1965

Twenty-four years have passed since 1961 and our first term in Hanover. That fall the minds of Americans were occupied with buying Corvairs, Falcons, and Valiants, worrying about Cuba and civil defense fallout shelters, and cheering on either Whitey Ford's Yankees or the upstart Reds in the series. On campus, we had survived the cries of "Hey, '65!", had seen "The Twist" at our first mixer, and were about to witness a memorable 15-14 come-back victory over Cornell.

The intervening period seems to have gone quite well for our class. For example, Ted Stafford reports he is now a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, serving with the Inspector General in the Pentagon. Ted has 19 years of service as an armor officer and has seen tours of duty in Germany, Vietnam, and the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Levenworth, Kans. He and his wife, Rebecca, a former United Airlines stewardess, have two children, Josephine and Edward Peary Stafford III, and are now living in Falls Church, Va. He feels the military is in relatively good condition at the present and, from his own experience, believes very sincerely in an on-campus ROTC alternative at Dartmouth. With perhaps a smile on his face, Ted also mentions that the two questions remaining with him over the years are, "Who put that damned dog in my room in the middle of the night?" and "Who put the Nature's Remedy under the icing of my cake?"

Sharing at least a portion of Ted's background is Steve Hudak,who left Hanover in 1966 for three years of military service on Okinawa and in Vietnam. Steve decided to end his career as an air force officer, however, and armed with a master's degree in civil engineering, went to work in 1970 as a civilian with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He lived in the Chicago area for approximately ten years and presently makes his home in Dumfries, Va., 35 miles south of Washington. Steve is heavily involved in the long-range management and budgeting of several major water resource projects. He and his wife, Maryanne, have two daughters and a son who Steve says is following his Dad's football tradition. Steve claims to have lost all track of the magnificent seismometer he built as a sophomore at Thayer School but swears "the thing" must still be alive and working some- where.

Another engineer from our class who claims "not to have accomplished much" is Bob Lichtenwalter. Bob joined Boeing directly out of Dartmouth and worked on both the 747 and SST projects. Although he spent five years in Phoenix with Sperry Flight Systems, the Lichtenwalters never lost contact with the Northwest and now once again call Tacoma, Wash., their home. Bob is presently working on wood research and development for Weyerhauser. He and his wife, Karen, both instrument-rated pilots, enjoy frequent opportunities for skiing with their teenaged son and daughter.

Bruce Gottschall's wife, Sue, says her husband has now officially become a "former" quarterback and confines his football activity to an occasional view from the stands. After leaving Hanover, Bruce served two years in the Peace Corps in Lima, Peru, and subsequently earned a degree in community organization from the University of Chicago. He is currently the director of Neighborhood Housing Services in Chicago and has been involved in an effort that encourages banks and other financial institutions to invest in the revitalization of inner city neighborhoods. Sue (a graduate of the place we knew as Colby Junior) adds that the Gottschall family includes four children, ranging in age from five to twelve, and that the new generation seems to have chosen swimming as their major area of athletic endeavor.

The only area of physical endeavor Mike McKelvey recalls having undertaken in recent months is the reclamation of the wilderness once intended to be his backyard in Harwinton, Conn. He describes Harwinton as a town of 4,000 people and 10,000 cows and as the center of his contented "middle-class" life. Mike was commissioned an army officer in 1965 and subsequently served two tours of duty in Vietnam, one as a MACV adviser and the other as an infantry company commander. Between visits to Southeast Asia, Mike met and married Marian, the future mother of their three children. For the eight years following his discharge in 1970, Mike worked in various personnel activities for Xerox Corporation and is presently director of employee benefits for Heublein. Although Mike didn't comment, he seems to have planned his career well, since some of us might consider the latter a relatively easy place to keep employees smiling.

That's all for now. Enjoy the autumn season, and pause for a few memories of our freshman year wherever you are. Please give us an update on what's going on in your life and any other thoughts you might like to see in our column.

Dartmouth alumnus Lucien Rhodes '65 was a recipient of a 1984 Champion-Tuck writingaward at the awards luncheon in New York in May. The award is given for "outstandingreporting that improves the public's understanding of business and economic issues." Amongthose present were, left to right, Andrew Sigler '53, T '56, chairman and CEO of ChampionInternational Corporation; D.K. Andrews of L.L. Bean; Harcourt Dodds '58, director,corporate responsibilities, Champion; Rhodes; Bill Hartley '58, Cable News Network; ColinBlaydon, dean of the Tuck School; Doug Greenwood '66, editor, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine; Barry Braverman '76; Debra Shulins '80; and Paul Doscher '66, director ofcorporate relations and executive education at Tuck.

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