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Jack Barclay called the other day to see if he was still a member of the class executive committee. (He is.) The call turned into a warm chat about life after Dartmouth. He stayed an extra two years at Tuck, because of the skiing. Nevertheless, he did very well academically on the way to his M.B.A. He is still skiing and still doing very well. While on the road to chairman of the board and CEO of Wirerope Corp. of America, he broke his back at Stowe, lost a naval supply commission, was drafted into the army and moved to St. Joseph, Miss., just north of Kansas City where he and wife, Billy, have setup a home. They had five children. Three daughters and two sons in Washington, D.C., Boulder, Colo., and Boston, Mass. Their youngest, Jeff Stewart Barclay, died tragically in a motor vehicle crash in 1990, just a week before going to college. The success of the others is a promise of what Jeff would have been. Wirerope Corp. is one of only six survivors of the big steel crunch from overseas. It is now number one, with a 40-percent market share of steel and wire rope and nylon webbing. Jack has no desire to retire: every day is exciting. For example, the company makes 80 percent of the wire used in brassieres. The battle with overseas suppliers is unrelenting. Jack wishes that our government would insist that people who trade with the United States be required to live up to all the E.P.A., O.S.H.A., minimum wage and other high standards that are imposed on domestic manufacturers by our government. Our businesses are disadvantaged.
Ted Lewis' wife, Irene, wrote, "Please use your influence to get an appropriate article on Ted published by Dartmouth." The whole issue of the magazine would be appropriate because Ted lived an exemplary life. He died after surgery in Hartford on October 23, 1995. He had a true liberal's respect for everyone and was especially compassionate for those without. He was intellectual and curious, peace-loving and dedicated to the education of young people. When he retired from the history department at the University of Connecticut, he went to work in social services through the town of Mansfield to obtain money from the state to buy or renovate buildings for day care for children and adults, soup kitchens, battered women shelters, overnight housing for the homeless and many other truly compassionate ventures. Ted was a very rare bird, in these days of conservative rhetoric, as he stood up for unselfishness and openness. Although he was very much opposed to the Vietnam War, he did not exempt himself from service in the Korean War with the navy for three years as chief engineer on a mine sweeper. He received a master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin before briefly going into industry and then teaching. He was with the University of Connecticut from 1965. He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son, and by one grandson.
Chuck Queenan is one of the more educated people we've heard of. He combined a degree at Thayer and Tuck and then went on to Harvard University Law School. Chuck was recently appointed to the St. Vincent College board of directors in Pittsburgh. Chuck is on a pile of boards, profit-making and otherwise, but this is his only educational directorship. Looking at all of the things he is doing, it is amazing that he has time to practice law with a large Pittsburgh law firm. To top it all off, he has received the Distinguished Pennsylvania Award. More information can be found in Who's Who. Chuck and Joanne have produced two children, Sue and Charlie '74. Perhaps we will see them.at Reunion: all of them.
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