1961

If you get to Hanover this summer, be sure to look up one of our most famous classmates, David Birney, who will be spending the summer on the hill.

Dave, who has earned critical acclaim in his varied acting roles, will play the title role in Shakespeare's Richard III, which will be presented from July 15 to July 30.

Then he'll direct Peter Parnell's ('74) TheSorrows of Stephen, which will run from August 1 to 23. And his wife, Meredith Baxter Birney, will play the lead in The Country Wife, which will be presented from August 7 to 24.

The acting company is Dartmouth's Summer Rep, led by Professor Errol Hill as artistic director. Hill calls the plays excellent examples of Elizabethan history, modern comedy, and restoration comedy. Rep participants also join an acting workshop, and the students do the technical work as well.

Through the mail came a beautiful volume of photographs of Bruce Beasley's sculpture. It was prepared in honor of a 1972 exhibit at San Francisco s M. H. DeYoung Museum. lam McKibbin White, director of museums, wrote in the foreward; "Bruce Beasley has firmly es- tablished himself as a leading Bay Area artist, and we take both pride and pleasure in present- ing an exhibition of his work. Beasley's reputa- tion as a sculptor, however, has spread well beyond our own area as is clearly demonstrated by the list of many distinguished exhibitions and collections which have included his work." Indeed, even then, the list included some of the most famous museums in the country, in- cluding New York's Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum.

Ray Welch has formed a new advertising agency, Welch, Currier, and Smith Inc., by a merger of his Ray Welch Associates Inc. with two other Boston independent services.

He says they've worked together anyway for several years. "We're all former members of big advertising agencies in New England, and we each have a commitment to our in- dependence. Yet we found that we were work- ing together and working better together a whole lot. And it got kind of cumbersome ex- plaining why these three companies were in- dependent yet affiliated."

Ray, who has always been independent- minded anyway, formed Ray Welch Associates back in 1970 after eight years as vice president and creative director at Ingalls Associates. And he's not looking for giant accounts, but rather those that spend between 5500,000 and $1 million in advertising a year. "We'd like to work with people and products that provide a high interest level. Our only other requirement is that there has to be a respect for the creative product."

Bob Naegele is in the outdoor advertising business in Minnesota, and until recently he was in the Charlotte area, too, as Naegele, Lamar, Dean Outdoor Advertising of Charlotte Inc. He impressed a lot of Charlotte folks dur- ing the negotiations that led to his departure from the Charlotte area business. He is, however, still active in other parts of the state and has an acknowledged record for public service. He's got four children 18, 16, 14, and 11.

Cribbing: Tony Wattleworth, paralyzed in a 1978 auto wreck, is reportedly going to law school so he can continue to serve the public. He's already, of course, a doctor. He now lives in Bend, Ore. Art Jacobsen is a partner in Ben Jacobsen and Sons, members of the New York Stock Exchange. Alex Burgin, who once lived in Charlotte, now lives in South Bend, Ind., where he is president of Metalcast Systems Inc. Paul 'Gartner is a lawyer specializing in trusts, estates, and real estate in New York. Pete Bleyler will be moving to Washington as a con- sulting actuary with Perrin, Forster, and Crosby, a management consulting firm. George Breed has joined Data General as director of sales planning and control. Doug Dodge is the new director of planning and development in the State Court Administrator's Office in Philadelphia, Pa.

Coping with 40: Noted in Bob "Otter" Anderson's latest newsletter how preoccupied we've become with aging and keeping fit. Some are still able to play sports as they did in college: Alex Burgin, for instance, plays rugby. George Breed reported losing 45 pounds. A 1 Ward said he enjoys skiing, jogging, tennis, sailing, and wind surfing. Personally, I got on the exercise kick in March 1978 when I was ap- proaching 220 pounds after giving up smoking. I was already bursting out of size 40 and decided I just couldn't face size 42. So I started jogging. The weight has dropped to 175-178; I'm back in size 34; and I'm regularly com- peting in five-, ten-, and 15-kilometer road races.

But what are you doing? Maybe we can carry forward our theme from the last reunion, and tell the other classes how '6ls can cope with middle (gulp) age. Let me hear from you.

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