1955

Thanks to Frank Chase, head agent, our class did remarkably well in contributing to this year's record Alumni Fund campaign. Especially after a 25 th reunion, the task was all the more difficult and gratifying 466 givers, or 66 per cent of our class, contributing $127,000, versus a goal of S100,000.

Want to beat inflation? Buy a racing horse. That's what John Demas and his brother did, and after training him on their farm in New Jersey they put the two-year-old on the trotting track. Known to the bettors as "No Nukes," he was invited to the super bowl for trotters, the Hambletonian held this August at New Jersey's Meadowlands, to compete for an $838,000 purse. The favorite was "No Nukes," who has won all but one race this year and went off at 1-1 odds. But the Demas gathering on the clubhouse veranda, including Harry and Margie Ambrose, was to be denied. Although momentarily catching and leading the pack on the back stretch, "No Nukes" finished out of the money. John has more than recouped his purchase price, however, and looks forward to campaigning his trotter as a three-year-old in 1982. John has returned to Brussels, where he is currently living.

Earlier this year, John French was named vice president and general counsel of Peabody International Corporation, the environment and energy-equipment company headquartered in Stamford, Conn. He came to Peabody after having served as assistant general counsel of the Continental Group Inc. Prior to that, his associations included a couple of well-known New York law firms, which he served in various capacities involving the environment.

Once in a while our public relations connections fall apart, and this happened earlier this year with the press release on Don Hummel's promotion. His new assignment was actually senior vice president, head of the national department of the Northern Trust Company, Chicago. The position previously reported was the one he formerly held.

Bob Perkins has been elected vice president, Far East, by the board of directors of the Chrysler Corporation. Bob is responsible for the coordination of all corporate activities affiliated with Mitsubishi Motors Corporation in Tokyo and Sigma Motors Corporation of Pretoria, South Africa. He has spent his entire 22-year career with Chrysler in various executive and management positions in the company's international operations, and has lived in Australia, Argentina, and Japan during various responsibility changes.

None of us who saw "fisherman" JohnDinan's photo last winter in the local Maine press pushing a dory over the ice was fooled. We recognized our friendly surgeon from FalmouthForsythe.

The class will be saddened to hear of the death of John Forline, who was drowned along with his only child, a daughter, in a boating accident in Egypt last April. An appropriate obituary will appear in a subsequent publication. John's wife had passed away a year earlier.

We are also sorry to report that Bruce Alexander's wife Susan died in early August after what had appeared to be a successful battle against cancer. Besides Bruce, she leaves three daughters, one a Dartmouth graduate and another an undergraduate. She was very interested in our class and had worked on the 25th reunion. She will be missed by all of us who knew her. The class extends its sympathy to Bruce and his family.

A last reminder our 26th reunion is the weekend of October 24 at the Sheraton North County Inn in West Lebanon. Friday night is Dartmouth Night, and Bob Blackman's Cornell team entertains on Saturday. Hopefully you have already made plans to be in Hanover.

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