1961
As a class, we've started some innovative programs: the 1961 Fellows program and Crash Pad '6l. How else can we show our uniqueness? How can we add new wrinkles to our reunion, to make it as unique among reunions as our 15 th (which you'll recall got special treatment in this magazine)? Write Hop Holmberg, who's chairing our upcoming gathering, at 24 Oak Cliff Road, Newtonville, Mass. 02160. And of course, save the dates for our 20-plus-1 reunion June 18-20, 1982.
As I promised last month, here's more news from our October mini-reunion: Bob Snider (my running partner one of the mornings of reunion) entered U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H. a few months ago and did a double take when he saw the opposition. "I know you," he said, and he did. It was Ray Blanchard, now a lawyer based in Portsmouth, N.H. Bob's wife Carol, by the way, is becoming very active in the National Head Injury Foundation.
I put my work cap on for a brief time during reunion and did a column based on an interview with Maynard Wheeler, now a pediatric ophthalmologist in Hartford, Conn. Maynard and his colleagues have discovered that using contact lenses in children can slow deterioration of the eyes that had been thought to be natural. Maynard says John Starr, his fraternity brother and roommate, is now on virtually his own China Express, making regular trips to that onceclosed land.
Skip Johnson is with the Bank of Montreal in New York and living in Darien, Conn. He reports he's glad to be back east after a sojourn in Dallas, Tex. He and Nancy have Eric, 14, Kurt, 12, and Wendy, seven.
Hank Eberhardt doesn't spend all his Hanover time raising money. He led a freshman trip with seven '85s, walking 30 miles of the Appalachian Trail. From his enthusiasm, I suspect he'll do it again. He reports that Matt Friedman is practicing medicine in Woodstock, Vt., and is head of the psychiatry department at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction.
Ron Wybranowski is his own one-person company, helping people develop products. One of the more interesting was a golf handicap system that automatically takes in scores, then computes handicaps. Every two weeks, such scores can be mailed to the U.S. Golf Association.
A1 Rozycki, active on the medical school faculty in pediatrics, reports that Dick Marrone is now based at the Swedish Embassy in Santiago, Chile. His wife Marguerite is executive secretary in the Embassy, while he's teaching math and physics. They've got three children, all boys.
And one of the most-discussed topics at the reunion was Mike Butler and his work with meditation. Mike recently led a session on "Meditation, Stress, and Well-Being" at LarryLevy's house in Armonk, N.Y. From the sound of it, it's an experience worth participating in.
News notes: Dick Lefcort reports, "Just received a promotion and transfer to Ryder Truck Lines as vice president, finance. Lucky to be able to combine this opportunity with remaining in Jacksonville, Fla."
Oak Winters is becoming director of continuing education and extension at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, after serving as executive director of the North Carolina Humanities Committee. That's North Carolina's program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. U.N.C.C. said Winters was selected from among 150 candidates, and vice chancellor Douglas Orr is quoted as saying he was picked "because of his wealth of academic and administrative experience, his understanding of the current state of higher education, and his insights as to the lifelong learning needs of Charlotte and North Carolina." Nice going, Oak, and I guess we'll be seeing you regularly.
Art Provisor reports the arrival of his third child, Matthew Adam, to add to two-and-a-halfyear-old Laura and four-year-old Josh. "At 41, I'm getting a little old for a new baby, but I'm trying to survive."
Noting that Alan Hale looks "as disgustingly healthy and youthful as ever," Dan Reith sends along a copy of the latest edition of "Hawaii Bound," newsletter of the Hawaii Bound School, which reports that Alan is leaving as executive director as soon as a replacement can be found. His new job will be to organize and implement a new marketing and public relations program for Hawaii Bound's 1982 season.
The newsletter quoted Alan as saying, "I'm ready to retire after 20 years of working for adventure education schools. In the past year, my personal priorities for my working life have changed. I have become quite involved in healing and health care on a more personal level through Trager bodywork and I will pursue this interest."
Sam Baker sounds like he wants to be his own patient. An orthopedist in Port Angeles, Wash., he reports he continues to run, hike, kayak, and cross-country ski. . . . Gerald Libby is president of Torrington Furniture Company in Torrington, Conn. . . . Bill Figilis is now director of special projects for California Business, after having served as regional manager for Forbes magazine. . . . Richard Bailey has been at the University of Michigan since 1965 and is now professor of English, with special interests in American dialects and the growth of English as a world language. (Come visit us in the Carolinas and discover a plethora of dialects so distinct that even legislators have trouble understanding each other.)
Wilson Cooper is involved with the weapons test program as reactor history group leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. . . . William Ricker owns two insurance agencies in Montpelier and Northfield, Vt., and is president of the Montpelier Rotary Club.
Anyway, as we head toward reunion, please take a moment to write and tell me about yourself, or drop a line to Bert Rowley, Bob "Otter" Anderson, or Ken Kolb. We'll look forward to hearing from you.
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