1946
Some trees in Etna Highlands already are ablaze as I write this in early September. Five days ago (August 29) we were awakened by chattering birds at 5:30 a.m. to discover the first natural snow of the year visible at the top of the Killington ski area. Fall must be coming soon, and with it the "leaf-peepers" and football fans for the finest of our four great seasons in the Upper Valley.
Jack and Anona Sayers come here whenever they can and visited for several days at Regand Nancy Pierce's in late July.
Buol Hinman has passed along news of Renny Thompson, who was elected president of Oblebay Norton Company of Cleveland, Ohio. They have mining operations and other diverse activities including Great Lakes shipping.
Bob Hailer of Wellesley, Mass., with a wide variety of business experience with Kendall, Ludlow, Shawmut Bank, and White Contracting, is now in a new business start-up venture called G. W. P. Corporation of Cambridge, Mass. The firm is in the microprocessor field, merging template graphics with words and data.
Word from Jim and Mary Jane Brindley of La Crosse, Wise., reports that Jim has fully recovered from his September 1981 heart attack and triple by-pass surgery and is playing tennis and golf, skiing, and sailing as before his attack when he is not minding the store as president of W.A. Roosevelt Cos., the family wholesale distributing and jobbing business. Great news!
News from the Dayton contingent came when "Gus" Gillaugh and Dick Scharrer were hoisting a few and took the time to write. Dick's son, Rick '75, is completing his third year in an obstetrical residency in Dayton. Dick's neighbor, John Gogle, relaxes playing a full-scale theater organ when he's not flying himself around the country. Dick also reports that he recently saw Spence Smith. Gus saw Tom Leech on the golf course not so long ago. Tom practices medicine in Lima, Ohio, and his brother-in-law, Larry Kidder, runs the big Leech Farms in Sharpsburg, Ky.
George Carr, of Durham, Conn., writes that his son Nickey '81, who graduated "magna" with "high distinction," has been accepted for graduate work at Harvard and is going straight on for his Ph.D. in English on full scholarship after a year off to work as an editor. George makes a particular point of thanking the great teachers at Dartmouth who nurtured Nickey's talent.
Joe Kepes has just retired from his practice with Plastic Surgery Associates of Rochester, N. Y., and has moved to Cumberland Foreside, Maine.
Larry Bartnick, with his wife Bobbie, has retired as superintendent of the Goshen, N.Y., schools after 26 years of public school administration in New York and Massachusetts. He enjoys the ten-month schedule he has teaching math at St. Francis High School in Louisville, Ky.
Wally and Mary Owens have returned to Clinton, N.Y., to build a passive solar home on several acres of beautiful apple orchard. Wally retired in 1980 as executive vice president of the Hayes National Bank and took a two-year appointment to oversee a church-related housing facility for University of Wisconsin students. He also taught accounting and finance at the Madison, Wise., Area Community College while there.
Harlan Besse has retired from General Electric after 29 years in engineering and marketing. He lives in Shelbyville, Ky., and plans to continue operation of his 80-cow dairy farm near Louisville, while expanding his trading and excavating business. Both daughters have settled nearby with their own bookstore businesses and activities.
John Potter of Rumford, R. 1., had a visit from Chan Bowen of Spokane, Wash., who had come east for medical meetings in Boston and to attend their daughter's graduation from Middlebury .
Luther Leeger, living in Rancho Santa Fe, is still serving as municipal court judge in North San Diego and would like to hear from other classmates in the area.
Jim Von Rohr has just been elected president of the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey. Jim was responsible for the club's recent successful scholarship fundraiser by the Culinary Institute of America. Approximately 200 alumni, wives, and friends attended the gastronomical delight.
The New York Times recently carried a marvelous feature article on fly-rod fishing for bluefish written by free-lance writer Nelson Brya'nt. It was a fascinating story of fishing in Cape Pogue Bay on Chappaquiddick Island at Martha's Vineyard..
Dick Young, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Polaroid has recently resigned from that firm to pursue personal business interests.
Word has reached us of the death from cancer of Charles William Reardon of Rockville Center, N.Y., on July 15. Charlie attended Columbia Graduate School of Business after Dartmouth and was vice president of Rosemont Press, a commercial printer in New York City. He is survived by four children.
At a luncheon in Boston in June honoring N. B.C. bead Grant Tinker '47 (right), one of Tinker'sformer Dartmouth professors, John Finch (left), made a surprise appearance and a surpriseannouncement: "I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm, going to change a grade."Tinker took two courses with Finch and received C's in both. Finch told the 400 televisionprofessionals in attendance that he wanted to change those C's to A's.Tinker ivas in Boston to receivethe Hall of Fame Award from the Boston/New England chapter of the National Academy ofTelevision Arts and Sciences. Other Dartmouth representatives at the luncheon included MarionBratesman '43ad, director of public relations for the Hopkins Center and the Hood Museum, andBob Graham '40, director of the College News Service.
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