1964

My research for information about the former residents of Cohen Hall led me to one of the more interesting stories of my term as class secretary. Early last December all of the 1960-61 residents of Suite 103 Cohen were invited to a luncheon at the Finnish Embassy in New York by their former suitemate, Paavo Lipponen, who is the newly elected prime minister of Finland. The prime minister, who was an exchange student at Dartmouth in 1960, was going to be in the United States and called his friends out of the blue to invite them to the luncheon. Classmates Chip Ridgeway (Evergreen, Colo.), Fritz Mock (Lake City, Colo.), Jim Marx (Bedminster, N.J.), and Ben Koehler (Boonton, N.J.), along with Payton Yates and Jerry Germain from the class of '63, and a number of their wives all were able to attend.

Chip and Fritz (once a '64 always a '64) journeyed all the way from Colorado, where the latter is in the contracting business and the former is "just a routine professor of medicine at a normal medical school (his words not mine)." Jim and Ben had a much shorter distance to travel. Jim has recently moved to Bedminster, N.J., and along with his wife, Helen, is very involved with civic, health, and education-related causes in and around New York City. Professionally he is the chairman of Claremont Equities, a private investment firm. Ben is the senior vice president of Coin Depot Corp., an armored service firm, and may hold the class record for longevity, having joined the company in 1964. All of the participants in the "Cohen mini-reunion" came away from the experience with a renewed sense of friendship and an appreciation of the good fortune that they all had experienced since their early days in "the Choates."

In his newsy e-mail, Chip also brought me up to date on classmates, CharlieGreer (Bloomington, Ind.), Tom Yahn (Burlington, Vt.), and Mike Bender (Denver, Colo.). Tom is doing outreach education in Vermont while Mike is a practicing criminal defense lawyer (I am surprised we haven't seen you on TV, Mike) and Charlie is a professor of East Asian studies and geography at Indiana University. Also in academia are RogerKlein (Cleveland, Ohio),who is a practicing rabbi and professor at the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies; FrankLoveland (Gettysburg, Penn.), who is an associate professor of anthropology at Gettysburg College; Ken Hannsgen (Blacksburg, Va.), who is a professor of mathematics at VPI; and Blair Clark (St. Petersburg, Fla.), who, in addition to practicing law, is visiting professor of business and finance at the University of South Florida.

Bruce Kuniholm (Durham, N.C.) is a professor at the Duke University Institute of Policy Studies and Public Affairs and Larry Williams (Great Falls, Mon.) has been the superintendent of the Great Falls school system for the last seven years and is active with the local medical center and several regional and national federations devoted to the arts. Next month more on the Men of Cohen.

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