1966

I'm writing this a couple of weeks into the new year. You're reading it deep into the new year. We all began in Hanover - complete with freshman beanie, DOC trip, bonfire, mixer in the top of the gym - almost 25 years ago! As a student, I worked at reunions one year, and I recall seeing the folks who were at their 25th reunion. I also remember thinking how I would never be that old!

On to some class news: Jamie Stewart "recently left Bank of Boston to go to Crocker Bank in San Francisco. After 20 years of New England winters, I just couldn't resist the chance to move to California." Jamie is in Hillsborough, Calif., and needs help in learning to look and act like a Californian. He heads up large corporate lending in the Northwest, central, and eastern U.S. That should get some response, Jamie. I know lots of people who'd love to borrow some cash.

Tom Brady writes that he has "chucked the corporate executive suite for my own business. I have been involved in plastics research and development since I graduated from the University of Michigan with a Ph.D. in 1971. I've had excellent success and opportunities at Owens-Illinois. Some good long-term contracts came my way, and because of Dartmouth and Thayer, I was ready to go it on my own." Tom has started Midwest Plastic Research Associates, Inc., in Toledo. He "had a great time at the reunion. We've missed only one and have declared that we will attend all of them in the future." MPRA, Inc., may not give you the time off, Tom!

Frank Blod has been named a principal of The New England Consulting Group, a Westport-based marketing management consulting firm. Frank had been working in Houston for Coca-Cola in sales and marketing of Minute Maid orange juice and other unexciting liquids. Frank is relocating to Westport.

Got a note from Bruce Berger, who sent a photo taken in the Kathmandu, Nepal, airport in October 1985. Bruce and his wife ran into a Nepalese guide leading Jamie McGregor around. Bruce is in private practice (dermatology) in Princeton. Jamie teaches at University of Colorado in the department of gynecology. Bruce and his wife were "trekking." Jamie had been mountain-climbing and looking into starting his own company, specializing in "hijacking for hire."

Spoke with Tom Loomis. Tom seemed a logical person to call as he had once dated my wife and had also, mercifully, ended my football career (six days into freshman football) by landing on my knee one afternoon as we disagreed over who should catch a wobbling football. Tom sells life insurance for Equitable in Wilmington, Del. He and his wife have three sons, 11, nine, and five. He'd like to hear from Roc Caivano. Tom told me GeorgeTrumbull had moved back to the Hartford area after having worked in Philly for a while. George is now, reportedly, head of pensions for CIGNA. Tom said, and I quote: "I'm not sure exactly what George did in Philly, but the day after he arrived, 5,000 people were laid off!"

Also spoke with Mike Urbanic. We chatted about the Joe Yukica situation. Wow. Enough said. Bear, leveled off at about 220 pounds, has a serious hair problem - the kind of hair problem that will soon not be a hair problem! He works for Cargill Agricultural, the largest outfit of its kind anywhere. Bear has worked in Minneapolis, Dayton, and Knoxville, and is now in Memphis. He's in charge of a corn-milling operation that employs a couple hundred people. He was in sales for a long time and is now in management and sounds as if he likes it. Regional manager, director of operations - lots of titles have followed him. He and wife Joyce live in Memphis and plan to stay around there with daughter, Katie, six. Bear wants to hear about Ed Long. I discovered the other day the three things that make a 41-year old man very sexy. The first thing is a short memory. And I can't remember the other two things. Do they still have the Tuck Bike Races at Green Key? If they do, you know the campus can't have given way to the logic of computers. "Many sighs and many tears . . ."

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