1960

My June phone call to Dick Griggs accomplished the impossible. Dick refused to write a $10 million insurance policy! It seems he and Lois were on their way to the airport to take a Dartmouth Alumni Cruise in Turkey and Russia. A few weeks later, he called me to relate what a marvelous time they had. They were particularly taken by Turkey. By then, I had changed my mind about the insurance, which makes Dick a turkey. Marty Lower deserves a roasting too. After several years of Herculean efforts as head class agent, he wheedled, cajoled, and arm-twisted the class into winning the Green Derby contest for our vintage. Nice work, Marty.

Several months ago Bill Langley ascended another step in the managerial ladder at Manufacturers Hanover, when he was named executive vice president/risk policy officer and also made a member of the management committee. Given the tone of international banking recently, I don't know which of those positions is riskier. Dave Harrison, who exchanged his banking garb for that of L.L. Bean a few years back, recently put on another crumpled felt hat. Now he is both publisher and editor of Canoe Magazine. This way the IRS doesn't question the exotic paddling trips he takes around the world.

For those who didn't get the opportunity to have meaningful, extended, and quiet conversation with classmates at the 50th birthday party, Phil Kron offers the following alternative. The class has reserved the Moose Mountain Lodge (capacity 28) in Etna for our mini-reunion, October 14—16. That's fall foliage season, Dartmouth Night, and the Harvard football game. The lodge, owned and operated by Peter and Kay Shumway, is a great spot, secluded but convenient to Hanover. For $115 per person (two night minimum), you get two of Kay's fabulous breakfasts and dinner on Saturday night, plus great sunsets and fine company. It's first-come, first-served for those who call Peter, 603/643-3529, and drop a deposit check in the mail, Moose Mt. Lodge, Etna, NH 03750.

When Joe McHugh isn't running his country-western radio station in the DallasFt. Worth area or earning his salary as the chief financial officer of Triangle Pacific Corp. in Dallas, he can usually be found on or below water, windsurfing or scuba diving. These activities get his mind off the cares of financing the country's second largest manufacturer of kitchen and bathroom cabinets and largest producer of hardwood floors, not to mention the noise out of Nashville.

Roy Eisenhardt who, among other things, is responsible for the fortunes of the Oakland Athletics, doesn't like to be interviewed, according to his wife, Betsy. I promised I would only talk about our mutual passion for underwater photography. Roy returned my call promptly. After comparing notes on people, places, and equipment, I learned he had a longstanding love affair with land photography which extends into the darkroom where he makes his own Cibachrome color prints (no mean feat). I also learned that his wife and children are central to his life. Underwater, he focuses on little critters, macro-photography. But, he is reluctant to indulge this passion unless Betsyis diving with him and the children are nearby. Joe McHugh also talked about diving with Brenda and their elder daughter while the younger, as yet uncertified, soaked up some sun on Grand Cayman. I was struck by the similarities in their priorities. Neither told me anything, but they both told me a lot.

Then I wondered how many of our classmates besides Duncan Matthewson, Jim Houser, Hank Greer, Roy, Joe, and myself indulged in the fantasy world of scuba diving on exotic coral reefs. If there are any more out there, drop me a note. I am toying with the idea of putting together a minireunion of diving '6os at one of world's most beautiful diving sites. During the past several years, Nancy and I have cataloged the best for my book, Jewels of the Sea, which will be released next summer. Anyone interested in the likes of the Coral Sea, Belau, Belize, or the Red Sea?

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