1955

With the coming of fall, the pace quickens and the changes we have all thought about many times come to fruition.

For Walt Miller, the change has been to move the family back to Connecticut so that Walt can assume his new position as president and C.E.O. of F. F. B. Corporation, a bank holding company and parent of the First Federal Bank of Connecticut. Walt was also named as vice chairman of the bank, a new post, all of which puts him in line when the current chairman and C.E.O. retires for Walt to assume that position. Walt was formerly executive VP of Norwest Corporation, a Minneapolis-based bank holding company. The board also elected Walt as a director of both the holding company and the bank (after all, if you're going to be vice chairman of the board/you might as well be elected to it).

Bill Wilbur has generated his own change, having formed the marketing and sales promotion firm of Ross, Thompson and Wilbur last year. Bill has spent most of his life in marketing and general management (excluding the U.S. Army, which was neither) including time with Salada Foods in Boston and most recently as president of Joseph E. Seagram, U.S.A. (not bad for a boy from Lebanon, N.H., who grew up with no TV or telephone that had dials). But when you're a Tuck marketing major, anything is possible. Bill and his wife, Cheryl, have a two-year-old daughter, which will give Bill the opportunity put in practice everything he learned with two older girls. That's all right, for in addition to Central Park and a pool on top of a New York building, the Wilburs own a country farm north of New York where Bill can cut his own grass. (That's known as confronting civilization from either end of the spectrum.)

Will and Lois Stratton, usually from Washington, D.C., or other points east, after a stay in Texas are now in Tulsa, Qkla., where Will is senior VP of finance for Public Service of Oklahoma. After Dartmouth Will went to Harvard Law School, became a Washington lawyer, and rounded out his formal education as a Sloan Fellow at Stanford. Will serves on the Tulsa Industrial Authority and the Gilbert and Sullivan board (his inability to sing probably makes him the sort of board member every performer wants). But not to worry about the Strattons and the Great Plains, for they headed for Australia in February to watch the America's Cup competition. Between Perth and the races, the Great Barrier Reef, the eastern cities and Tasmania there was much to savor. If that's not enough, Will and Lois have their house in Holderness, N.H. (it is hard to ever forget New England). Dick Targett, living in Danbury, Conn., once again has reason to journey with Joanne to Hanover. Their son, Christopher, joins the class of '91 in Hanover, following their daughter, Nancy '84. Dick says "other than that, poverty prevails."

Lou Turner will make it back to Hanover for sure in June 1988 when his son Stephen graduates from Dartmouth and Thayer. It must be a nice satisfaction for Lou to have a son following in his dad's footsteps. Lou and his wife, Lee, have two other children: Nancy, a graduate of Bowdoin, who heads for two years in the Peace Corps in Papau New Guinea to teach health and nutrition, and a younger son, Brian, who will be a junior in high school. Lou is a teacher of physics and astronomy at Western Reserve Academy enjoying the great satisfaction of working with kids. The Academy is over 175 years old. There's a new telescope for Lou's students as well as, in the 150-yearold Loumis Observatory, a telescope that's the oldest in the country still in its original foundation. While Lou at one time coached football, he's now happy to work with boys and girls coaching tennis. All that plus work as co-author of two computer discs on physics, one over two years on the market, keeps Lou's schedule full. The Turners still have a chance to return to their house every summer on Cape Cod and fish for "blues."

And for those of us who remember our graduation in 1955 in the rain at Alumni Gymnasium (with Robert Frost, who does seem to loom larger in the passing), the contrast of the graduation this June of '87 was dramatic for the weather was perfect. Jim Nelson exemplified the attitude of all as his son Eric graduated. Baker Library never looked better—neither did the College as the Class of '87 suddenly became alumni.

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