1959

The Amoskeag National Bank of Manchester, N.H., has elected John Perley its president and chief administrative officer. John was associated with Chemical Bank in New York City prior to joining Amoskeag as vice president of commercial lending in 1969. He was promoted to senior vice president and head of the banking division in 1974, elected a director in 1976 and executive vice president in 1979. He is active in the community, serving as director of Child and Family Services of New Hampshire, Greater Manchester Growth Company, the Manchester Industrial Council, and Derryfield School. He is also former president of the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences and of the Manchester Rotary Club. John was recently appointed to the Board of Registration and Medicine by N.H. Governor Hugh Gallen and is a director of the Governor's Management Review Committee. Congratulations, John!

Greg Stark sends an update from Bethesda, Md.: "After a three-and-a-half-year stint in the Navy, I entered the booming, expanding, growth-oriented auto industry in early 1964- things have changed in that industry! I have spent my entire career in the field of personnel and industrial relations with Dana Corporation, NL Industries, and Martin Marietta, where I'm now vice president of personnel based in Bethesda, just around the corner from Washington, D.C. It has been a lot of travel and I've acquired the usual greying around temple, but it's been a lot of fun, too. Along the way I acquired an M.B.A. from Lehigh University; my wife Nita (Phil Schmehl's sister, whom I met at Dartmouth in 1959); and a son who is now 14. We occasionally see Dick Schmidt and his family, who spent a week with us last March; Dick is practicing law in Columbus, Ohio. Beyond the usual involvement in forging a career, I.have kept up my photographic interests and just acquired a vintage 1955 Nikon of the type I owned while at Hanover. Beyond that, my son and I have far more home electronic equipment than we need or regularly use, and I have gotten into the old car hobby as well. This latter one is hard to explain to neighbors; the garage storage areas are cluttered with spare parts and cars that seldom move, while the 'good' vehicles sit outside in the snow and rain. I hope our paths will cross in Hanover at the 25th."

Dave Viscott reports that he is happy and well, living and practicing medicine in Los Angeles.

Majid Tehranian is professor of political economy and international communications at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. As he put it, "We are now banished to paradise in Hawaii, the fifth country (Hawaii is in many ways another country!) in as many years that we have lived in since we left Iran for a sabbatical in England at St. Antony's College, Oxford. In the meantime, I served a year at U.N.E.S.C.O. in Paris and taught and researched at Harvard and M.I.T. before moving to the University of Hawaii on a more permanent basis. It has been fun to be an international gypsy for a few years, but we are all now ready to settle down for a while."

Our hats are off to Dick Jaeger, who has just been promoted to director of admissions at the College; well done, Richard! Dick began his academic career as a teacher of English and football coach at White Plains, N.Y., High School in 1962, after receiving a master's degree from Columbia University. Two years later he moved to Hanover High School as an English teacher. He was appointed assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth in 1964. Of course, all of us with sons or daughters interested in Dartmouth will now receive preferential treatment, right, John?

Dave Reber and his wife Carol (married November 1981) reside in Brentwood, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville, with their four children. Dave is presently self-employed as a design and construction management consultant, doing business primarily in the Mid-West. He won certification by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards in March of this year.

Bob Filderman has moved his family to San Diego, where he has become national marketing director of E.F. Hutton Life Insurance Company and also serves as senior vice president of the national insurance department for Hutton.

Victor King sends a note of greetings from Plainfield, N.J.: "I was pleased to have my old roommate, George Drawbaugh, drop into my new office in Plainfield last March. As for the Kings, we are all well. The kids visited their grandparents in Yugoslavia during this past summer."

Nick Monsour was one of 14 selected as a William Robertson Coe Fellow at the Institute of American History at Stanford for this past summer. He reports that his son, Nicholas Peter IV, is now a 17-year-old college senior. The Monsours reside in San Bernardino, Calif.

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