1961

Picture this: It was early December in Hanover and "it was snowing. Hanover looked terrific to all of us. Even though the College was not in session, we were able to see many of the buildings (105 Dartmouth looks a lot different today). We had a great meal at the Hanover Inn, complete with live piano. Reminded me of Skip Johnson, who also played during cocktail hour. ..." So wrote JohnZabriskie in a letter to Hank Eberhardt that Hank let us see. Zabriskie noted that "today I'm not called Zabo as frequently as I once was."

He said that after graduation, he went on to graduate school at the University of Rochester, where he got his Ph.D. in organic chemistry. He's worked since for Merck and Company Inc. in Rahway, N.J., as senior chemist, administrative research assistant, production manager, senior manager quality control director pharmaceutical manufacturing, and most recently, corporate staff executive. "I was married, had two children, and became a divorce statistic of the early seventies. Five years ago, I married the Figge girls - mother Adelaide and daughters Gina and Marie. Gina is a (high school) senior and Marie is a junior."

John allowed that he had "lost touch with Hanover and, judging from the nostalgia I felt on the 13th, I must return more often." How about the November 1 mini-reunion as a good place to begin, John?

President Gerry Kaminsky suggested that maybe it's time to start marking accomplishments of wives in this column, where all the College can see them. Fie sent along a clip from the New York Times' "Notes on People" featuring Lois Rich, wife of Vic Rich. It seems she and her sister have developed a baseball-style set of trading cards - but featuring 72 feminist heroines. They're calling them the "Supersisters" and including folks like Bella Abzug, Margaret Mead, Ruby Dee, Lily Tomlin, and Elizabeth Holtzman. The whole production was developed with a grant from the New York State Department of Education. I agree with Gerry; send me stories of your wives.

Bob Brignano has been named corporate controller of the Kaiser Steel Corporation. This is a move up for him, from the position of operations controller. The press release noting the promotion said that Bob "expands his responsibilities to include financial administration and corporate systems activities in addition to accounting and cost control functions." He will stay at the company's Fontana, Calif., steel works.

Lowell Bauer also has a new job with his company. He's moved to General Electric's research and development center as a systems engineer. He had been, for nearly IB years, in GE's heavy military and electronics department, most recently as a technical area manager for advanced data systems. The move is a return home for Lowell, a native of Schenectady, and he, his wife, and two children how live at 1261 Sagemont Court.

I always thought hepatitis happened to the other guy, and in fact heard that Frank Greenberg also just had a bout with the debilitating stuff. I spent December and part of January in bed with what I understand was a pretty bad case (13.5 bilirubin for you doctortypes; manila-envelope yellow for you laymen). But my doctor saved the worst news until I was well on the road to recovery: no alcohol of any kind for three years! Though I quit smoking cigarettes "cold turkey" in 1976, now I really understand what cold turkey is all about - a craving for cold duck. Anyway, it was a time for keeping a terminal at home, writing my part of a massive, eight-day series on byssinosis that we've just finished in the Charlotte Observer. It filled more than 24 full-sized newspaper pages. Though it's an unpleasant topic, we felt it was nortant that the workers in North Carolina's largest industry were aware of the dimensions of the problem.

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