1955

It's nice to have friends and classmates with whom we can spend some time and share of ourselves.

So it was once again, thanks to Norm Fine, who secured reservations at the Hanover Inn, that there was gathered a small group for the second annual Alumni Winter Weekend. It's very pleasant to sit around a large table in the Inn dining room to visit with the likes of Norm and Joan Fine, Brooks and Gale Parker, Bernie and Pat Siskind, Ed and Cecelia Willi, Woody and Nancy Goss, Mike and Karen Gorton and Colin and Jane Hunt. Jere and Elena Daniell joined in. It's a pretty good history professor who can predict the future, especially when it comes to Dartmouth basketball. (It's always nice to be able to see both the past and the future, which, if not with equal clarity, then at least with some confidence). And there was snow in Hanover and lots of sun which allowed for pictures of the snow sculpture on the Green, cross-country skiing on the golf course and downhill skiing at the Dartmouth Skiway.

John Dinan made it into Hanover from Falmouth, Maine, where he continues as a general surgeon now at the VA Hospital in Togus. John retains his rank as a captain in the navy reserve, spending time in Bethesda or heading to Spain and Italy for his training. The Dinans have three children. John had a chance to sail with one of them on a two-masted 160-foot sailing vessel, TeVega on a cruise from Bermuda to the Azores. John functioned alternately as deckhand and surgeon (a nice combination of jobs for a navy doctor).

Hugh Taylor writes that after ten years as vice president at Kidder Peabody in Portland, Maine, he shifted to become the same at Advest, Inc. He said he made this move before he discovered that Dana "Gray"Hennigar would be his regional manager. "It's fun and stimulating to make a change."

Dave and Martha Oberlander are enjoying the "empty nest" since their last (and third) child is now a freshman at Arizona State University. Their two older children are living in the Dallas area so the Oberlanders are close by one another. Dave is just beginning his 19th year with Peat, Marwick and indicates that he's on schedule for early retirement at age 55 in October this year and will then engage in private business consulting, relaxing, corporate finance strategy and seminar work which he enjoys. It will also give him and Martha the opportunity to travel to Europe and visit some good friends like Eliot and Pat Smith (somewhat "neighbors").

Which is all to say that the table at the Hanover Inn could accommodate more. In spite of the dispersion of the class of '55 the special relationship of classmates remains an attraction. So may it always be.

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