1966

Returning to Hanover in the fall always brings a sense of excitement. There is the anticipation of fall classes, a new football season (hopefully better than last), and new faces on campus. For this September weekend the nucleus of the class executive committee met in Hanover prior to the Princeton game (we were worse than the score indicated) to complete unfinished business left over from reunion weekend. Steve Lanfer led the meeting.

The first thing we decided was that the class executive committee needed broader representation. Names were suggested, and I hope by next report I can give you that information (no one's been asked yet). The hope is that with an active class executive committee, we can maintain the momentum we've begun as a class over the past few years, undertake class projects, hopefully organize mini-reunions, and point to a record-breaking 25th reunion six years from now.

The second item on the agenda was to determine class officers, as all those who have served for the past five years expressed a desire to take a break, so to speak, and let new faces and new energies take over. That being the case, the new officers are: president, Steve Lanfer; secretary, Charles Vernon; treasurer, Dave Johnston; head class agents, JohnPearson and Tom Lips; mini-reunion chairman, Jack Stebs; class chaplain, Budge Gere.

Let me be the first to give my support for these new class officers and a round of snaps for Terry Lowd, Paul Babcock, and Hector Motroni and Steve Lanfer, who have so ably led our class over the past five years.

As to our new class secretary, I hope you all will give Chuck the same level of support you have given me over the last five years. I have enjoyed being secretary if for no other reason that that it has allowed me to get to know more of you better. But it is a job that needs to be handled by others with different views, different acquaintances, better skills. Let me give you Chuck's address, so you can deluge him with news: 28 Beckwith Drive, Windsor, CT 06095.

Now for my last bits of news. Corporate promotions continue for Joe Hafner, who in addition to his post as president and chief executive officer for Rivianna Foods in Houston, Tex., has been appointed vice president of Rivianna's parent, Colgate-Palmolive. Bob Carter has struck out on his own, or at least with five other friends, and has purchased Comart Associates, Inc., a Manhattan- based advertising agency, specializing in marketing promotion and multi-media communications. Bob got his M.B.A. from Columbia after graduation and joined the Aniforms division of Comart in 1979, having worked previously for P. Lorillard Company, and Doyle, Dane, Bernbach advertising. And in a little clipping in TheWall Street Journal, I noted that DeanSpatz was named a director of Weigh- Tronix, Inc., a manufacturer of industrial weighing equipment in Fairmont, Minn.

Best wishes for the holidays. Best wishes to Chuck. And thanks to you, the class of 1966.

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