1963

When Walter Mondale decided to consider an unprecedented choice for vice presidential candidate, he dispatched Mike Cardozo, specialist in the investigation of conflict of interest and financial discrepancies, to grill Diane Feinstein, mayor of San Francisco. When vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro's finances became an issue, Mike was again pressed into service as one of Mondale's advisors on the issue. Political lawyering is not new to Mike, but neither is it a fulltime occupation. The former counsel to President Carter is a partner with G. William Miller and Company, an investment banking firm in Washington, D.C.

Even if you didn't struggle to diagram the Schmidt telescope in Astronomy I, you can appreciate that we are entering a new era in optical telescopes. The U.S. is about to build the largest multi-mirror telescope in the world near Tucson, Ariz. A working model for this concept is the six-mirror telescope at the Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory near Tucson, whose new director is FredChaffee. Fred had been acting director of the observatory when Jacques M. Beckers resigned last spring to become associate director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories which is supervising construction of the new telescope. After earning a doctorate in astronomy from the University of Arizona in 1968, Fred worked with the Smithsonian Astro physical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass. His most recent position was resident director of the Smithsonian's Fred L. Whipple Observatory, also near Tucson.

Lest we be accused of not giving equal time, it should be noted that President Reagan also avails himself of our classmates' services. Last spring the President brought with him to China a bronze heron, Sculpted by Wheat Allen of Mendocino, Calif., to give to Zhao Zyiang, premier. The heron is the second of Wheat's works to be commissioned by the White House and the third to have been bought by Reagan. Two years ago Wheat had a private lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Caspar Weinberger, who commissioned an eagle for the defense secretary's 66th birthday.

Pete Brown, associate director of admissions at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., since 1975, has been named dean of admissions at Lewis and Clark College, a 1,600 student liberal arts college, in Portland, Ore. After earning a master's at Harvard, Pete taught high school math and gymnastics before taking the post of assistant director of admissions from 1968 to 1975 at Dartmouth. At Whitman he instituted alumni interviewing of applicants (sound familiar?) and served as chairman of the administrative computer users committee. He also coached the college championship diving team and local baseball teams, refereed soccer, and sang in folk music groups.

Bill Spencer was promoted to senior vice president of MCA Advertising, Ltd. in New York, a firm he joined in 1979, "to recognize and reward . . . contributions to the remarkable success of the agency." The West port, Conn., resident has a strong background in packaged goods, as director of marketing in the Planters Division of standard Brands, director of snack food operations at Nalley's Foods, and brand manager at Procter & Gamble.

Jay Olin has-been appointed senior vice president and division head of the corporate banking group of Commonwealth Federal Savings Bank in Lowell, Mass. Jay, who has 20 years in commercial banking, had been a vice president at the Bank of Boston. Jay, who built a national real estate shelter business at the Bank of Boston, is expected to beef up the corporate banking at Com Fed, a 92-yearold institution north of Boston.

Tom Kraig has been promoted to vice president and general counsel of the Avco Everett Research Laboratory, a division of the Avco Corporation based in Greenwich, Conn. Tom, a corporate senior counsel, was with New York's Chad bourne, Parke, Whiteside, and Wolff before joining Avco in 1972. He graduated from Harvard and lives in New Canaan with his wife Bonnie and two children.

Football star Bill King spoke at "The Wearers of the Green" in Boston last spring where the College's renowned athletes were honored. Bill and track Olympian Jerry Ash worth are featured in the new sports film Wearers of the Green. Also honored at the dinner were Skip Matton, David Smoyer, and John Watts.

John Dickey Jr.'s speech to the Dartmouth Alumni Geology Seminar is included in an Alumni Magazine feature on the event. John is chairman of geology at Syracuse. I am sorry to report that we have received word of the death of Ed Lamie in New Haven, Conn., from a heart attack on December 27, 1983. A full obituary is scheduled for an upcoming issue.

After leading the Group VI division of the Green Derby, the College's fund-raising competition for most of 1983-84, we finished fourth behind late strong showings by '58, '61, and '60. Nevertheless we raised close to $130,000, some $10,000 over our objective. Nice work!

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