1974

2964 Peachtree Road NW, Suite 500 Atlanta, GA 30305

"I like New York in June, how about you?" I like New York in April and had the chance to go to see an extraordinary show on Broadway, Les Miserables, and the new Lila Acheson Wallace wing of the Metropolitan Museum. What a delight! I also had the chance to catch a glimpse of Wiley Perry Ballard, charming as ever, and hear a lot of corny telephone recording messages of classmates I tried to reach over the weekend. So here is news from New York.

Back in New York is R. Owen Williams, who returned two and one-half months ago from Tokyo, Japan. He is the product sales manager for the Government Bonding Department at Soloman Brothers. Rick was previously in Tokyo for a year as manager of sales and trading for the Soloman Brothers' Tokyo office. Rick had a fascinating experience in Tokyo and he looks forward to returning one day.

Additionally, the film that Rick produced on the war in Afghanistan has been purchased by CBS. CBS will air the production in the next few weeks. Congratulations!

Rick Clarke recently received some acclaim in the New York Times when he was described as one of the creative and exciting new architects in New York. Rick and his firm, Kohn, Pederson Fox & Conway, were featured in the New York Times recently in the home design section. An apartment designed by them at 70th and 3rd (188 East 70th Street) has been described by Perry Ballard as "the best apartment buiding in New York since the Dakotas." Rick's wife, Audrey, is also an architect with the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where she is an assistant designer.

Also in New York is Doug Lind, who is an institutional sales person at Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette, an investment banking firm. Doug is still a bachelor, but we hear he spends a lot of time commuting back and forth to San Francisco.

Chris Gates is in New York as national sales manager of the Government Bonding Department at Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette. His wife, Emily, is expecting in August.

Another New Yorker, Robert Clymer, is in corporate finance at Solomon Brothers. Bob stays in shape by running to work, leaving his clothes at Solomon Brothers, and running home. After he is back in his corporate attire, he still is known for sporting a cigar.

Steve Allison has recently left his firm of White & Company and is starting his own commercial real estate firm. He presently lives in Concord, Mass., with his wife, Kristin, and their three boys. (Each son has a godfather from our class: Doug Lind, John Fisher, and Rick Williams are godparents to Benjamin, Grahm, and Brendon.)

A group of our classmates, some of whom will travel from as far as Alaska, will arrive in Hanover this weekend (April 24- 26, 1987) to dedicate a library on the history of the College to Sphinx in memory of Theodore Ellsworth, class of '41. Ted was the father of Dick Ellsworth. In attendance will be David Cranshaw, Fritz Ledbetter, Doug Lind, Robert Hayes (Purple), Herbie Hopkins, John Elsenhans, Marty Mehlberth, and others.

On a political note, I would like to state that I think all the controversy over our college song "Men of Dartmouth" is wasted energy. The song is great. It is not chauvinistic. Why change a good thing? (My dad, Charles Donovan, class of '43 agrees. My uncle, Jack Donovan, class of '39 would agree, and I bet Eddie O'Brien, '43 agrees as well. By the way, a member of our class, Steve Severson, is on the Alumni Council Alma Mater Committee which is attempting to determine whether to keep "Men of Dartmouth" as is or change it in some acceptable fashion. Steve reports that he is leaving A. T. Kearney, a management consulting firm to become manager, competitive analysis for Digital Equipment Corporation, the number two computer manufacturer in the United States. His wife, Martha Hennessey '75, has just taken a part-time teaching position at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. She will teach organization behavior. They have three children.

I am going to Hanover May 1-3 to learn how to get our class to voluntarily and enthusiastically communicate with me. Here's hoping.

Mary.