1946

Congratulations are in order for Dick Young, who was recently named president of Houghton Mifflin Company, the distinguished 150-year-old Boston publishing house. He has been a director of the company and will remain on its board. Houghton has been a major publisher of general trade and textbooks and is rapidly becoming known for its computer-assisted and computer-managed educational programs and its electronic language aids for use with word-processing equipment. Dick earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Columbia following Dartmouth and had been serving as executive vice president and director of worldwide marketing for Polaroid. Before that he had been a senior vice president for research and development and president of its international division.

Dick is also a director of the Bay State Milling Company; a member of the corporation of Northeastern University; a director of the World Affairs Council and the Japan Society of Boston; and a trustee of Regis College, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and the Marine Biological Laboratories at Woods Hole.

Jim Lynch has forwarded a letter from Bette Teschner-Zeller. with news of her extensive family. With it was a great family picture, including son Jim, who looks exactly like his father, Doug Teschner, Jim's former roommate. Bette married Alan Zeller '47, formerly medical director for Bath Iron Works and a great sailor and humanitarian. Alan and Bette are now in their second stint in Ghana, where he has taken back his earlier duties as medical director and surgeon for Kaiser Aluminum and responsibility for 12,000 people. Bette is concentrating her efforts on an orphanage there where she oversees 132 children from infancy to 18 years.

We really appreciated holiday greetings from Bill and Patti White and word about son Bill III '80, who is working for the Continental Illinois Bank in Chicago and studying for his M.B.A. at Northwestern. Daughter Melissa continues to live on Beacon Hill in Boston. It also was a treat to hear from Jim and Mary Shute.

The recent ALUMNI MAGAZINE insert lists Dave Chalmers as a member of the newlyformed executive committee that will coordinate efforts to establish the John Sloan Dickey Endowment for International Understanding.

The Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth recently presented a special lecture, "Solutions to the Arms Race," featuring Sanford Gottlieb, who is executive director of United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War.

Melvin and Lea Johnson recently completed a fabulous cruise with Tulane Medical alumni and others to the Inner and Outer Herbrides, the Orkneys, Wales, and the Scilly Isles and sought Mel's roots in Fjaerland near Balestrand, Norway. Mel continues his solo internal medicine practice in Shrevesport, La., and has one special patient, Vic Luneborg '35.

Bob Beetham has been named senior economist of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund in New York. In this position, he conducts the economic analysis and research used in determining investment policies for the $20-billion TIAA-CREF pension funds. There are 750,000 participants and 3,500 institutions that make up these non-profit organizations and provide retirement and insurance benefit plans for staffs of colleges, universities, and independent schools.

That former great '46 quarterback, Bob Albrecht, still keeps his hands on the ball as coach of quarterbacks for Weston, Conn., High. He also calls plays from the stands for their games.

Another still-athletic classmate, Rick Shambroom, is back instructing at his old haunts at the Mt. Snow Ski School in southern Vermont after a 20-year hiatus at other ski schools. He is principal officer of Rick Shambroom Associates, a marketing/promotions firm and says he "has one nostril above the financial water level" but still finds time for ski instructing and writing Skiing With Control and for his extensive work coaching soccer. Rick has just joined the six-member National Coaching Commission of the American Youth Soccer Organization, which directs the education and development of more than 35,000 volunteer coaches. A.Y.S.O. has 250,000 playing members in 30 states. He earned his coaching certificate in 1979 and is the only East Coast member of this commission.

Stan Waterman writes about his fascinating underwater filming activities. During the fall of 1981 Stan and Suzy took their son Gar '79 to Patagonia (Argentina) to photograph right whales. Last winter he filmed diving sequences in the Netherlands Antilles and during the summer he shot film of killer whales underwater in the Johnston Straits (between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia). This past fall he was filming again in the Coral Sea and along the Australian Great Barrier Reef Small wonder that Stan is the most famous of all underwater photographers and winner of an Emmy in 1981 for cinematography in his work for ABC Sports.

Please keep in touch. Best regards.

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