1972

Spring has finally arrived in Chicago, and with it the return of the Cubs and White Sox. Fortunes for both teams should be a little brighter this season. In between ball games, I have managed to sift through the recent mail, which contains a fair amount of class news.

Bob Kirkpatrick, a new associate media director at Leo Burnett, U.S.A., writes that he is enjoying his work in Chicago and ran into Chris Brewster at the World Series last October "in a bathroom at Memorial Stadium between innings of the unfortunate seventh game." World traveler Ralph Child writes that he has returned from his Luce Scholarship in Indonesia and extended travel in China, Japan, Thiland, and India. He is now an associate with the law firm of Foley, Hoag, and Eliot in Boston.

New Hampshire native Ted Parent is now with a new law firm in Keene, N.H., and, with his new wife Ruth, lives in Harrisville, N.H. They were married in Hanover last July. Ted writes that Neil Traven is an epidemiologist in Louisville, Ky., Bob Sandback is an administrator at Williston Academy in Massachusetts, and Jay Worthen is also practicing law in Keene.

Peter Benzinger is currently working for Stanford, Klapper Associates in Santurce, Puerto Rico, doing market research for international corporations and enjoying the warm climate with his wife Margie. Pursuing a career in real estate development is Kirt Woodhouse Minneapolis, where he works for the Tramm"! Crow Company. He recently ran into P fj Doerr, who is a salesman in the Twin Cities Kirt also sees other classmates in the area in eluding Win Nueger and Dan Hergott.

Paul Tyson, our class diplomat, writes that the U.S. State Department is sending him back to school for six months to study economics Paul, who has spent several years as a foreign service officer in Germany, meets his old roommates, John Rockwell and John DeVierno, on a regular basis. He also sees Lee Goodwin, who is an attorney in Washington, D.C.

Episcopal priest Bill Roberts announces the birth of baby daughter Karen Marie last May Her godfather is John Sharer. Bill and his wife are living in Davenport, lowa.

Another attorney is Kirt Portmann, who is enjoying his work in Seattle, which he calls "the most livable city in the world next to Hanover." He is anxious to hear from any classmates in the area. Kirt has developed a passion for clim- bing, which he calls his "new love." Peter Johnsen has moved to Laurel, Md., where he and his wife Peg enjoyed "the great 1979 Orioles baseball season." He is currently practicing law as an in-house attorney for Potomac Electric Power Company. Peter and Peg have a son, Henry, who is a year-and-a-half old.

Wayne Scherzer is living in Los Angeles and has been casting for a commercial production house there. His employer is Carol Dudley, who was one of the seven original women students at the College. In addition to casting, Wayne is also acting. He has done several comercials, finished a successful run of ComeBlow Your Horn in San Diego, and has appeared in a Los Angeles company of Evita.

Art Hancock is working as a systems analyzer for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company and is soon to. receive his M.B.A. from Northeastern University. Ken Godshall received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and is now a financial analyst for Newsweek Inc. in New York City. His wife Sue is working on her M.B.A. at New York University.

Dave Hittle is now a full time graduate student at Colorado State University studying sociology. His wife Beth is a governmental auditor" for the State Auditor's Office in Denver. Jack Brooks is practicing law in East Moline, Ill. He is married and has two children - Adam, age three-and-a-half, and Ben, a year old.

Still in England flying jets for the R.A.F. on a U.S. Navy exchange program is Don Fennessey. He regrets that he will be returning soon to California because he was planning on staying there through the wine festival season. Tough luck, Don. Skiing in the Alps will have to do. John Vayda is enjoying fixing his old house in suburban New Jersey. He says "the commuting system is suiting me fine for the moment."

That's it for this month. Keep writing and remember the Alumni Fund.

Three Dartmouth alumni worked together recently in a 12-hour operation at Massa-chusetts General Hospital in Boston to replant a man's severed right arm. Fromleft to right are Bryant Toth '72, chief of the replantation team and a seniorresident in plastic and reconstructive surgery at MGH; Roger Emerson '70, chiefresident in orthopedics at MGH; and Dwight Campbell '67, resident in surgery at MGH. At last report, from Toth, the patient was "recovering nicely."

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