1956

Don Spitzli doesn't realize how many friends he will have from this day forth. News has just arrived from Hanover that Don is the new owner of the Chieftain Motel, and will continue the motel's important role as one of the area's finest guest facilities for alumni. Don lives and practices law in Virginia Beach, Va.

Judy and Bud Allen, Betsy and Ted Rowe, and Robin and Line Spaulding recently met for a mini-reunion in Weston, Mass., where they chortled in their delight at all having sons at Dartmouth this fall. Allen insures most of Villanova, Pa., Rowe makes guns for most of the cosmos, and Spaulding keeps trying.

Chuck Ray is now on his own, having formed Charles Ray and Associates, a head-hunting firm specializing in finding the right guy for the companies he represents. Working out of Milwaukee, Chuck travels the country interviewing candidates for his special niche, the health-care, hospital, and drug industries.

Alan Rauch, who is chairman of Oil Field Rental Service Company, has been named a director of Friedman Industries, a steel company headquartered in Houston.

If just all the classmates working on our 25th come, we might set a record. Toby Julian calls it "comprehensive delegation of authority, geographical distribution of responsibility, and philosophical accumulation of like and unlike theories." In other words, it is a bloody dragnet to achieve 100 per cent participation through the devious method of having all classmates in charge of something, thereby without an excuse for not coming to reunion. Good thinking, Toby!

As I wander down the list of names, I can't help but exclaim, "What a group!" Regardless of how you might feel, there is no denying the caliber of the Dartmouth family - our class, every class. Elliott Weinstein reminds us to fill in questionnaires, both biographical and attitudinal, and send them in as soon as possible.

And finally, Dr. Eric Jensen is used to performing his operations in the environs of a hospital operating room, but recently he made news by saving the life of a young boy by emergency surgery in an airplane flying over Alaska. Evidently, the boy stopped breathing while he was being rushed to a hospital. Fortunately, Eric was on board.

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