1952

At Reunion, Dr. Ray jankowich caught Al Reich "wheelchair racing" to breakfast on Main Street. The two of them settled in for coffee and conversation about Al's idea of publishing a book of original Russian proverbs each with its own woodcut to be distributed to future Russian language students at Dartmouth. The book is in the hands of the Russian professor Nadezhda Koroton. Al explained to Ray that he is still short of publication funds, whereupon Ray gave him a check for $20. When the book is printed, Al will send Ray a copy (translated). A tax deductible gift of $100 or more will secure us a copy too. Contact Al Reich at 6017 Copely Lane, McLean, VA 22101-2507. This isn't the first publishing venture for Ray, who struggled successfully to establish a National Helicopter Museum at Stratford, Conn., in honor of Igor Sicorsky (another Russian) and his first rotary aircraft flight in 1939.

Ron Rose turned a hobby into a career, but it didn't happen all at once. Ron took his Dartmouth degree in engineering with an extra year at Thayer and embarked on a career in nuclear energy, first with Westing house developing propulsion systems for the nuclear navy. He was in Pittsburgh for 10 years and received a Navy Fellowship, leading to a Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1984, he accepted an AEC position in the Idaho desert studying nuclear safety. From there, he returned to Westing house as manager of systems analysis for nuclear rockets and then to the commercial nuclear division. In 1973, he went to the Princeton plasma physics lab for two years as a visiting fellow and then back to Pittsburgh, studying nuclear fusion. Suddenly the well went dry and he was out of a job when government funding vanished. He searched for a job for six months in what he describes as his most difficult "job." And it was then that his hobby was his salvation.

Early on his father, Arthur B. H. Rose '29, gave Ron a Sunbeam Alpine and Ron was hooked. In time, his chief focus was "autocrossing," now called "Solo II." He has owned many cars but currently wheels around in a BMW M3 purchased in Germany. Tires rule in the sports car business, so Ron learned a lot about tires. He was hired by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. to head up tire mechanics research and determine why tires wear out or fail. He stayed for 13 years and retired in January 1996. In the past, Ron was married and had five children, four of whom are married and have produced six grandchildren. It is Vera Alicandri, however, who has been Ron's constant companion since his nuclear days. He now has four constants in life: Vera, sports cars, singing, and Dartmouth.

A flash update on Marshall Smith, BookSmith, Video-Smith, Learning-Smith and Cyber-Smith: a great piece on Cyber-Smith Cafes appeared in the New York Times May 4, 1997. Marshall is identified as an "entrepreneur with a track record that can make Warren Buffett proud and with the consistency...of Cal Ripken." There are now four Cyber-Smiths, in which one can order video games, Internet stations, and...food. This is one more venture that "combines education and retail" and contains "something Marshall is certain he himself would want and need."

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Ray Jankowich caught Al Rcicli wheelcliairracino to breakfast. HENRY WILLIAMS JR. '52