1953

It's a chore just getting over to Hanover to see and hear the visiting '53 dignitaries. Al Collins, this year's head of the entire Alumni Fund and DonSmith, our class rep were at the Alumni Council meeting in November. FredWhittemore and Tony Frank were here last month for a Tuck Overseers meeting. Fred moderated a panel on economic relations with Japan, and when panelist Phil Benton '52 couldn't make it—he was buying Jaguar for Ford Motor—Tony stepped right in. He's anything but a Japan basher and thinks we can learn a lot from them.

A few days later, posters all over campus proclaimed Jack Patten, publisher of Business Week, would be speaking in Rockefeller on world business in the '90s. It was SRO for this event, but Don Goss saved me a seat.

In October, well deserved certificates for the '89 Alumni Fund were awarded to DaveHalloran and Ron Lazar.

Looking at me from a picture in the Portland, Maine, Press Herald business section is Tom Davidson, sporting a mustache. There's a long article on Davidson-Peterson Assoc., "one of the nation's most used marketing research and strategic planning firms for the tourism industry." Clients include Maine and 12 other states, seven countries, and a lot of hotels, motels, and bed and breakfasts. Tom's also a registered Maine guide.

This month our '53 wagon train settles on Chicago and environs. Ted Spiegel is the director of the direct marketing department and also a professor at North western's Medill School. He had DaveFlorence there lecturing a few weeks ago. He's still a consultant to Spiegel Inc., and a trustee of the National College of Educatoin, from which he recently received an honorary degree. The College teaches 5,000 of the best elementary school teachers at five campuses as well as Chicago.

Dr. Warren Babcock and Virginia have been in Rockford, I11., for quire a spell. He's in a group surgical practice there. One daughter worked for Spiegel's for a while, but was recently married and moved to St. Louis. Jack and Rachel Senne recently married off their second daughter. Several years ago Jack's provision company, Railton, was sold giving Jack more time at his golf club. Now, while a number of the class are retiring, Jack has gone back into battle with the Sexton Co., a major food firm.

Another wedding: Dick and AudreyLoewenthal's daughter in November. Margot Derzon came from California. Dick's an SVP in corporate insurance programs at Corroon & Black and has been there 20 years. Other activities include the boards of The Cook School of Nursing which dates back to the 1850s, and the University Club. Also the board of Thresholds, a psychiatric rehab center for mentally disturbed but not dangerous young adults, including an excellent program for the deaf.

Bob Lambert called in from his condo in Sanibel, Fla., but home address is still Glen Ellyn nearby Serine's. Bob had been in charge of Northern Trust's Florida Banks, but he's retiring next year, and is currently the bank's representative to the United Way in Chicago. Can you top this? His father Frank '21 is still going strong; and all three children graduated from Dart mouth, with two of them marrying Dart mouth graduates.

Barry Schoeder says he's working harder than ever at R. R. Donnelley & Sons, the big printing company where Barry is group president for catalog products. He's been there 26 years. A house is now under construction at Sea Pines in Hilton Head. Of three sons, two went to Dartmouth, all are married, and there's one grandson so far.

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