m. on Satruday.

Dick Griggs has been elected to the board of directors of Lincoln Federal Savings, the second-largest federal savings and loan association in New Jersey, with a main office in Westfield and 12 branches in other New Jersey communities. Dick is a partner in Benefit Service Company of Westfield, a firm which markets individual life insurance, group insurance, and pension programs. Dick is a certified life underwriter and is president of the Northern New Jersey Estate Planning Council, a member of the Million Dollar Round Table, and is active in numerous professional and business organizations. He is also an active participant in community affairs, serving as president of the board of trustees of the First United Methodist Church of Westfield, trustee of the Westfield Hospital Association, and of Fair-view Cemetery. He was formerly president of the board of directors of the Westfield YMCA.

Bob Becker has been elected a senior vice president of Essexbank in Peabody, Mass. Bob was formerly with New England Merchants National Bank, Boston, and First National City Bank, New York. Bob joined the bank in 1973 and is now in charge of its commercial loan department. He is on the Salem Chamber of Commerce and is a United Way area chairman. Bob and his family live in Merrimac, Mass.

Bob Colyer writes that he is now doing consulting work in corporate fitness and health programs in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota and hopes to make the reunion with his wife Allyn, whom he married last June. In 1977 Bob concluded an eight-year career of teaching and coaching at Valparaiso University in Indiana. He served on the men's physical education faculty and doubled as head coach for both swimming and track. His swimmers and divers won the Indiana Collegiate Conference Championship in 1977 and Bob won Coach of the Year honors. Allyn coached the women's swim team at Valparaiso for five years prior to marrying Bob. In 1977-78' Bob taught nine courses at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., and worked with the divers on the swim team. Unable to find a college teaching situation satisfactory to both of them, Bob and Allyn have taken a voluntary sabattical from college teaching. They are happy with their present positions and love the Twin Cities area where they have bought a home in Minnetonka.

Dave and Judy Harrison are planning a canoe trip this summer along the fur traders' route in northern Saskatchewan. In August 1977 the Harrisons embarked on a canoe trip down the Noatak River in Alaska above the Arctic Circle. The most extraordinary feature of the expedition was the choice of party. The Harrisons made the journey with two other families and seven children, ages six to 16, including Dave Jr., age 13. Dave sent me his feature article from Canoe magazine, including a daily diary by Dave and Judy. For 15 days the group paddled over a distance of 325 miles to the village of Noatak, the only permanent settlement on the river. The river meanders through the tundra flanked by mountains and flows through the spectacular Noatak Canyon. The voyagers spotted.wolves, caribou, foxes, and grizzlies, and eagles, falcons, and red-tailed hawks screeched overhead. The Harrison's article in the September 1978 issue of Canoe is interesting reading.

Occasionally we receive a couple of items from the Dartmouth Anthropology Notes, although I am never sure how dated they are. Duncan Mathewson reported that he had finished the course work for his Ph.D. in anthropology in Florida and had moved to Connecticut where he was seeking contract bids to do impact studies. This past winter (or perhaps the winter before) he ran a field school in coastal human ecology and underwater archaeology for Franklin Pierce College in affiliation with Newfound Harbor Marine Institute, Florida. Duncan ran in the Boston Marathon for the first time last year. Marie has been completing her' NIMH post-doctoral research fellowship at Yale and studying management procedures, computer anlaysis, and related areas.

News from the reunion will appear next September. Have a pleasant summer.

21 Mt. Pleasant St. Winchester, Mass. 01890

Eugene Harold Kohn, the Class of 1960's newsletter editor, was named 1979 Newsletter Editor of the Year at the annual Class Officers Weekend in May. "In addi- tion to turning out a superb newsletter," his citation said, "you have done a super job in the interest of better newsletters everywhere, first as vice president and then as president of the Newsletter Editors Association."