1975

It's time to dig deep into the mailbag and pull out a few items that have been languishing in the darkness for a while. Some of the news is a bit dated, but none of it is irrelevant and all of it is fascinating.

Carl Rugen, the secretary for the class of 1933, kindly sent me a clipping from the New York Times announcing that our head agent, Jeff Bennett, will be married this June to Kelsey Cameron, an assistant account executive with CASS Student Advertising in New York and a graduate of Colby-Sawyer College. Jeff expects to receive a master's degree this spring from the Harvard Business School. Before he returned to academia, Jeff worked in the corporate bond rating department of the Standard & Poor's Corporation. In a note attached to the press clipping, Mr. Rugen writes that he was born at the Lachine General Hospital, just down the road from where I now live. Sometime I'd like to hear how he got from Lachine to Jamesburg, N.J., where he now resides. Thanks for the news tip, Mr. Rugen, and congratulations, Jeff.

Other belated congratulations should go to Sandy Tierney, .our retiring head agent, who recieved a citation for outstanding work with the Alumni Fund.

More fast-breaking news: Mike Varley is now an admissions officer at Dartmouth. Mike served four years with the Navy as a communications officer aboard the U.S.S. Kirk based in Japan, then taught social studies and coached lacrosse at Londonderry (N.H.) High School.

In January, Dumont Bunker became the city engineer of Asheboro, N.C., where he was born and raised. Dumont was previously an engineer with Moore-Gardner and Associates, which he joined after receiving an engineering degree from Thayer. Dumont passed his professional engineer's exam last fall.

Peter Smith of the Hopkins Center tells us that Peter Hackett was busy all winter as an assistant director of the Denver Center Theater Company, and with his collaboration with Peter Parnell on a new play. Composer BruceCoughlin is also getting into the act with Peter P. on a musical theater piece. I spent many long summer afternoons with Bruce and Professor Appleton in the electronic music studio, trying to get the squawks, screeches, and white noise of varying voltages on tape in something like an artistic order. This past winter, I should also mention, Peter Hackett directed Cleaving inthe Summerlight, a play about the death of a missionary minister. All this action took place at The Lab, a 100-seat theater where new and experimental productions are staged under the aegis of the Denver Center Theater Company.

Gary Kinkley was named regional annuities supervisor for the San Francisco office of the Paul Revere Variable Annuity Insurance Company. Gary joined the firm in 1978 as a brokerage representative.

Bill Guider sent me a letter wondering if Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, the Woodrow Wilson School for Public Affairs, and so on, taught his old pals from South Mass dormitory not to put anything on paper. He has not seen hide nor hair of them since graduation, nor has he received any letters. He is expiating his own sins by writing this letter, in which he says that he is now a buyer for G. Fox and Company, a department store chain based in Hartford, "a great place if you like insurance and losing hockey teams. I enjoy my job immensely. I play with numbers 90 per cent of the time and get taken to lunch the other ten per cent of the time by venders. Hartford does have nice restaurants."

Bill also brags that he has become something of a ski nut, but we forgive him his boast when he says that he broke "the magic 30-second barrier" (29:39 actually) in the Butternut Basin All-Comers Race in Feburary. That's great, but I really think we need a second opinion on just how much enchantment is connected with this "magic" barrier. Do any classmates know about this Butternut area? What other types of comers came to this race? Is this 29:39 time good enough, say, to get Bill's picture in the "For the Record" section of Sports Illustrated? (I think Bob Sullivan, a reporter at S.I., would be our best bet to check this out.)

Bill also noted that he read an article on hockey cards that I wrote for Hockey magazine, edited by my old Reader's Digest crony Keith Bellows '74. Bill said he found the article "short and not too tedious." It did inspire him to rummage through his parent's attic, dig out thousands of old baseball cards, and ponder about a wasted adolescence collecting cardboard.

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