1943

Whar a marvelously diverse group we are! While visiting Duluth recently, I had the oppor- tunity to talk with four of our Minnesota classmates an insurance broker who until recently operated his own firm, a specialist in internal and pulmonary medicine, a top executive of a major corporation, and an interior architect who concentrates on supporting the arts.

Richard Kelley recently merged his Minneapolis-St. Paul insurance business with Johnson and Higgins ("They won," says Dick). He and his wife Mary are just back from Hawaii, his first visit there since he and his fellow Marines spent 18 months there in our war. They have three married children Charles, a bank trust officer in Minneapolis; Katherine, on the move to Mexico City; and Richard Jr., a forester now earning his Ph.D. at Yale, having previously achieved a master's degree at the University of Vermont and having been program director for the Taconic Foundation.

Dr. Cyrus Brown is at the multipurpose Duluth Clinic, as well as at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He and his second wife, Beth (married 14 years), have eight children his, hers, and theirs three in California, three in college, one in high school - and one I didn't catch the info on or Cyrus didn't tell me! Cross-country skiing and sailing take up what leisure time is available to Cyrus.

Paul Parker, executive vice president of General Mills, was working on some Dartmouth campaign business when I reached him. He and wife Allegra get away to their second home in Red Lodge, Mont., whenever possible. Paul serves as the president of the Minnesota Historical Society. His three children are Hugh, who teaches classics at the University of Minnesota; Melissa, with a Chicago public relations firm; and Bill, a management trainee with BN Transport.

Gene Dawley has lived in St. Paul for 28 years and retired some time ago from a career in interior architecture. He keeps extremely busy now in non-profit arts organizations such as the Guthrie Theatre, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Minnesota Dance Company.

In talking with people in Duluth with whom I was working, I found them all enthusiastic and loyal to their Minnesota surroundings a feeling reflected by our four classmates. Among other '43s they mentioned were JimOppenheimer, prominent attorney and president of the Blandin Foundation; HarveyDaniels, economist for the First National Bank of Minnesota; and Ray Wolfe (Dick Kelley's roommate), who moved from the area several years ago to Bismarck, N.D., where he is with the Peavey. Grain Company. Dick was at Dartmouth for his freshman year before transferring to Minnesota, but keeps up his Hanover connections through a regular Saturday tennis encounter with other Dartmouth alums.

Jim Wells, who became president and chief operating officer of the William Underwood Company in 1978, has just been named to chair that firm and be its chief executive officer. He has been with Underwood for 20 years and holds a Tuck School M.B.A. He is a director of the Bay Bank Norfolk County Bank and Trust Company and of Superior Pet Products. He and his wife Jane have two married daughters. Of Jim, the man he sueceeds says: "He is an able, dedicated businessman, and I am convinced that the company will continue to grow and expand under his leadership."

Why not a political note in this presidential year? According to the New York Times, in a story on New Hampshire publisher William Loeb, here's what Tom Gerber has to say: "Thomas W. Gerber, editor and assistant publisher of the Concord Monitor, said recently that [Loeb's] Union Leader 'warps the news' and added: 'Loeb did his hatchet job on Phil Crane, and now he's going after Kennedy and Bush. It's disgusting.' " What Loeb may have to say about Tom, we know not.

We have learned with sorrow of the death of Chester Burton Sloane on January 21 in Beverly Hills. He is survived by his wife and four children, to whom the class expresses its sympathy. An obituary will appear in a forth coming issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

Will this be the year that 1943 puts itself among the leaders in financial support to the College through the Alumni Fund? All in favor, send a check!

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