1966

With snow on the ground and white all around, as you read this, it is the season in the North Country for traditional Christmas cheer. Kris and I both wish that your holiday season has been as filled with the warmth of love and family as has ours. Merry Christmas!

I would like to give you some catch-up news. Bob Hodges has switched his medical career from the Public Health Service to private practice in internal medicine, specializing in adolescent health, in Seattle, Wash. His wife is a director of an emerging art gallery, the Foundation of Fine Arts Inc., which specializes in contemporary artists of the Northwest. Bob Cleary is enjoying the deep snow of December in Vail, Colo., where he is senior landscape architect for Beaver Creek Development Company and working on a project building a city and ski resort that can handle up to 20,000 skiers a day! Don't let them pack the powder! I talked with Tod Kalif last summer, a mere three days after he had undergone an appendectomy. In true crew fashion Tod was up and about; must be all the raw hamburger he ate while in training. Tod is an administrator for Westport, Conn., High School.

Let's give a Wah-Hoo-Wah (I believe that's permitted now) for classmates who are giving extra time to the College, and other institutions. Tom Clarke was elected to chair the athletic committee of the Alumni Council, representing the D.C.A.C., which he also chairs. Bill Ferris was elected president of the Dartmouth Club Officers' Association, and Mike Masin was elected a trustee of the American University in Washington, D.C. Mike is a partner with the law firm of O'Melveny and Meyers (Los Angeles) and is in charge of the firm's corporate and securities practice in Washington.

In the promotions column, Bob Carter has been appointed senior vice president of Comart Aniforms, a producer of business meetings, whom he joined in 1969- Dick Wadsworth, now living in Lebanon, N.H. (remember the short ride to Rockdale's?) has qualified for the 1982 Chairman's Council of New York Life Insurance Company. This is an honor accorded to the company's top 350 agents out of a total sales force of 11,500. Scott Cheyne was promoted last summer to vice president/management supervisor at Hill, Holliday, Conners, Cosmopulos Inc., a prominent New England advertising agency. And Lou Novak was appointed last July the director of the radiation oncology division at Case Western Medical School in Cleveland, Ohio.

Our classmates continue to be paternally prolific. Steve and Barbara Hayes, living in Alexandria, Va., had a baby girl in August Emily Douglas Hayes. For the past year Steve has been press officer and speech writer for Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. Now we know where the economic forecasts come from! Tom and Jane Steinmetz reported that their first child, William Henry, will be one year old on December 28. Tom is a strategic planner for the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and has been in the Washington area since graduation from Harvard Business School in 1974. Tom assures me that the mortgage rate will hit 12 per cent! Do Tom and Steve collaborate?

We've had some recent mini-reunions. Gerry La Montagne and Bill Duval got their families together last summer in Cooperstown, Pa. Seven children, ages five to 11, incrementally! The highlight was a trip to Hershey Park (who doesn't like chocolate?) and a Phillies game (questionable). Next year Gerry vows it's Bill's turn in Essex Junction, Vt. Russ Sabrin ran into Roy Rubin in Atlanta, Ga., where both are practicing orthopedic surgery. Russ recently left the Air Force and Hampton, Va., behind to go into private solo practice in Roswell, Ga. Russ and Carole have two children Adam, five, and Michael, one. Having emerged from voluntary servitude, Russ wants to know where Warren Riley, Jim Jourdonnais, and Brad Stein are. (Russ's new address is 4345 North Smoke Ridge Court, Roswell, Ga. 30075.)

I would like to echo Don Graves's plea for sending in your class dues. The rates for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE went up this year to $7.45 (they were last raised two years ago). That's a bargain when you compare the DAM to the Cornell and Princeton magazines, where the rates are $10 and $7.48! Only your dues will keep the magazine coming to all '66s! Keep Paul in the black!

Finally it is with deep regret that I must inform you again of the passing of a classmate. Dave Osborne, on the threshold of a brilliant career in neurology, was killed in an automobile accident last August. More on Dave's contributions are contained in the obituary column. But for the sadness of this, we welcome the spirit of the new year, and hope for the blessing of health and friendship in 1983.

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