1963

It's incredible! But a little over a year from today hundreds of us, some with wives, families or friends, others alone, will descend on Hanover . . . perhaps for the first time in 25 years. Has it really been that long? Has the College essentially changed? Have we? You be the judge. This is my first reunion, and as fortune would have it, one that I've ended up extremely close to. June 16-19, 1988 is closer that I thought. I realized that after Bruce Nichols called to order the first meeting of the planning committee at Al Davies's office on a snowy March day in New York. Dave Schaefer, Bill Breetz, (food chairman), Marty Bowne, and BobBysshe kicked it off. It was better than the Beach Boys' 25th anniversary the following night on network TV.

"The Greenest Show on Earth" theme is not a joke. The committee is intent on producing Paul Binder's famed Big Apple Circus as the major attraction, if some site problems can be worked out. Dave and Bruce are working on it. For sure, you can count on your favorite live music of the fifties and sixties, meaningful programs to address the social and psychological issues of the eighties, all sports (running, rowing, tennis, to name a few), the fun of being around in the late spring without much worry, and plenty to do for the kids as well.

Dave is also planning on a dynamite fund-raising effort for 1988, and after a long, hard coast-to-coast search appointed Bill Courtney of Los Angeles, where people think big, to tackle the Herculean task of bringing home "at least a million." (The Alumni Fund accepts personal checks.) Bill, who was active in the 15th reunion, returned recently from assignment for Arthur Young Company in Paris, and "is highly qualified," says Dave "to build on the foundation held by Mel Meyers, as head agent over the past four years.

Many of the returning '63s will not only be alumni but parents of Dartmouth students, like Howard Culver of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., whose daughter Marjorie has been accepted for the class of 1991 on an early decision basis. In spite of that, Howard says "he is still wallowing in toxic waste as director of environmental affairs for International Technology Corporation in Torrance, Calif.

Stu Mahlin of Cincinnati saw Sturgesand Pam Dorrance and Mike and JaneEmerson when in Seattle last summer. "Sturges is doing very well with King Broadcasting," says Stu, "and Pam handles promotions for Seattle Center (the old World's Fair site). Jane and Mike have an absolutely imcomparable view of Puget Sound. Their house is on a hillside on Three Tree Point, just south of Seattle proper. If you're ever out there, call Mike for a 'tour.' "

Lou Gerstner, president of American Express, shook up the credit card industry recently by introducing the new Optima card to allow customers to pay their bills in installments at an annual interest rate of 13.5 percent, considerably lower than the rate charged by most big bank credit cards. Lou told the Wall Street Journal that American Express wants to expand its business beyond its original base of service establishments into the retail area. No interest is charged on the standard American Express card, but holders are expected to pay balances promptly or face deliquency fees and cancellation. The Optima card is available only to American Express card holders.

Ron Schecter is a real estate litigation lawyer in Newark, N.J., and pursuing a second career as a cellist. Ron's wife, Peggy, is the principal flutist of the New Jersy State Opera and daughter Nicole is a high school freshman. Jerry Matheney, a dentist in South Euclid, Ohio, is organizing a concert series there.

Mike Losee is vice president of research and development at NutraSweet Company, a subsidiary of Monsanto in Chicago. He has a doctorate from Lehigh University. I ran into two lawyers at lunch at the Dartmouth Club in New York: Don DaParma, Breed, Abbot & Morgan, and FrankWohl, Lankier, Siffert & Wohl. Scott Carlisle, a Portland, Maine, lawyer, may be too busy for lunch with three sons, Jeff, a Dartmouth freshman; Peter a Northfield-Mount Herman junior; and Chris, a Cape Elizabeth High School freshman. Ken Meyer, is a geology officer with a U.S. Saudi Arabian commission in Riyadh, and Dave Smoyer has been named director of development at Roxbury Latin School in Boston. Till June.

DARTMOUTH '62 25TH REUNION

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