1965

For several years, under the leadership of Jim and Debbie Griffiths, our mini-reunions have been growing in popularity. This year the trend continued, as approximately 36 classmates returned to Hanover on the weekend of October 14. At the opening cocktail party, I talked with Bill Busker, who expressed surprise at the distances his fellow '65ers were willing to come for a weekend visit. Bill, his wife, Barbara, and their ten-year old twins had traveled from Muskegon, Mich., where Bill is an officer with an automotive supply manufacturer. Later in the evening, Jim Aiken and I had a conversation while the two of us were clinging to the same bale of hay on the '65 alumni parade wagon. Jim was a biology major and received a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Vermont. After a postdoctoral fellowship in London, he spent six years with Eli Lilly in Indianapolis. Since 1977 Jim has been with Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo, Mich., where he focuses on the development of new drugs for metabolic disorders.

Toward the end of the official class meeting on Saturday morning, it was announced that Jack Herney and Rick Mahoney have agreed to be co-chairmen of the 25th Reunion in 1990. Later, Jack told me that he and Rick are accustomed to working sideby-side, since both serve on the faculty of Phillips Academy in Exeter, N.H. Jack came to Exeter shortly after receiving a master's degree from Harvard and, with the exception of four years as an administrative assistant for Senator Mclntyre of New Hampshire, has been there ever since. His wife, Susan, is the dean of students and, after eight years as admissions director, Jack is now teaching such courses as "War and Peace" and "Toward the Year 2000." He says he and Rick are still searching for a reunion theme and urges anyone with ideas for activities to contact either of them at Exeter.

Following a satisfying series of athletic events (Dartmouth won all contests over Harvard, including the decisive 38-7 victory in varsity football), I shared a dinner table with Frank and Cindie Hermes of Englewood, Colo. Frank received an M.B.A. from Wharton, worked for IBM for four years, spent 11 years with Citibank, and now directs the marketing activities of Standard & Poor's Compustat Services, a provider of financial database information. Cindie is the sister of Peter Holmes, who she says is now a lawyer in Westchester County, N.Y. On the other side of our table were Skip andMary Ellen Linton. Skip practices family medicine in Coventry, Vt., a rural area just south of the Canadian border. The Lintons moved to Vermont after medical school at Tulane, an internship in Burlington, and three years of service in the army.

During the conversation Skip said he was satisfied with his medical career, but did express regret over both the malpractice situation and the intrusion of government into medicine.

Dick Bordeau and his family were among the first arrivals for a concluding Sunday morning discussion with Holly Sateia of the admissions office. Just before leaving Pierce's Lodge, Dick said he started his career by selling micrographic systems for Kodak. In 1973, he joined the investment banking firm of Kiader, Peabody and has subsequently moved through various sales responsibilities in the Boston area. He said his entire family thought the mini-reunion was "something special," and they plan to return for the same event on the Yale weekend in 1989.

As the mini-reunion drew to a close, my only regret was not having time for conversations with more classmates, especially those I had never known well as an undergraduate. Somehow our common starting point and subsequent diverse experiences combine into a comfortable environment that more and more of us are coming to enjoy.

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