1959

According to an article in the January 21 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Bob Watson, owner of Lou's Restaurant, unwittingly caused somewhat of a flap in Hanover and its environs. The restaurant's walls have been the resting place of a veritable gallery of pictures, many if not most of which pre-dated our arrival on campus. Depicted there were the likenesses of prominent local businessmen and town officials, as well as popular professors and renowned coaches. Bob's mistake was not in removing the pictures so he could give the walls the fresh coat of paint they deserved. It was in his failure to replace them! Many of the local patrons, some of whom may have harbored secret aspirations of making that gallery themselves one day, could not abide the seeming aplomb with which these time-tested treasures had been "stuffed." They made themselves heard, so Bob put the gallery's fate to a vote of his patrons, who expressed a reported two to one preference for its restoration. According to the Journal article, Bob plans to reduce the original pictures, reframe them, and institute a new "in memoriam" section. He is reported to have discovered that while he has title to Lou's, he doesn't really own it. Bob is quoted as having said, "It's really the town's restaurant. I'm just the latest caretaker of the place." Those of us who do not read the Journal as often as we perhaps should can thank both Jack Nason and John Ferries for having called the article to our attention.

Dr. Ken Williams was featured in the December 13, 1984, issue of The Ambler (Pa.) Gazette as "Citizen of the Week" for his work in the treatment of alcoholism. Ken was recently appointed as director of Addiction Treatment Services at Northwestern Institute of Psychiatry in Fort Washington, Pa., just outside Philadelphia. Having concentrated since 1968 on the treatment of alcoholism, Ken is extremely well qualified to assume his new duties. He has been a medical consultant to the Governor's Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Pennsylvania, as well as to the state's Alcohol Highway Safety Program. In addition, he has lectured throughout the country to both clinical and community organizations on the medical and preventive aspects of alcoholism and related drug abuse problems. The Gazette quotes Ken as having said that alcoholism is a growing problem, and that the fewer than 1,000 doctors concentrating in this special field of medicine are not enough. Ken earned his M.D. degree at the University of Louisville, and completed his post-graduate training in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, at YaleNew Haven Hospital, and at the Yale University School of Medicine. His wife, Cynthia, is a nurse. The Williamses have a son, John, and a daughter, Elizabeth, and reside in Reading, Pa.

After having graduated from American University (then known as American International College) in 1959, Tom L'Esperance, who was always a much-better-than-average tennis player, enrolled in OCS and found himself stationed four months later in Hawaii! He also served in the Mediterranean. For the past ten years, Tom has been an agent with the Equitable in San Diego. He says he found both the Mediterranean climate and the California lifestyle agreeable to him.

Ron Kehoe, a 1962 Harvard Law graduate, concentrates on civil litigation, both trial and appellate, with the distinguished Boston law firm of Warner and Stackpole. As he mentioned in our reunion yearbook, he was pleased to find the practice of law to be more fun than law school. As a former member of the '59 WDCR directorate, Ron admits to no regrets at having chosen a career in law over one in broadcasting. Still, he says that he and other 's9ers in that WDCR group and their wives continue to meet. For example, since our 25th reunion, the group met at a convivial dinner party at the home of Bob Johnson in Fairfield, Conn. Bob, who earned a master of arts in teaching at Brown University in 1964, has been teaching for the last 22 years at one of the country's finer public schools. He found time to work on the Dartmouth Third Century Fund and has served on the board of directors of the Dartmouth Club in Bridgeport, Conn. The group also enjoyed dinner at the Manhattan home of Ariel Halpern on Central Park West. After graduating from Tuck in 1960, Ariel put in six months at Fort Dix. After five years as a security analyst, he concentrated in investment management. He finds his job as partner with the Manhattan investment management firm of Newberger and Berman "demanding, yet stimulating and constantly challenging." The occasion for the gathering at the Halperns' was to celebrate the promotion of another former member of the WDCR directorate, Jon Cohen '60, to partnership at Goldman, Sachs, and Company. H. Lee Ambrose happily updates us that on last Thanksgiving Day, he and his lovely date for our 25th reunion, Kathryn Martin, were married on Cape Cod. Lee was recently appointed to the Board of Overseers of Hopkins Center/Hood Museum. While attending that group's first meeting last October during the College's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Orozco murals, Lee had a chance to look over the shoulders of his sons, Kit '86 and Tim '88.

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