Class Notes

1954

May 1995 Don Berlin
Class Notes
1954
May 1995 Don Berlin

April 1951. Five hundred and forty '54s voted to elect sophomore officers: GaryMcKee, president; Jay Chandler, vice president; John Gillespie, secretary; Hank Offterdinger, treasurer. Frosh golf team beat KUA led by Skip Weymouth, BillRex, Skip Carey, Russ Benjamin, Dan Neiditz, and Dick Grassey

Back in the present, John Cunningham is playing auto magnate Henry Ford in Camping with Henry and Tom, a new play by Mark S. Germain in N.Y.C. at the off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Theater.

Doug Dodge, president of the Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. of Baltimore, will retire in June. Doug has been president since 1983 and joined the bank in 1969 after 13 years at Hanover Bank in New York. He has served as director of the Bankers Association and chairman of its Banking Professions Council. Doug serves his community as a board member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Union Memorial Hospital, and The Center Club. He is also a trustee and past chairman of both Goucher College and Neighborhood Housing Services.

Jon Moore has been busy on the writing and lecture circuit. Jon has written the fourth paper in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences Occasional Paper Series. The publication is tided "Morality and Interdependence." Jon joins a distinguished group in authoring this paper. Copies can be obtained by contacting" the Rockefeller Center .Jon, who is a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., lectured last December to the Naples, Fla., Council on World Affairs on the subject, "Is There a New World Order or a New World Disorder?"

The Berlins and Hartmans attended a Dartmouth Alumni Seminar in January, "Beyond PC," featuring Professors Bill Cook and Marianne Hirsch. Also getting politically corrected were Wally and Eleanor Anderson, Perry and Janie Davis, and Allen andAnn Donahower (I did not see the latter.) Last December Tom Corcoran was featured in a news article in the Boston Globe. After 30 years he will again be a recreational skier. Having sold Waterville Valley Ski Facility, Tom will continue to develop real estate at the resort. Tom has a long connection with Waterville Valley. Before coming to Dart- mouth ("as a boy"), Tom skied at the small area that existed at Waterville Valley as a member of the Mount Tremblant Ski Team from the Laurentians in Canada.

Ron Dougherty has been busy on many fronts. He is serving as a chairman of the board of trustees of the Canton, Ohio, Regional Chamber of Commerce. He has been chairman of the Stark County Public Defender Commission since 1976 and is a past president of the Stark County Bar Association. Ron has served the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce Pro Football Hall of Fame Festival in various capacities since 1963 and was general chairman in 1992. More recently, Ron announced his candidacy for the Ohio State Bar Association president-elect. If elected Ron will be president in 1996. Rumor has it that Ron practices law in his spare time.

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