1965
As another year begins on the Hanover Plain, I hope you are enjoying good health and happiness in whatever you are doing. I've heard that the shortest distance between two points is from the lawnmower to the golf course, and I trust a number of you worked to prove that this summer!
Let me know what you did this summer of special interest and I promise to print your name in a future column deal?
Yours truly had the pleasure of joining about 50 incoming members of '86 along with assorted (and very proud) parents, friends, alumni, and well-wishers at the annual August Bostonarea freshman send-off luncheon. Definitely a time of reawakening and renewal. New (one year) Dean of Freshmen (Fresh people?) Margaret Bonz and two current students provided a glimpse of "Dartmouth now" and, while times have changed, the philosophy remains much as we knew it. As you read this, 1,050 '86ers have already begun the Dartmouth experience the first part being to face up to yearly tuition bills of $8,190 and an approximate annual cost of $11,500! The intellectual smorgasbord is still there, at which one can never overeat, but which forces the frustration of having to choose. Important is learning to have the courage to make the right choice, to deal with challenges, to live up to responsibility in short, to become the very best you can! Sound familiar? Good guidelines for us today, yes?
For about 700 freshmen and 130 upperclass leaders, the year began with the Freshman Trip hiking, biking, canoeing taking in Moosilauke and misty mountain scenery. The first thing they experience is friends, enjoyment, closeness in a new "green" world no wonder the Dartmouth spirit lives on!
So much for the commercial, we all have memories and remember how Dartmouth influenced us at first and has continued to do since.
Word of '65 offspring filters in from all over. From an anonymous California source comes word that "Jessica Cohon was the second female under 18 to finish the 'Mill Valley-to-Vienna five-miler' (in March) even though she actually fell asleep during the race. Jessica was all of six months old. She was pushed in a stroller by her father, Don Cohon of Muir Beach, while her mom, Stevie Bass, trotted alongside. Jessica, who had a race number pinned to her baby blanket, snoozed occasionally during the race. The event raised over $1,000 to help send the Tam High orchestra to Vienna for a music competition." So that's what. fund-raising is all about!
New word of an offspring who is a '65 comes from Earl Tyler '29. Earl sent a clipping noting that his son, John Tyler, associate professor of English at Tufts University, received a fellowship for 1982-83 from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. These prestigious awards are made "annually on the basis of demonstrated accomplishment in the past and strong promise for the future." John was one of 277 scholars in the U.S. and Canada to receive fellowships this year from among 3,200 applicants. He "will use the award to complete a book analyzing the works of the 14th-century English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. The book, which John has been writing for the past two years, examines the application of medieval theories of language to Chaucer's poetry." Earl noted that Bill Dowling also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, but I have no further information in his case.
Charles G. Moore, a venture capitalist who became a general partner of Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe of New York City earlier this year, was elected a director of Microcom Inc., the Norwood, Mass., firm pioneering in microcomputer communications.
John Daily has been appointed manager of I.B.M.'s Great Lakes region, national accounts division, where he will be responsible for marketing I.B.M.'s total product line and services to a variety of customers in Michigan, northern Ohio, and parts of Pennsylvania and New York. John joined I.B.M. as a marketing representative in 1968 and has held marketing and management positions on the branch and regional levels in New York, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C. Immediately prior to his new position, John served as director of marketing operations for National Federal Marketing in Bethesda, Md. John, who has an M.B.A. from Columbia, will live in the Detroit area with his wife Barbara and their two children.
Edward Taber III has been elected a director of T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., a leading investment counsel firm with $12 billion in assets under supervision. Ed, a vice president of the firm and assistant director of its fixed income division, joined T. Rowe Price in 1973. He also serves as president and director of T. Rowe Price Prime Reserve Fund, a money market mutual fund, and vice president of the T. Rowe Price New Income Fund, which invests in fixed income securities. Ed earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1971 and is a member of the Bond Portfolio Managers Association. Prior to joining T. Rowe Price, he served as vice president-treasurer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston.
Frank Heston teaches American history at the Frontier Regional High School in Deerfieid, Mass. He is also responsible for the gifted and talented program, which he greatly enjoys. He challenges the kids through special programs and field trips. He said he was interested in the October 1—3 1965 mini-reunion and noted he might even postpone a climbing trip for it. Glad we're on the right priority list!
Hope to have seen a number of you at Pierce's Lodge to share a football win over Colgate and an enjoyable New England weekend.
Till next month keep the faith!
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