1958
When Dartmouth plays Yale next year, plan to attend. The color in New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts this year was spectacular, with bright green, deep crimson, evergreen, and a thousand variations elicting one exclamation after another. Also it is refreshing to wander around a room, talking with classmates from every profession and background. Origin, accomplishments, and status are forgotten because it is a group of friends, pleased to be there and glad to see one another. John Graf emphasizes that class executive committee meetings are open to all.
The executive committee meeting in October was fun. Treasurer John Otis reported us solvent, mildly suggested a dues increase, and settled for no increase ($35). Our dues paid for the program on Middle East Fundamentalism, one example of something done by our class for the College. The program received excellent press and was one of the few things of this magnitude done by any class.
At the meeting Bill Eleveld was there to help fly the midwest flag. Dr. Will Durousseau flew in from Los Angeles, bringing his wife and a lively father-in-law and two daughters who are in college elsewhere. He cheers as enthusiastically as he did 30 years ago, looks trim and handsome with a neat, slightly grey moustache. Andy Petersen, an expert in computer systems and software for accounting, gets up at 4 a.m. to feed his cows and chickens "up in Farley." Cary Rhoten sat behind me at the game and worked on an order for some business items between cheers. Bill Cutcliffe hopes to expand the midwest office of his environmental company in the next year or two, saying that there are so many environmental issues coming up in the 1990s that the only trick will be anticipating which problems to prepare to answer. John Trimble, New Jersey banker, expressed a concern shared by many about the destabilizing effect caused by merger mania. Bob Gilges rises early, drives from Greenwich, Conn., down across the Tappan Zee Bridge to New Jersey and operates the training functions for Peat MarwickMitchell & Co. U.S.District Court Judge Tom Jackson restores his calm and keeps his sanity by sailing his 32-foot sailboat on the Chesapeake. A skillful trial lawyer, Tom devotes much of his effort to keeping his caseload moving, fighting the current trend of litigating forever but neither settling nor trying cases.
During the weekend, interesting Dartmouth issues kept coming up. Both undergraduates and alumni expressed concern that major changes are going to occur at Dartmouth, such as expanding class size and moving toward university status. Plans for the land available when Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital moves out of town are the subject of much speculation, relating to the expansion of Dartmouth College. Enough "justifications" for expansion are being floated in Hanover to malce the concerns understandable. There is a definite need for a statement from the Dartmouth Trustees that provides the blueprint for the nineties, in terms of our major purpose, our identity, and the specific steps that will be taken to accomplish them. It seems ironic that a school founded in 1769 is still trying to define its purpose but that is clearly what is going on. The Trustees and Alumni Council have the duty and responsibility of making sure that what the administration accomplishes will be supported by those who are asked to provide the means.
Don Maurer recently joined Core States Financial Corps as senior vice president for national marketing. Don has been a salesman for IBM for 20 years, most recently responsible for financial services industry support in IBM's Philadelphia office. Don heads a staff of 14 who will market pointof-sale services to other banks nationwide. After graduating, Don was a pilot with the Marine Corps for five years and then joined IBM. He and wife Laura live in Merion, Pa.
Bob Friend has just been named senior master of Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H.
Our newly minted Harvard Law School graduate Myles Slosberg is clerking for U.S. District Courtjudge Rya Zobel in Boston. After that experience, Myles intends to enter private practice. His daughter was Dartmouth '87 and he has a son in the class of 1990.
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