1963
OK, Olympics aficionados, which '63 captured a gold medal in the Japan games 20 years ago in 1964? Answer: track star GeraldAshworth, who was a member of the United States 400-meter relay team. Now president of his own company, General Metals and Smelting in Andover, Mass., Jerry participated in what he terms "the last of the great Olympics, free of politics, with the world at close range. It was fabulous," he recalled recently, "You could walk where you wished from one compound to another." Jerry also did some fast running that summer, helping the U.S. to a win over Poland, the Soviet Union, and France in the final race. He went on to Harvard Business School and now runs a business that's in scrap metal, commodity brokering, and lead casting, as well as long distance trucking. Jerry and Jeanne, his wife of 18 years, live in Andover with their two children, Geoffrey, 16, and Robert, 13. They like to spend their summers in Maine.
Enjoying Ashworth's glory 20 years ago was George Richardson, who attended the games in Tokyo and was reminded of the event when we spoke recently. George, a varsity hockey player, was serving in the Army at the time electronic intelligence, code interception, very hush-hush, I think. A lawyer today, George went on to the Foreign Service for two years and then to Boston University Law School. He's with Johnson, Clapp, Stone and Jones, an eight-lawyer Boston firm, and he lives in Lynn, Mass., with his wife, the former Gayle Gunderson-Raiden, a Mount Holyoke graduate, and two children, Christina, three and a half, and Susannah, 16 months.
Bill Pierce, who served in the Navy, practices law in nearby Worcester, Mass., in a two-lawyer firm, in which the other partner happens to be his dad, Franklin Pierce. Pierce and Pierce have been "country lawyers" a long time, handling most matters that come their way, unless it's technical enough to be referred. They do a lot of bankruptcy and domestic relations (divorce and adoption), but also accidents, estates, and real estate. Bill is recently divorced and shares custody of three kids Kimberly, 14, Catherine, 11, and Arthur, six. He sends his regards to Ed McCabe, an old friend who now practices law in Boston.
Up in Rochester, N.Y., Victor Poleshuck, transplanted from the New York City suburbs, enjoys the smaller city life while practicing medicine as an obstetrician-gynecologist and a teacher at the University of Rochester Medical School. Vic likes the "casual, laidback" life in a city which is also world headquarters for Xerox, Kodak, and Bausch, and Lomb. He and his wife Joyce, Smith '64, have season tickets to the Rochester Symphony, do much winter skiing in the area, and water ski in the summer on the Finger Lakes. They have two children Ellen, 15, and Laura, 13. Vic is heavy into interviewing prospective area Dartmouth students and recommends that activity highly.
Donald Apostle, a psychiatrist in Santa Rosa, Calif., took his medical degree at the University of Rochester. But he wasn't able to study under Vic Poleshuck, who was probably taking his degree at about the same time at the University of California in Irvine. Funny how we get around, and just miss each other. Donald is medical director of Brookwood Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital in Santa Rosa., a city 60 miles north of San Francisco in the wine country. Don is also on the clinical faculty of the University of California in San Francisco and works with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress. Don and his wife Connie have two children Melanie, 16, who attends St. Paul's Prep near Hanover, and Greg, 17, who will be going to college next year. The family has a cabin in the mountains in Tahoe.
Randall S.Babcock's interest in mountain climbing in the North Cascades in the North west stems from his work as professor of geology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. A native of Wenatchee, Wash., and a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Washington, Randy devotes part of his time to studying the volcanic rocks in his beloved state and part of his time to teaching. He and his wife Ann have three children Alexis, ten, Geoffrey, eight, and a little girl, Eirian, four months.
Also active in the north country are BobHaubrich, senior instructor in business administration at Lakeland College, Lloydminster, Alberta, and Brent Cromley, a lawyer in Billings, Mont. Bob is planning to settle in Lloydminster because he likes the snow, ice sports, and the Northern Lights, which are right overhead. He still drums in dance bands, too! Bob and his wife Brenda have a son Erick, ten, and a daughter Ariel, three. Brent likes to run and write computer programs and articles about home computers, which is his hobby. He and his wife Dorothea spent last summer in France with their three children Brent Jr.,14, Giano, ten, and Taya Rose, five.
Ken Kvistad is in Europe permanently and invites classmates to visit him in Geneva, where he has an independent marketing and research practice. He and Milli have three children Krishna, Kirk, and Karen.
Tim Dodd, a lawyer in Evansville, Ind., converted his old DCR radio experience into a TV show on the local Public Broadcasting System. A graduate of the Indiana University School of Law, Tim does civil and criminal trial work.
Bob Humboldt is executive vice president of Poly-Foam Inc., a plastics manufacturer in Plymouth, Minn. He recently moved four women (wife Joyce and three daughters Sue, 17, Karen, 15, and Tricia, 13) from a house with one bathroom to a house with three. "No more showering at midnight," he says. Joyce just graduated from the University of Minnesota in the top seven percent of her class. Bob likes to run with his dog Bandit and play tennis with his family.
Steve Frank has been named group comptroller at U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh, where he will be responsible for the financial affairs of manufacturing and engineering subsidiaries and divisions that do an aggregate of about $3 billion. Steve had been president of the U.S. Steel Credit Corporation, which engages in equipment lending and real estate construction financing. A Michigan M.B.A. and Harvard Advanced Management graduate, Steve plays golf and tournament bridge. He and Nancy have two children Kerry, 13, and Derek, ten.
Steve Rosen is an institutional securities salesman with Goldman Sachs and Company in Northbrook, I11., outside of Chicago. AlanDavies was a speaker at a program on "Nego- tiating Joint Venture Financing and Asset Management for the '80s" sponsored by the Institute of Real Estate Management at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. The program honored Donald Trump, New York developer and president of the New Jersey Generals football team.
Jerome O. Herlihy and his wife Mary Ann had their first son last fall. Mark Rutkowski, who had lost touch with the College since his student days, managed to get back last summer and said, "It felt good!" A psychiatric social worker near Washington, D.C., Mark sends regards to freshman football teammates Bill King, Mike Leone, Vaughn Skinner, Bruce Coffey, and Phil Fisher.
The death this winter of Richmond Lattimore '26 reminded me of a course called Classical Civilization (Classy Civ) and the marvelous Lattimore translations of Homer we were exposed to. Those were precious days. Who knows when most of us will read Homer again or run 400-yard relays or engage in less heralded pleasures? But we' can remember and remember well. Till next month.
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