1961
Have you noticed the flags? They say "Dartmouth 1961."
They are the latest addition in our 1961 identity campaign. As this is written, Class President Hop Holmberg reported the flags had been delivered. Plans called for at least one flag to be at each football game, home and away.
They're to serve as a rallying point, "to make it easier to find classmates," said Hop. By the time you read this, the flags will have seen use in five or six games. Let me or Hop know if you think the campaign is a success. Hop also knows who has agreed to be the flag-bearer at the rest of the games this year.
Hop, by the way, is chairing the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, a consortium of health administration programs at 132 universities in 26 countries. He's director of health management programs at Boston University. At any rate, when we spoke by phone, Hop had just returned from Atlanta and an association meeting, spent, he said, in a tuxedo and "making smiles." But he'd also had a chance to see two classmates, Dick Barr and John King, who are in the hospital business as well. "Both are looking slender, wise, and wealthy," said Hop. John's first child is now at Colorado College.
Item reprinted from Allen Norwood's column in the Charlotte News: "Hey,, all you young folks in braces. Here's one on the orthodontist. John Edwards celebrated a birthday this week, so the staff at his Cotswold office took the opportunity to surprise him with a visit from 'red hot momma.' Dentist Carter Lofton was brought in on the gag and invited Dr. Edwards to lunch at Shun Lee Palace . . .
While they were eating, Monkey Business siren Jeannie Batchelor arrived all decked out in a satin dress and feather boa. She did her bit and sang her song and embarrassed the good dentist mightily. Folks leaving Shun Lee returned to watch ..." However, the two-column picture that accompanied the piece belied those words. It showed John holding a handful of ballons, that boa around his neck, a party hat on his head, a broad smile on his face, his arm around Jeannie and dancing. Way to go, John.
News note, courtsey of Cap Palmer '23: Dave Birney is now selling L'Oreal Preference Haircolor, joining his wife, Meredith Baxter Birney, who has sold the hair coloring for six years. According to an account in a trade newspaper: "The latest commercial is currently running on network T.V. for a four-week flight. The agency is McCann-Erickson. Speaking from 'a slightly prejudiced point of view,' Birney appears on camera alone. It is not until further on, after describing Preference's color and texture that the viewer is made aware about whom he is talking. 'What would you say, Meredith?' he asks. At that point, she joins Birney and the camera cuts to a product shot." (Don't worry about Dave Robert Young said he received more pay for his Sanka commercials than he did for either Father Knows Best or Marcus Welby, M.D. "The money involved is unbelievable. It's a license to steal. . ," he said in a story in today's paper.)
The baby derby is still on. Henry Eberhardt reports: "When I called Steve Bickel during an Alumni Fund telethon from Los Angeles on June 21, his wife answered and told me that Steve was sleeping and that she had had a baby girl, Valerie, born June 14 and weighing eight pounds, three ounces. Imagine, she was on the phone talking and he was sleeping. Now that's women's liberation for you." Lessee. That makes Valerie a potential candidate for the class of 2003 or 2004.
But reunion demonstrated how furiously the baby derby is still proceeding. All spring we've reported babies to you; at reunion, Ed Thornton threw his hat in the ring. (Baby derby.) They had had a late winter baby. Among the others: Curt Dechert, Steve Dale, Art Provisor, Reed Ambler, Dave Osterhout. With luck, we'll have a whole bunch of 1961 children at Dartmouth after the turn of the century.
Last month, we told you of a reunion seminar on the arms race threat by Al Rozycki and Matt Friedman. It turns out they participated in similar events during Dartmouth's Ground Zero Week, according to an official College news release.
Speaking of reunion: Our 1961 wine took an unplanned sojourn somewhere on the road from the West Coast to Hanover. It seems liquor laws are so complex that paperwork made the coast-to-coast trek ever so slow. We'll let you know what we decide to do with our private label wine, which originally was intended for the reunion dinner. So Otter Anderson was there, but the wine that he and Tom Conger created was not.
Notes from reunion: Dan Jackson is now a psychiatrist in Newton, Mass., after having started out as a pediatrician. Rick Jaspersen wrote (on cards I passed out at the dinner): "Only the second time back, but it was terrific and cannot miss any after this. Working at World Bank in Washington, D.C., in South Asia department."
Ed Thornton wrote, "Thank heaven for good weather. Kathy and I are having a ball even in (or because of) the absence our children, who stayed in Manchester, where we live and I practice law." Bob Naegele Jr. brought his wife Ellis and his four kids to reunion from their Minnesota home, all of them for the second time. He's "made every five-year reunion." So have I. Drop me a line if you're one of the four-in-a-row-clubbers.
Tom Allen, after listing wife Liz and three children, wrote under the title "significant events": "I'm still active as of June 19, 1982, and I'm still drinking! And I'm still as irrelevant today as I was in 1957—1961. To be as irrelevant today as I was 20 years ago (or was it 21) is, I submit, as significant an event as anything I can think of today." See, we haven't changed.
Bill Sheehan said, "Long and happily married (Ann) with three teenaged daughters (Sandi, Erika, Natalie). Practicing pulmonary medicine independently in southeastern Massachusetts (Fall River) and living in (of course) Dartmouth, Mass., where the colors are green and white, the Indian prevails, and the songs are the same." Frank Crouse, with his wife Laraine and children Keith, Brian, and Courtner, lists himself as retired. Then he said, "I play with apples."
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