1968

"Back in the saddle again" should be the theme song of your bicycle-racing scribe. I missed last month's column, my patients, and vacation this summer due to multiple fractures sustained after impact with a large dog. Fully recovered, I'm back writing, cycling and operating.

Here in Bennington we've had a major public school scandal. The administration of our school district set up a continuing education program for teachers and administrators with courses which never met, yet credits were granted via Castleton State College. Fortunately, Boyd Barrick, assistant academic dean at Castleton, was on the job, reviewing the courses and transcripts and has corrected the problem. Boyd, a religion major, left Dartmouth for the U. of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in religion, and then taught in several colleges in Ohio. He returned to Castleton in 1984 with his wife, Virginia, and two daughters; he misses teaching but enjoys administration. Having been on both sides of faculty-administration disputes, he notes that friction is endemic between the two power groups on campus.

Bill Farrier writes of major life changeshaving been an active Sierra Clubber, he is starting his own recreation business in Oakland. Bill writes from a creativity seminar in Lake Tahoe that he enjoys hiking, sailing, and doing recreation programming for singles in the Sierra Club and other groups. He has finally met "Ms. Right," a public health nurse with a delightful 7-year-old son. Bill asks for news of Warren Regelmann, Bob Haslach, PaulBoymel, and Allen Skean.

My last card from Warren arrived from the Panama Canal as his family was escaping the Minneapolis winter. He continues his immunology research studying rheumatic fever. Since that condition has largely disappeared in the U.S., Warren road trips to Cairo, where the disease is endemic.

Bob Haslach, a multilingual communications expert, remains at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington as information officer and assistant for cultural affairs. It's a tough life keeping up with the Washington social scene, but Bob feels his Big Green background helps. He publishes the Benelux Report, a newsletter update of Benelux news for academics in the U.S. His book, Nishu No Kaza,Hare a chronicle of the Dutch code breakers' success at unraveling the Japanese World War II codes, has been published in Holland and is being considered for American publication. His wife, Linda Allison, is a chamber concert singer, and they have two children, Reed, nine, and Robin, six.

I'll try for news of Paul and Allen next month.

Gary Hobin took time out to write of his move to the U.S. Embassy in Amman. He managed to stop over at the Vietnam Memorial en route and was deeply moved. Liz, Gary, and Brian (11) are scheduled to stay at the embassy for a year and plan on a summer 1987 return to the States. Gary plans on attending the 20th, assuming he isn't assigned another overseas post.

Jim Tonkovich has a new position in Hanover. After resigning from the Alumni Office he has been named associate director of development at the Thayer School, where his task is to develop corporate and foundation support. He and Wendy are pleased to be staying in Hanover, and Tonks hopes to lend more help to class activities since he's no longer overseeing the entire Alumni Office.

Tonks notes that the '68 study was deluged by last minute replies; the fall minireunion is being postponed to allow Stan Rosenberg time to correlate the new data. Look for a newsletter from Jack Noon with the new date.

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