1962

Class President Josh Rich, who is also vice president of the Class Presidents Association, forwarded to me a year-end newsletter on the June meetings of the Alumni Council and of the board of trustees, and some news of the 1983 reunions. Regarding the latter, the class of 1958 set a new record for most alumni at a 25th with 289, a record we will challenge in 1987. Our regular fall informal gathering will be held this year over breakfast on Saturday, October 22, the morning after Darmouth Night and before the Cornell game. Our class meeting will be later that morning and any of you who will be near Hanover are invited. The newsletter also stated that beginning this year, "Class of the Year" honors will be based on two divisions - one to 24 years out, and 25 years out and older. The trustees approved the faculty plan for a modest restructuring of the Dartmouth Plan, centering around a 35-course requirement for graduation in 12 terms of residency. Freshman and senior years and the summer after sophomore year on campus will be mandatory.

Bill Pierce has been named executive vice president of Chemical Bank in New York City, the sixth largest bank in the U.S. Bill is responsible for Chemical's energy and minerals group, which conducts the bank's activities in the petroleum, metals, mining, and utilities industries. In addition, he serves as chairman of Chemical New York Southwest Inc., a subsidiary of Chemical New York Corporation. Bill joined the bank as a management trainee shortly after graduation and was promoted to assistant manager in 1966, assistant secretary in 1968, assistant vice president in 1969, and vice president in 1971. He was named senior vice president in 1976. Congratulations to Bill and family, who live in New York.

John Schiffman has been elected a director of the Public Service Company of New Hampshire. John is a partner in Smith, Batchelder and Rugg, an accounting firm, and is one of several classmates residing in Hanover.

The board of directors of the Seagram Company Ltd. has announced that Ed Falkenberg has been named vice president of Joseph E. Seagram and Sons Inc., the company's U.S. subsidiary. He was also appointed assistant controller of the Seagram Company Ltd. Ed, who is a C.P.A., joined Seagram in .1968 and was named chief accountant the following year. He will continue to serve as controller of Joseph E. Seagram, a position he has held since 1976. Ed currently lives in Scarsdale, NY, where he was elected a member of the board of trustees of Scarsdale in 1981.

Mini-reunion Chairman Gene Gasbarro wrote that he recently purchased McGregor Manufacturing Inc. in Rhode Island. The company manufactures precision metal stampings and services the electronics, appliance, and automotive industries. As president and chief operating officer. Gene will be spending most of his time building the customer base and product line. After spending some time as a consultant. Gene is excited about the challenge of his new venture, and we wish him great success.

The Boston Globe reported Mike Silve's resignation as Cornell athletic director just two months after Seaver Peters '54 resigned the same post in Hanover. Thus the Ivy league lost two of its ablest, most energetic administrators. Mike went to Cornell two years ago from his assistant commissioner's job in the PAC-10, an influential and visible post on the West Coast. Mike, who is an attorney, has returned to Hanover to resume the practice of law in his own firm and will have both a general New Hampshire practice and a national sports law practice.

Phil Baily wrote that he is in the same busi- ness as I am, the human resource field. Phil has been a consultant and actuary in the pension, profit sharing, and savings plan area. For the last two years he has had his own business, primarily consulting with respect to the admin- istrative systems used for compensation and benefit plans. He has developed, and is market- ing, a software product which provides a sys- tem for managing stock option plans and which runs on the IBM Personal Computer. Phil and his wife Carol and their two boys, Christopher, 13, and Patrick, 11, live in the country in southern California between Los Angeles and San Diego. They have just planted five and a half acres of White Riesling grapes, with plans to have a very small commercial winery when the vines begin to bear. Their first vintage will probably be 1986, so if all goes well, and the quality is appropriate for the occasion, Phil has offered to provide the white wine for our class dinner at the 25th reunion in 1987. I met Phil for the first time on a recent business trip to Dallas, and told him of the success of another classmate involved in the wine business —Jay Fritz. Jay's 1981 Fritz Cellars Chardonny was given a glowing review in the March-April 1983 issue of Friends of Wine. Jay gave me a couple of bottles at reunion, and I concur.

I encourage those of you who have never written to the class secretary to do so. Thank you!

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