1961

The special ad hoc committee of the Alumni Council has met to develop ways to assure the future editorial independence of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and has come up with a plan. By the time you read this, the plan should have been reviewed by the Alumni Council and the trustees and either accepted or rejected. At any rate, your secretary, as one who had raised questions about the continued editorial independence of the magazine, ended up serving on the committee. (It included one of those trips to "anywhere": It happened to be Boston, but you know the story fly in, go directly to a conference room in a lawyer's office on the 22nd floor of a bank building, have sandwiches brought in, finish the conference in late afternoon, go back to the airport, and fly home.) The report went through several draft stages. I hope to be able to relate results for the April or May issue.

G. H. (Denny) Denniston Jr. has been named head of credit policy and administration for the National Bank of North America in New York. The new group combines the functions of loan policy, credit approval, lending administration, and similar functions. He was elected to the post of executive vice president of the bank in 1980, and he had been head of the Greater New York group since 1981.

Another banker, Rick Taft, has been appointed to vice president in the personal services division of the trust department at LaSalle National Bank in Chicago. He's been with the bank since 1978.

Pete Hanauer writes, "I just thought youd like to know the class is still producing possible future graduates. I will look forward to finding out from your column if I am now the oldest new father in the class or the classmate with the youngest child (or both!)." Andrew David Hanauer was born November 30, 1982, and weighed in at eight pounds, three ounces, according to the notice from Peter and Harriet. "I continue to write and edit law books and enjoy the amenities of the San Francisco Bay area.

Some notes about the upcoming Alumni Fund campaign:

"They said it couldn't be done" returns as the motto of our campaign. Our goals are 450 contributors, which would be 71 per cent of the class, and a total of $125,000. Those are hefty goals for Ron Boss, our new head agent. Our previous highs were 436 contributors in 1980, and $94,021 in 1981. If we do it, we'll set a new record for a class 22 years out of Dartmouth. The current record is $119,601 by the class of 1958. (I should hasten to remind you that reunion years are a different story, and all records are couched in either non-reunion- or reunion-year categories. We're shooting for a non-reunion-year record.)

And Jeff Conn has ended bachelorhood. He writes, on a card that pictures him and Lois beside their Datsun decorated with a "Just Married" (January 2) placard and announcing a February 11 celebration at the Elks Country Club in Muskegon, Mich., where Jeff is a C.P.A.: "This is by way of letting you know that I've ended my bachelorhood (I was a miserable failure at it) and remarried." So I guess that makes me the only wifeless Conn.

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