1951

Whether it's seeing the dazzling white of new-fallen show or the bright green of budding leaves, we can't fail to be impressed with nature's capacity for renewal. And here in mid-winter comes a veritable flood of green cards (upon which Batch has generously placed my name) as several of you have responded to my pleas for news of yourselves.

Earl Brabb, from Palo Alto, has created challenges for himself all over the world. As founder of the International Landslide Research Group, he travels to such places as Italy and Japan, as well as extensively in our country, to explain to geologists and officials the latest technology available for predicting the effects of landslides and earthquakes. Earl also enjoys the California outdoors with his family and writes of "another soul-satisfying sojourn in the Donner Summit area with Len and Ditty Smith and family. And having encountered in themand in other grads such as Bill Perell '74 and Carl Wentworth '58—an impressive capacity for critical thinking, Earl wonders "whether they developed these skills at Dartmouth or did Dartmouth attract people with critical minds?"

Ted and Anne Glaser report that Ted has "a new friend from the Seeing Eye—Maurice. He is sweet and intelligent. Marcus is happily retired with one of the trainers and three other dogs for company." Ted has a new name for his Marcus Information Services. It's now Nucleus International, from which "soon there will be a first product on the market." We hope to hear much more about this product in the future, Ted.

Sam Chu, using a Thanksgiving break from teaching history at Ohio State to his advantage, says he is "just back from Taiwan and the Philippines." Frank Johnson states that he is "a semi-retired stockbroker with Johnson, Leman and Company in Bethesda" and spends "five months of the year at my beach home in Kitty Hawk from May through September." (Note: though Frank is semi-retired, he is not "first in flight" from the world of stocks and bonds.) He writes that he "would be glad to see any classmates who pass through," and to impress us with his sincerity, he supplies his vacation-home phone number: 919/2614451. So take a "flyer" Wright now—dune put it off! And Bill Blodgett cards the following: "Recently joined a new company, Westport Consulting Group, Inc., a marketing consulting firm, as executive vice president." Contrary to a common Eastern bias, this Westport company seems to be located not in Connecticut but in Illinois.

Dave Hilton, not the big noise but the quiet one from Winnetka, insures our keeping abreast of his busy family via a beautifully designed and informative Christmas card.

Bill Brooks responds to my query about those of us who live on Dartmouth streets by pointing out that he and Skip live on Webster Point Road in Madison, Conn. And Pete and Betty Van Orden live on Webster Avenue in Goshen, N.Y., from which they traveled and conducted personnel-agency business in the Pacific and Europe. Nice work! "We are considering relocating to the Raleigh/Chapel Hill, N.C., area," they write, "and would appreciate any tips or suggestions classmates familiar with the area might be able to throw our way." Can someone please find them a new home on a Dartmouth street? Bob Larigan has joined, as assistant vice president, the Manufacturers Hanover Trust of Hicksville, N.Y. Buck Scott writes that he "just returned from Hanover where my newest grandchild was born to my daughter Mary and son-in-law Chris Connery, both professors of Chinese at Dartmouth."

Don't fail to notice the picture taken at our 35th Reunion of Bob and Shirley Langworthy on the back cover of the new "Dartmouth Past & Present" calendar.

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