1965
"Where, oh, where are the pea green freshmen . . .?" Or, in more current terms, where are 20 of our classmates for whom we have no address? If you know where any of the following are, or were, let me have a forwarding address and we'll try to determine whether they're "lost" by chance or by choice: Peter R. Akley, John M. Amoda, Jeffrey W. Amory, Walter W. Dreibelbis, Nicholas L. Feakins, George W. Fugate II, Alan R. Gibson, Seigo Hayashi, Gary M. JafFe, Harvey K. Kesler, Terry A. Lee, LaurenS. McKinsey, Michael J. Melville, Gary E. Moore, Mathew L. Morrison, Theodore S. Plume, Harold L. Quadres, Andrew Y. Silverman, Trembley J. Wakefield, and David R. Welch. Also, Mrs. John C. Seel.
As of April 30, our Alumni Fund gifts were progressing well. We had 551,118 from 291 classmates, up over last year by S 19,7 16 and 102 donors While this represents good progress toward our objective of 583,000 and 481 donors, I encourage those of you who haven't given to do so prior to June 30. A satisfying feeling with an important result.
Now, news about some of our classmates (my notes are harder to read than I thought, but I should be able to hit the high points).
Pierre KistenefF was a government major who finished his undergraduate studies at Indiana and then received a Ph.D. from Brown in the early seventies. He worked with the New Haven Model Cities Program in the late sixties and subsequently the H.U.D. office in Chicago. He then was at B.U. for several years before going with a research firm. He now is running a mega-study ($9 million in effect a small business) for Abt Associates in Cambridge. At the same time, Pierre's wife is finishing medical school. Good for her! It sounds like the Kisteneffs know where the action is and are going after it full tilt!
Pierre saw Dan Corbett in Miami. Dan is godfather to one of Pierre's sons. Tom Sampson is a funeral director with a wife and four kids. He last visited Hanover four years ago may make it again this summer. He still admires Dartmouth as a school, although there have been many changes. He thinks students should have a choice about some of the traditions and issues such as the Indian symbol and R.O.T.C.
Tom favors the computer experience and thinks year-round operation and the various exchange programs are excellent. He has a mixed reaction to coeducation once the decision to go ahead was made it did well. Tom has been a club president and has interviewed students almost every year since graduation He reflected that there are many applicants whoould be good for Dartmouth but they don't get in.
Birger Benson is a professor of business adminstration at St. Michael's College He recevied his M.B.A. from Harvard School and was in a manufacturing business for five years. He then did financial consulting for a year before going to St. Michael's. He enjoys the academic lifestyle, since he can take things on his own terms (especially with four months off every summer!). He and Ellie have three boys and a girl. They've enjoyed doing some sailing and hope to do more. They see Dick Bernstein, who is in the same area as a psychiatrist at Mary Fletcher Hospital. He also enjoys sailing.
Jim Westfall has his own management consulting business in Portland, Maine. This is his third post, since he has been in and out of big business. He was with Teledata in Lebanon and later with Snow Engineering (ski area consulting) in Franconia for two years. He is married the second time after being single for married years. His oldest son was born in 1965 while Jim was in the Air Force.
A recent press release notes that Michael Orr has been elected president and chief execultive officer of Sounder Sports Inc., which manufactures dynamically balanced golf clubs. Previously Michael was director of marketing : - Bausch and Lomb's consumer products division in Rochester. Prior to that he was director of marketing, worldwide golf, at Spalding, a division of Questor Corporation of Chicopec. Mass. I learned from a list received today that there are 754 members of our class, including the 20 above without addresses. There also are six widnoted As I go through the list in detail I'll try ro note some of the more interesting facts. In the meantime, I need a change of pace and so I'm off to the Caribbean for two weeks on board one of Uncle Sam's ships. Hopefully we'll do our exercises and return without being tasked to go to the Falkland Islands or any of the Central American hot spots.
Played tennis outdoors for the first time last week the wind and sun may take some getting used to, but I'm sure looking forward to being outside. Hope you are, too, wherever you may be. Happy spring! Keep the faith.
Elsa Beckmann recently presented a painting by her late husband. Emeritus Professor of Art HannesBeckmann, to Our Savior Lutheran Church and Student Center in Hanover. Accepting the gift wereJohn Matzke 65 (left), president of the congregation. and the Rev. John Lemkul (right). pastor ofthe congregation and Lutheran chaplain to Dartmouth students. The painting, entitled Cruciform, exmiplifies Beckmann's unique style, which he described as a "color run. " and reflects hisearly training in Germany's Bauhaus School. Beckmann taught at Dartmouth from 1971 to1975. and he died in 1977.
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