1960

Forty Californians were admitted to our class, but 67 names show up on today's roster as living in California—quite a westward drift. And in three years, there will briefly be a California focusour 60th birthday party in San Francisco and the wine country in May 1998.

Two Californians, Hap Dunning of Davis and Dick Foley of Portola Valley, are in charge, and class Vice President Rick Roesch, not a Californian, has been assigned to assist them.

The plans are tentative, and suggestions are welcome. Write Dick at Ewing-Foley Inc., 10495 Bandley Drive, Cupertino, Calif., 95014. A San Francisco hotel will headquarter Thursday to Sunday. One day we'll tour the Napa Valley. One dinner may be in the vineyards, another on a San Francisco Bay cruise, and participants may attend the Beach Blanket Babylon musical rgvue.

Earlier, our 50th and 55th birthday celebrations were held in New York and Washington. The 60th will allow some 1960s to make first trips to San Francisco and Dick assures ample time for personal sightseeing.

I called at random six California classmates to see what they are doing. Three left Dartmouth before graduation, though all graduated somewhere.

Robert Cohen, now of Laguna Beach, transferred to UC Berkeley and earned a Yale doctorate. He has been professor of drama at UC Irvine for 30 years, and has also taught in Finland, Hungary, and Estonia.

Ed Geraghty, of La Verne, graduated from Denver University. At Wells Fargo Bank, he's up to his chin in Southern California's real estate downturn. He handles "a large portfolio of problem real estate loans," and predicts recovery in the region may take three to five years.

A career in educational videos is the latest in Peter Farquhar's life. He's in San Francisco, after 10 years teaching geography in community college and, later, operating a bed and breakfast in Santa Cruz. Now, he's developing techniques to put oral histories on CDs at Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

Fred Marsh, of Coronado, is "getting ready to throw myself full bore into an effort to move this country from an income tax to a retail sales tax," probably "in the 15- to 20- percent range." An investment banker, he acknowledged, "I'm not crazy about the IRS."

David Newhart, of Pasadena, who graduated at USC, has been in the steel business "all my life" and presently manufactures lightgauge housing panels. "I enjoyed my time back in Hanover," he comments. "But I'm shocked at the direction the whole Ivy League has taken.... (It's) just a liberal haven."

David Sammons, of Walnut Creek, a Unitarian minister, is the "good offices person" for Unitarian Universalist ministers for the United States and Canada, charged with resolving disputes between ministers and negotiating resignations when things go wrong, "mostly not sexual conduct, but ministers doing things that are stupid." He has authored two books about marriage.

Diverse lives, diverse views. As a Californian, I'm not surprised. Please write.

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