1972
Spring is edging its way up to the Midwest, and with it comes a wave of class news. Don't forget our reunion (June 19-21) and the Alumni Fund. Head class agent Dick White requests that we consider doubling our individual gifts this year.
Turning to the sports scene, Ed Wisneski is on the move to Los Angeles. Ed will become an editor of PRO! magazine, published by N.F.L. Creative Services. Ed was assistant public relations director of the New York Jets for the last several years, but finally gave up after the Jets' loss to the New Orleans Saints in what he termed "the Woes Bowl at Shame Stadium." Ed shares Woody Allen's reservations about moving to L.A. (the only cultural advantage there being the ability to turn right on a red light), but he should blend easily into the laidback lifestyle.
Fred Bickford was recently appointed to the water resources division for Bio Genetics, Inc. in Laconia, N.H. Fred is an exploration geologist with experience in Alaska, the southwestern U.S., and Central America.
Hard times hit Dwight Sargent in January when his furniture woodworking shop in Pompanoosuc, Vt., burned to the ground. Dwight plans to re-open his business in Thetford, but his losses in wood and equipment exceeded $50,000.
Bill Aydelott earned more recognition as a film producer when his eight-year-old company, Aydelott Associates, Inc. of Boston, won the gold medal from the International Film and Television Festival. The award was given for his movie, Arson: Communities Fight Back. It was the third such award given to the company in as many months. His company's non-commercial film, Return of the Seeaucus Seven, has been well-received at festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Class treasurer Bill Price reminds everyone to send in class dues. Bill continues to enjoy life in the Bay Area where he is a consultant for McKinsey & Company. He sent along news of many '72s, which will appear in the next few columns.
Kip Ault received his Ph.D. in science and environmental education from Cornell University last May. Currently, he is teaching earth science at Northeast Missouri State University in Kirksville. He is married and has a baby girl.
Also teaching is Dennis Warner, who is an economics professor at Michigan State sity. He and his wife have a five-year-old son and a year-old daughter.
Things just keep rolling for Bruce Westcott and his wife Gail. They recently added a girl, Julian, to their family and are thriving in Montpelier, Vt. Dave Friend and his wife Fran are living in Bedford, Mass., and last December were expecting a child. Jim Birchall and wife Anne wrote from Birmingham, Ala., that they are the parents of a baby boy, Lee. Rumor has it that he will make Minnesota Twins fans forget Rod Carew and Harmon Killebrew. Anne, a life-long Twins fan, already has him decked out in a baseball uniform.
Vermont is again home for Shel Prentice, who left New York City to join the law department of National Life Insurance Company in Montpelier.
Chicagoan Gary Gulezian and his wife Greta have recently become parents of a baby boy. Dave Knopman is currently practicing medicine in Minneapolis. Attorney John Burke, who now is an old married man, recently achieved national attention when he represented the town of Castleton, Vt., in a dispute over pigs in the town's residential district. He reports also that Bob Forman is a new husband and living in Denver.
Navy physician Pete Rufleth writes that he and his wife Joan are expecting a second child this month. Pete recently presented a paper in Orlando, Fla., at the armed forces district of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Bill Roberts, an Episcopal priest, and his wife Ingrid, recently joined the third order of the Society of St. Francis, a world-wide religious order. They live in Davenport, lowa.
That's it for now. More news in April.
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