1957

190 Golden Hills Drive Portola Valley, CA 94025

Thirty-eight '57s and their wives gathered under balmy spring skies in San Francisco. Attending the mini-reunion were the following class officers and their wives from around the country: Adam and Gittan Block, Bob and June Macdonald, Hanny Mason and daughter Ann, Tom and Shirley Schwarz, and Ted and Judy Spetnagle. Locals participating were: Joe and Barbara Conley, Brad and Libby Curtis, Jim and Diane Dalton, Paul and Emmy Ehrlich, Ted and Marge Everett, Jim and Marylou Francis, Jay and Paulina Greene, Art Johnson and fiance Elaine Spillane, Bob and Dottie King, Jim Mayer, Jim and Jenny Nevitt, Dave Sandborg, Don and Betsy Saiunders, Dan and Cathy Searby, and Jerry and Ingrid Weiss. Festivities began on Friday night with a dinner at San Francisco's North Beach Restaurant. Hanny Mason and Ted Spetnagle gave informal pitches for the Alumni Fund and the June Hanover reunion. We then paddled across the street to see the classic San Francisco review, Beach Blanket Babylon with excellent seats courtesy of that man about town, Paul Ehrlich. Beach Blanket was a high energy, racy delight. After the theater there was a minireunion of the mini-reunion at a local night spot. On Saturday we motored out to Jay and Paulina Greene's house in the little town of St. Helena in the Napa Valley wine country. The Greenes put on a spectacular sit-down luncheon outdoors, complete with wine tasting and a piano player playing background music as classmates donned big "D" hats. After lunch Jay led some spirited singing and Paulina took the gang on a winery tour. Tom Schwarz summed up the event best by saing it was "too fine a moment to capture in print." That evening we went to San Francisco for cocktails and dinner at Paul and Emmy Ehrlich's baronial mansion. Dinner parties don't come any nicer than this one, which was both a gourmet dinner and an occasion for pleasant nostalgia as we watched films about Dartmouth on Paul's VCR. The following day we had a tennis tournament with Bob and Dottie King edging Tom and Shirley Schwarz in the finals. Then came a mexican fiesta at the Searbys' featuring margarita punch, Corona beer, fajitas, flan and a ten-piece mariachi band. All in all it was a great weekend with great guys and whetted our appetites for the big reunion in Hanover.

Tom Keller, out Minnesota way, is organizing the next mini-reunion in May, which will be reported in a subsequent column.

In the hard news department, Bob Marchant has been appointed publisher of Advanced Materials & Processes/Incorporating Metal Progress. He will direct all sales, marketing, promotion and circulation for the publication. Previously he had been regional manager for ASM Internation. He will continue to be headquartered in Connecticut.

Cliff Olds has been made the acting director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art for the 1987-88 academic year. He has been at Bowdoin since 1982 and is the Edith Cleaves Barry Professor of History and Criticism of Art. Cliff has also served as a consultant in the Hood Museum.

One of the younger members of the class is Eric Lee, who celebrated the big 5-0 in February by taking his wife Norma and children Karen and David to London. In addition to major sightseeing, the Lees took in Star Light Express and Les Miserables, which originated in London and are now big Broadway successes.

The next column will be written by the new class secretary Adam Block. It has been a privilege spending the last five years reporting high points in the lives of class- mates and also to discover the enormous number of '17s who are having quiet success in teaching, building, lawyering, soldiering, selling, cooking, administering, designing, doctoring, leading and above all, living. Now it is time for the entrance of youthful Adam, whose term some, with indecent haste, are already calling the Golden Age of Block.

Surrounded by the mariachi band that provided entertainment at the class of 1957's spring mini-reunion in San Francisco are, from left to right, Tom Schwarz, Dan Searby, and fay Greene, all '57s.