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A bonus of extending summer-long hospitality to three members of the class of 1986 was the opportunity to meet Paul Denecke's daughter, Heidi, who has been living in San Francisco for almost a year and was dating one of my resident worker/scholars. In turn, that provided information of Paul and his peregrinations, which have been neat, if not gaudy. Arriving in Minneapolis more than 25 years ago, Paul met and married Diana, a University of Wisconsin graduate, who was then employed by General Mills in public relations. The union has produced not only Heidi, a 1984 graduate of the University of Colorado, now employed in San Francisco by a temporary employment business, but Daniel, 15 years of age, a high school sophomore and a first-rate guitarist in his own rock 'n roll band. Paul has been employed by Carson, Perie, and Scott, a conglomerate with holdings in various enterprises. He is a sales manager of a subsidiary engaged in wholesale carpet sales. The word is that Paul looks forward to retiring in approximately three years and spending his time between condominiums which he owns in Sarasota, Fla., and San Diego, Calif. Spending winters in Sarasota and summers in San Diego has a certain logical symmetry to it in the evolution of the kid from New Rochelle.

Bill Chapman reports from Stamford, Conn., that Juanita and he attended their third consecutive graduation in Hanover last June when their sons Tim and Jim graduated from Tuck School with distinction and as Tuck Scholars. They are members of the class of 1984 at the College. Bill's oldest son, also named Bill, received his degree in 1983 and has now completed two years at the Dartmouth Medical School. All three of the men graduated magna cum laude, and were elected to Phi. Beta Kappa. In addition, all three lettered for three years on the swimming and diving team, of which Tim was cocaptain in 1983. Bill was the diving coach for both the men's and women's teams, while Jim provided swimming coach Ron Keenhold with assistance, and Tim performed consulting work with the DCAC as part of his Tuck School program. Bill was hired by McKinsey and Company in Cleveland, and Jim is associated with Banker's Trust in New York City. Classmate Bill treated the graduation of Tim and Jim like a mammoth pay raise; in his words, "It so overwhelmed me that I up and retired from General Electric." He says that it was "all money very well spent." Bill also makes the point that he learned more of Dartmouth through the activities of his sons than he did as a student himself, which from my personal hindsight is understandable.

Speaking of the cost of a Dartmouth education, we ought to be pleased to learn that the 1985 Alumni Fund produced a total class contribution of $91,638 or 108.8 percent of the class goal of $90,049. Under the leadership of Burt Proom, we enjoyed a 65.5 percent class participation, exceeding our 65 percent goal. The attainment of both our participation and dollar goals gave us first place in Group IV of the Green Derby competition, probably our first winning season since Henry Cabot Lodge was vice president of the United States (trivia reference). Let's hear it for Burt Proom and those regional class agents - you're all winners.

Remember Fritz Alexander, who played center on the football team our freshman year? Fritz later became a lawyer, and was elected to the New York State Supreme Court. Last January he was named to a full term on the New York State Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state. In May, our own Sam Smith had the pleasure of presenting Fritz with the first alumni award of the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association at a reception at the Dartmouth/Yale Club in New York City. The award is a Revere Bowl, which Sam described as "similar, though less massive, than the official Wentworth Bowl presented to our College at its earliest beginning by Governor Wentworth of New Hampshire." The Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association was established in 1972, and Fritz was its first president.

Also in May, Paul Ungar, attorney and son of Skip and Manya Ungar, was married to the former Karyn Prestridge. There's not much more I can tell you about the wedding until I see Skip in Hanover, which I expect to do during fall mini-reunion. Thanks, to President McLaughlin, Frank Smallwood. '51, and Professor Douglas Yates, I'll be spending two weeks, October 5-19, at the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, lecturing to public policy and government classes, as well as to the Daniel Webster Society, Tuck School, and Hillel.

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