1963

The really big news this week is the appointment of John Lehman of Greenwich, Conn., as reunion chairman. He's started planning for next June and so should you.

Moving right along, here are more of the shards and pieces of your classmates' lives so you'll have some conversation starters next year. (There's also going to be a quiz on these columns at reunion time, and the person who gets the lowest score is going to have to be the next secretary, so read carefully.)

A spiffy announcement (printed with raised letters) from the New York public relations firm of Harshe-Rotman & Druck, Inc., trumpets the election of Harry Zlockower to the post of vice president.

Bill Russell reports that he is out of the automobile business he sold the CadillacOldsmobile dealership he was involved in and is back into fire, apparatus (apparati?) and ambulances in Metuchen, N.J. So, the next time you're in the market for a good pumper . . . well, you know where to go.

From Seattle, Wash., Mike Emerson reports that, evidently somewhat to his own surprise and wonderment, he has now been with one organization (Boeing) for a longer period of time than he has been with any single institution or enterprise since putting in his four years at Dartmouth. He works on negotiations and contracts at Boeing during the day and teaches business law at night.

St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., was pleased to graduate David Browne with an M.B.A. in March. Dave got the degree "with honors."

Ashley Hartwell reports that he hasn't encountered many classmates in Lesotho, where he is working as advisor to the Ministry of Education, but other than that things have been going well in Africa. "We (my wife Trish and three daughters included) love the country, which is small and mountainous . . . good for horses, hiking, and fishing."

One of the patterns your secretary has seen of late is an increasing number of wives whose accomplishments match, exceed, or are at least comparable to those of the classmate they married. And since it was Dom Carney's wife, Kay, who got him to write, she's getting top billing. (Dom had been complaining about the paucity of news he was getting, and Kay pointed out to him that if everyone wrote as often as he did, there would be no news at all in this column or the newsletter. There are others among you and you know who you are against whom the same rejoinder might be effective. Write.

Anyway, the Carneys are up in Wasilla, Alaska, and Kay is running two businesses, according to Dom, "the family garbage collection utility" and a C.P.A. firm. Dom, for his part, isn't doing all that badly. He's director of the state's division of agriculture. The Carneys claim to love it in Alaska ("We'll never leave," Dom vows), but their daughter Katy is away for a year on a student exchange program to Belgium.

Bernie Weinstein is back in Dallas after a two-year stint in Washington with the Southern Growth Policies Board, for whom he was assistant director of federal affairs. He's now a professor of political economy at the University of Texas in Dallas. Last September Bernie and his wife had their second child, a daughter named Rachel Lynn. They also have a boy, Daniel, eight.

A half a continent away, Pete Suttmeier is teaching in a similar field (political science in his case) at Hamilton College in upstate New York. Pete has been on leave to be a national fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute of government studying the scientific relations among China, Japan, and the United States, and his monograph on "Science, Technology and China's Drive for Modernization" was published by the Hoover Institute last year. He made his second trip to China this past February. (This information comes courtesy of Pete's wife Merle, and we thank her for it.)

Moreover, I might add that much of this information has been culled from the early responses to Dave Schaefer's last newsletter. Dave himself, it should be added, has been doing his bit to provide news for this column by making his third job change in the last four years. He is now creative director and vice president of the Patrick Nugent advertising agency in Boston, a small agency which is making its move to the big time.

Dave had been creative director with Quinn and Johnson, BBD&O's subsidiary in Boston, but was persuaded by a former boss that he should make the move to Nugent. He says it was all very simple. "I had an excellent job and so I decided to move." I guess it all makes sense in the ad business. Anyway, a wide variety of clients have been signing on with the firm, including makers of hot dogs, relishes, soups, and yogurt. "We're sure we'll always have something to eat," Dave says.

Steve Scott, Schaefs also reported, recently underwent surgery to finally fix up ligament damage in his knee that resulted from a motor-scooter accident on the Greek island of Rhodes 14 years ago. A boisterous party in his room at the religiously affiliated hospital where he was recovering may have helped him to win an early release from the hospital. In any event, The Gar will be back to full speed shortly.

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