1965
Fog-bound in Searsport, Maine, on board the schooner Mercantile out of Camden: That's my address as of this writing, as my wife and I have shipped out on one of the windjammer fleet for a week. I highly recommend it, fog and all!
Summer is many things to many people; one aspect for me is the chance to catch up on news from classmates so that the fall columns will be full and, as a result, easy to write.
First off, let me congratulate you all on making the class a winner in the Alumni Fund Green Derby competition. Under the inspiring leadership of class agent Bill Webster and primary assistants Carl Boe, Sid Stein, and John Giovsky, 1965 set a record for classes one year out of a reunion with $73,306 and 441 donors, a greater number than for our record reunion gift! Special thanks to all you first-time givers and to those who increased their giftsNow the challenge is how to do better this year!
Sad to say, the news from the presidential front (class, that is) is not good. Punch Lochridge, who showed this year what it means to lead by example, has had to resign. He's headed for Munich in October on a several-year assignment for the Boston Consulting Group, and thinks it better that the class have somewhat more "local" leadership. The executive committee hopes to have elected a successor by early fall.
Early.fall brings to mind foliage, football, and festivities including our mini-reunion at Pierce's Lodge on the William and Mary weekend. I hope that those not staying at the lodge, but in town for part or all of the weekend, will have been able to come to Pierce's after the game to celebrate the expected victory.
My news stockpile has been helped by notes from fund telephone calls, cards from the newsletter, and general notes. For those who still have their reply cards, fill 'em out and send 'em in! For those vvho don't, a postcard still only costs 12 cents. . . .
Word from Washington, D:C., has Jay Wright becoming a partner in the Washington office of the New York law firm of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed.
And from Exeter, N.H., we learn that Dave Weber, presently an instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy, has been named associate director of Exeter's college placement office.
Richard Joseph, who is associate professor of government and Afro-American studies at Dartmouth and holds a D.Phil, degree from Oxford, moderated a panel on graduate study in the international field this spring as part of Dartmouth's Career and Employment Services Program.
Richard Behrens,'his wife Cheryl, and their six children moved in 1972 to Altoona in western Pennsylvania, "where the air was clean.'' He had been practicing trial law until this past spring, when he won a judgeship in the Court of Common Pleas in a landslide. Our class's contribution to the judiciary will hold office for ten years. Next, the Supreme Court. ... ?
Jack Corneveaux is in Salt Lake City with his wife of five years (and a "son due in October")! Jack, a marketing representative for Honeywell, flies sailplanes and also skis. His wife is a branch insurance claims manager.
George Rutler, formerly an Episcopal minister, is now in Rome, where he has become a Roman Catholic priest (to be ordained in September).
John Ehrenberg is associate professor of political science at Long Island University. He and his wife Kathleen and their two children, Kathy and David, live in Brooklyn.
Chuck Lobitz has a private practice in psychology in Denver, established following the earning of M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Stanford and the University of Oregon respectively. His wife of 12 years is also a psychologist and practices with him. Chuck has written a psychological approach to skiing entitled Skiingfrom the Head Down, which he admits has not broken into the top ten yet. He also chairs the board of a psychological association in Denver.
David Tafe lives in White Plains, N.Y., and teaches at Rye Country Day School.
George Griffin, who graduated late due to a summons from Uncle Sam's Army, now lives in a loft in New York City, where he makes films and animated cartoons.
George Hamlin lives in Freeport, Maine, with his wife Judy and their two daughters, Curry and Andrea. George went to NYU Graduate School of Business and now is selfemployed as a real estate syndicator in Lewiston, Maine. Judy attends the Portland School of Art, specializing in graphics.
Allen McCoy and his wife live in Springfield, Vt. Allen went to Ripon and Babson colleges and then joined the Coast Guard. Currently he manages the Springfield branch of the Marble Savings Bank, and he also has his private pilot's license. In a tribute to his courage, it should be known that Allen, who had Hodgkin's disease two years ago, fought it and won! Well done!
Bo Andersen lives in Los Angeles, where he handles monopoly cases and mergers for the Justice Department's anti-trust division. During the spring he spent six weeks in the Orient on "business" and the month of May having fun in Mexico! A budding film star (?), Bo had a part in a love scene in the new movie Missing,' the story of the execution of Charles Herman, an American in Chile. He's not sure he'll make the final cut, though.
Chuck Coe, George Jacobs, and Gantey Davis are all in Atlanta. Chuck is on the faculty of the University, George is with the federal department of Health and Human Services' local office, and Cantey, who finished up at the University of Georgia, is with Spratline Realtors, a residential real estate firm.
Three other classmates who live in the Southeast are Rich Harris, Willis Beal, and George "Jack" Hill. Rich has been with Honeywell for 11 years and now sells computers to telephone companies. Willis is with the EPA in Raleigh, N.C., working on an air pollution implementation plan. He has a new daughter and a six-year-old son. "Jack," who previously worked for Arthur Young and Company, is director of data services for National Gas Company of Nashville, Tenn. He is about to leave to start his own service bureau and go back on the road. He has a daughter who will be a college junior this fall.
'Nuff for now. The fog is lifting and we're about to get underway for Penobscot Bay, headed where the wind blows us. 'Till next month, keep the faith!
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