1953

Tom Bloomer has turned over his pencil to me and moved to Skaneateles, N.Y., on the Finger Lakes. Taking over his awardwinning column won't be easy. I'll start tracking our classmates by area, starting with Minneapolis, which I just visited. Norm Carpenter, our newsletter editor, and I divided up the news over lunch and his first report was terrific. Norm's a long-time senior partner with Faegre and Benson, one of the oldest and largest Minneapolis law firms, and he specializes in commercial litigation. He remarried two years ago. His wife, Linda, has her own business and he has two stepdaughters, Becky, a senior at Wells, and Sarah, just starting at Colby in Maine. Far from retiring, Norm spends more than full time at his law practice.

Chuck and Nancy Stone are fixtures in the Twin Cities. Chuck has two major activities Stone Machinery, Inc., a highly regarded machine-tool distributorship in the Upper Midwest started by his father. Wnen winter comes, the Stones run the Buck Hill ski area in South Minneapolis. It s a nice operation, with night as well as day skiing, big lodge, and excellent ski school. The school has graduated a number of nationally ranked skiiers including two Stone daughters, Cindy and Polly. Several years ago the Stones took over the operation of Powder Ridge ski area, 60 miles north of Kimball, Minn. Nancy has her own business designing and selling beautiful ski hats which she has produced by ladies with looms at home. The unions fought this work-at-home practice for years, But Nancy (and others like her) won out. Chuck is still a fierce competitor on the golf course and tennis court.

I missed Dave and Peggy Cost on this visit. Dave is an enthusiastic outdoorsman and was in Montana canoeing and fly fishing (Would you believe you catch the fish and give them back?) He and Peggy are active in many civic affairs.

Jim Stuebner started Northland Development in 1970 and has developed many successful, large-scale office and industrial parks around Minneapolis. He says the Twin Cities are the fastest growing area in the frost belt and he's just opening Northland Park, a development of 400 acres on two major highways. Northland does property management, leasing, and some construction. struction. Jim is president of the National Association of Office Parks, does legislative work, is on the board of the Minnesota Orchestra, sings with the Bach Choral Society, and is active in his church. He and Diane have four children, with Susan, the youngest, coming to Dartmouth this fall.

Jim Boen became a quadriplegic in his junior year, spent almost a year at Dick's House, and got his degree at Dartmouth in 1956. He got his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Illinois and then went to the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (one of the best) where he has been for 25 years. He's the assistant dean of academic affairs and a professor of biostatistics. He and Dorothy have been married 32 years with two children, and Dorothy's now going to law school. One of his interests is gun legislation and he's frequently in touch with Warren Cassidy of the NRA. He may do a comprehensive statistical report on gun casualties.

A last note from The Wall Street Journal. Jim Courtney has been made vice chairman of M.A. Hanna. Going up the legal ladder in Cleveland after the Harvard Law School, Jim joined Hanna 15 years ago and is now picking out plastic company aquisitions while cutting back on mining activities.

K-Ross, P.O. Box 436, Lebanon, NH 03766