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Another classmate in quest of Olympic glory is Jim Page, subject of a pre-Sarajevo NewYork Times story. Jim, who distinguished himself on the slopes at the College, is director of the United States Ski Team's Nordic program. Jim discussed the condition of Bill Koch, U.S. cross-country star, and the legal problems facing Audun Endestad, a Norwegian skier who needed special legislation to be eligible for the U.S. team. Earlier I wrote about Denny Emerson, an equestrian, who is competing for a spot on the summer Olympic team.
Howard "Wheat" Allen, a California sculptor, has been commissioned by President Reagan to make a bronze eagle as a state gift for the president of West Germany. The president's acquaintance with Wheat goes back to 1971, when as governor of California he commissioned the young artist to make quails. Wheat has been doing birds since his student days, and he got his first commission at the age of nine from Victor Bergeron of Trader Vic's in Lake Tahoe. Last summer Wheat had a private lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Caspar Weinberger, who commissioned an eagle for the defense secretary's 66th birthday. Wheat and his wife Rosemary, a painter, live and work in Mendocino, Calif., 160 miles north of San Francisco. They have two girls Lisa, 15, and Daphne, nine. Wheat has been in touch with Thomas Chandler, DaveSchaefer, and Bill Russell.
A recent initiate into professional arts is Ron Schecter, who also practices real estate law in Newark, N.J. Ron is a cellist who has performed with the New Jersey State Opera and in concerts and recitals in the state. He admits to being influenced by Peggy, his wife of 18 years, and a professional flutist whose credentials include the Casals, Spoleto, and Mostly Mozart festivals. The couple lives in Montclair, N.J., and they have a daughter, Nicole, who skis and plays the piano. Ron was graduated from New York University Law School and worked for Mayor Lindsay before going into his legal specialty at the Title Guarantee Company. He also worked for Midlantic Mortgage Corporation and is part of a venture to build single family homes in Montclair. Ron says hello to Tom Wasmuth,Bud Weinstein, and Mike Rie.
Dave Dawley, who rose to national prominence for his work with gangs on Chicago's West Side, has been named to the newly-created post of associate director of foundation and corporate relations at the College. Dave, who is also mini-reunion chairman for our class, will focus on soliciting funds for development projects and working with faculty on their funding proposals to foundations and corporations. A native of Westminster, Mass., Dave joined the Peace Corps and served in Honduras after graduation from Dartmouth. On his return, he earned an M.S.W. degree in community organization from the University of Michigan and went to Chicago to work for three years with the Vice Lords, an 8,000-member gang. The reduced crime rate on the West Side was attributed to this work and the experience led to a book, ANation of Lords (Doubleday, 1973). Dave entered the business world in 1975 as head of his own food company, which he sold to Pillsbury in 1982. He lives in Hanover with his daughter, Ana Bessy.
T. B. Rucker has been named to the post of managing director of Finance For Energy Limited (FFF ), a London-based investment company. Tom is also a founding shareholder of FFF, which provides medium-term project loan financing for oil and gas developments in the United States and syndicates a portion of each project loan in he Euromarkets. Tom was formerly a managing director of Canadian American Bank.
Tom Kraig is senior counsel for the Avco Corporation of Greenwich, Conn.., a. diversified company in aviation, financial services, and mobile homes. He is in charge of the aircraft engine division. Tom and Bonnie, his wife of 20 years, are both natives of Darien, Conn., and live in New Canaan with their children, Cathy, six, and Tom III, four. Bonnie has settled into motherhood after an interesting career which included staff positions in the administrations of Mayor Lindsay and Governor Rockefeller, and then a business career as chairman of the Goldmark Corporation, which pioneered long-playing records.
Massachusetts Governor Dukakis announced that Samuel Cabot III will build a new manufacturing facility in the Newburyport area. The facility will be used by Samuel Cabot Inc., a century-old paint and stain manufacturer that was induced to remain in the state by NAID, the city administration of Newburyport, the State Street Bank, and Governor Dukakis. The new Cabot Stain facility, a 90,000-square-foot, $7-million building, will be a model for others in the paint and stain field. Executive offices will remain at One Union Street, Boston.
Nearly a century old is J. Clarence Da vies Realty Company, whose current president, A1 Davies, is the sixth generation of his family in the real estate business. At's grandfather, ]. Clarence Davies Sr., was agent for the sale of the real estate holdings of the Van Cortlandt, Astor, and Morris families in the Bronx, and his father, J. Clarence Davies Jr., was commissioner of real estate and head of urban renewal for the City of New York. Al, who is president of the Institute of Real Estate Management, is one of the youngest members ever elected to the highly prestigious American Society of Real Estate Counselors.
Mike Geller has left his family business, Andrew Geller, a shoe-importing company, and set up his own firm doing the same kind of business in Manhattan. Steve Jantzen, writer/editor/teacher, is looking for a teaching or editing position as a result of the withdrawal of his principal publisher, Scholastic Magazines, from the textbook business. If you have any leads, call Steve at 201/467-4387 or write him at 62 Meadowbrook Road, Short Hills, NJ.
J. C. Stormer has been appointed Croneis Professor of Geology at Rice University. Steve Brenner has been named associate dean of graduate programs at the School of Business Administration at Portland State University. Pete Cornish has become executive vice president and creative director of the Ketchum Advertising Agency in New York after 11 years with Young and Rubicam.
Carl Maves is theater and book critic for the Peninsula Times Tribune in Palo Alto, Calif., a reporter for the Advocate, a national gay magazine, -and a teacher of copy-editing at the California Publishing Institute. A resident of San Francisco, Carl earned a Ph.D. in 19th. century American and British fiction from Stanford and published a book on Henry James, Sensuous Passion (Indiana University Press, 1973).
Bill Eichbaum Jr. is assistant secretary for environmental programs in the Maryland Department of Health and would like to hear from classmates interested in efforts to protect the Chesapeake Bay. Tom Coghlin is practicing ophthalmology in Saunderstown, R.I., and asks classmates to write him at P.O. Box 103, Saunderstown, RI 02874; phone 401/ 294-4506.
Chris Harvey is finishing up a busy year as president of the Baltimore County Medical Association and now he can spend more time with his wife Barbara, new baby Ryan Christopher, 21-month-old Brett, and three older children by his first marriage. William Harrison King of Potomac, Md., is project manager for the Navy, developing underwater weapons. Brent Cromley is practicing law with Moulton, Bellingham, Lungo and Mather in Billings, Mont.
In foreign lands, Bob Haubrich is a senior instructor in business administration at Lakeland College, Lloydminster, Alberta; KenKvistad has an independent marketing and research practice in Geneva; and DavisBrowne is still trying to help start up the Worsley Alumina Plant "in the hot (90 degrees) summer weather of western Australia."
I wish he'd send some of that heat here. It's 20 degrees in New York as I write this; on the other hand, by the time you read this, it will be a great deal warmer. Till next month.
Samuel Cabot 111 '63, left, addressed a gathering of officials at groundbreaking ceremoniesfor a new manufacturing facility in the Newburyport, Mass., area for the family-ownedCabot paint and stain firm.
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