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George Drawbaugh has been successfully self-employed in the insurance business in New Jersey since 1962. He specializes in insured and self-insured employee benefit programs. His son Chuck, 21, a senior at Gettysburg College, will join him in the business upon graduation. Another son, Dave, 16, plays high school varsity football both on offense (fullback) and defense (end). The threesome raced their 28-foot E-scow to their yacht club championship in 1984 and hope to repeat this year. George and wife Gail recently traveled for a two-week visit with daughter Lisa, 23, a recent graduate of Bucknell University, who lives and works in California. George says he sees Marty Goodall, who is still playing tennis.
Bob Liberman, M.D., is chief of the rehabilitative service of the West Los Angeles VA medical center. He is also a professor of psychiatry at UCLA and the director of a national clinical research center for schizophrenia. Bob moved to California in 1970 and married Janet Brown in 1973. They have three children, ages three, five, and seven, with whom they reside on Lake Sherwood in the Santa Monica mountains. Bob's oldest son graduated from Reed College and is now working for the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. His oldest daughter graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, where she took her senior year at Oxford. Bob says he often sees Don Gilden, who just moved to Denver to take the chairmanship of neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Another California physician, Bob Danielson, specializes in general and peripheral vascular surgery. He finds the construction of a new medical office building to be an exciting adventure. Bob brings us up to date on his children as follows: Karin is a graduate of Pomona College and a graduate student at the School of Missions at Fuller Seminary. Leslie is a senior at Pomona College. Kathleen, who was valedictorian of her high school graduating class, is a freshman at Occidental College. And Robin is a high school junior.
As reported in our October 1984 issue, Doug Wise is a senior vice president and management representative with McCann Erickson, the large New York advertising firm. He has been employed for 20 years by McCann's parent company, The Interpublic Group of Companies, in various locations, such as New York (11 years), Atlanta (three), Tokyo (four), and Houston (two). It was in Atlanta that he met and married Joanne in 1976. Upon their return to this country from Japan, Doug and Joanne established a venture in which they represent about 20 contemporary artists of Japanese extraction and/or persuasion. The works of these artists include graphics (prints), watercolors, acrylics, and sculpture. The venture, known as The Wise Collection, caters to both corporations and individuals. Joanne operates the business out of their suburban Bronxville home. Doug says that he and Joanne enjoyed the Yale game and Dartmouth Night festivities last fall with Lee and Judy Wilson, where they also encountered Bob Josefsberg, who was up from Miami, and Van and Pat Pine.
As we have mentioned in previous columns, John Orcutt is principal-in-charge and designer for Sasaki Associates, an architectural planning and design firm in Watertown, Mass. Whereas John's firm is normally involved in major architectural projects for other firms, now it is expanding and giving its own offices a facelift. Housed in a 19th-century mill complex known as Chase Mills along the Charles River in Watertown, the firm is involved in planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, civil engineering, and environmental services. It employs a professional staff of 235 at its Watertown office and also has offices in Dallas and Miami.
Jon Cook is a Ph.D. employed by the Bureau of Land Management in Fairbanks, Alaska, as a cultural resource specialist and arctic resource area archeologist. He says he has been traveling to mines in search of material for a paleontological collection of pleistocene mammals. Last summer was the 10th he has spent working on his house and landscaping the upper part of five acres, and he wonders if he'll ever finish the project. According to jon, his son Benjamin is "hoping for Dartmouth eight years hence." Jon mentions that he hasn't seen any Dartmouth classmates in a while. His address is P.O. Box 2511, Fairbanks 99707.
Ted Gennett is a vice president and the Pennsylvania State manager for Lawyer's Title Insurance Corporation, the home office of which is in Richmond, Va. Ted and his wife, Theresa (Terry), who have been married for 28 happy years, live in Lititz, Pa. The couple has three children, daughter Tracy, 27, and sons Frank, 25, and Ted Jr., 24. Through daughter Tracy, they have a five-year-old grandson and a twoyear-old granddaughter.
On a sad note, Ariel Halpem died of cancer in New York City of December 29, 1985. The class extends its deepest sympathy to his family. A full obituary appears elsewhere in this issue.
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