1974

The mail this month brought news of the wedding of Herman Laternau to Mary Dora Wakely on February 13 in Canaan, N.H. The ceremony took place in the chapel of the Cardigan Mountain School (a setting which I can personally recommend very highly, having been married in the same place). Doug Clark was there, serving as best man. Mary is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and is employed as a sales representative by Whitman Press of Lebanon. Herman is a controller with Claremont Flock of Claremont. Herman and Mary will remain in the Upper Valley, residing in West Lebanon.

The mail also brought news of Craig Foltz, who has been appointed an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois. Prior to this appointment, Craig earned a doctorate from Ohio State University, where he had been a lecturer since 1980. Good luck in the new position, Craig!

News of Don Blanchard also arrived in the mail this month, courtesy of his wife Pat. Don, usually known as "Doc," has been working on a phase of the AT&T divestiture, as part of a corporate team dealing with the allocation of shares for the seven newly-formed regional companies. As a result of that work, he is being transferred from the New York area to Jacksonville, Fla., where he will become director of strategic planning for the stock and bond group of the corporation. Pat and Don have been married since 1974 they were college sweethearts and have one child, Donald III, who is just over three years old. Congrats and best wishes to the whole Blanchard family!

This month's " '74 ROAR" goes to faculty member Werner Kleinhardt, who was recently awarded the Andreas Gryphius prize, presented annually for the best essay, novel, or poem written about political problems in East Germany. Professor Kleinhardt's book, Jedem das Seine (To each his own) is a novel about an East German now living in America, who returns home to Germany where he had been a prisoner as a boy. In East Germany, he is again arrested and, while imprisoned, recalls his earlier prison experience. The book draws on Kleinhardt's own experiences in Soviet-run prisons he spent three and a half years in a Siberian camp, followed by more than a year in Buchenwald, which the Soviets had converted into a political prison (he was first imprisoned in 1945 at the age of 15). Kleinhardt is an associate professor of German and comparative literature at the College, where he has taught for the past 18 years. Unfortunately for those of us who don't know the language, Jedem das Seine has been published only in German to date. The class extends its congratulations and best wishes for continued success to Professor Kleinhardt.

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