1955

We can all remember John Dickey telling us on more than one occasion, certainly at the beginning, certainly at the end, and many times in between, that the purpose of that Dartmouth education was the ability to think, to be prepared to meet the challenges of an ever changing world, and to attain the capacity of a continued growth. The class notes that are sent in are wonderful indications that the words were understood and have, undoubtedly, played a part in all of our lives.

Chet Gale, as an example, has just taken a job as vice president of sales and marketing for Performance Technologies. The firm is a two-year-old, privately-held manufacturer of state-of-the-art components for digital data handling systems based in Rochester, N.Y. The advantage of sales and marketing is that travel is necessary, particularly with a new product. Boston is definitely on the tour, which will be nice for the '55 contingent there.

Dick Bueschel, senior vice president, technology, of Houghton Mifflin Company, was elected as a new director for Tridex Corporation in New York. The firm, which spe- cializes in electronic and electromechanical products and parts for the telecommunications and data communications industry, obviously recognizes talent.

And just to prove there is financial life west of the Hudson (or south of it, depending upon your perspective), Paul Finegan has just been elected executive vice president of Core States Financial Corporation and the Philadelphia National Bank. CoreStates Financial is the bank holding company for PNB of Philadelphia and Hamilton Bank in Lancaster. Paul will be responsible tor the development and integration of Core States fudiciary and trust investment activities. He will continue to head the PNB Trust Division, a responsibility he has had since 1978.

But not all is business. Pete Henderson is practicing orthopedic surgery in Skowhegan, Maine. (Where does Pete go for his summer vacations?) Pete and his wife Ann have two daughters: Heidi, a dancer in Boston, and Heather, a senior at Middlebury.

Randy Deming is also a Maine doctor. He has been named chief of the department of radiology at the Maine Medical Center in South Portland. Randy had been assistant chief of radiology since 1979. He was an associate radiologist at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., before coming to Maine Medical Center in 1965.

King Foster, who lives in Harwichport, Mass., had his third and youngest son accepted in the class of 1988 "which makes it three out of three," with John in the class of 1984 and Jim in the class of 1986. (There's one man who pays attention to letters from the president regarding the reason for tuition increases. Nice spacing to run that program two years apart.)

Newell "Mickey" Stultz also has a Dartmouth son, Elliott, who graduated in '83. Mickey has been teaching at Brown University for the last 19 years. He indicates that it's "hard to imagine doing anything different and at times it seems to be too sedate and abstracted from the 'real world.' I must say that Brown is a marvelous institution, and my joy at being here has tended to erode my feelings for Dartmouth, though trips to Hanover bring them back with a rush. Seems like a long time ago when we were navy officers together at Norfolk, Va., all decked out in starched whites, musing about the problems of the world." (We were part of the solution, we were told.) Mickey did indicate that having been the house manager at Alpha Theta and, obviously, having read the College position on College fraternities, he was surprised to find the house still standing with the '55 class portrait still in place.

To have attended the Tuck management program for a week this summmer was a real pleasure and an obvious education. The Tuck professors seem to be both young and worldly-wise. It seems the average age of the Tuck students is going up and the age of the Tuck professors going down, which is not to suggest that those trend lines will ever cross. It is to suggest, however, that more is happening faster and faster, and it's a challenge to keep up. Showing my wife, Claudie, the Tuck class of '56 picture was amusing, for everyone looks thin and so nicely scrubbed. Even Jack Doyle, who came upon us at that moment, took note. Jack was passing through Hanover and made a detour to look in at Tuck. Having taken his son to Middlebury College he was returning to Boston via, what else, Dartmouth.

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