1962

A dozen classmates attended the annual class meeting prior to the Harvard game on October 20 in Hanover. It was announced that the faculty fellowship committee of Sandy Apgar, Gary Spiess, and Dan Tompkins would meet in November to select the recipient of the 1985 award. As we look ahead toward our 25th reunion, several suggestions were offered on how to expand the fellowship program to coincide with the reunion gift to the College. Ross Burkhardt talked at some length about his ideas for a new multimedia slide presentation for the 25th reunion and was given enthusiastic approval to meet with a committee consisting of JohnKnight, Bob Katz, and Paul Weinberg to finalize the format and general content and theme of the presentation.

A new position of class vice president has been created by the College, and Bill Whaley was selected to fill that post, effective immediately.

Bob Reed attended the meeting, his first return to Hanover in more than 20 years, due in part to the fact that two of his children are undergraduates at the College. He resides in Albany, Calif., and is a professor of geography in Southeast Asian studies at the University of California. Alan Dynner mentioned that he recently saw Dave andPeggy Muhlitner while in San Francisco. They have recently returned from a sixmonth expedition around the world, and I hope they will relate some of their experiences in a subsequent column.

The board of directors of Anderson, Clayton, and Company recently announced that Dick Harris has been elected group vice pres ident for the Houston based diversified foods company. A career Anderson Clayton employee, Dick first joined the company in 1964 at the company's Bakersfield, Calif., operation. He subsequently served in the United States Army from 1964 to 1966 as a captain in the transportation corps. Dick returned to Anderson Clayton in 1966 as an administrative assistant in the corporate commodity trading department in Houston. He was promoted to a variety of administrative and managerial positions in several of the company's businesses. He was named a vice president for Ranger Insurance in 1974, vice president for Anderson Clayton Foods in 1976, vice president for corporate planning in 1979, vice president for California/Arizona operations in the oilseed processing division in 1980, and, most recently, vice president, industrial, at corporate headquarters in 1983.

As recently reported in The Wall Street Journal, Levi Strauss and Company sponsors an annual race in Utah requiring running and riding skills, a gut-wrenching combination of distance running and horse racing across nearly 40 miles of treacherous mountain terrain. At the starting gun, one member of each two person team takes off on horseback, the other on foot. At some point ahead, the rider ties his mount to "a tree and continues on foot. When his partner reaches the horse, he climbs on and rides until he has passed his teammate. The process repeats itself as many times as a team wishes, depending on the pace and strategy it chooses, until all three members have crossed the finish line. Exhausted runners using borrowed horses sometimes mistake someone else's mount for theirs and get thrown off as a result. Communication between partners also can go awry. Tom Laris, a distance runner in the 1968 Olympics and a former runner up in the Boston Marathon, jubilantly crossed the finish line here a few years ago, expecting to claim seventh place, only to find that his partner had left the horse tied a mile from the finish line. He raced back for the horse and wound up finishing tenth.

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