1965

Last month I promised notes from classmates who were in Hanover for the Harvard weekend. Jack Heidbrink and I may overlap a bit, but better two mentions than none.

Bob Ziemian lives in Dedham, Mass., and works in Salem as an Essex County district attorney in a drug unit.

Dennis Purnell missed Saturday due to taking the series seven stockbroker's license exam - he is an insurance broker getting into the securities business and he couldn't get the testers to change the date of the six-hour exam.

Ted Bracken is still with the Consortium to Finance Higher Education, based in Washington, D.C. That must be an interesting challenge, with the costs of higher education now breaking the $60,000 mark (for four years) and heading higher.

Jim Griffiths has sold Whaleback and, while he remains on their ski patrol and will be an infrequent consultant, he plans to relax, unwind a bit, and go back to school.

For anyone planning a New England conference, contact Doug Leitch, who is in the sales part of the Waterville Valley Conference Center. Doug spends his snowy weekends ski-touring and even jumping (did I get that right?). He maintains his Dartmouth interest by making the hour-long trip to Hanover frequently and by working with the Dartmouth Club of the Lakes Region. His friend Pat Sava, also from Waterville Valley, is a consultant doing interior design for commercial clients.

Bruce Jolly of Columbus, Ind., has been treasurer of Coseo Manufacturing Corporation for about one year, for which he travels two to three days a month. He helped organize a Dartmouth Club in Indiana. His wife, Alice, a tour guide for the Columbus visitor's center, noted that Columbus is fourth in U.S. cities having buildings designed by famous architects.

John Bullock is an ophthalmologist in Dayton who was out for a Dartmouth Medical School program. He has potential future Dartmouth connections, since his 15-year-old is interested in Dartmouth, as is his five-year-old, who was heard to ask, "When does one go to college? I want to go to Dartmouth!" Obviously, John and Gretchen are model Dartmouth parents!

Rich Beams has a current Dartmouth connection, his daughter, class of '88. Rich teaches opera history and English literature at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

A1 Zern, Larchmont, N.Y., is with Morgan Stanley'in New York. He and Judy have two children and are protecting their (kids' or parents'?) interests by being active in the PTA.

More later, once I decipher the rest of my notes. Another source helps, though the College's anthropology department, from which I have plagiarized word of the following: Ray Newell, wife Joke, and daughter Gillian are in Holland where Ray has been working on Alaskan (?) archeology with A1 Dekin.

Skip Koolage is on study/research leave this year from the University of Manitoba. He and Kay, John, and Chris moved house recently. They wrote a Christmas letter on their Apple computer. Kay is still teaching grade two at Gladstone Elementary School. Skip was invited to read papers in western Australia, Iceland, and eastern Canada last year and is working on a large proposal to "continue working with native language interpreters and health care delivery." Skip, you are hereby invited to bring your family and any papers you think appropriate - copies of class newsletters, reunion notes, etc. - to Hanover for a major conference on the status of the class of 1965 on June 13-16, 1985. Bring all other Canadian classmates along with you.

Eric Engstrom, Wichita, Kans., continues to be very busy in his law practice and as Dartmouth alumni enrollment area director. He continues his numismatic work, including a number of appraisals of collections.

America's Cup racers had better watch out, since Jock Hosmer and Anne have started sending out publicity photos from Marblehead, Mass., of son Trip in yachting costume!

Thank you, anthropologists all.

From the Detroit front, Bruce Wagner has sent a letter and photographic update (see elsewhere in these pages - B.B.). Bruce was traveling through the People's Republic of China in November 1983 on a mission to promote trade between Michigan and the province of Sishuan in western .China. He dropped in on Jerry Ogden, the U.S. consul in Guangzhou (Canton). Jerry is doing very well serving our nation in the Foreign Service, having spent many years with Far Eastern posts. He has a lovely wife, Laura, and two terrific kids, Christine and Tommy.

Regarding himself, Bruce was lured to a new job in August 1981 - executive vice president of Ross Roy, Inc., a Michigan-based advertising agency which is the 30th largest U.S. agency in domestic size. He was also elected national chairman of the Wharton Alumni Association, a post that provides some very worthwhile opportunities to contribute to the well-being of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Betsy and Bruce continue to enjoy the lifestyle of beautiful Michigan with their six-year-old daughter, Sage, and three-year-old son, Alexander (who already looks like a candidate' for the rugby team).

No column would be complete without a reunion note. You should have received a "save-the-date" mailing from reunion chairman Larry Duffy, who reminds us again that June 13-16 are the dates for our 20th. The first information piece with tentative schedule, events, costs, etc., should be along shortly. Read and respond to Larry at 18 Acron Road, Brookline, MA 02146, or call him at 617/495-3486 (O) or 617/734-0712 (H).

Respond also, and generously, to the reunion gift mailings. Our goal is $350,000 from 520 donors. As you read this you have two calendar years left in which to act through January 31, 1986. Ted Atkinson, reunion gift chairman, will be in touch with you shortly with some more information; or reread BillWebster's year-end '84 letter.

Hope the new year is off to a good start - keep the faith with '65 in '85!

Bruce Wagner '65, left, visited classmate Jerry Ogden, right, who serves as U.S. consul in Guangzhou,China, in November 1983. Wagner was in China promoting trade between Michigan and the provinceof Sishuan in western China.

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