1963

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Time! Some of us get a lot, some of us get a little, but we all manage to get around.

After toiling over 20 years for his Manchester, N.H., law firm, McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, Pete Rotch was awarded a 12-week vacation at his cottage in South Bristol, Maine, followed by two weeks in England. Sam Barton sold his interest in Claritas, the nationally-renowned geographic information systems firm, to take up music again, and Harold Trefethen, a semi-retired financial and investment counselor, spends his winters in California and summers in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. I had only two weeks last summer but wound up in Tunisia, my wife Nicole's birthplace. Tunisia, a former North African French protectorate near Algeria, is still mixed up by a lot of people with the similar-sounding Indonesia where RichardEdelson, a neurologist, and his wife Judy spent their vacation last year. This year they went to eastern Turkey. Tom Martin, a professor of information studies at Syracuse University, will go to Peru for four and a half months with his wife Ann, an instructor in English as a second language, also at Syracuse. Ann has a Fulbright there. In 1985, Tom and Ann went to northeastern China where Tom taught information engineering at Jilin University of Technology. This year is Pete Suttmeir's turn to visit the Orient, as director of the Beijing office at the National Academy of Sciences/Committee on Scholarly Communications. He's on leave from Hamilton College where he is a Henry P. Bristol Professor of International Affairs.

Bruce Nichols, whom we know as chairman of the 25th reunion, is known as senior vice president in his new position at the investment banking firm Prescott Ball & Turben in Chicago. Bruce specializes in corporate finance. Bob Humboldt has been named president of Poly-Foam, a Minnesota-area plastics manufacturer that produces protective packaging and insulation products.

Daryl Smith has been elected president of Troy Chemical Corporation, Newark, N.J., a leading manufacturer of additives and biocides for industry. John Howland has joined Bene vest Group, a title and escrow company in Claremont, Calif., as vice president and general counsel. And AlanDavies became one of fewer than 15 people to hold three professional real estate designations upon earning his MAI (Member of the Appraisal Institute). Alan, who heads a New York real estate firm, is also a CPM (Certified Property Manager) from the Institute of Real Estate Management, and a CRE (Councilor of Real Estate) from the American Society of Real Estate Councilors.

So much for achievements. Have you made your plans for the October 31 football reunion in Hanover for the class of 63? Better yet, are you set for the spectacular 25th reunion in June? If not, check your mailbox or that big file on your desk, and make your reservations now. I understand that KenNovack of Boston hopes to introduce his new wife Marianne Lefebvre to his fraternity brothers and friends there, and that Jim Puklin, professor of ophthalmology at Northwestern University in Chicago, will be on hand with his family. Hope to see you there too!