1970

How time flies. This column kicks off my third year on the class notes/Modesto report cycle. Here's hoping this reading finds all you Northern/East Coast types enjoying the full blush of summer. As for us Modestans, we've been holed up hibernating in huddles before our air conditioners for several months now. But enough, as several of you have done your duty and actually sent along news that's fit to print.

Tom Tiemann has recently been appointed as the first dean for the Love School of Business at Elon College near Greensboro, N.C. The program was established in 1985 in response to community-oriented needs, and as such is directed to working managers of small and medium-sized businesses in the area. Present enrollment includes 80 students in an M.B.A. night program. Tom went on after Dartmouth to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt in 1975, spent time at Wabash College, and went to Elon in 1984 as chairman of the economics department. He also keeps busy as chairman of the local industrial Development Revenue Bond Authority and as a member of the Telephone Technical Task Force. He copes with all this stress by jogging and gardening, as well as by enjoying home life in rural Hillsborough with his wife, Eileen McGrath, a librarian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Tom is revving up for the transition from life as a mild-mannered professor to marketing the assets of an M.B.A. program by polishing up on jokes to be told on endless rounds of presentations before the Rotary, Kiwanis, and assorted business groups throughout central North Carolina. Good luck.

John Crouch has thrown his hat into the heated Poland Spring, Maine, political arena as one of three candidates for a term on the board of trustees at the local library. John hopes to emphasize children's programs, the beneficiaries of which would include his own two children Meghan, eight and lan, four. John earned a law degree from Duke, clerked briefly in Washington, D.C., and has lived in Maine now for the past 15 years, where he currently maintains an office in Auburn specializing in real estate. Along the way he picked up his lovely wife, Poppy, and they live in a home converted from the town's former railroad station. Between stumping for votes, John keeps busy with just about everything Maine has to offer its lucky inhabitants; namely skiing, hiking, swimming, and canoeing.

Your class secretary recently was in Maine himself to visit with another politician of some note there. Jock McKernan was gracious enough to open his office to me for some good old-fashioned Dartmouth reminiscing as well as intriguing discussion concerning his activities and goals as governor. This was all the more appreciated since it occurred during the rush of the final day of the year's session of the Legislature. A more extensive article will appear in an upcoming issue of the Alumni Magazine.

Classmates take care... but never rest too easily, for the threat of expositions, incantations, or diatribes on Modesto looms as real on this year's slate of columns as ever in the past. What's worse, this spring I even dropped by the Alumni Magazine offices and convinced the staff there that all of you actually eat this stuff up. They'll print it if you force me to write it. Don't let it come to that.

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