1957

We had a fine turnout of '57s for Dartmouth Night and the Harvard game in Hanover. Returning classmates included: Larrie Calvert, Pete Carothers, Jim Dalton, John Donnelly, Rod Dubois, Harvey Epstein, Burt Foster, Dan Goggin, Clark Griffiths, John Hagerty, George Johnston, Stan Juthe, Erich Kunzel, Mike Lasser, Eric Lee, Larry Lubow, Bob Macdonald, Dave Orr, Herb Roskind, Mort Scharfflann, Tom Schwarz, Dan Searby, Frederick Searby, Bob Shirley, Stu Smith, George Southwick, Ted Spetnagel, Bob Sproull, Joe Stevenson, Warner Traynham, Ed Waldron, and Christian Weber. Festivities began Friday night with the alumni parade. We '57s marched proudly behind or rode on a fire engine. The evening concluded with Dartmouth Night ceremonies at Dartmouth Hall. Saturday morning Jim Dalton convened the class executive committee in Reed Hall for coffee and doughnuts and discussion of various class matters. A principal item on the agenda was the creation of a social committee led by Ted Spetnagel, with 20 helpers to be selected from across the country. The purpose of the activity is to help '57s stay in touch between reunions.

Tom Schwarz outlined his plans to complete our 25th reunion book by trying to elicit more biographical data from classmates who previously have been non-contributors. BobMacdonald, who is continuing to head up the class Alumni Fund effort, announced his intention to try to reinterest the 80-plus classmates who for one reason or another have not given in the past 15 years. We are shooting for a 75 per cent class participation objective in order to meet the fund objective of $130,000. Bob will be assisted by Hanny Mason, who will handle fraternities, and George Johnson, who will again be in charge of participation.

Following the class meeting and a Dave McLaughlin Spaulding Auditorium speech, many members of the class went to Leverone Field House for drinks and a light lunch prior to the football game. The game was exciting, with the Big Green prevailing 14 to 12 as a Harvard two-point conversion late in the game was unsuccessful. Somehow most of our classmates then found their way to Beverly and Burt Foster's Quechee Lakes house for cocktails and thence on to dinner at the Quechee Club.

A recent Wall Street Journal article described Kent Crane's troubles following his nomination to be Ambassador to Indonesia. Kent seems to have been caught in a cross-fire between the administration and the State Department bureaucrats, who professed to be disturbed by the fact that he had previous business connections in Indonesia and with the intelligence community. Kent is a very talented guy in the foreign affairs area and will certainly be mentioned for other appointments if the administration can lure him away from his international investing and consulting firm.

Finally, I am joining Middle East negotiator Philip Habib as director and executive vice president of a company called Interact, a San Francisco-based firm with offices in Washington, D.C., Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Tokyo, and Shanghai. We represent U.S. and foreign firms principally located in the western United States and the Pacific Basin area in developing new trade and investment. I have known Phil Habib for a number of years as wjbll as some of the other members of Interact who typically have Georgetown School of Foreign Service or Foreign Service officer backgrounds.

Robert E. Lee '57 got his picture in the Denver Post recently when he rode a cherry picker to the topof the Denver bank he heads to unveil a new sign heralding a name change for the institution.President of the former First National Bank of Denver, now known as Intra West Bank of Denver,he is heading up the company's repositioning to become a regional bank as deregulation of financialinstitutions progresses.

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