1968
Big doin's on the Hanover Plain in late April. Tonks Tonkovich,Dave Peck, Ron Weiss,Skip Waterhouse, JohnEngelman, Don Clausing, and Parker Beverage gathered for Class Officers Weekend and a meeting of the class executive committee. Lots of talk about reunions. John asks that all '68s set aside October 13 for a get-together with '67s and '69s at the Zimmerman Lounge (Blunt Alumni Center), in conjunction with Dartmouth Night Festivities and the Yale game. The get-together follows the game.
Two weekends later, before the Harvard game, classmates should plan to rally around the class banner at the corner of Alumni Gym, or across the street on the AD lawn. You are welcome to contribute food items to this tailgater, if you wish, but at the very least, please join us with your family.
Now, as for our 25th Reunion not too many years hence, we are still looking for a reunion chair, a 25th yearbook editor, and a reunion-giving chair. Co-chairs would be welcome, too. Volunteers should step forward and give Tonks a call.
Where is Tonks these days, you ask. He is still working for Dartmouth, but has returned from the Thayer School to Blunt as the new director of volunteer and staff training, and assistant to the director of campaign events. Congratulations on the promotion, Tonks.
Congratulations, also, to the classmates whose children will enroll at Dartmouth in the fall: Gary Blackman (Melissa), LincEldredge (Rebecca), Pete Fahey (Pete Jr.), Steve Feldman (Gillian), William KolaskyJr. (Robert), and Roger Tung (Christopher). These Big Green offspring will be joining the children of nearly 15 other '68s at the College in September.
Burt Quist, surely one of the Marine Corps' finest, will pin on his eagles soon. Selected recently for promotion to colonel, Burt was one of only about a hundred officers selected from nearly 250 who were eligble. Great show, Burt!
Great show coming soon from W.D. Richter, too. The director of the 1985 scifi cult hit "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" is back with a new project, "Late for Dinner." The new film deals with two brothers-in-law who get cryogenically frozen in 1962 and awake in 1991. Should be interesting.
Bill Kendall called last spring from Sacramento, Calif., then followed with a letter, in hopes that I would get all the spellings correct and that I would not "publish anything slanderous" about him. Currently Bill is the founder/chief executive officer of Career Pro, Inc., a company with over 420 career development centers nationwide. He is also general partner of a private investment company, executive director of the Institute for Contemporary Studies (a think tank), and regional coordinator of Citizens Against Government Waste. Bill has a daughter at Sarah Lawrence and two boys just graduating from high school. He claims to stay in touch with Tony Marzoni in Palo Alto and with Bill Phillips in Denver.
Jim Topinka was credited earlier this year as one of two San Francisco outdoors men who helped to salvage the Chouinard Equipment Company (back country climbing and skiing gear) by helping employees engineer an employee buy-out of the financially strapped company. Jim practices law with Pettit & Martin.
Bob Reich is "on the stump again," claims a New York Times article of April 12. Bob addressed a luncheon audience of the Institute for International Economics this past spring, espousing a fresh perspective on the nation's industrial policy.
One final note, courtesy of Bill Ferrier, manager of the U.S. Census Bureau Office in Oakland, Calif.: If you haven't sent in your census questionnaire, yet, do it now! In addition to counting people in 1990, Bill remains active in a Bay Area men's group that meets weekly, goes on retreats quarterly, and hires consultants to work with the membership on specific issues. "Rewarding, fun, and inspirational," writes Bill.
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