1966

The countdown has begun. Only (about) 180 days, or six months, to one of the major events of 1996. First there's the Super Bowl, then Valentine's Day, the Idaho primary, and, boom, we are there Reunion '66.

The rights and ceremonies commemorating the 30th anniversary of our graduation from Dartmouth will take place June 13 through 16 around Richardson and Wheeler halls on the most beautiful campus in the country. Make plans to be there with your family to rekindle old acquaintances and build new friendships among classmates who share with you the common experience of Dartmouth.

Dust off the beanie, send the letter sweater to the cleaners, and check out and send in the Reunion information you've received. This only happens once.

And it's only once that somebody starts Vermont's only tax-free, no-load municipal bond mutual fund. That somebody was John Pearson, who left corporate finance in 1991 to set up shop in Rutland. "Should have done it sooner," John reports, since the fund is prospering and John has time for sailing on nearby Lake Champlain and more distant Chesapeake Bay.

The Pearson family is busy, too. Barbara is in her third year of a psychology doctorate program. Jim 28 is a construction equipment dealer in Rutland; John 25 is pursuing a doctorate in clinical psychology at Illinois Tech in Chicago; Brooke is captain of Boston College's women's ski team and Robin's a sophomore at George Washington in D.C.

Gary Broughton is now president and CEO of GPU Nuclear Corp., a unit of General Public Utilities, in Parsippany, N.J. He had previously served as senior manager of the well-known Three Mile Island Nuclear Station owned by GPU.

Some find their fortune in wine, others in water. Ask Dean Spatz. Osmonics Inc. the Minnetonka, Minn., water filtration, separation, and purification products company he founded in 1969 recently posted sales of $96 million, earnings of $9.9 million. Salute!

Gerry Paul, a senior partner in the Manhattan law firm of Flemming, Zulack & Williamson has been elected chair of the N.Y. State Bar Association's commercial and federal litigation section. Gerry is also the co-author of The Freedom of InformationAct As a Discovery Device. Gerry has served on many NYSBA committees and chaired numerous programs. Back home in Rye, N.Y., he has been chairman of the local cable television commission and a director of the Babe Ruth League.

Mike Masin, a vice chairman at Stamford (Conn.)-based GTE Corp., has been named to the additional post of president of the company's new international division. Mike will work to expand overseas operations, especially in Latin America and Asia. And here's a late bulletin from Hanover. Our class earth science professor-in-residence Dick Birnie is organizing a Reunion panel of Dartmouth professors who taught us and are still around to talk about it! If you have any suggestions, call Dick at (603) 643-2358. '

Keep the news coming and circle these Reunion dates—-June 13 through 16.

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