1965

It may have been the thrill so many of us had in taking off from Lebanon Airport in a loaded Northeast Airlines DC3. Perhaps living through several Hanover winters simply produces a desire to fly south. What ever the reason, it seems that a disproportionate number of our classmates have chosen careers with major airlines.

Dan Southard, an active member of the Dartmouth Flying Club in his undergraduate days, is now a 747 pilot for TWA on overseas routes out of Kennedy Airport. Dan started with TWA 22 years ago as a Boeing 707 flight engineer and has since flown, to nearly all parts of the world. He met his wife, the former Peggy Ho, in Paris in 1967 and they now have two daughters, ages 15 and 10. The Southard family recently returned from a four-year living experience in France and is presently making their home in Redding, Conn. The only unpleasant change Dan recalls as he looks back over his flying career is the security situation in the Middle East and the "close calls" his crew has encountered in locations such as Beirut. He says he enjoys flying as much as ever and looks forward to at least 15 more years behind the controls.

Bob Ernst is director of inflight product planning at United Airlines' Chicago head quarters. Following his Dartmouth graduation, Bob earned an M.B.A. in marketing from the University of Washington. He joined United's Seattle operation in 1969, and within a year was transferred to Chicago. He served in a variety of administrative roles and, by 1975, was made responsible for all furnishings and cabin decor for the entire United fleet. His duties subsequently broadened to cover all activities involving the passenger area of the plane, including inflight services and flight attendant training. Bob says he has found the two major business challenges of an airline to be: 1) the proper allocation of assets to very expensive opportunities, and 2) managing a large workforce under strong cost pressure in a service industry where employe attitude is critical. Bob and his wife, Nancy, a former United employe, enjoy frequent travel with their two sons, Ryan and Aaron. Bob comments that working for an airline rarely allows a person to become rich and famous, but he says that the discounts on air fare permit his family to "go where the rich and famous go."

Frank Hankins describes his home as a "bucolic setting" on 93 acres near Meansville, Ga. He is a captain for Northwest Airlines and flies a DC9 out of a Detroit base. An ROTC student at Dartmouth, Frank spent the first six years after graduation as a pilot and flight instructor in the U.S. Navy. After a year off to enjoy skiing at Killington, Frank moved to the South when he accepted a position flying out of Atlanta with Southern Airlines. Subsequent mergers with Republic and Northwest have meant changes in Frank's flying patterns, but he has continued to enjoy a rural home in Georgia complete with a Christmas tree farm and tennis court. His wife, Patricia, a graduate of Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr, presently teaches art history at a branch of the University of Georgia. Their teenaged daughters, Katie and Charlotte, enjoy involvement in a unique exchange program where they "swap families" with the children of pilots from European airlines.

[Due to an "oversold" situation, we will not be able to accommodate all of our aviation minded classmates in the space presently available. Next month we hope to recognize additional participants in the 1965 frequent flyer program.]

Law firms merge, too. Recently two well-known Minneapolis law firms ranks, with Pepin Dayton Herman & Graham becoming part of Leonjoined ard, Street and Deinard. An ampersand was lost but a comma gained. And two Dartmouths now get to work together on real estate, environmental, and government-relations projects. At left is Fred Rosenblatt '66, a former president of the Alumni Council who was already a partner at Leonard, Street. At right is Chuck Dayton '61, a founder of Pepin Dayton and new partner of Fred's. Both earned law degrees at the University of Michigan.

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