1955

With the return of fall to New England my thoughts turn to memories of football games in Hanover and the glorious colors on the hillsides beyond. And Dartmouth football brings back visions of our classmates who played on the teams of the fifties. So I called Lou Turner, whom I hadn't contacted in a very long time, and caught up. Lou became an educator after Thayer School and graduate work in physics, first at the Mt. Herman School, then at Athens College in Greece, and for the last 21 years as a physics and astronomy teacher at the Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio. In addition to his teaching duties, he coaches tennis, both boys and girls, and has developed and published software on the subject of motion. Recently he participated with a number of high-school science teachers and a Smith College professor in the development of a new method of teaching electricity. They were funded by the National Science Foundation. It was not surprising to learn that Lou and his wife, Lee, who is an assistant librarian and also has red hair, have three red-headed children. The eldest, Nancy, a Bowdoin graduate, works for Oxfam in Boston; Steven '85 is developing software in Boston; and Bryan is a senior at Hamilton College majoring in English and economics. Lou and Lee enjoy vacationing at their Cape Cod home and recently traveled in the West to visit observatories.

Recently I learned that Harlan Jessup had retired from his long career with GE and had become a management consultant. His specialty is team-based organizations, and he conducts workshops with large companies in the techniques of self-managing work teams.

The participants in his programs include first-line managers, human relations staff personnel, plant managers, and prospective team members. Shirley and Harlan have raised two boys and two girls who are now spread out from Virginia to Alaska. Shirley and Harlan enjoy gardening and beekeeping. Harlan sees his neighbor Briscoe Lang frequently and keeps up with college roommate Bob Morse.

Another classmate has spent his career in high-school education, all of it in New Hampshire. John Stoughton began his teaching in Colebrook, then went to Lebanon, and for the past 30 years has been a mathematics teacher and department chairman at Stevens High School in Claremont. Currently John is teaching pre-calculus and advanced algebra. The second mathematics teacher in the Stoughton family, John's wife, Sally, is on the faculty of the Kearsarge Regional High School in New London. They have three children: Kathy '83, who works in financial services in Nashua; Jeff, a graduate of UNH working for PC Connection in Marlow; and Jennifer, also a UNH graduate, who is spending some time in Colorado prior to entering a career in business. John's extracurricular activities include cross-country skiing, mountain biking, and gardening.

Class Treasurer Ralph Sauter has recently sent out the notice for this year's class dues and gift funds. If you have not already done so, please send yours along soon. The class is now supporting some very worthy projects through our collective support.

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