1976

Perhaps one of the most alarming characteristics of growing older is the speed with which summer now passes. As a child, summer felt like an eternity. This past summer had just begun when it seemed the leaves were beginning to turn. Does it just get faster and faster? I can't even tell what was accomplished during those fleeting months. At any rate, some classmates seem to have made the best of their time, and I am here to account for them.

Congratulations are due to several who have been promoted. John Brennan was recently named president of the Vanguard Group, Inc., in Valley Forge, Pa. Vanguard is a mutual fund company with 55 separate fund portfolios, net assets of more than $40 billion, and more than two million shareholders. John and Cathy live in Wayne, Pa., with their son, daughter, and a third (?!) just born recently, I've heard.

The California Newspaper Publishers Association recently announced its three top writing awards, and Laurie Prothro was among them! Laurie, who writes for the East Sonoma County Paper, won first place in the best writing category for her story, "The Lifeless Legacy of the Mt. Jackson Mine." Her story covered the toxic waste controversy behind the abondoned mercury mine in the hills above Guerneville, Calif. Since leaving Dartmouth, Laurie has written for the National Review, Journal of the Institute for Contemporary Studies, California, San Francisco, and Redbook magazines, and The Russian River News.

The international law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, in New York City, has announced that Christopher P. "Kip"Hall has been elected to partnership. Kip has a commercial litigation practice, with concentrations in hostile takeovers, proxy battles, and other securities and antitrust matters. Kip has been with the firm since 1986. Earlier he served as a special deputy prosecutor, represented General Westmoreland in his lawsuit against CBS, and worked on the team defending the Washington Public Power Supply System in its multibillion-dollar bond default. Kip, his wife, Britt Mixer Hall, and two children live in Pelham, N.Y.

News of another promotion came in from Gorham, Maine. Paul Fritzson is now the southern regional vice president for Hannaford's Supermarkets. Paul previously was responsible for Hannaford's Shop 'n Save supermarkets in southern Maine and New Hampshire. He joined Hannaford in 1978 and lives in Brunswick with his wife, Carol.

Anyone planning a winter ski trip ought to look up Cesar Munoz, who sent news from sunny Utah: "I'm back in the mountains! At 9,700 feet the powder is deep, and the ski season is long; but the Utah desert is never far away for fun mountain biking and geology lessons even Dartmouth couldn't teach!" Cesar invites "DOC vagrants and others who care" to come visit. A classmate who also has skiing on his mind is Gordie Nye, the vice president of Olin and Trak Ski Company. Gordie is engaged (and by now married?!) to Veronica Lewis of Boston. Gordie lives in Chester, Conn., and says that in his free time he "practices mary of the rituals acquired in the basement of Heorot." (One might hope he is practicing them in HIS basement!)

Next month look for the inside scoop on whom to contact for time-sharing deals in Orlando, who was busted by whom for using his roommate's meal card at the College, and who was mistakenly rumored to be the stunt double for Mikhail Gorbachev!

"We have affirmative action for everything at Dartmouth except Democrats!" Paul Tsongas '62 addressing the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Eastern Massachusetts.

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