1949

Dan Raabin, residing in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., would love to hear from classmates, one and all. Dan's telephone number is 914/271-8426. In 1979, Dan sustained a brain tumor which took a considerable period of time for diagnosis in a patently slipshod manner. The tumor was excised, but the experience left Dan paralyzed on the left side of his body. Learning to walk again was a major accomplishment, but Dan does it, with a cane, and notwithstanding impaired eyesight combined with an immobilized left arm. A malpractice suit resulted in some pecuniary recovery (up to rather low insurance limits), enabling Dan to live rather comfortably in his own home. After graduation, Dan went into the army concurrently with the outbreak of hostilities in Korea. Upon discharge, he worked for a period of time on Wall Street, then entered the men's clothing business as a salesman and later as a sales manager. He worked for Intercontinental Apparel for some years, selling the Pierre Cardin line, and in 1978 he had started his own company with two friends immediately prior to his debilitating illness.

Dan has two daughters: Marjorie, a graduate of Cazenovia Junior College, who is married, lives in San Diego, and has given Dan a granddaughter; and Victoria, who graduated from Keuka College and is a certified court reporter residing with Dan. Dan is chairman of the board of directors of the Croton Taxi Company, which operates 11 taxi cabs in and around Croton. Dan bemoans the fact of gaining weight because of an inability to exercise, but sounds resolute and is undeniable as the shiny-faced fellow who was part of our 1945 matriculation contingent. Please call Dan; he'd love it.

Stating that he has no news "worthy" of publication, the always modest Howard Kresge sent a note from Yorba Linda, Calif., indicating that he is regional manager of H. J. Scheirich Company, out of Louisville, which manufactures fine furniture for the kitchen and bath.

In Stockbridge, Mass., a drive to raise $5,000,000 for the Norman Rockwell Museum was initiated, with Henry Williams as chairman of the regional campaign, which will evidently conclude at the end of May. Henry, the old name-dropper, wanted me to tell you that he is associated with Ronald Reagan, who is serving as "honorary chairman" of the fund-raising campaign. (You can write Henry at Box 66, Lenox, Mass.) His wife, Joan, and he have three sons, Henry, Peter '76, and David. Henry has retired from the presidency of his bank but remains on the board of directors.

Finally, here is the long-awaited Gold Pick-Axe Award Legend for Alfred Arnold Wagner: "You, Alfred Arnold Wagner, have long been a proponent and involved member of our community, college, and class. Your professional career began immediately after Dartmouth and Tuck School in 1950. Investment banking was your first field of corporate endeavor, beginning with Coffin and Beers in Boston after graduation and moving up the ladder of responsibility as vice president with American Mutual Insurance from 1958 to 1970, then to the National Shawmut Bank of Boston in 1970. You are now executive vice president of the Boston Company Institutional Investors, Inc.

"Your service as a volunteer for Dartmouth has spanned many years. The North Shore Dartmouth Club counted you as an active member of its executive committee. You served the admissions office as an interviewer for many years and for most of those years have been chairman of an interviewing committee for the College.

"The class has counted you among its leaders as a member of the class executive committee since 1954, class treasurer from 1959 to 1965, and most recently you directed our class of 1949 admirably as president, stepping down at our 35th reunion in 1983.

"Class head agents have been able to count you as a member of the team in this most important effort in regional and telephone campaigns in the New England region.

"Your lovely wife, Joyce, supported you and your College in many of these efforts, and two of your children are fellow alumni: Robert is a member of the class of 1982, and Betsy graduated with the class of 1983. Your oldest son, David, attended Essex Agricultural College.

"In your home community of Wenham, you have been involved in a variety of school and civic activities. One of these has been your participation as chairman of the Republican Town Committee.

"In our 25th-reunion yearbook, you responded to the question: What had been meaningful to you up to that point in time? 'The joys of an active family life, career in investments that have always been personally fulfilling, living in my native Boston area, to enjoy the city itself and the nearby mountains and ocean, the reality of experiencing that "Dartmouth fellowship" President Dickey introduced to us.' Al, you are a true Dartmouth son, and in presenting you the Gold Pick-Axe Award we take full pride that you were a 'classmate of ours at Dartmouth.' "

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