1974

Fall moves on apace the Big Green football team managed to soundly thump the Princeton Tigers in Hanover for the season opener, but then dropped a heart breaker to Army at West Point.

Reunion Giving Chairman Chris Gates, Head Agent Steve Dietz, and I met with Sam Smith '49 from the College's Alumni Fund office in late September. While final goals have yet to be set (they will be reported in a later edition of this column), we will certainly be attempting to top the current tenth-re-union record of slightly over $107,000 set by the class of '71 three years ago! It is a tough goal, but we belong to an exceptional class and should certainly break any existing records, as we have broken every "years out" record since our fifth reunion. We will also want to surpass any efforts made by the classes of '73 and '75, who will be in Hanover for their tenth reunions at the same time we are!

The mailbox was pretty lonely this month - very few letters arrived to keep it warm. If some of you people don't get off your duffs and write soon, I will either start running advertisements in this space or, perhaps, indulge my penchant for fiction and rumor concerning the activities of various classmates. I know that most Dartmouth grads have learned what paper and pencil are used for, so write, already! If you're too shy to write about yourself, send a story about your friends or let your wife (or mother) write about you. Any source will be kept confidential if desired scout's honor! By the way, there are a couple of Alpha Theta types who have a bet on about who will be the first to be written up here, with the first one losing! If they continue this foolishness too much longer, I will personally end this wager by publishing an exhaustive listing of all members of that illustrious establishment in the class of '74.

Fortunately, I do have a few notes taken during the. Alumni Fund telethons this spring. Chip Gedney is living in Mamaro neck, N.Y., and working in the Big Apple for the advertising firm of Kenyon and Eckart. At the time I talked with Chip, his responsibilities included work on the Coca-Cola wine spectrum, Ramblin' root beer, and Quaker State Motor Oil. Yessir, just give me a cold six-pack of Quaker State, check the Taylor wine in the radiator, and put a quart of Ramblin' in the crankcase!

Steve Koenig has completed his residency in ophthalmic surgery in New Orleans and plans to move to Milwaukee, Wise, (no need for cold six-packs of Quaker State in that town!), where he will be a corneal surgeon at the Medical College of Wisconsin. When he isn't busy saving people's eyesight, he will be teaching and doing research. Best of luck in your new position, Steve!

Another '74 making his mark on the world of medicine is Tom Tread well, who is working in a Boston medical lab, doing research on infectious diseases. When he isn't messing with strange microorganisms, Tom is the proud father of two kids!

Doctor-to-be Trip Heard is still attending medical school in Durham, N.C., at the University of North Carolina. While he is not one hundred percent sure, Trip believes that he may specialize in internal medicine. Trip also reports that Bill Newcomb is living in Chapel Hill, too, where he is a financial planner for IBM.

Denver is home to Tim Gilchrist, who is the very pleased father of a one-year-old daughter, Lindsay Anne. Tim makes his living selling commercial real estate for the firm of Grubb and Ellis.

That's about all for this month. If anyone has a nomination for the " '74 ROAR," be sure to let me know!

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