1971
As he said he would in this column last year, Pete Webster conquered 22,835-foot Mount Aconcagua, the Andean peak that is the highest this side of the Himalayas. Weebs reached the top January 12, and unusually good weather provided a view
across the narrow country of Chile to the Pacific Ocean 110 miles away. For all the details, check out .
Ray Abruzzo "happened to read an article in the WSJ after last year's Kentucky Derby discussing the winning horse, Silver Charm, and its owners, Bob and Beverly Lewis, beer distributors from Southern California. The lightbulb went on, and I immediately thought of my Phoenix Fraternity brother, Jeff Lewis, who was in the same business in the same place. I called Jeff, confirmed the story was indeed about his parents, and the next thing I knew, my wife, Pam, and I were at Pimlico Racetrack (near where we live) for the Preakness on May 17—guests of the Lewis family and part of the Silver Charm entourage. It was fabulous: from the Friday night private party to being out on the infield where they saddle the horses, having box seats right on the finish line, witnessing the closest finish in Preakness history, topped off by being up on the stand for the winner's circle ceremony (if you watch the tape you can see my white Dartmouth hat pretty clearly). Victory was icing on the cake." Ray adds that daughter "Carolyn graduated from Dartmouth with a B.A. degree in English lastyear (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa)."
George Rountree says that Tom Turkington returned to the Upper Valley last June, where his wife, Nancy, is doing her residency at Hitchcock. Belinda and Bruce Tepper's daughter, Laura Kate, has been accepted early admission into the College's class of 2002. Bruce believes that this is a plot on the part of the College to recover eightfold the tuition, room, and board it wasted on him. Nels Armstrong reports that "John Short and son Sam were in town so Sam could give the College a good onceover as he prepares to make his choice of schools to consider for next year. I hadn't seen John in years. He still has that great smile that I remember so well. I've seen Mike Maynard, Charlie Collier, Peter Pratt, and Murray Bowden on campus recendy as well."
The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists' Outstanding Explorer Award was presented to Bob Lamarre in recognition of his role in the discovery and development of the huge coal-bed methane gas accumulation in the Ferron play of Utah. In 1987 Bob recognized the large potential for coal-bed methane and recommended the initial coal-bed methane test in what is now called the Drunkards Wash area. This was followed by several more wells and re-entrys to evaluate both the sands and coals. The large size of play was recognized by Bob, and he vigorously pushed Exxon management and operations to commit to a larger evaluation program. Then he led the group that found a drilling partner to protect the Drunkards Wash leases in 1991. To date more than 100 wells have been completed and up to another 1,000 are being considered.
Ike Heard attended the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard as one of 10 Fannie Mae Scholars, received the Schley R. Lyons Circle of Excellence Award from Leadership Charlotte, and the Pearl Award for Outstanding Business Leadership from the Charlotte, N.C., chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. "With a little luck I will see my son Addison '98 graduate with a degree in chemistry in the spring and enroll in Thayer for the fifth-year B.S. in chemical engineering program. I managed to survive to (and through) my 25th wedding anniversary to the former Patricia Jones (Mt. Holyoke '72) last year."
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Lamarre has keen Honored for discovering a huge bed of methane gas. Don O'Neill '71
