1963

Mini-reunion 1983! It was a perfect, sunny Saturday in October for dozens of '63s and '64s who gathered for a great football game (Dartmouth over Cornell) and then drinks and dinner at the inimitable Hotel Coolidge. Football great Bill King was in the stands, as were Don McKinnon, Bill Wellstead, and Vaughn Skinner.

Classmates came from all over. SturgesDorrance, who went from WDCR general manager to the same job at NBC affiliate KING-TV in Seattle, was on hand with his wife Pam, public relations director for the Seattle Opera. Sturges caught up with GeoffMurphy, a DCR news director and now vice president at Esmark in Chicago, who came over with his wife Catheal.

Down from Maine came lawyers Jim Palmer (Freeport) and Bruce Coggeshall (Portland) with their charming wives Ruth and Phyllis. Jim's son Gib is in the class of '86 at the College, and Bruce's two sons, Bruce Jr., 15, and Jack, 12, joined us at dinner. Jim's daughter Allyson, 14, attends North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine.

Up from Boston came Ken Novak, an attorney, with Mary, whom he wed in his college days, and their daughter Kate, 11. They have two other daughters Elizabeth, 16, and Laura, 20. Up from Connecticut came DickBerkowitz to attend the '63 executive committee meeting and see daughter Jody '87. Class president Dave Schaefer with wife Caroline, our official photographer, provided instant game analysis in the stands, and AI Davie,s, who has been globe-trotting as president of the Institute of Real Estate Management, led the '63s to their feet during each of the many kickoffs.

Tom Berardino, on the search committee for our 25th reunion chairman, savored each event with wife Charlene, and Tim Ratner lived up to the reputation of his employer the Citibank that never sleeps and danced the hours away at official '63 headquarters, the Sheraton in West Lebanon. MartyBowne, a CPA at Arthur Young in New York, and wife Lenore, a registered representative with Shearson-American Express, are grooming their son Geoff, a record-breaking high school running star in Chatham Township, N.J. Marty, a descendant of John Bowne, early Quaker leader in Queens, N.Y. (my adopt- Ed home borough), also has a daughter, Jennifer, 13. Marty and Lenore ran long-distance races on Sunday in Hanover.

The trip to Hanover wasn't too long for BobBarnum and wife Sally of Lyme, N.H., and no distance at all for Dave Dawley, the minireunion chairman, who lives in Hanover. Since 1969, Bob has been director of personnel and administrative services at the College, a post which includes responsibility for the purchasing department and the Hanover Inn. Bob was on crutches, having fallen during a run on the Dartmouth golf course. He and Sally have two sons Matt, 14, and Grant, 12.

Dave Downey came up from Manchester, N.H., with his brother Paul and spent some time chatting with Russ Seibert of Boston, an independent distributor for Shaklee, a health food concern. I ran into Bob Byshe and TedSuess at the executive committee meeting earlier in the day. Ted is assistant treasurer at Rohm and Haas Company in Philadelphia. Dave Rogers took in the game, as did BobTucker and Jim Bell. Other '63s who came back were Doug Cooper, Duey Landreth, Jerry Portland, Jack Potter, and Bob Finney. It was a great time and one you should share in next year. Schaef has already reserved rooms at the Sheraton on October 20, 1984, for the Harvard game.

Pete Stern couldn't make the trip this time as he is busy launching a new law firm in Philadelphia Joseph Weiss Associates. Across the state, Fred Jarrett is practicing vascular and general surgery in Pittsburgh. He is active in teaching at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School and in writing and lecturing in the U.S. and overseas, including at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Fred, who is president-elect of the Allegheny Vascular Society and a member of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Medical School Alumni Council, has held visiting professorships in Holland and Spain.

Watch for Steve Macht as Benedict Arnold in the CBS mini-series George Washington. Steve, whose fourth child, Jesse Emanuel, was born last January, will also be appearing in the TV movie A Caribbean Mystery with Helen Hayes. Steve and Suzanne live in Beverly Hills, Calif., and their eldest daughter Julie is a freshman at Berkeley.

John Farnsworth is back again in Manhattan at 201 East 87th Street after a suburban stint in Darien, Conn. John Jr., born in Hanover in June 1964, has started New York University, while John Sr. still "plows the fields of advanced technology systems for Chemical Bank."

Recently married is Ned Riley to Jennifer KoVace Pfeiffer. It's his first marriage and he's become an instant stepfather to Adrienne, 14, and Ben, 13. Ned juggles living between Bolinas, Calif, (main home), Montreal (job in forecasting), and Tallahassee, Fla. (site of new home). Lately, he visited real estate developer Stu Richards in Vermont and attorney Steve Jacobstein in Rochester, N.Y.

Recently eligible, after divorce, are EdwardI. Boies III, a wholesale jewelry manufacturer in Salt Lake City, and Richard Crane of Woodbury, Conn., vice president of Blackstone Industries. New entrepreneurs: PeteWells formed Ambrose Investment Group, a commercial real estate syndicating firm in Denver. Burt Alpert started a new law partnership in Roanoke, Va.

Richard Edelson of Bethesda, Md., took his family on a special study program in France last summer. Hank Rogers of Springfield, Mass., joins the "small group of alumni whose children were accepted at Dartmouth but chose to go elsewhere," namely Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania. Steve Kurland is chief of staff at Harrington Memorial Hospital in Worcester, Mass. Howard"Hoppy" Neff is director of operations for Applied Materials, manufacturers of equipment for semiconductor companies in Mountain View, Calif.

Ed Pirog is technical manager at Crown Zellerback, Crown Advanced Films division, in Wilmington, Del. Nearby is Rob Tucker with the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center in Baltimore. Out on the coast, Peter Brown is in his eighth year as admissions officer at Whiteman College in Walla Walla, Wash., and attorney Lloyd Cymrot concentrates on real estate investments between Los Angeles and New York.

Happy holidays, all!

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