1954

I am not, as previously noted, going to report on the John Cunningham gathering in December; that will come in a later issue. Instead, it is more timely to try to relate the events that took place over the Dartmouth Night Weekend on October 12 and 13. The traditional 1954 pre-parade cocktail reception and buffet, torchlight parade, bonfire, and 1954 postbonfire reception were enjoyed by all. Class President Jerry Goldstein presided over the class executive committee meeting on Saturday morning, and then those more hardy souls supplemented their lunches in Leverone Field House with bloody marys provided by Donna and Clark Davis. I am informed that this award-winning concoction descends from Clark's great-grandmother's recipe for "Maude's Old Juice." After the 27-17 defeat of Yale under very wet conditions, the soggy, but unbowed, celebrants made their way to the Hop for another reception and more cocktails. Then, it was onward to Carol and SteveMullins' farmhouse in Norwich, Vt. About 75 classmates, wives, offspring, and guests inaugurated a class buffet dinner party catered by Thayer Hall, and then squaredanced on Steve's indoor basketball court.

Dartmouth Medicine informs us that Fleur and Jay Chandler are grandparents for the second time. Jay is surgery department chairman at the Medical Center at Princeton, and clinical professor of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He has continued his education to keep up with his residents and now is certified in surgical critical care. Stan Rosenberg, also at die medical school, is in charge of residency training in urology. The same source reports that Don Brief is the president of the New Jersey College of Surgeons. Don is in private practice in general and vascular surgery with six associates. He is the chief of general surgery at the Beth Israel Medical Center and a clinical professor of surgery at the State University of Medicine and Dentistry.

The New England regional branch of The Anti-Defamation League presented George Graboys with its Torch of Liberty Award at a gala award dinner in September in Providence, R.I. George was honored for his decades of community service and for his efforts on behalf of minority rights and interfaith cooperation. George has served as CEO and president of Citizens Financial Group Inc. since 1981. He takes justifiable pride in the consistent corporate leadership role which Citizens and its people continue to demonstrate in the Rhode Island community.

Nice to hear from Bill Squire, my room-mate freshman year. Although Bill went on to finish at another college, he's always held a soft spot in his heart for the Big Green. He entered the insurance business almost immediately after finishing school and has been very successful indeed. Presently, he is president of his own company, Employee Benefits of America Inc., a fast growing operation which is making a significant impact in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area. Bill has five grown children, all of whom are still in the D.C. area and doing reasonably well in life. He has kept up a relationship with Dick Page, primarily through a mutual friend in Washington who was Dick's roommate at Columbia University Business School. Bill claims that he chiseled Dick out of a dime the last time they played golf.

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