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Dartmouth Trustee Bob Field has been named interim vice president and treasurer of the College, replacing Paul Paganucci '53, who resigned to accept an executive position with W.R. Grace Company. Bob will serve until Paganucci's permanent replacement has been named. Incidentally, the Alumni Council's nominating committee has recommended that Bob be named to another five-year term. There were some early rumblings that an alumnus from New Jersey may contest the reappointment.
While Christmas shopping in Boston, I nearly bumped into (literally) Dr. Waldo"Doc" Fielding, who was on a similar mission in the neighborhood. Doc achieved critical acclaim for his role last fall in The Man Who Came to Dinner, staged by the Walpole (Mass.) Footlighters. And now Doc is set to play the Big Daddy role in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for the Winthrop (Mass.) Playmakers the last two weekends in February and the first weekend in March. He is growing a beard for the part. It's all part of his plan to cut back on his obstetrics practice and devote more time to the theater.
John Hyde checked in right after New Year's and disclosed that he'd spent Christmas in Los Angeles after visiting a daughter in New Mexico. En route, he stopped off in Bisbee, Ariz., and visited with his old Tri-Kap roommate, Jim Evans, whom he had not seen in nearly 30 years. Jim is a retired educator. John says he was smitten with New Mexico; he's going back in a 27-foot trailer in March for a climbing, camping, and picture-taking expedition.
Last November, Paul Young stopped off in Concord en route to Hanover from Boston, and we had a delightful lunch together. Just the other day he sent me a recipe for bourbon French toast, which I'm going to try at the earliest opportu- nity. Along with the recipe, Paul included a newsletter from Margaret and HowieLeavitt, who moved last summer from Washington, D.C., to Amherst, Mass., where Howie is working on a plan for a National Council on Global Perspectives in Professional Education. Margaret has given up her post as editor of Clubwoman magazine, a publication of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
Doug Greenwood '66, editor of the Alumni Magazine, wrote in the September issue last year that his father's best friend, "a late member of the class of '43" drove him to Dartmouth from his home in Gardner, Mass., after Greenwood graduated from high school. Church Leonard asked Greenwood to identify his father's friend. Turns out it was Chet Roche, who died in Gardner in December 1983.
Dr. Bob Alesbury reports that he has given up his obstetrics and gynecology practice in New Hartford, N.Y., and that he and Nan have moved to Yarmouthport, Mass., to be nearer their children and 13 grandchildren.
An item in The Wall Street journal reports that John Puelicher, chairman and chief executive officer of Marshall and Ilsley Corporation, a Milwaukee, Wis., bank holding company, has assumed the additional title of president. John has been with Marshall and Ilsley since 1946.
Frank Hartmann, a member of the Athletic Council (DCAC), had to drive frantically from New Jersey to Hanover on December 28 for a seven-and-a-half-hour meeting at which the DCAC confirmed the firing of football coach Joe Yukica Subsequently, it was agreed Yukica will coach the team this year and then resign. The night before the meeting, Frank had agreed to sing the national anthem (in French and English) at a Meadowlands hockey game.
Nora Graham, George Graham's wife, underwent a hip replacement operation January 2 at Mary Hitchcock Hospital. She reports the arthritis pain in her right hip already has subsided, but full recovery will take six to nine weeks. She and George had to cancel a planned trip to Sicily.
For animal lovers who follow such things, Special Alumni Services Director Nancy Elliott has a 10-month-old red Cairn terrier named Cassandra, replacing Daphne who died a year ago.
Elsewhere in this issue or an upcoming one there should be an obituary for classmate Paul Hanlon, who died of cancer Christmas Eve in Portland, Ore.
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