1960

As we begin the new school year, which also happens to be our 25th-reunion year, I would like to begin this article with a few reunion notes and reminders, and I encourage all of you to respond with enthusiasm to the requests for information, time, and financial contributions that you will no doubt be besieged with over the coming months by the dedicated group of classmates who have taken on the responsibility of pulling together this event and making it a huge success for our class.

Some mini-reunion dates to mark on your calendar: October 13-Yale game at New Haven with your host, Sam Bowlby. Plan to meet at Coxe Cage before and after the game. Free snack and beer available, but BYOB and gourmet lunches. October 19-20 Dartmouth Night Weekend and Harvard game at Hanover. Jay Emory, your host, has arranged for some rooms to be reserved at theN Quechee Gorge Motel in addition to activities for the weekend. November 17 at Princeton. Your host, AL Stowe, has recruited AL Sigler and Abbie Stark. Don Betterton is arranging reserved parking. All of the above information has been sent to you in a letter dated July 27.

Bob Boye has accepted the responsibility for the 25th yearbook and will need your prompt response in order to meet his deadlines. This is quite a mammoth task and can be done only with full cooperation. In this regard, there is a need for a volunteer with a facility to convert the raw material sent in by classmates into type that can then be utilized by the printer for the book. This is the most expensive part of the process, and if we can get someone who can either do it for us or get it done less expensively, we will be that much ahead. Please respond to Bob if you have any ideas. We will try to keep you updated on events and deadlines.

John Barchilon, who claims he has "never had anything out of the ordinary to report except the usual stuff: med school, residency, marriage, etc.," has now revealed that during those years he has led a double life as a surgeon and a writer. Among his published works have been a bicentennial radio serial, "The Spirit of America," which ran coast to coast for a year, a book on medical malpractice, and a bicentennial screenplay, AmericanYears. He has also written a few plays which have been viewed in New Haven and then recently decided it was time to tackle the novel. His book, The Crown Prince, a novel about love, war, and music, was scheduled for release by W. W. Norton and Company this past summer. (A coincidental note: his editor turned out to be Jim Mairs '61.) John has persuaded his publisher to put out a special Dartmouth edition expurgated! Living in Los Angeles with wife Jeri, John divides his time between writing and the practice of sports medicine.

Tom McCorkle is working as a marketing manager at MIT Press. He has primary responsibility for selling the books which are accepted for printing and publishing by this prestigious university press.

Donald Smith lives in Wellesley with a couple of young children. Don left Dartmouth after a few years and spent four in the navy. He returned to Dartmouth and graduated with the class of '64. He has also been involved in the publishing business, first as a reporter and now doing computer programming and analysis for the management group at Houghton Mifflin Press in the Boston area. Don has been active recently in an organization called Bridges for Peace and in conjunction with that made a recent trip to the Soviet Union. That effort has had him speaking at various churches around the Boston area where he recently acquainted himself with Bill McCarter.

Tom Ettinger is still mightily involved with Sports Illustrated in New York and was hard at work at some of the peripheral promotional activities involving the magazine in the Olympic games in Los Angeles.

Sandy Ingham has been in the newspaper business since early in the 1960S. First he worked on a weekly in the New Jersey area and now he is the night editor of a daily newspaper. He basically works until 4:00 a.m. so that the newspaper gets put to bed and printed in time to be on your doorstep early in the morning.

Well, that about does it for news at the moment, and I would like to add only that as this is the first edition of my last year as class secretary I hope you will all send in lots of news and make me look good as my term ends.

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