1946

Bill and Janet Spoor were in Hanover for the inaugural of the new Spoor Dialogues on Leadership, funded by the Pillsbury Company. This was the first in a series established in his honor under a $500,000 grant that will support a nineyear campus-wide examination of the nature of leadership qualities and practices. The programs will include colloquia, seminars, visiting fellows, and faculty research. Bill met with several groups of students, and his speech "The Leadership Riddle" was delivered before a packed house. Local classmates Ed andMolly Scheu, Reg and Nancy Pierce, Jackand Beth Ulrich, Bob and Jackie Kimball,Whitey and Joanne Burnham, and Duneand Ruth Fitchet joined the Spoors at a reception upon their arrival. Bill has "retired" as chairman of Pillsbury but still spends about half his time on corporate affairs. Recently, he was named by Gov. Rudy Perpich to head the Capital City Renaissance Program and a blue-ribbon, 12-member task force that will build public support and revive interest in making St. Paul and the Minnesota State capital the most impressive seat of government among the 50 states.

Ed and Molly Scheu are really on the move these days. Having just returned from a skiing holiday in Courchevel, France, Ed turned around within a couple of days to return for a hectic business trip to half a dozen European cities.

Joe Spector writes that he still is enjoying retirement and travel, living six months in Tangier, three months in Florida, and the balance back home in New York City.

Al Belinkie has organized a new firm, Belinkie and Blawie, in Bridgeport, Conn., and has sold his home in Fairfield and moved into a condo in Southport, Conn.

Richard Unser also has moved recently from Westwood, N.J., to Glens Falls, N.Y., and will attend reunion in June. Fort Lauderdale classmates have been reporting. Bryan and Jean Battey are enjoying a new association with Keyes Company, Realtors, but keep up a busy schedule of performing and teaching music. Lou Heller says he is active in real estate investing in Fort Lauderdale, as he enjoys life there and his seven children and eight grandchildren.

Bill and Shirley Schillhammer were on hand in Montpelier with son Bill '76 to see their five-month-old granddaughter, Rachel, crowned as Queen of the Small World, during the festival held there in July. Son Gary '77 is the only M.D. in Darrington, Wash., in the North Cascades, and enjoys white-water canoeing and magnificent year-round views of great snowcapped peaks.

Jim Shute was in Hanover for the annual alumni hockey outing, played in the alumni hockey game (the lines started with one-minute shifts), and attended a dinner gathering and a varsity hockey game. Jim operates a hockey camp in the Philadelphia area and is the manufacturer of Scoots," a great new training roller skate used by hockey players and crosscountry skiers.

The list for reunion keeps growing, including Charlie Duncan, Ham Bailey, BillBeckwith, Jack Carter, Hamie Helmbold,Stan Feldberg, Walt Snickenberger, ClarkJudge, Bill Riley, Jack Sayers, SpenceSmith, and Monk Martin. Also coming are Frank Cole, Bob Poet, Dave Weld,Frank Ettari, Tiger Vallely, Dick TassoArt Young, Buol Himan, Bob Hooper,Shipwreck Kelley, and Welles Fendrich. Rep. Frank Guarini writes from Washington that he has been struggling with the budget, tax reform, and the trade deficit as a member of the House Ways and Means Committee. "At times, I think there must be more adventurous ways of plotting life's existence ... give me Rome any time. Washington is an exciting tour of duty, and there is no better place to observe and participate in history being made."

Bill De Stefano reports that the StanFeldbergs are adjusting easily to a new life-style. They have relocated from Wellesley to a smaller home in South Natick as their home base but spend the winter and summer in Crested Butte, Colo., and the fall and spring seasons at Hilton Head.

Wallace Owens writes of his recent marriage to Carol Woods and about their seven children and seven grandchildren. He is working for the Norstar Bank in Clinton, N.Y., and enjoys life in their solar home that he built (with his own hands) in 1983.

It is with deep regret that we report the death of John Shaw Libbey on December 24, 1985, of unknown causes. He had been vice president of W.S. Libbey Company in Lewiston, Maine. After seven months at Dartmouth, he attended and graduated from Yale. He is survived by brother Scott '42.

Best regards. Please keep in touch.

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