1958

There is still time to attend Dartmouth Night and the Yale game October 13-14. This is a football weekend right out of an old MGM movie, with a gorgeous campus, New England charm, old friends and a delightful time. Class events include the pregame gathering at Dave Bradley's office, a bonfire that will light (we are assured), and an informal class dinner on Saturday evening.

Walter DeWitt was designated by New Hampshire Profiles as one of New Hampshire's ten power elite. Rink is chairman and CEO of Bank East Corporation, Manchester. Referred to as "the Granite State's version of Lee lacocca," he served as director and then president of the State's Business & Industry Association, 1975-80, the business community's "most potent lobbying force."

Jim Crawford's daughter, Betsy Regan '86, graduated from seminary in Chicago in June with Jim, Linda, and Jim's mom in attendance. Betsy and Jim conducted the Sunday service at a Hyde Park church. The Crawfords' two younger sons are students at Dartmouth. Walter Palmer '90, son of Jim's late sister Sally, has become a 7'1" force in Ivy League basketball.

Events in Hanover, if you have missed them, included a decision to put sorority and fraternity rush back to the winter term. At our fall '88 executive committee meeting, many expressed concern about a College proposal to hold rush in sophomore spring. Bob Eleveld's undergraduate son made a persuasive presentation against that change. Also, if you have been living in a cave, the Dartmouth Review reverse-discrimination case lost, being dismissed on all counts by the New Hampshire Supreme Court, which found no evidence of racial bias.

An old friend of 1958, Dick Yeager '59, is the new athletic director of Dartmouth College. He has for years done a tremendous job in the admissions area and serves as trustee of C&G. Dick is the right man to develop programs for female and male athletics at Dartmouth.

A great article about Joseph Hayse came from Bill Leffer '51. Lexington, Ky., had historically underfunded the local library, reducing it to inadequacy and disrepair. Joe Hayse brought a citizens' class action suit that resulted in a finding that local government was not complying with state law and had underfunded the library. Joe is a program manager for the Kentucky Department of Transportation. As a result of the successful Hayse suit, funding for the library increased by $500,000 in one year plus the court required compliance with ignored state law which says funding will increase as property values go up. In Lexington, the mayor said, "Without this lawsuit, you don't have this library."

A delightful article just arrived about JimRiffle, from Columbus, Ind. This city south of Indianapolis is the home of Cummings Engine and famed for prize-winning architecture and the enlightened projects of the city. After Jim's career at Cummings ended in retirement, he managed a financial planning company. Now he is director of the Manufacturing Technology Service Company of Columbus, covering five counties. The program is funded in part by a grant from Cummings Engine. It will help match technological resources with area companies, with Jim serving as the matchmaker. He is pictured smiling and full of energy in his new office in Columbus.

The Joplin, Mo., Chamber of Commerce recently named Joe Newman its outstanding citizen, citing more than a decade of work toward economic development. Joe's businesses include operating an agency office of the Farm & Home Savings Association and a branch of a brokerage firm. He is also involved in real estate development. A long list of civic activities includes president of the Joplin Industrial Development Authority, president of the board of Freeman Hospital, the Chamber of Commerce, and Rotary. Recently Joe chaired the Industrial Development Corp. that raised $500,000 for Joplin economic development. Accepting the award, Joe said he tried to "give back a little to the community that has been so good to my family."

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