1963

Dick Crane is facing the most important election of his political career. He is the Republican candidate for first selectman of the town of Woodbury, Conn., which is tantamount to being mayor. Currently one of three town board selectmen, Dick promises more handson management of the town's agencies and has concern over farther real estate development in the town. Besides serving many years as selectman, Dick has been chairman of the board of finance and member of the Republican Town Committee for more than ten years. A former navy pilot and Dartmouth Club president, Dick is the superintendent of cemeteries in Woodbury and runs a home improvement business. Marianne is employed by Uniroyal. Daughter Debbie is in publishing and Nicole is at the University of North Carolina.

Richard Braddock, formerly president of Citicorp, was elected a director of AVIC Group International, a New York company which develops and finances telecommunications projects in China. He serves on eight other boards including Kodak, Lincoln Center, the Cancer Research Institute, and the Tuck School. He was until recently a principal at the buyout firm of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.

Dennis Kratz has been appointed dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas in Dallas. He had been interim dean of the school as well as dean of undergraduate studies. A scholar and translator of medieval literature, Dennis has written four books and has a doctorate from Harvard.

How do you eat an elephant? "One bit at a time," says Denny Emerson in an interview for a profile in the equestrian magazine, Dressage & CT. "You just do it." Currently vice president for eventing for the U.S. Equestrian Team, Dennis logs thousands of miles for meetings and clinics while tending to horse breeding and training businesses in Montana, Vermont and North Carolina. He's also on the riding- advisory committee for Dartmouth.

Check out the latest work of renown sculptor Wheat Allen, a pair of life-size bronze blue herons at the entrance of the new $1.5-million library in Tiburon, Calif. After years of working in the corporate world, Dick Booma has become an entrepreneur. He purchased Hanover Transfer & Storage, the North American Van Lines agent in Hanover.

Bill Adelaar, former New York textile manufacturer, is a budding philanthropist. He recently endowed the Naval War College Library with a book fund for strategy and policy. The department chairman at the Rhode Island school is George W. Baer, who taught at Dartmouth. Bill followed that by establishing a fund for homiletics (sermons and ministries) at New York's venerable Marble Collegiate Church.

Screenwriter Chris Miller (Multiplicity,Animal House) is working on a theatrical play pegged to the millennium. IBM chief Lou Gerstner was honored in his current hometown of Greenwich, Conn., by former President Ford at a Greenwich Library fundraiser. Lou's neighbors are Diana Ross and Victor Borge.

Major fall mini-reunion in Hanover, Oct. 3-4, is shaping up. Cocktails at the Edsons and dinner at the Barnums, both an annual tradition, will be followed by Sunday brunch at Simon Pierce Restaurant in Quechee. Call Bob Bysshe (914) 248- 7578.

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Wheat Allen has sculpted a bronze pair of life -size blue herons for the entrance of a new library in California. HARRY ZLOKOWER '63