1970

One for the records: the Alumni Magazine is now complaining that the '70 Class Notes are too long! They say we have too much news. Keep it comingguys.

From Dallas comes news of JeffreyNordgren being selected as the prestigious first-prize winner in an essay contest for Southern Methodist University's master of liberal arts program. JefPs essay was titled "The Holy Experiment of the Quakers: What Lessons for America?" It was judged best by a faculty committee. He received his master's degree in 1995 from SMU and currently is teaching humanities at Wichita Collegiate School in Wichita, Kans.

From Pennsylvania comes the announcement that Ted McConnell has left the hectic world of Washington politics where he served as chief attorney for the Federal Highway Administration. Appointed by President Clinton in 1993, Ted has decided to spend more time with his family (two children) and has returned to his law firm, Kirkpatrick and Lockhardt. Ted recently led a team of officials to India to help that nation plan its major transportation projects.

Using the Internet, Marc Jolicoeur wrote about his family; wife Jackie and his children. His daughter Jennifer is class of 1997 and is majoring in biochemistry. His son Pete graduated last year in the Hanover rain and they have a picture of Pete shaking President Clinton's hand as he received his diploma. Marc wants his classmates to know "we are all ardent Republicans," and with the kids out of the house, Marc and Jackie travel to the Caribbean a lot. He has recently run into Randy McFarlane in Washington where he is a lobbyist for the banking industry and lives with his wife, Carolyn. He also wants you to know that John Stern and his wife Sheri have two children at Dartmouth (Maren '97 and Michael '99).

A treat came in the mail from TedWhite and Heaven Spun Records in Nashville. Ted is now a number-one Christian country music recording star and he sent along his new CD (Lost and Found) to prove it. Currently his top hits are "Jesus Is a Cowboy" and "Rodeo Angel." By profession a tax lawyer, Ted turned his talent to music: "How did this happen? Divine intervention!" He credits his faith for his singing success. That might explain my lack of a musical career.

Doug Simpson writes by e-mail (it's so easy guys) that he is a senior lawyer with the ITT Hartford Insurance Group. He lives in Wethersfield, Conn., with wife Roberta and their nine-year-old daughter Elizabeth. One of his best memories of last summer was attending the Dartmouth Lawyers Association annual meeting in Hanover (along with Gary Brooks, DaveBurbank, and Jim Morse) and "the impromptu after-dinner hike across state lines for a bar-closing brewski at the Norwich Inn." Oh, by the way, the '70 class Reunion consumed 25 percent less booze than did the guys from '69. Anyone care to comment?

On a somber note, our class has lost three fine fellows, Jim Lemke, AllanMcLean, and T. Gray. An upcoming issue of the magazine will run obituaries of them. I find it difficult to write adequate obituaries about our friends and classmates in the space provided, so please send in your own memories if you wish.

Next month I want to discuss an interesting proposition from Dave Graves about making our class the first one to have an interactive e-mail directory and Class Notes. Intriguing, huh? Bye, bye!

Ed.D., 43 Charles St., Boston, MA 02114; fax (617) 742-3499;

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