1958
If you make plans right now, you can be in Hanover June 16-19 for the 25 th reunion. You and your family might be taking the bus trip to Mt. Moosilauke, listening to the Dartmouth Glee Club, attending a talk by Director of Admissions Dick Jaeger '59, or asking President McLaughlin '54 a question after his talk at Spaulding Auditorium. Better yet, you could be exchanging experiences with friends old and new under a shady tree while sipping a cool brew. But if you don't plan now, time may slip away from you. You will always be glad you made the effort to be there. It is a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity.
The history of response to direct mail advertising being well known, the return of our mailings in December and January is really appreciated. Those of you who haven't replied, or who didn't receive a questionnaire, please send information to me about yourself, your career, your family, or anything else that friends would be interested in. My address is above.
Our class's resident Poughkeepsian, Steve Rheingold, has a son at Dartmouth in '84 and a daughter in '86. Among Steve's many contributions to the class and the College are his service on the Alumni Council from 1977 to 1981, his work in recruiting and Alumni Fund activities, and his leadership in the Campaign for Dartmouth.
Bob Abbott reports that he has recently sold his business. He is now the sales manager for Columbo Inc., America's original yogurt company. The Abbotts have three children, a daughter who is working after graduating from Cornell, Lee at Rhode Island School of Design, and a son in Belmont High School. When Bob wrote, he had just returned from Vail but otherwise travels between home and New York City. He is a trustee of the Darrow School, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Bob Jaffe was recently promoted to vice president, marketing, at Hazel Bishop Industries. He also serves on the board of directors of the Light Opera of Manhattan. Just before writing, he had returned from a Florida vacation with his son, age 15, and daughter, 11. His business travel takes him to all parts of the United States.
Writing on the letterhead of the Croner Company, Larkspur, Calif., Mel Croner described a delightful family trip to Europe. For four weeks during November and December, Mel's wife joined their daughter, Dartmouth '84, who had been traveling in the U.K. and Europe. Mel and another daughter visited Rome and Florence. The family then assembled in Turino and continued to Paris via the Riviera. Their older daughter remained in France for a winter term at Dartmouth's campus in Toulouse. It was understandably hard to return home, even if home is the San Francisco Bay area. Mel will be at reunion.
Mel also reports seeing Sumner Sharpe last fall. Sumner is consulting in urban planning and teaching. His wife is a member of the City Council of Portland, Ore.
Bill Allyn is a man of energy who enjoys being busy. He is the president of Welch Allyn Company of Skaneateles Falls, N.Y., an international company that manufactures and sells medical instruments. Bill joined the company in 1962 after three years with the Coast Guard in Oregon. He is also involved in youth hockey and the Upstate Medical Foundation, he serves on the boards of one bank and two corporations, and he is active in the Health Industry Manufacturing Association. Bill and his wife of 24 years have four sons one who is a junior in Trinity College, one at Dartmouth in the class of '86, one in high school, and one in second grade. Life can hardly be dull at that house. Like many alums, Bill expresses some frustration at interviewing good candidates who are refused by the College but end up at other Ivy League schools. I suspect no one will ever rationalize that process.
Would you like to have your business or professional office at 50 Lyme Road, Hanover? Big Jim Brackett has his dental office right there. He has accomplished more than finding a way to live in Hanover. His children are talented as well. A high school daughter is studying ballet with the DeChiazzas at the College, a second daughter in junior high shows ability on the violin and on the soccer field, and a nine- year-old boy is a hockey goalie. Jim practices general dentistry but has been studying orthodontics and functional orthopedics for the past several years.
Career Foreign Service information officer Vincent Hovanec was on home leave in the United States in late 1982. He serves with the U.S. Information Agency, whose news release described his interesting career. His present post is information officer in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. After Dartmouth, Vincent did graduate work in history at Emory University and also studied at the University of Wisconsin on a Russell Sage Fellowship. He then became a reporter. He joined U.P.I, and then was a reporter for The Raleigh News and Observer (N.C.), TheSt. Petersburg Times (Fla.), and The Wall StreetJournal. In 1968 he joined the U.S.I.A. He has had tours of duty in Guyana, Niger, Nigeria, Gabon, and Zaire. In Gabon he built a completely new American Center. He also organized and directed mass-media training programs throughout Africa. On a Washington tour he served as resources coordinator in the Office of African Affairs and also spent a year in Serbo-Crotian.language training preparing for his present assignment.
From Juneau, Alaska, Dale Sarles writes that he is doing counseling at three elementary schools after counseling in junior high for five years. He also is acting as mentor for a theological education extension program and is making wine. He boasts that his 1982 currant wine will be premium. The Sarleses have two teenage children. All will be in Hanover for reunion.
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