1955

Earlier this week my eye caught an article on the front page of the New York Times datelined Greybull, Wyo., which featured a modern cowboy named Tim Flitner. Even at that early hour of the day I made the connection between place and name with our classmate Dave Flitner. That evening I found Dave at home in his ranch house kitchen and very willing to chat. Tim, the cowboy, turns out to be Dave’s nephew, and he is a practitioner of a different, more gentle method of breaking horses. Dave is still actively ranching cattle and sheep, putting in 16-hour days, and is active in a number of trade associations as well, including the Wyoming Farm Bureau, of which he is president. The Dave Flitner Ranch is also in the recreation business. Six to eight visitors a week get to experience life on a working ranch first-hand. The other night he had guests from Belgium with him. The ranch is starting an airboat excursion on the Big Horn River to a unique geological formation, a 1.4 billion-year-old layer inversion. Dave and Suzanne have three children and one grandchild, with another expected shortly. All three are in Wyoming, and their son, Greg, is active in the day-to- day management of the ranch. In his spare (?) time, Dave does some elk and deer hunting. It must be good hunting as he told me he had seen two mountain lions that morning on the ranch. Bob Fanger, who has visited the ranch, recommends that anyone who comes within striking distance should make a point of see- ing this beautiful spot.

Ralph Sautter has passed along some notes received with class dues. Pete Robinson is still holding forth in Paris, and Frank Chase was optimistic about the Big Green’s prospects for this fall. I hope Frank didn’t give up hope after the early losses. Frank is very busy in retirement with volunteer work and consult- ing, and he is planning to do some writing in the health-care and insurance fields, as well as a book on the history of the modern Olympics.

Bob Stirling has recently moved from Avon to Fairfield, Conn., to be closer to his new position as group vice president for New York area operations of Drake Beam Morin Inc., a human-resource management and career-transition counseling firm. Bob was pre- viously senior vice president and managing director of the firm’s West Hartford office. Bob retired from IBM in 1987 after a 31-year career which included stays in Paris and Tokyo, and he joined DBM that year. Bob and Rita have four grown children living in New Eng- land, two grandchildren, and a third due in December. Bob also serves as secretary to his Tuck class and recently attended its 35th reunion in Hanover.

I have received word that Charlie Williams, managing partner of Camp, Williams and Richardson, a New Britain, Conn., law firm has been elected a corporator of the Ameri- can Savings Bank of New Britain. Charlie, who has always called himself a “country lawyer” may have to find a new job description.

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