1973

With all the zeal of a newlyelected class secretary, I have been feverishly dialing for news and actually managed to reach six of the dozen or so people I tried. Randy Lipshutz is practicing real estate law in Atlanta and is still active in the Dartmouth recruiting process, having recently been promoted to area enrollment director over four states after six years as state director. Randy keeps his theater interests going by volunteering at a local high school where he teaches would-be stage managers ropes.

Doug Britton has taken over the family lumber business in Vermont, operating a white pine sawmill and wholesale distributor. (He must be doing something right because he talks to Wayne Davis almost daily for investment advice.) Doug, Chet Smith, and Bob Spitz just had a mini-Alpha Theta reunion at Bob's home in Connecticut. Chet lives in Maynard, Mass., and is a special ed teacher. Bob started and has significantly expanded a private ob-gyn practice in New London. The reunion was a family one which included six sons all told. (That's one way to assure a strong stock of Dartmouth Men.)

Eric and Patsy Nutt Decker will hopefully have survived a trip down the Snake River in Idaho by the time you read this. Eric and Patsy also have two Sons of Dartmouth, ages 12 and 14, who keep them busy sailing and traveling. Eric has built a pathology practice at Peninsula General Hospital in Salisbury,' Md., and Patsy is a substitute teacher as well as a computer volunteer at a local nurseiy and grammar school where she helps little tykes get ready for the world of PCs.

Bill Hollander finally made the move from Chicago proper to one of its suburbs and is realizing that it's much more enjoyable than he expected. Bill and Marilyn and their son live in Highland Park, III. Bill is president of James Systems, an office products manufacturer, and is incredibly active in directing a number of trade associations. Bill just got back from a visit to Atlanta where Maxwell Anderson '77 gave him a personal tour of the Emory Art and Archaeology Museum of which he is director. The Hollanders are gearing up for a return to Hanover next June for Bill's dad's 50th Reunion and his nephew's graduation. I hope they'll have some good off-year reunion stories to share with us.

Doug "Digger" Donahue spends most of his time down the street from me at Brown Brothers Harriman, where he is senior manager of operations. He recently returned from six months in Luxembourg where he was setting up an international securities sub of which he is now a director. Doug lives in Norwell, Mass., but enjoys his summers in Maine with wife Susan and three children.

I would have had news about Jack Beeler but he failed to return my call after swearing that he would do so as soon as he finished with a pending closing or some such lawyer nonsense. I tell you this only to demonstrate how I will drag your name through the mud if I don't get some news for the next column. I will of course try Jack again and give him a chance to redeem himself but I doubt he'll come up with 600 words worth, so start communicating, you guys.

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