1969

Fortunately, I have been provided with enough grist for the mill that I can hammer out a column this month. However, unless more of you drop me a line, the months to come will be filled with stories of how I spent my summer vacation.

Jim Handley writes that he was recently married to Karen Eiblmayr, a clinical psychologist, and that he is associated with the firm of Poore, Roth and Robinson at 1341 Harrison Avenue, Butte, MT, where he is involved with general litigation. Jim says he is looking forward to reestablishing contact with some longlost friends.

Rick Saunders and his brother David '63 have set up a Management Communications Fund at the Tuck School to honor their father, Dero Saunders '35.

A news release from Multnomah County, OR, informs us that Deke Olmsted has been appointed that county's new director of the Department of Justice Services. Deke will be leaving his position as director of community corrections for Washington County, a post he has held for the past six years. While Deke was director, Washington County received national recognition for community services programs and the pioneering Restitution Center.

Closer to home, at least to my home, Concord, NH, now boasts a 2.5-ton, 26-foot-high iron tree forged by blacksmith Dimitri Gerakaris and gracing the entrance to Eagle Square. In a knothole in the trunk of the tree is a gnome with hammer in hand. This is Dimitri's trademark. Of his project, Dimitri says that "this is the kind of thing a blacksmith does only once in a lifetime." I suspect, however, that we will hear of more such projects before Dimitri retires his hammer. A plaque notes that the tree is 'Dedicated to the Children of New Hampshire." Since this includes my two kids, I would like to personally thank Dimitri and all others involved.

On the Vermont side of the river, Ray Clark has been busy renovating an old grist mill on Route 5 in Bradford. The brick mill, built in 1847, will now house offices, a gift and antique shop, a restaurant, and a craft shop. Ray has spent the last 15 years restoring old buildings. Among his accomplishments are the moves of a Rhode Island house built in 1680 to Norwich and of a Massachusetts house built in the 1700s to Hanover. "You take them apart, number all the pieces, load them on a truck, and put them together again when you get where you're going," he explains. Ray takes great pride in the fact that visitors to the mill often mistake his new work for the original construction.

On the national level, the White House dropped me a note saying that George Selden has been appointed a White House Fellow for 1983-84. The purpose of the White House Fellowship Program is to provide gifted and highly motivated young Americans with some firsthand experience in the process of governing a nation. Fellows serve for one year as special assistants to the vice president and members of the Cabinet and the president's principal staff. The 13 fellows were chosen from among 1,112 applicants. George is a major in the U.S. Army and a specialist in Soviet military affairs and the U.S. Army Air Defense. George earned his M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and attended the Army Institute for Advanced Russian and East European Studies.

If any of you find time, send me something/ anything!

Blacksmith Dmitri Gerakaris '69, left, with the help of a neighbor, moves the massive trunk of acommissioned sculpture of a tree from his Canaan, NH, workshop for transport to its installationsite in Concord, NH. More on Gerakaris's latest creation is in the 1969 class notes columnabove.

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