1957

A strong candidate for the class member who does his thing best is Bruce LeFavour, who has been selected as one of the 13 "Greatest Chefs of San Francisco" by the local public television station and as the first subject of a prime-time TV series on cooking. What makes Bruce's selection so impressive is the following: First, because of tourism, there are many excellent restaurants in the Bay Area. Second, Bruce was one of the few American chefs selected. Third, his restaurant is small (32 seats) and located an hour and a half from San Francisco. I saw Bruce's show and he was great: relaxed but intense and very authoritative as he prepared vegetable soup (in gel, elaborately presented), fresh salmon with asparagus sauce, Bombay madness (an exotic beef dish), and strawberry cake a la dacquoise. Bien fait, mon brave!

Another classmate in the news is PhilByers, who has just been elected to the board of directors at Park-Ohio Industries Inc., a Cleveland-based gas and oil producer and diversified manufacturing company. This follows Phil's recent elevation to the presidency of Hambro Gas and Oil Inc. of Minneapolis, where he . lives. He put those Dartmouth Rocks courses to good use and has spent his entire business career in the energy industry with a number of companies, including Apache Corporation, Mobil Oil, Shell Oil, and Monsanto. This has been a very impressive career for a man who claims his real love is hunting and fishing and hanging out with yellow labrador retrievers.

Warner Traynham has found adventure by another means: This fall he moved his family from Hanover, where he had been dean of the Tucker Foundation and college chaplain, to the real wilds of Los Angeles. He has just been ensconced as the rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, considered by many to be the most beautiful renaissance-style church in Los Angeles. Its 350-family congregation is 80 percent black and 20 percent white. Warner has purchasesd a house in View Park, where he lives with his wife and four children, who are trying to be open-minded about the West Coast life-style and valley girls. Warner himself is gleeful to be missing Hanover's harsh winters and is keeping up college connections through an associate chaplaincy at the University of Southern California, which is near St. John's.

Phil Lippincott has just joined the board of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. This is in addition to his on-going responsibility as chairman and chief executive officer of Scott Paper.

As you read this column, the 1984 Dartmouth Alumni Fund drive will be coming to a close. Please help Bob Macdonald and JoeStevenson make this year's drive a success. A contribution of some kind will help Dartmouth continue its record of being the number-one college in the country in terms of percent of living alumni contributing. This statistic is very helpful in selling Dartmouth to prospective quarterbacks, flautists, or just plain neat people.

Bruce LeFavour '57, chef and owner of Rose etLeFavour, an elegant restaurant in San Francisco's Napa Valley; was one of 13 chefs profiled in a recent PBS special series, "Great Chefs of SanFrancisco." LeFavour, whose interest in creative food preparation was sparked by a tour ofduty in France with the Army, opened Rose at LeFavour with Carolyn Rose in 1981. Hechanges the menu at the restaurant daily, adapting to what is available in the market; the menuhe prepared for the PBS program more an in-depth profile than a "how-to" cooking lessonis described in the 1957 class notes column.

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