1949

68 Country Club Drive San Francisco, CA 94132

I report with gladness postelection news from Slade Gorton. It is outdated, but the informational wheels grind as slowly as the law proverbially does; at any rate, last March, Slade and Sally announced their return to their original home in Seattle, where Slade was invited to join the law firm of Davis, Wright & Jones. Slade was in private law practice in Seattle from 1953 until 1968 when he was elected attorney general of the State of Washington. He served as attorney general until election to the United States Senate in 1980. His firm maintains offices also in Bellevue and Richland, Wash.; Anchorage, Ala.; and Washington, D.C. We wish Slade the very best.

Dick Hanselman, formerly chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Genesco, Inc., was named last March to the board of NBI, Inc., a computer-systems maker in Boulder, Colo.

Our venerated class president, TomSwartz, checked in with an undated letter which gathered dust, but why not provide another status report of a spring event, labeled the "Dartmouth Sunshine Conference," which took place last April in Orlando. There were 12 members of the class of 1949 in attendance, including adopted classmate Thad Seymour. Attending were Johnny and Susan Everatt, Bob"Deke" and Nadine Jackson, Gordon"Spud" and Lorraine Parsons, as well as Bob "Windy" Winship, Bud "SmokeyRay" Hughes, Al "Wheels" Winslow and Gordon "Punchy" Thomas. Guy Busch, who lives in Orlando, also made the hit list, together with Marleen Winship, DorisThomas, and June Hughes.

Bud Popke is in the radio business. For ten years he has been battling to acquire a license to build a 50-kilowatt FM facility for southwestern Michigan. Bud and Nancy live in Kalamazoo and he has been operating an advertising and publishing company since selling an AM station in 1979. While in Washington, D.C., in May, Bud and Nancy attended a Dartmouth Glee Club concert at Wolf Trap which also featured the Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Participating with the wind ensemble as a trumpet player was son, Jeff, class of 1989. (Bud sang with the Dartmouth Glee Club during our undergraduate era.) He reports seeing Marshall Belding of Grand Rapids, but otherwise has not been in touch with most of the members of the class. I was delighted to hear from Bud.

For the record, in the Green Derby, Group V, classes 1943-1949, we finished third with a participation percentage of 68.3, having received $90,249.00, which exceeds last year's contributions and the $89,000 objective. Incidentally, overall alumni participation was 65 percent; our 295 donors out of a potential of 432 was above the overall participation percentage. Kudos to Burt Proom.