1953
Most of us have had the experience. An answer is given, and the challenge is to find the common question. Here we go! The answer is Howie Clery, Dave Florence, Rodger Ewy, and Bob Brady. Not a single classmate came up with the correct question, including the principals. The question is, "Who were your freshman class officers?" Check the freshman green book, if you still have one. Howie was our vice president; Dave, the secretary; Rodger, the treasurer; and Bob "Red" Brady, the president.
Vice president Howie Clery of Bryn Mawr, Pa., has spent a career in business forms. He was associated with such firms as Royal McBee before buying his own company, Rapidforms. He's the chairman and CEO. The company has grown from $2 million to more than $20 million under his leadership. The growth in the use of micro-computers and a close association with software companies have been the key to this expansion. Spouse Connie is deeply involved in the Chieie Eye Institute as a member of its executive committee. This is a voluntary organization which supports eye hospitals, research, etc. Two of their sons, Howie and Dan, are graduates, of Tulane. Son Howie is employed by Rapidforms. Tulane has benefited from Connie and Howie's involvement, including their heading up the parents' fund-raising program. Daughter Jeanne is now a senior in high school and ranking tennis player in the Mid-Atlantic area. Golf is Howie's principal avocation, where he characterizes his performance as not far, but straight.
Dave Florence, our first secretary, from Rye,. N.Y., has had a career that in many ways is similar to Howie Clery's. His early career was computer systems-related, including a stint with Royal McBee. In 1969, he formed his own company, Direct Media, Inc. The focus is direct marketing with a heavy emphasis on direct mail. Their clients buy lists from Dave's firm. There is a dependency on computer-maintained mailing lists and the use .of a system to update data bases with relevant demographic information. The firm has 140 employees and 1984 sales of more than $70 million. Dave, like Howie, is chairman and CEO. In another similar vein, his oldest son and namesake is in the business with him. Dave has two younger sons. Robert is finishing his first year at the University of Vermont, and John is finishing up at Trinity Pawling, where he has excelled as a squash player. David's principal avocation is sports - skiing and racquet sports. He is trustee at Trinity Pawling and has served Dartmouth as an interviewer and class agent.
Rodger Ewy, Boulder, Colo., was our first treasurer. In his report to the class at our 25th reunion, he indicated a yen to travel and a life that was shaped to permit it. The focus was on travel and masked an interesting and rewarding vocation. Rodger is a professional photographer, engaged in a variety of interesting industrial applications. This has included photographs supporting the announcement of new IBM products, using high speed photographs in the determination of problems in automated processes, and the use of the camera in identifying industrial pollutants. Secondly, in collaboration with his wife, Donna, he has published a number of books, one of which, Preparation For Childbirth, has sold two million copies. Their new book, Teen Pregnancy, Challenge and Choices, has just been published. The yen for travel still exists and has been instilled in their offspring. Margot is employed by a tour ship which cruises the West Coast and the Pacific. Suzanne is finishing up college, majoring in foreign languages. Rodger is at the University of Colorado, and Leon will finish up high school at the end of the school year. Donna and Rodger support environmental causes in Boulder and have worked closely in support of public schools.
Robert J. Brady, La Jolla, Calif., was the president of our class. If you first failed to pick up on his name, it is understandable, for at that time he responded to the nickname "Red." Bob began law school at Georgetown immediately after college. That training was interrupted, however, and was not completed until he received a law degree from California Western Law School in 1971, In the interim period, he was an auditor, first in his home state of lowa, and then nationally, working for the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. During his travels, he worked in southern California and decided in 1967 to forego auditing for La Jolla and a law degree. He does primarily probate and trust work. Bob classified it as a simple life, but walks on the beach in that beautiful area justify a far different description. As a student, Bob was a strong churchman, and he continues that way. He has not married, although he is surrounded by family who moved from lowa to join him in California.
Class help will undoubtedly be needed to retrace our steps with additional profiles. The focus will be on College organizations in our time, and our classmates who led them. Who ran the Dartmouth? The Jack-O'-Lantern? Who were the '53 cheerleaders? Read on - the answers will be forthcoming.
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The class of 1953 was honored with , the Class-of-the-Year Award and cited as a "model for. all classes to learn from." This past year 1935 had a record-breaking 30th reunion; an imaginative and successful class newsletter and Alumni Magazine column team; a standard-setting mini-reunion program; and a continuing stream of fresh class projects.
Donald Goss '53 was one of the co-recipients of the Class-Newsletter-Editor-of-the-Year Award for 1985. He has spent 25 years in advertising, is active in church and commu- nity affairs in his hometown of Westport, Conn., and is an accomplished musician and sailor. He has served as an Alumni Fund worker; as editor of the 25th reunion year-book for 1953; as charter member and secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Band; as donor of an endowment supporting a scholarship for promising musicians; as a member of the Alumni Magazine's Editorial Board; and as a member of the Alumni Council since 1983. In his §even years as newsletter editor, he has produced more than 20 issues of " '53 Out," keeping classmates "completely informed about the state of the College and sharing detailed information and insights . . . gained at Alumni Council meetings . . . with 'modesty in success' and 'grace under pressure.' "
