1955

1800 Valley Road Newtown Square, PA 19073

There are many reasons to visit Hanover. For Roy and Susan Pfeil it will be the start of several years of visiting their daughter, Anneliese, who has been accepted to the class of 1992—which makes '55 sound farther and farther away.

For Ken and Ginny Harvey it will be a weekend with Jim and Jan Venman visiting Dartmouth in March. An article in the newspaper caught the joys (and virtue?) of the Hanover Plain. For Ken it's not too long a trip, living in Framingham, Mass., and working as the owner of the business started by his father, a manufacturing representative agency for auto parts throughout the six New England states. Ken started with his dad after having spent three years working for Haloid Company, precursor to Xerox. The Harveys have three children who are all married and have given them two grandchildren. They are well en- sconced in New England, for two children live in the Boston area, and a son lives in Maine, which is handy, for the Harveys have summered 25 years on a lake 12 miles from Colby College. It makes it all very nice, for the Harveys see the Venmans frequently. Jim is practicing as a lawyer in Bridgeport following his graduation from Harvard Law School. Jim and Jan also have three children, all married, and three grandchildren. A daughter each of the Harveys and the Venmans became best friends and ended up going to Colby, where they had Doug Archibald as an English professor. Doug did comment, "They were lots of fun to have in class." (Which undoubtedly means they were good students also.)

Doug is currently serving in his sixth and last year as dean of the faculty at Colby, which, because his real interest is teaching, is "plenty long enough." Doug spent three years in the air force following graduation and then headed to the University of Michigan to get his Ph.D. Then it was on to Cornell until coming to Colby in 1973. Doug teaches the full range of English literature, but specializes in eighteenth and twentieth century British works, which therefore includes Irish studies. Doug and Mitsy have five children, two of whom graduated from Dartmouth.

Blake Irons and his wife, Sherry, also have three children (all daughters). Blake, following Tuck, headed to Chicago and then back to Connecticut where for the last 25 years he has been with Aetna Life and Casualty. He is responsible currently for the real estate department, determining their mortgage loan exposures. Last year all the Ironses went for a month to Europe, which had to have been a great experience (but nothing like coming home to Simsbury, Conn.).

And of course as we think of Dartmouth and our experience on the Hanover Plain, either three-and-a-half decades ago, or within the past several months, the College retains its vitality—in no small measure as a result of the support of those of us who benefitted from that experience. Which is the long way around of saying that BrooksParker, as our class agent, needs all our support. We have scattered far and wide, but the draw of New England shall always be part of that common experience. In other words, keep Dartmouth green.