1943
By the time you read this, our October 1516 fall mini-reunion will have come and gone. Here's hoping you were among the participants. More news of the get-together in a later issue. But it's not too soon for you to set aside next June 13—15 on your calendar for 1943's "Fabulous, Fanciful, and For-Everyone 40th Reunion." Planning details will reach you soon.
Dorothy and I spent some August time in Montauk, Long Island, our favorite relaxing place. While there, we found through newly made friends that we had just missed Bob and Joyce Fieldsteel, on a visit from their home in Sands Point, Long Island. I spoke to Bob by telephone later, taking him dripping from the family pool. Bob's business interests make it both necessary and pleasant to spend a month in Europe twice each year, which he and Joyce greatly enjoy. Their two sons are Dartmouth graduates, making a third generation, since Joyce's father is a member of the class of 1923. John '72 is a lawyer in Boston, while Robert Jr. '78 is a writer/actor in Hollywood, following up on his active and prize-winning dramatic career in Hanover. Daughter Patty, a Smith graduate, is on her own in New York City.
Bob sees roommate Mel Fenichell of Darien for lunch occasionally. Bob somewhat ruefully recalls that he tried (unsuccessfully) to talk Mel out of a rather arcane major oil geology. We need a report on how all that turned out, Mel.
Want a great place to eat on your next visit to Florida? Try the Lobster Place in Palm Coast, between Daytona Beach and St. Augustine. The new owners of this home of seafood splendor are Al and Connie Drake. According to a fine review published locally, the menu features crab, fresh Maine lobster (the only place in the area which "has a cold tank and can offer fresh Maine lobster"), shrimp, clams, oysters, and Maryland-style crab cakes. Photos with the review show the Drakes smilingly content and busy in their new enterprise.
Bill Seidman starts a challenging new career this fall as dean of the College of Business Administration at Arizona State University. The college is one of the largest business schools, with 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Bill has just left his position as vice chair of Phelps Dodge Corporation. Prior to that he had been President Gerald Ford's assistant for economic affairs. On his new position, Bill told the New York Times of his views on business education: "There will be some very substantial changes in what will be required. One of them is in the whole area of productive efficiency. Another is the ability to work with government, and the third one is a sense of innovation in other ways than simply starting your own company."
Bus Mosbacher's varied activities have expanded again with his recent election as a director of U.S. Industries Inc.
Congratulations to Head Agent Bob Ehinger, his many agents and helpers, and to the more than 57 per cent of us who contributed for the class's achievements in the 1982 Alumni Fund campaign. It may sound like an esoteric baseball statistic, but the fact is that our more than $100,000 represents a record for a 39th-year-out class.
And speaking of Bob, he has just received an important new post with the new AT&T reorganization. He is now assistant vice president and director of organizational development in the revamped corporation's public relations department. He was formerly in a public relations post with Western Electric, the manufacturing and supply arm of the Bell System. He also served as secretary of Western Electric. Bob's many activities include the Thayer chapter of the Telephone Pioneers (past president); Junior Achievement of New York (former chair); Public Affairs Council; and the American Society of Corporate Secretaries.
See you in June and of course by now you've sent your photo and biographical sketch to Church Leonard, Brook Road, Hanover, for the reunion book, right?
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