1955

1800 Valley Road Newtown Square, PA 19073

Experiences shared on the Hanover Plain bring us all together with similar memories of a common time, the more to be savored the greater the time since our graduation. Diverse, indeed, are the activities of the class.

Hal O'Connell has been named as acting director of the Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago by Daniel J. Terra, U.S. ambassador-at-large of cultural affairs. Hal has been with the museum since April of 1987 as assistant to the chairman. Hal's role has been extended beyond planning and overview of the museum's budget to include direction of all day-to-day operations of all departments. For 28 years O'Connell had held executive posts in the banking industry, at Northern Trust Company and Continental Bank. Hal has been active in civic affairs as past president, director, and trustee of the Better Government Association of Chicago, director and member of the investment committee of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and as a governing member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. A member of the Illinois State Bar since 1959, he received his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School (Michigan is fortunate to have so many Dartmouth Fifty-Fivers learn their law there). Hal and Gerry and their three children live in Lake Forest.

Out in Billings, Mont., Pete Teal enjoys a vigorous life in spite of, or perhaps because of, the depressed Montana economy. Pete came to Billings following his medical and orthopedic training in Minneapolis and has been practicing orthopedic surgery for the past 21 years. Pete not only runs and plays tennis regularly (Dick Mount take note) but does white-water kayaking on those Montana rivers which is, as he says, "a little scary." (The thought of turning over in a kayak in white water is a lot scary!) This winter Pete is going to head off for helicopter skiing in the Bugaboos in the Canadian Rockies. He went back to Hanover in the summer of 1986 studying French with John Rassias and then lived for two weeks with a French family in France. All that and five children makes for a constantly active life (typical, of course).

Pete can certainly use his French to visit Geneva, Switzerland, and its Dartmouth contingent. Most recently Harry Ambrose has moved there for a three-to-five-year tour as merchandising manager for World Oil Products. As Harry notes, it is a very challenging assignment. They did go to a party honoring Dave and Jane Conlan (who are leaving Geneva for Chicago) and saw John Demas and Peter and Sue Gulick. They invite any wandering 'sss in the area to visit them, which sounds like incentive enough for all of us to learn French.

Willard Small, still from Kansas City, is now an executive for a major distributor of products to McDonald's within the central part of the United States. Will says, "McDonald's is an extraordinarily demanding customer offering no contracts to any supplier. But with their high standards and tight control they are also a very loyal customer." Will still likes New York theater, ballet, and opera and travels there frequently. He meets, on occasion, with JackDoyle, CPA with Peat Marwick, and spent this Thanksgiving with Stan and LillianBergman. Stan is an estate lawyer with his own firm of Bergman Horowitz in New Haven, Conn.

Memories of our classmates, now and before, are the more to be savored and the more greatly appreciated; the loss of any leaves us the poorer.