1970

This month's offering features a real grab-bag and a class secretary on the run. No themes and just a bit of nonsense. So sorry. Bob Groves knows job security when he sees it. He's just signed on with the U.S. Census Bureau as Associate Director for Statistical Standards and Methodology, and will primarily assist in planning the decennial census for the year 2000. As previously reported here, Bob prepared for all this with 15 years of teaching at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, prior to which the university had honored him with a Ph.D. and two M.A.s. His work with the Census Bureau will certainly benefit from the latest of his published works, Survey Errors and Survey Costs (1989). Other than turning his titled tome into goals for the public good, Bob promises to improve the surveys, take advantage of new technologies, and leave John Q. Citizen much happier about all this. Go to it Bob ten years will have flown by before you know it.

Bob Lovewell, on the other hand, is in no such race against the clock. Bob contents himself filling the world with ever more euonymus (since I abandoned Latin and Greek with high school, I don't dare try for the plural). Bob operates a nursery in Concord, N.H., located there quite understandably on Pleasant Street. Stop by for assistance with all your lawn mowing needs.

Since we're busy here improving our little planet, add Ralph Tarr to the list of those who care as only a lawyer can. Ralph recently left the Department of Interior to join the Houston-based law firm of Andrews & Kurth. He'll focus on environmental and natural resource issues, litigating like crazy if at all possible. Ralph will be working out of the Los Angeles office, and has relocated his family there from Washington, D.C.

Tom Ostermueller is also on the move, having been promoted to executive vice president of Mead Johnson Nutritional Group, part of the Bristol-Myers Squibb operation headquartered in Evansville, Ind. This seems reasonable since he was involved most of the past year in trying to figure out how all these companies could possibly be squeezed together during the Bristol-Meyers Squibb merger process. Previous to this, Tom's efforts have pretty much been spent making you, the consumer, happy. He served various consumer goods companies, both domestically and abroad, as a consultant with McKinsey & Company through most of the 1980's, and had earlier management experience at Wilson Sporting Goods and Proctor and Gamble.

Since he's moved on to pharmaceuticals and nutrition, Tom might want to send a rep by to visit Ted Tetirick Jr., M.D., who has recently joined the practice of Associates in Surgery and Gastroenterology in Clare-Mont, N.H. Ted specializes in the little ones who need neonatal or pediatric surgery. After receiving his M.D. at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Ted completed a surgery internship and residency at Ohio State University Hospitals, Columbus. From there it was on to the endless associations and affiliations of a busy professional career, notably as a diplomat. Ted will oblige and perform his cutting at either Valley Regional Hospital in Claremont or the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Wife Mary Theresa Masters and daughter Jillian Rae live in West Lebanon, but aren't overly impressed by all of this. They're just happy with any time daddy can give them as he dashes to and fro, hither and yon. Be sure to look up Ted when back in the Upper Valley for next June's reunion he may even be persuaded to extend a courtesy discount on consultations for class of '70 young'uns and babes.

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