1963

We'll start off this month with a couple of notes indicating how high and far members of the class have gone lately.

First, high. Richard Edelson is back in Bethesda, Md., but reports that he and his wife recently completed a trek through the Himalayas of northern India which took the Edelsons and the rest of the group up as far as 19,000 feet. Rich went as the expedition's physician and also gave medical lectures in India.

And now, far. Buster Welch reports that has spent the last year as project leader of a group of scientists doing research for the Canadian Bureau of Fisheries at a station on the northwest coast of Hudson's Bay (about 30 miles north of Chesterfield Inlet, for those who may have an atlas handy.) He is now back in Winnipeg, analyzing the data and finding that "down south" (as he describes Winnipeg) there are "too many people and too few caribou." Butch has four children, the oldest of whom Scott, 18-has started college and is studying computer science, and the youngest of whom Aleesuk, 11, whom the Welches adopted is "her usual cheerful, adaptable self." In between are Courtney, 15, ("our hope for Dartmouth") and Colin, 11, who was at ease travel- ing by sled or Skidoo through the wilderness 20 miles from camp with Indian friends, but "is scared to death of getting lost in the halls of his new junior high school."

Buster's wife Cathy found time to do her own research and, Buster reports proudly, is probably the only "non-native woman in Canada who prepares, chews, and sews her own sealskin boots."

What's that you say? Not far enough? Well, how about Lloyd Roberts, who's now in Singapore managing logging and other raw materials operations for Weyerhauser. Before his current assignment he was in Indonesia and the Philippines. But he expects to be back in Longview, Wash., by early next year.

This information comes from Jeff Lapic, who recently polled all of his AD classmates for the Alumni Fund and to drum up interest in the reunion next June. Some of the other news he picked up in his calls: Bob Baker has moved to Houston, where he is now with Houston Chemical Company. He reportedly finds the Houston pace and lifestyle to be a wonderful contrast to Chicago's. . . . Waliy Eldridge recently joined Bethlehem Steel's legal department, is building a new house, and spends part of his free time flying gliders. . . . Fred Jones is now president of the Kirkwood Meadows Ski Area in .the Sierra Nevada Mountains. . . . Arnie Low now heads computer operations for Citizens Savings and Loan in San Francisco, moving over from a similar post at I. Magnin department store. . . . Chris Miller is now living in California, where he is at work on several screenplays, after a restorative trip through the wine districts of France and Italy.

Jeff s report on Dave Cook is herewith Sprinted verbatim: "Dave has had an astoundlng variety of activities in the last few years hotel business in the Caribbean, cutting fire- wood in New England, professional deep sea diving, and, not too long ago, visiting the AD house, where he so impressed the current brothers that they had him arrested." Jeff says that at last report Dave was headed back to the Virgin Islands.

In his letter to his fraternity brothers Jeff also had some more somber news. "As some of you know," he wrote, "my wife Laura died of cancer in May. At times like these, one naturally looks back to old friends and savors the good times shared."

When I called to thank him for sharing his information, and to try to express my own feelings of sympathy, he commented on how much he had appreciated the "friendship and support" of his classmates and fraternity brothers. Jeff, who is working in the legal department of Bank of America, lives with his 11-year-old son Jeff in Corte Madera just outside San Francisco.

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