1966

It's fall again; the summer's gone. It is time to get out your quills and drop me a line and bring me up to date on your summer happenings, births, marriages (there are a few of you left still), job changes, etc. But before we get too far let's all give a "Wah-Hoo-Wah" for Hector Montroni and Steve Lanfer. For the first time that I can remember, our class' surpassed its Alumni Fund campaign goals in both amount and participation. These goals were $75,000 and 57 percent respectively. The final totals rung up for the campaign were $76,303 contributed and 58.2 percent participation. This achievement, of course, belongs to the members of the class and I'm sure Hector and Steve would want the accolades to reflect their appreciation for your interest and contributions to the College.

So what else is new? I received a letter from Jon Wiesel, who has joined Dean Anderson in Jackson Hole, WY. There they run a unique consulting firm called National Nordic Consultants, assisting the cross-country ski industry in design and expansion of cross-country ski facilities. Jon's own travels took him to Claremont College in Claremont, CA, for a master's in history and to the University of Washington for his Ph.D. after graduation from Dartmouth. Combining his avocation for crosscountry skiing with the necessity for putting bread on the table, Jon worked with the Royal Gorge Nordic Ski Resort in Donner Pass, CA, before joining NNC. Jon writes that Dean Anderson was a,t Snow Bird Ski Resort in Utah prior to starting up the Jackson Hole operation. He also writes that Dick Taylor '59 runs a small cross-country ski resort near Bozeman, MT.

Pete Cleves also dropped me a line to say that he has left the Ford Foundation in Mexico City, where he has been the funding representative for Mexico and Central America, to join First National Bank of Chicago. There he is finding that collecting on bad debts is directly correlated to collecting on bad grants. Wife Dorothy, son Geoffrey (12), and daughter Rachel (eight) are with him in Chicago while they await a relocation assignment somewhere in the world. In the meantime, Pete is completing work on writing a book on Mexico entitled ThePerfor?nance and the State.

I have received some news of promotions, including that of Tom Brady to the post, of vice president of the plastics product division of Owens-Illinois Corporation. He has been technical director for the plastics product division, responsible for all research and development for the company's plastic products.

Dick Sheaff has been appointed design coordinator for the U.S. Postal Service Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee. For all you collectors of first-day issues, this committee reviews all design or subject suggestions for stamp and postal stationery received by the Postmaster General's office. Once a subject has been selected, a leading artist is asked to prepare the postal design which is coordinated through the abovementioned committee. In real-life, Dick heads a graphic design firm called SheafF Design Inc. in Chestnut Hill, MA, which specializes in communications, graphic design, marketing, copywriting, photography, and illustration services for corporations and educational institutions.

Arthur Lewis has furthered his career, with the U.S. State Department by being nominated by President Reagan as ambassador to Sierra Leone. Art graduated with our class as probably its most senior member (having been born in 1926) and received his master's in 1969 from the College. Specializing in Rumanian language and affairs, he served as cultural affairs officer in Bucharest until 1970 and since then in Zambia, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. Since 1979 he has been the Foreign Service Department's director for African affairs.

Finally, in the never-too-lace-to-print category, I received word that Lewis Greenstein represented the College at the inauguration of the president of Paine College in Augusta, GA, a year ago, and that Dick Blackwell represented Dartmouth at a presidential inauguration at Seattle Pacific University in Washington state in March of this year.

I hope many of you can make the Harvard- Dartmouth game in Cambridge this fall so we will have a chance to catch up on your news personally at that time.

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