1963

Having spent a beautiful Labor Day weekend in the farmlands of Pennsylvania, I can see why many of our classmates, including Tom McLaughlin and Cotter Rainey, have chosen to settle there. The Keystone State has such curious customs as giving the other driver the right-of-way and taking time out to help a lost traveler. These polite customs are often displayed elsewhere, but Pennsylvania seems to have perfected them.

Anyway, Tom McLaughlin might relocate but would rather stay in or close to the state where he has spent all of his post-Dartmouth years as an executive specializing in human resources for Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Tom took early retirement this year, following his most recent assignment as assistant to vice president, public affairs, serving as chief administrative and personnel manager for the department. A native of Huntington, N.Y., Tom joined Bethlehem in 1963 as a trainee. As a labor relations specialist, he was chief administrative and personnel manager for the industrial relations department. He later served as director of benefits planning, including Bethlehem's savings plan, health care coverages, pensions, and insurance. Fresh from a week of mountain climbing in the Catskills, Tom is eagerly seeking an in-house or consulting position in human resources, particularly labor relations, employee benefits, and personnel. You can reach him at 536 Flint Hill Road, Hellertown, PA 18055, 215/838-0959.

Cotter Rainey lives not far away in Allentown, Pa., where he has settled into his new position as director of marketing services for Caloric Corporation, a Raytheon subsidiary which manufactures brand name kitchen appliances including Modern Maid, Caloric, Glenwood, Sunray, and Wellbuilt, which Cotter says is the number-one seller in New York. He has spent most of his life in this field, having worked 10 years for Tappan ranges in Mansfield, Ohio, his native state, where he had returned to get his bachelor's degree from Ashland College in 1965 in Ashland, Ohio. Prior to his new position at Caloric, Cotter was with Tentex Products, Inc., of Nashville, Tenn., makers of outdoor gas barbecue grills and built-in sheetmetal fireplaces. Cotter believes the future of the kitchen appliance industry may lie with large diversified companies, such as Raytheon's ownership of Caloric, as the market is well saturated. There will always be a need for these products, though. Cotter puts them to good use with four children: Lisa, 17, and David, 15, from his first marriage, and Scott, 16, and Jamey, 15, acquired from his second marriage with Judy, formerly a compliance manager in the securities industry and now employed at AT&T in Pennsylvania. Cotter plays golf and enjoys home repairs and is becoming active in the Dartmouth Club of Lehigh Valley as well as actively following the football team when it journeys to Philadelphia or Princeton.

Bruce Deery is also active in the Dartmouth Club, this one in Sarasota, Fla., which has more than 100 members. Bruce's oldest son, Tod, is a freshman at the University of New Hampshire. His middle son, Scott, is interested in Rollins College, where Dean Seymour is President Seymour, and his youngest son, Cam, wants the Big Green. Now that's what I call setting goals.

John Westwater of Los Angeles gave his daughter, Laura, a tenth grader, a taste of the Granite State and sent her to a six-week summer program at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., only a few blocks from the home of David Bunting, who kept an eye on her for John.

Also out of the West Coast, VincentDiFiglia left the office of the City Attorney of San Diego to join Schall, Boudreau, and Gore there to do plaintiff's personal injury work and medical malpractice. Dick Danziger is head of the allergy division at the naval hospital in San Diego and was recently medical advisor for an amphibious task force in South Korea. He plans to return to the Orient, specifically Tokyo, Okinawa, and Seoul. If you know of any classmates in those areas, contact Captain Richard Danziger MC, USN, 3211 Erie Street, San Diego, CA 92117, or call 619/276-3263 (home) or 619/233-2304 (office).

More news from the West. Bud Weinstein has been named director of the Center for Enterprising in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and Dave Cook has joined R.W. Webb Winery in Tuscon as director of marketing. Jim Page of Sandy, Mont., saw his daughter, Jenny, graduate from Dartmouth this year. Heidi, a junior at the University of Colorado, is studying in Japan, wife Ginny is taking up social work, and Jim Jr., a high school student, chooses alpine skiing over nordic for the present.

Ernie Torres has been named an assistant vice president of the Aetna Life and Casualty Company of Hartford, Conn. He was formerly a Rhode Island Superior Court justice, Republican state representative, and president of the town council in East Greenwich, R.I. Dave Bowman has moved with his family from Mexico City to 902 Kennamer, Huntsville, AL 35801, 205/534-8014, and invites all friends and classmates to come visit. Hope you caught Paul Binder, ringmaster of the Big Apple Circus, on educational TV this summer when they performed with the Boston Pops. Till next month.

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