1961

It was a warm day, strongly resembling midsummer, not mid-fall, when Dartmouth played the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg. Several '61s made the trek to the colonial community to see Dartmouth's close defeat. Naturally, in as large a Dartmouth contingent as we had at Williamsburg, it was difficult to see everyone personally, or even to be sure the list is complete.

But I saw Charlie Buffon and wife Kathie, Bob Fuller, Pete Bleyler and wife Ruth, TomGoodridge and wife Karla, and Tom Marshall. From these folks I heard about other '6ls I never saw: Ron Fleinemann and Larry Jakubsen. And some had run into other '6ls.

The Buffons they brought son Neil and one of his friends with them talked about a recent trip to California, and the Goodridges mentioned they had spent part of June and July in Germany and Austria. Ruth Bleyler is teaching at the Potomac School in McLean, Va., and has two of the Kennedy clan. After a stint in the Midwest, the Bleylers are enjoying hiking and camping in Virginia. Bob Fuller is practicing law in Wilton, Conn.

Tom Marshall is a biologist and chemist and cancer researcher with the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, part of the team searching for causes and cures for cancer. But he also has the chance to take some interesting trips back to nature. He described a stay at the College this summer, when he and a friend slept out on the golf course and went swimming in the Connecticut and running on the cross-country trail. The morning of the Williamsburg game, he and his friend had both finished a ten-mile race. (I guess more and more 41-year-olds are running. 1 sure have been doing enough myself. Last week I finally got under 49 minutes for 10,000 meters.) The Buffons talked to Ron Heinemann and report he's happily teaching American history at Hampton-Sydney, where his wife Sandy is a librarian. He even gets to have a bit of fun telling the story of the Civil War from a Yankee perspective. The Bleylers and Goodridges talked to Larry Jakubsen, who's now an investment counselor in Kernersville, N.C.

I also ran into Steve Power's parents. Frank Power '32 reports Steve is in Winchester, Mass., where he works as a vice president for Epsilon Data, a professional fund-raising firm. He's married to Elizabeth and they have two children, Sarah, eight, and Jessie, six.

Kathie Buffon reports she recently saw Sandy Bosworth, wife of Ambassador Steve Bosworth, who was home on a month's leave, visiting Washington and Michigan.

It was sad there weren't more '6ls around because many of us live only a day's drive from Williamsburg. Maybe we ought to get organized now for the 1982 game.

John Edwards has never moved from Charlotte, where he has been a practicing orthodontist, though he has been doing some research at the University of North Carolina's dental school. He's got a grant for bone research from the National Institutes of Health.

He's been busy, then, and hasn't had time to get to a meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Charlotte. Meantime, the gremlins were at work in the Dartmouth computer, moving him all over the country to California and to Wisconsin. When you've been class secretary awhile, you tend to believe the computer, so when the executive committee of the Dartmouth Club met to plan the September meeting, I confidently told everyone they wouldn't find Johnny because he had moved. My mouth must have dropped open when he walked into the meeting. Others said I looked as though I'd seen a ghost. If only I'd picked up the telephone. . . .

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