1961

Our mini-reunion will be held on October 5-7 in Hanover, your class officers decided in a recent weekend meeting. President Gerry Kaminsky says a whole weekend full of events is being planned by the committee headed by Bill Haynsworth. He says they're talking about a class meeting on Saturday morning, a party on Saturday afternoon, hikes, etc. to make a full weekend, but set up so those of you who can only get there on Saturday will still be able to hit the high points.

Gerry says, "We have a great deal of class momentum," and cites these mid-May signs:

Vic Rich had enrolled 415 classmates as dues-paying members and was hoping, no, really expecting, to break the class record of 424 by the June 30 deadline.

We are leading in the Green Derby race through mid-May against the classes of 1962-67, something that's never happened to us before.

Hartley Webster has found "more and more people willing to be a part of the program," said Gerry. Hartley is our new head class agent, succeeding Terry O'Neil, who resigned for personal reasons. Through the help of many of you, Hartley's been able to put together an organization rather fast.

Meantime, said Gerry, Ron Wybranowski is developing ideas for our class project, which he hopes will be ready for approval at our class meeting in October. Your executive committee is also considering the possibility of a class alumni award, perhaps an annual thing to honor a classmate who has done outstanding work for Dartmouth.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the 998-mile drive to Hanover (or more likely the flight to Lebanon) from the deep South, and I hope many of the rest of you can write it in your plans, now. Gerry, by the way, picked up a brochure for the Boston Financial Technology Group, a real-estate investment, consultant, and management firm, which contains the following description of Bill Haynsworth, who is a vice president, and who holds two law degrees from Harvard: "Mr. Haynsworth was acting executive director of the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, where he was also general counsel, prior to becoming a vice president of Boston Financial in 1977. He has also served as director of nonresidential development of the Boston Redevelopment Authority and as an associate of the law firm of Goodwin, Procter and Hoar in Boston. Mr. Haynsworth is engaged in the full range of activities of the Legal Department and also participates with the Investment Group in the structure of private placements and the development of new business opportunities."

Terry O'Neil, by the way, has been promoted to associate regional manager of Blunt Ellis & Loewi, a regional investment firm. He'll work out of the corporate headquarters in Milwaukee. Terry is also a company vice president. His territory includes Wisconsin and Nebraska, and the job is reportedly a new position intended to strengthen sales management.

Working the telephone: Tom Goodridge is an obstetrician and gynecologist practicing in Silver Spring, Md., with three partners (so he only has to give up one weekend in four). Tom plays tennis in the winter (indoors) and spends his free time in the summer sailing his 30-foot boat in Chesapeake Bay, something he particularly likes to do on his Wednesday afternoons off. He's also fallen in love with the opera, something he said he never thought would have happened. Ah, how our tastes change as our hair begins to change color (or fall out, as the case may be). Anyway, Tom's married to Karla and has three youngsters: Sarah, four; Ted, seven; and Christy, nine.

Tom said he saw Rick Jaspersen at a Dartmouth Club of Washington meeting in December (he's with the State Department), corresponded with Pete Bleyler in St. Louis (he's in a management consultant type of position), and regularly runs into Charlie Buffon (who's built quite a reputation for himself as a Chevy Chase lawyer in a brawl over a high rise office building).

A few minutes later, Tom called back to say he'd gotten in touch with former roommate and fraternity brother Bill Harris, who now is living in Eighty Four, Pa., on a 34-acre farm with wife Lucy, a nine-year-old daughter named Magan, some ducks, a horse, several ponies, and three pigs. His job at the farm: putting up the hay and cleaning the stables.

His real job is as a physicist with Westinghouse, concentrating on environmental radiation and health. Naturally, that meant he was scrambled in the aftermath of Three Mile Island, but he's also spent a lot of time worrying about the safety of nuclear submarines. He's reportedly been putting in long hours for the past year or two. But Bill has found time for skiing as well as keeping up that farm, which is about 30 miles from Pittsburgh.

News notes: Russell Boss has been promoted from executive vice president to president of A. T. Cross Company, a maker of writing instruments in Lincoln, R.I. ... Stephen Power has been promoted from director to vice president, professional services, of Epsilon Data Management Inc., a computer-based direct marketing firm in Burlington, Mass., that specializes in providing computerized record-keeping and direct-mail fund-raising services to both nonprofit and commercial organizations. ... John Prescott was running, at this writing, for Madison, Maine, selectman. The newspaper story said he's a sales representative for Arnold Machinery Company, Caterpillar dealers, and was running on the following platform: "It's time for all towns to take a hard look at expenditures and evaluate things in light of what they can realistically afford to do. ... I don't see why town department heads are not willing to go along with the people's desires and give the taxpayers some breathing room."

Then there was Edward Thornton, running for re-election as a governor-at-large of the New Hampshire bar. A Manchester lawyer, he's held a whole string of bar posts and wrote the first New Hampshire practice and procedures handbook.

Finally, since this is the June issue, a few lines from Tom Dalglish's class poem, as printed in The Dartmouth:

We've been educated thoroughly, and liberated from ourselves.

The cans are stamped and labeled now, and ready for the shelves. Some of us shall be mighty, and seek to inherit the earth, Or blow it all to smithereens in a fit of nuclear mirth.

Some of us are has-beens, scarcely twenty-two, Others will observe meticulously the totem and taboo. ... For some of us, our thinking is done, we'll graduate middle-aged bugs, And be offered on the alter of the grand, avaricious Shrug. ...

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