1962

As this is my first column for the ALUMNIMAGAZINE, I would like to appeal to my classmates and their families to send me any news or information that I might pass on to the class. I would also like to extend an open invitation to visit us when in the Boston/Cape Cod vicinity.

Margi and I enjoyed playing host to Candy and Carl Funke recently on the Cape, where we had the best weather of the summer to enjoy the sandbars off Cotuit and the surf and icy waters of Nauset Beach. The Funkes live in Ridgewood, N.J., with daughters Candy, Mary, and Lauren.

Karin and Peter Weldy stopped by for a private reunion after five years in Minnesota. They have relocated in Fairfield, Conn., with children Olaf, Ann Katrine, Lars, and Nils. They have started a new business Learning Experiences Overseas Inc. (L.E.0.). They currently offer two programs, the first a trip for American children to spend two weeks in Germany during spring vacation one week a home stay with a German family, the other week a bus trip through southern Germany. The other program has German children spendi ng four weeks in the United States, three weeks living with a family and one week on a bus tour of Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C. For details, call them at 203/2556752.

After a wonderful camping vacation at Nickerson State Park on Cape Cod, Pat and Gordy McKean joined us for a weekend of challenge croquet, tennis, twin lobsters, and a sunset walk in the dunes of Sandy Neck. Gordy has "officially" and finally hung out his shingle, with tax, estate planning, real estate and commercial law as his specialties. We wish him the best in this new venture. After studying at the Ballet Arts Center of Southern California this summer, their daughter Penny successfully auditioned for an apprentice position with the Long Beach Ballet Company during the 1982 83 season. Scheduled performances include the third act from Sleeping Beauty in November and Coppelia in March. The McKeans live in Ossining, N.Y., with sons Bill and Jim.

Paul Duncan joined Ernst and Ernst after graduating from Tuck in 1964 and became a partner in the successor accounting firm of Ernst and Whinney. From there he became chief financial officer at Towle Manufacturing Company and had to miss our 20th reunion because he was promoted to president on the day reunion began, June 18. The company has been growing rapidly in recent years, mainly through acquisitions, and annual sales are currently in the quarter-billion-dollar range. Paul and his wife Marge live in Sudbury, Mass., with son Kenneth and daughter Amy.

Robert Needham has recently been promoted to the position of senior vice president and senior investment officer of the Arlington Trust Company of Lawrence, Mass. Bob joined the bank four years ago and has served as manager of the trust department and investment officer. He has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts since 1978, is a member of the Merrimack Valley Planning Council, and is secretary for the Dartmouth Club of Merrimack Valley. He resides in Andover with his wife Karol and son Jason.

After spending most of the past 12 years in Rome, writer Stephen Geller was back in Hanover this summer. He and his family were at the College because Professor Maurice Rapf, director of film studies, invited Steve to teach a course, Drama 58, "Writing for the Screen." The invitation coincided with a job offer to write a screenplay for a New York producer. Steve says Mister Ambassador is "a viciously good-natured comedy," and describes it as 'sheer joy" to write. After graduation, Steve attended Yale Drama School. Since then, he has written four screenplays, including Slaughterhouse Five, and four novels.

I would like to thank Art Hoover for writing this column last month on the 20th reunion, as well as all the members of the reunion committee who helped in one capacity or another. Reunion Treasurer Jay Pierson reports that we even made a slight profit to add to the class treasury.

I would like to conclude with a letter addressed to the class of '62 by Jerry Joiner.

"Being at the reunion was a special opportunity to rediscover my relationship with the College, but most importantly to rediscover the relationship I have had with you, my classmates. I had forgotten the depths of my relationships established with people during our four years at Dartmouth. What was especially pleasing to me was, even though many people obviously looked different, the essence, the spirit of everyone, was as present today as 20 years ago. It was great to touch and be touched by people such as you.

"Thanks for a great reunion; and for those of you who weren't there, and that means each of you who weren't there, you were missed and included. Warm regards, Jerry Joiner."

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