Class Notes

1957

December 1987 Adam Block
Class Notes
1957
December 1987 Adam Block

90 Tanglewylde Avenue Bronxville, NY 10708

As the snow season bears down, contemplate that 15 's7s now live in Colorado. Incidental intelligence: all but four originally came to Dartmouth from other states. Fellow Denverites Don Burkhardt and MontePascoe meet briefly and often, jogging in the same Denver park. Don comes from the east, Monte from the west, and sometimes the twain do a few laps together.

Monte and wife Pat recently spent three weeks in a remote Senegalese village, making do without plumbing or running water and eating rice and fish cooked on stones over wood fires. Son Ted '85 is a Peace Corpsman there in West Africa, organizing the complete rebuilding of a school for 300 students.

The Pascoes can often be found at their log cabin 150 miles from Denver, in Steamboat Springs. The cabin is the oldest surviving building in the county, dating from about 1882. It was moved to its present location by Wayne and Linda Kakela to save it from being torn down to make way for an old folks' home.

Last summer the Kakelas went east to let daughter Annie look at colleges. While in Boston they stayed with John and KarenDonnelly. During her Dartmouth interview, Annie asked about programs for offcampus terms ... in Hanover. The admissions officer never heard that question before.

Since 1961, when he received a doctorate in chemical engineering, Dave Gregg has worked for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He ran their laser development activities for years and has subsequently been involved with various energy programs and civil defense analysis. Last year Dave wrote a book asserting the risk of nuclear attack on the U.S. is greatly increased by neglect of civil defense. Dave has recently become a wind surfing enthusiast. He claims to have made the sport appreciably easier through analysis of the fairly complicated physics involved.

I last encountered Tony Pell in 1959. He was walking along boulevard St. Germain in Paris, impressively attired in chesterfield and bowler and prudently equipped with a tightly rolled umbrella. Disguised as a boulevardier, he was parlaying a masters in journalism into a doctorate in political science. Once fully credentialed, he worked in Paris at the French News Agency and then as a reporter for CBS radio until 1966. For about 20 years, Tony was successively a venture capitalist, consultant, and manager of a company that traded with organizations in Africa and the Middle East. He also did a lot of horseback riding. Now returned to New York, Tony runs a company that makes geological analyses of complex terrain, using advanced computer programs. Clients include major oil companies and universities.

In the days just preceding our 30th, MaiClarke picked up his parents in Maine, drove them to Dartmouth for his dad's 65th reunion, and took them home. While in Hanover Doc dined at the the Hovey Grill and was glad to see the murals uncovered. After a careful review, he concluded that, of all those portrayed, Eleazar would have the best grounds for complaint. So it goes.