1969
My, I thought the summer would just never end! I've been beside myself in anticipation of receiving all those "What I Did Last Summer" essays from all you '69s out there. . . . Nobody did nothin', I guess. So I'll fill you in on the highlight of my summer our garden. We've had a film crew running around the back yard the past couple of weeks trying to get Godzilla Meets the Giant Zucchini in the can. Those things really know how to out-muscle the rest of the V-8 crowd.
As someone once said, there's no news like old gnus and I always try to keep a few leftovers warming on the back burner just in case. So here goes. Bruce English dropped a line to bring us up to date on his whereabouts. After three very enjoyable years in London, the family moved back to the Chicago area in late 1978. A few weeks later, Bruce left his employer of five years and began testing the job market. It was during this period that Bruce served the class as head agent for the Alumni Fund drive, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank him on behalf of the class for a job well done. Anyway, half a year passed before he finally hooked up with the Chase Manhattan Bank heading an in- ternational financial consulting group based in you guessed it London, about 30 miles distant from his old stomping grounds. Bruce reports that all is well and that an otherwise fairly routine lifestyle is only occasionally disrupted by spasmodic fits attributable to a case of terminal rugby fanaticism.
Elsewhere overseas, there appeared a lengthy article in the Asian Wall Street Journal, forwarded courtesy of the Dartmouth Club of Singapore, concerning David B. Warner's appointment as managing director of C.C.I.C. Finance Ltd., a Chinese-American-Japanese joint-venture merchant bank. The story recounted the desire of the Chinese to gain expertise in a broad range of international banking business. Appointed to his new position for a three-year term, David previously was managing director of First Chicago Asia Merchant Bank Ltd., First Chicago's Singapore merchant-banking arm.
Richard Kelly and family have returned to the Boston area after a two-year stint in Columbia, S.C., where he honed his legal talents in the field of municipal finance, deal- ing primarily with industrial revenue bonds. Now living in Wellesley, Dick is back with the same law firm he forsook two years ago in favor of a taste of southern industriality. Also migrating back to Massachusetts is Nick Perencevich after an extended visit to New Mexico. Residing in Andover with his wife and daughter, Doctor Nick is employed by the An- dover Surgical Association and helps make ends meet by performing walletectomies over at the regional I.R.S. tax-return center. Another Taxachusetts afficianado, Steve Dalphin, calls Framingham home and toils as a field editor for Prentice-Hall. If memory serves, he spends a good deal of his time persuading educators in the greater Boston area to author the Great American Textbook.
Ken Hodge ventured to inform us that he has relocated to Yakima, Wash., where he edits several farm publications dealing with row crops, wheat, and famous Washington State fruit. Equally as pleasing as the fruit, writes Ken, is the scenic beauty of the nearby mountains which he takes in frequently. Fortunately, the apples are of the non-explosive variety.
Trust you had an enjoyable summer and I'll see you in Hanover at our joint mini-reunion with the '7os following the Harvard game. Please try to make the class meeting scheduled for 11:00 a.m. that Saturday in Room 1 of Reed Hall.
1 Meadow Lane Hanover, N.H. 03755
