1955

1800 Valley Road Newton Square, PA 19073

There's nothing like diversity sprung from a common experience on the Hanover Plain.

After Dartmouth Ev Borgeshani headed for Boston to get his master's at Boston University and then his D.D.S. by studying both at Penn Medical School and Dental School. Between that and four years in the army in Heidelburg, Germany, serving as a doctor, he finally settled down in suburban Philadelphia in oral and maxillo-facial surgery (or for those of us with a different education, as a plastic surgeon primarily involved with sports, taking care of problems from the neck up). As the team oral surgeon for the Philadelphia Flyers Hockey Club, he attends every game, not only because he loves hockey, but to be readily available for a high stick or a flying puck. He is also a consultant with the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team. Ev serves as chief of his service at both Bryn Mawr Hospital and Pennsylvania Hospital and has the happy fortune to combine the love of sports and an enthusiasm for medicine in the same career. Pretty good for a hockey player from Duxbury, Mass. Ev indicated that the real satisfaction, though, is his service as a professor of oral surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught for 20 years. One of Ev's greatest honors, however, came in high school when he was selected by his classmates as the most daring (also skinniest) to slip through the bars defending Plymouth Rock, to paint the rock a bright red. Ev said it did take the town a long time to get the paint off. (No wonder the rock is getting smaller.)

This combination of abilities shows up also in Jim Alexander, professor of history at the University of Georgia at Athens, who recently became a certified track official (Southeastern Conference and NCAA). He is also at work on the history of 14th century cultural patronage. (There's a combination.) All that and a daughter who graduated from high school with a 3.9 G.P.A. and is off to Denison University.

Walt Boden is another Georgia man, having moved to Atlanta over 15 years ago to go into industrial and commercial real estate the type you can invest in (or at least until the new tax bill kicks in). Having been raised in New Orleans, Walt didn't have to learn a new language. He and Janet, also from his hometown, have two sons, Bill, who got his M.B.A. from Emory and is also in the real estate business, and Rick, a medical student at the University of Georgia. The Bodens are going through that new state with the kids away from home. (It seems we're never through adjusting.)

Ed Willi gets credit for being one of the class's most decisive men. He met his wife, Cecilia, during his navy days when his ship pulled into Satiago, Chile, for liberty and she was his blind date. Cecilia made a real impression because after Ed got back to the States, he invited her to the States for what was presumably a longer date than an evening. She arrived with a chaperone and obviously made a good impression, for Ed ended up going back down to Chile to marry her at the first opportunity. As Cecilia says, while she doesn't recommend the speed, it's been wonderful. This also gives them great credentials for going down to Chile to import garlic and all those other things than ripen six months out of sync with California, both countries having a similar climate.

Frank and Nancy Carleton headed for a vacation in Japan to be guided by their daughter, Amy, who just completed a year of studying there in Nagoya. They enjoyed spending most nights in homes of Japanese friends a wonderful change of pace. Frank noted that visiting Hiroshima was a chilling experience.

Larry Veator might have that opportunity on a frequent basis. He has just been appointed president of the Pacific Division of W.R. Grace & Company's Industrial Chemical Group. Larry joined Grace in 1960, becoming controller for the Overseas Chemical Division in 1968 and a Grace corporate vice president in 1978. One suspects that with all the travel, home looks better and better.

Paul Zimmerman headed for the power center to practice law in Washington, D.C. He specializes in trade association, insurance, arbitration, and litigation work. Paul and Margot have three children Jeff '81, now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan; John, Columbia '83, back from two years with the Peace Corps in Nepal; and Julie, a senior at Cornell.

Despite all the diversity our class displays, it's nice to see Al Murray with his son, Jon, class of '89, and Al's father, Warren '27, all together in Hanover. Al and Carolyn can now come back frequently, for Jon was goalie on the J.V. hockey team (not bad for a fellow from suburban New York City). The Murrays have an older son, Tom, Bates '84, and a younger son, Peter, now a senior in high school.

Nice group nice diversity.