1959

The reports from the mini-reunions held at the William and Mary game in Williamsburg and the Harvard game in Hanover are still flowing in. The turn-out appears to have been good and a spirited time was had by all, according to my sources.

Roger Ingraham writes from Medina, Ohio, where he is practicing law, that he has been a prosecuting attorney for the past eight years with a particular interest in trial work in the area of homicides. Roger and his wife Sarah have three children: Ellen, 15, Amy, 13, and Ann, seven. In his leisure time, he enjoys playing in local golf tournaments and is able to muster enough energy to compete in 10,000-meter road races from time to time. Roger reports that Bob Danielson is practicing medicine in Cleveland, specializing in kidney transplants, and Chuck Hoyt is also working in the Cleveland area as a doctor.

Alan Hurlbut is employed by Ford Tractor Operations as manager of financial analysis, a job which includes involvement in annual budgets, profit forecasting, and performance analysis. Residing in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the Hurlbuts have two sons, ages 13 and 12, who have been deeply involved in amateur hockey for the past five years. Alan comments, "During the summer of 1978, our family spent four weeks touring Europe, and spent two weeks this past July in Colombia visiting the family of a foreign-exchange student who had stayed with us the year before. We had a Finnish student with us last year and this year a Norwegian. I can highly recommend the foreign-exchange-student experience to anyone with room for an additional child."

Norm Kurtz continues to practice law with his own firm in New York and may be among the first of '59 to send an offspring to Dartmouth. His son Stephen becomes a member of this year's entering freshman class. "It will be a real kick for me to visit him in Hanover over the Harvard-Dartmouth football weekend. As for other classmates, Norm reports that he sees Marty Sherwin occasionally and notes that he is in good form. Marty recently left the Princeton faculty to become a full, tenured professor of history at Tufts commencing this fall.

I received a note from Wells Langbehn who resides in Springfield, Ill. "Following graduation, I spent almost four years in the securities business in Hartford, Conn. I married a lovely New Haven girl, Suzanne Chace, and joined up with the Aetna Casualty & Surety Company in their surety and fidelity department. I was "assigned to Aetna's St. Louis office in 1963 where we spent four years. I became secretary of the Dartmouth Club of St. Louis for one year and we saw a great deal of Norm and Sally Blair and Jim and Angie Burke. In 1968, Aetna saw fit to promote me to manager of the bond department here in Springfield, Ill. Then in 1974 I joined a local insurance firm and produced my way into a partnership which in 1976 became Langbehn-Stuches. We are now one of the larger agencies here in Springfield, servicing primarily commercial accounts, contractors, and related businesses. Our territory includes central Illinois and represents many fine casualty and life companies. Sue and I have three children Jeff, 17, Jake, 16, and Amy, ten. None seem destined to go to Hanover, being confirmed midwesterners."

Myron Lewis reports that he is practicing gastroenterology in Memphis, Tenn., where he and his wife enjoy their three girls aged 11, nine, and six. "I have been active in several national organizations, including the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and am also a governor of the American College of Gastroenterology for the Southeast. I have not been to Hanover since 1967 but hope we can find an excuse to return soon."

Read Heydt reports that he and his wife Babbie moved to Toledo, Ohio, a year ago. "I received a late call to Christ's ministry, graduating from Virginia Theological Seminary (Episcopal) in June, 1979. Trinity Church hired me as the assistant. In December, the rector of Trinity resigned, so I've been the minister-in-charge for the past eight months. A new rector will take over September 1. Having been married five years, we have one son, Charlie, aged two and a half, and are expecting a second child around November 1."

Dick Kulp describes the summer of 1980 as being "fabulous and fun-filled" for him and his family. "Using our waterfront home in Massapequa Park, Long Island, as a base of operations, my wife and two younger sons sailed, swam, surfed, and water-skied the summer away. We've been a speed-boat family since we moved onto the waterfront 12 years ago and this year we added sailing to our watersports-oriented talents when my wife surprised me for Father's Day with a 14-foot HobieCat. The summer also provided me with the opportunity to renew friendship with my old Wheeler Hall roommate, George Kraus. We ran into each other at reunion last June, and last month the Kulp family spent a weekend with George, his wife, and two children at a house they were renting in Southampton, L.I. (George lives in Wycoff, N.J.)

"Vocationally speaking, I have been involved in broadcasting since a two-year Army tour following graduation. (Those four years behind the mike at WDCR paved the way!) I've been heard locally here in New York on WINS (allnews), WMCA, and WNEW (doing news for Ted Brown, William B. and others), and nationally as a newscaster on the ABC and NBC radio networks. For the past two years I've been the voice program director of PRN, an all-medical news broadcast service for physicians. We broadcast over FM sideband in 38 cities coast-to-coast to an audience of about 80,000 doctors. PRN is similar to an all-news radio station but listeners hear the latest medical news delivered in medical jargon. At our 20th reunion, Mike Ivy, who is a doctor in Baltimore, told me that he listens regularly and I guess there may be other classmates who can be counted among PRN's listeners."

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