1967

With summer fast coming to a close and the glories of autumn just around the corner, it's time for me to begin assembling all the bits and pieces of news you've been passing along since June. To all of you who have responded to my random postcard campaign, thanks. To those of you who haven't, please do.

Jeff Hills took me severely to task last June for opening and closing each column with a lament for the lack of news. If the complaining is really all that bothersome, I'll try to curb it. I'll let Hank Cramer say it all this month: "I have to say that the 1967 class column in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE always seems to be one of the shorter ones. We must be a dull group! Gayle (my wife) has just completed her first year at the University of Minnesota School of Law and is enjoying a summer respite from school while teaching our son Todd to swim. I am on the staff of the Radiology Department of Abbott-Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis and am enjoying my practice. Our son is our principal outside interest these days! He is now 17 months old, full of smiles, and a great deal of fun. All in all, life goes smoothly and pretty well. I guess maybe I'm part of the lack of great earthshaking news that makes those columns so short!"

Hank isn't the only member of our class to have found child-rearing an engaging pastime. Jim Humphrey writes: "My wife Lucretia and I had a baby son in December 1980, and life will never be the same again. In my spare time, I practice law in Olympia, Wash. Despite, or perhaps because of, this reordering of priorities, it is a great experience. The other new arrival in our family is a small grand piano, acquired in hopes of resuscitating a few of the pieces I learned from Mrs. Behrendt, one of the Dartmouth piano teachers, during my stay."

Saw an interesting article in the White RiverValley Herald of April 30, featuring a rugged ski tour made by Tom Cooch and two fellow Vermonters across 120 miles of total wilderness along the famous Haute Route between Verbier and Zermatt, Switzerland. They made the trip last April and are reportedly champing at the bit to do it again blisters, dehydration, and all.

Bill MacCarty is enjoying the practice of orthopedic and hand surgery in "very rural" South Boston, Va. He reports that the local hunting, fishing, and boating are very good and that he has turkey, quail, and deer in his backyard the year round. Jerry and Kathy Pettit and their two boys have moved recently from Scottsdale, Ariz., to Bethesda, Md., where he is executive vice president and chief operating officer for Quality Inns International. "Good to be back on the East Coast," writes Jerry. "Looking forward to watching a football game when the temperature isn't 100 degrees."

I received a great letter from Thomas A. Mauet last June. He's the director of trial advocacy and an associate professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law in Tucson. His legal textbook, Fundamentals of TrialTechniques, was published by Little, Brown and Company, and another book, Problems in TrialAdvocacy, was scheduled for publication over the summer. Tom and his wife, the former Susan Levison, have two daughters, Jennifer, two, and Sarah, who was three months old in June.

John McPherson has been named the director of strategic planning for Mervyn's 71 stores in six western states. John, Charlene, and their three children Heather, Toby, and Kern will be living in the San Francisco Bay area.

John L. Wasson, assistant professor of community, family, and internal medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School, was chosen last May to receive a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Class II Fellowship for a study of the relationship between health and continued employment among the elderly.

Edward I. Walkley is practicing pediatric medicine in Tacoma, Wash., and was recently appointed director of the intensive care unit at the local children's hospital.

Pat Horgan was recently promoted to manager of the manufacturing program in the General Electric Information Services Division in Rockville, Md.

Roger Daly wrote in early August to say he's left the full time pastoral ministry in the Congregational Church and currently serves as interim minister to a parish in Beverly, Mass. He also works part-time at the Center on Destructive Cultism in Boston, doing research and educational work on cult conversion and treatment therapies for ex-cultists. "I am busy and happy with it," he says.

Jon Eastman has spent much of the past year attending the Navy's Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Md. He's hoping to be stationed at Patuxent River for the next two years, testing the Navy's F-14 and F-18 aircraft. Also in the service is Wynn Mabry, an Air Force surgeon stationed at David Grant Medical Center on Travis Air Force Base in California, where he's chief of the Department of Urology. Wynn, Mary Ann, and children Elizabeth, eight, Juliana, six, and Clark, three, will be moving shortly to a new home in Vacaville, Calif. "With the interest rate at 16 per cent," writes Wynn, "I expect to learn the true meaning of 'house poor.' "

Andy Longacre writes from Skaneateles, N.Y., that he's a staff scientist with Welch Allyn, a medical diagnostic instrument firm, overseeing the design of various micro-processorbased products for the firm's industrial division. He goes on to say: "Ginny (Holyoke '67)-, Anna, seven, and Andrew, five, are also perking along in this example of Smalltown, U.S.A. (circa 1950). Saw Wayne Letizia recently. Back from three years in Kenya, he's trying to get settled in a team practice (internal medicine) in Independence, Mo."

And finally, to wrap it up on an upbeat note, the following from Lance Nelson: "It is gradually dawning on me that I'm living in a suburb of Chicago, 111., worrying about what it's going to be like when 'midlife crisis' comes along. That and waiting for my 'big break' so that I have something impressive to say about myself in the ALUMNI MAGAZINH. Alas! Wife Helen and sons Alex, class of 1996, and Erik, class of 1998, say 'Hi.' (We're really having fun)."

Again, to all those who took the time to send postcards and letters, thanks! It's always a pleasure to hear from you.

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