1949

The word around class secretary circles is that people don't write letters anymore. We know that children don't they telephone, collect. Parents do, because they have lots of time and don't like paying phone bills on top of everything else. And members of the class of 1949 don't, at least during the summer. With a couple of old items I'll avoid leaving a blank between '48 and '50, but please help out, even if you have to dictate to your secretary. I know most of you are working, because we keep making our Alumni Fund goals. So share a little news.

Tom Towler didn't write but he has a vice president of advertising and promotion who filled us in on Tom's election to corporate vice president of Baldwin United, the financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Tom will continue to serve as president and C.E.O. of Top Value Enterprises Inc., of Dayton, Ohio, a position he has held since 1977. Top Value has a 25-year history as a trading stamp, incentive, and travel company and has recently branched into other retail promotional products such as games and cash register tape programs.

Following 12 years of service with Mobil, Tom joined Top Value in 1962, moved to Peyton's Inc., a Kroger Cos. subsidiary, in 1969. Elected president of Peytons in 1972, he served five years in that position before being called back to Top Value as chief executive. Top Value was purchased by Baldwin United in 1979.

Ralph Burgard didn't write either, but the chairman of the College Art Department did in announcing the winners of the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards. Among the award winners was Timothy Burgard '81. The awards are made for exceptional achievement in the courses offered in the Art Department and the recipients are entitled to select an original work of art from the prints acquired through the Ames funds. There must be something to heredity or environment as dad is an arts con- sultant in Scarsdale, N.Y.

And the last item comes from the College's Office of Public Programs, not Ken McClain, who didn't write but did represent Dartmouth at the inauguration of William Edward Tucker as the new president of Texas Christian-University in Fort Worth. Ken is an independent petroleum geologist in the same town, and I suspect might have some interesting insights on energy and the eighties, if we only could get him to share them with us.

Make the pledge. One letter before Christmas.

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