1968

As you all noted last month, news was sparse; therefore no column. Quite honestly, my Big Green spirit was sagging with no word from the class and no time to solicit news due to a heavy surgical

schedule and assuming the position of president of staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center. Fortunately, this weekend in Hanover provided lots of news and restored my spirits.

First of all, I ran into Jim Tonkovich at Blunt Alumni Center. Tonks notes that he assumed the role of reunion coordinator for the College. Meanwhile, Wendy is busy acting and coordinating activities at the Hop. They use their few free moments to rehabilitate their home in Wilder, including the planning of a solar addition. On the way to the Colgate game, I stopped by Topliff Hall where Steve Calvert and I roomed during our junior year. I visited Diane Fisk '89, a delightful Bennington student whom I had the pleasure of interviewing last spring. It really restored my faith in the college to see the enthusiasm which had already transformed Di and her roommate into Big Green boosters. My enthusiasm persisted right through a football loss to a very strong Colgate squad. The weather was magnificent.

Cocktails brought us together at the Drake room. Skip Waterhouse mentioned he was moving to a new house, still within Hartford, next week. He complimented the class on its first place showing in the Alumni Fund and noted that our goal has been raised by $10,000 (still under our present year's performance). He also mentioned he sees Dave King at the Alumni Club meetings in Hartford. Dave now serves as assistant dean at the University of Bridgeport School of Law. Skip visited Rich Miller in Rochester recently; Rich is a researcher (Ph.D.) at the University of Rochester, studying nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.

John Everett gave me this capsule summary of his recent past: "I live in Scarborough, Maine, on the marshes. It's idyllic but for the very big mosquitoes. But it's quiet; I get to watch the seasons change and the birds migrate. After Dartmouth, I was enticed into the U.S. Navy. Having little to do afterwards, I went to law school at the University of Maine Law School in Portland. I tried prosecuting in St. Johnsbury, Vt., and then Belfast, Maine. Now I'm a staff attorney for the Social Security Administration Hearings Office in Portland. I try to spend most of my time biking, sailing, playing hockey, cross-country skiing, and running occasionally. I just came back from a wonderful trip to Santa Monica and Santa Barbara with Steve Carley, Bruce Hamilton '69, and Sean Fry '70. A wonderful reunion with them and their families."

Also in attendance at our joint '68 and '69 'tails party were John Frondorf '69 and Mike Pavell '69 with their spouses; a good time was had by all.

Tonks passed along this item from the '34 newsletter: Hank Warner writes that son Peter Warner, "our movie, T.V., and film director, has bought a house in Santa Monica just having completed a very successful year. He directed three of the five episodes of his show 'Moonlighting.' " Jack Noon, in his magnum opus which you all received recently, wrote that LarryHall was in Seoul, Korea. A letter from Larry announced that he will be returning shortly to New York where he will be working in the energy and minerals division of Chemical Bank. He invites classmates to visit him in his new digs in Westport, Conn. Larry sent along a slide showing David Warner '69, Larry, and Nor Coquillard '74 at Dragon Valley Ski Resort in Korea last March. He also notes that the 15 Dartmouth grads in Korea gather periodically despite the lack of a formal Dartmouth Club. In concluding, Larry mentioned that the Ledyard Canoe Club was kayaking through the Hanryu Waterway on Korea's southern coast and their exploits would be recorded in an upcoming National Geographic.

Harold Ripley '29 sent along a clipping detailing George Spivey's rise to chairmanship of the careers department for grades seven through 12 at Falmouth (Mass.) High School. George will be responsible for teacher evaluation, budgeting, and supplies for the careers program, which includes industrial arts, home economics, and self contained classrooms. He will teach three periods a day in a self-contained classroom. George attended Rutgers Law and then obtained a master's degree in education from Harvard. He taught at Barnstable High before becoming principal of the Philadelphia Avenue School in Egg Harbor, N.J. George and Ruth now live in East Falmouth, Mass., and have a daughter, Monique, who is a sophomore at Falmouth High.

Many if not all of us will turn 40 in the upcoming year. If you haven't taken time to update the class recently, write yourself a note to send me your thoughts on or about that big day.

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