1963

If it seems like a long time ago that we were hitting softballs or wandering half-dazed (speak for yourself, HZ) on the green, it is also apparent that the many early starters among us are reliving those days through their kids who have entered or are about to enter an institution of higher learning, be it in Hanover or elsewhere. Others of us are reexperiencing the teenage and pre-adoles-cent years and still more have just become or are about to become fathers again.

Dom Carney reports from Wasilla, Alaska, that his son, D.J., rooms with the son of Denis Eagle, both members of the Dartmouth class of '88. Jim Davies reports that after 20 years and only two trips to Hanover, he now finds himself making frequent trips with a son in that same class, as does Steve Carlotti from Barrington, R.I., for the same reason. Tom Perry sends his daughter, Chris, to Dartmouth, while his son, Scott, is a junior at Colby College, along with Charlie Jester, son of Tom Jester, who is a freshman at the Maine college.

In the teenage department, Daryl Erickson, director of a hospital in A1 Ain, United Arab Republic, has two children, Robin and Mark, in high school there. Michael Wolland, a Mamaroneck, N.Y. veterinarian, has two children, Scott, 16, and Elyse, 14.

Frank Wohl, who recently started a law firm in New York for civil and criminal litigation, has a nine-year-old daughter, Bessy. And Jay Shumaker, chief of gastroenterology at Newton Wellesley Hospital near Boston, has three children, ages 14, ten and seven. John Bell, member of the management consulting firm of Temple, Barker, and Sloane in Lexington, Mass., has a son, David, in high school in Harvard, Mass., and a daughter, Tammy, who just started Bucknell College. Bill Hancock, an ophthalmic surgeon in Seattle, has a daughter Sarah, six, and a son Jeffrey, 11, an A.A.U. medal winner in karate. Jeff Lapic did it the easy way, acquiring an instant family of three teenage daughters to go along with his 14-year-old son, when he married Gerri Caldarola last year in San Francisco. In Houston, Bob Baker's son, Adam, is 14, and daughter Lara is a Dartmouth freshman.

Greg Cooke's wife, Heidi, gave birth last December 7 to Jesse Elizabeth, seven pounds, 11 ounces; brother Joshua Gregory, five, is understandably proud. Greg, an architect, started a new firm, The Architects Group, in Rosemont, Pa., not far from his home in Gladyne. Heidi is a free-lance commercial artist.

Another class at Dartmouth had Dr. Seuss, but we have our own adopted contributer to children's literature in Rosemary Wells, award-winning author and illustrator, and wife of Tom Wells, a New York architect. Noisy Nora and The Man In The Woods are among her best acclaimed.

I was reminded of the classic James Bond movie scene when I spoke recently to JohnBergman the one in which 007 visits the room where his exotic cars, guns, and other spy equipment are being manufactured. John is not quite in that business, but his Blair Tool and Machine Corporation, manufacturers of specialized or "oddball" machines, is one of the last of its type in metropolitan New York. John's father became an equity partner in the firm when it was already 30 years in operation in 1925. The senior Bergman became president, the title John now holds. Located in College Point, Queens, an industrial area in New York City, Blair Tool and Machine makes machines that make bubblegum, Lilly Tulip foam cups, tire valves, brushes, you name it. The plant follows a tradition of craftsmanship in that neighborhood, not far from where Steinway built pianos (Astoria), Tiffany made lamps (Corona), and Gloria Swanson made movies. John commutes from Huntington Bay on Long Island where he lives with his wife, Joanne, an interior decorator, and three children, Eric, 16, Laura, 15, and Jeanne, 13.

Congratulations to Maj. David Goodwillie, just returned to Fort Devans after three years in Germany, on the birth of his second daughter, Susan Pepperell Goodwillie. First daughter Tricia is now 11.

Globetrotter Rob Greenwood is back from his fifth tour of Great Britain with his Sun Ergos theatrical company; Sandy Sanders teaches agricultural economics in Africa for Purdue; and Peter Stevenson is vice president and general manager of Bankers Trust Company in Bahrain. Pete Jennings is off to foreign lands for some relaxation after 12 years on the corporate ladder, and DeweyCrawford reportedly is hobbling after a 3:56 time in the Chicago/America's Marathon, his first.

A1 Palmer practices antitrust law and litigation as a partner in Washington, D.C., for San Francisco-based Morrison and Forester, and John Reinertsen is with Dean Witter Reynolds, investment bankers, in New York. Richard Borofsky, clinical psychologist, directs the Boston Gestalt Institute; Bill Cleveland, professor of modern Middle Eastern and North African history at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University, will publish Islam versus Imperialism (University of Texas Press); and Ralph Hambrick teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University.

In the national media recently: Lou Gerstner, chairman of the executive committee of American Express, profiled in Forbes. MorrisKramer, partner in the law firm of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher and Flom, quoted in Advertising Age on the role of public relations in proxy fights and tender offers; and Johannesvon Trapp, whose family and newly rebuilt lodge were profiled in this magazine and in the Sunday New York Times travel section. And we start again with "do"...

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