1967

401 Walnut Street Englewood, NJ 07631

In recent days the mailman has been busy delivering all sorts of Dartmouth newssome about our upcoming reunion, some in response to my letter writing as I work my way through the alphabet. The range of our current interests and the power of our memories of our years in Hanover never cease to amaze me.

Rob Kugler and crew have been very busy with plans for the June 17-19 reunion. There will be something for everyone, so save the dates now. Part of our 20th Reunion activities is the election of our class officers for the next four years. A nominating committee has been set up by Jack Curley and includes: Hugh Freund, the managing partner at Richards O'Neil & Allegaert, a New York law firm; Roy Coulter, the senior vice president of finance at Fortin Industries in California; George Owens, a vice president and office manager for Smith Barney in Boston; Fred Von Pechmann, a senior vice president at Drexel Burnham in Hartford; and Bob Burka, a partner of Knopf and Burka in Washington. If you have any ideas on potential candidates (include your own interests), please get in touch with one of these fellows in the next few weeks. Jack is a managing director in the merchant banking department at Morgan Stanley in New York.

I had a wonderful letter from Pete Ban kart, who is a psychologist and professor at Wabash College. Pete and wife Brenda, who has her Ph.D. from Dartmouth, are wrestling with college choices for their son. On the one hand Pete is "still impressed, 25 years later, at how much my freshman year at Dartmouth changed my whole lifepolitically, emotionally, intellectually, socially—the whole ball of wax. It was, and is, awesome." At the same time, Pete who considers himself "a relatively hard-core feminist," questions whether Dartmouth today is the sort of moral and ethical place that is liberally educating the whole person. Pete is curious to know how many other '67s have children who have weighed the Dartmouth option. This sounds like a good topic for reunion, for some classmates can certainly provide first-hand experience since the class of 1991 includes Fred Henry's daughter Sarah, Henry Ingersoll's son Christopher, Jeff Richardson's son Scot, Stu Spitz's son Benjamin, Ted Truex's son Edward, and Aubrey Willacy's son Keith. Pete has also suggested that those '67s who became educators and scholars spend some time together in June, something I would find interesting after hearing of the satisfactions that Pete is finding in his life and work.

Fred Cowan recently was elected attorney general of Kentucky. After six years as state representative and private attorney, Fred defeated his Republican opponent by a landslide—70 percent to 30 percent. Fred comments that he had tremendous support from Dartmouth alumni in Kentucky, including a number of '67s. For the next four years Fred and Linda will continue to live in Louisville with their three young daughters while Fred commutes to Frankfort, the state capital. The new attorney general invites classmates to visit but only if they have no legal problems with the Commonwealth.

Next month, more news from the beginning of the alphabet. Keep writing.