1957

Bill Fiero and Ellen "quit working" 13 years ago "from jobs we both loved." They have kayaked the Missouri, hiked the Appalachian Trail, cruised a 20-foot sailboat for two years, "visited every hometown in Extremadura, Spain, from which the conquistadors came to the new world, and so forth."

John Lange has retired from the U.S. Treasury. While there, he managed our intervention in foreign exchange markets to support the dollar. Now he is a managing director of Lange, Mullen & Bohn, LLC, where one can find global financial solutions.

Paul Raslavicius has been elected president of the medical staff at the Boston Regional Medical Center. He is chief of pathology and director of laboratories there.

Buck Waid's widow, Judy Pirie Waid writes from San Jose, Costa Rica, about their successful sons Bucky and William and about her interest in helping people find good things to do in Costa Rica. Curious? Telefax 011-506-253-4296.

Jay Greene and Paulina joined Sally and me for lunch in Yountville Calif., in early March. Jay lost a municipal election in St. Helena by just 100 votes and remains disgruntled because the winner has a less-than-savory reputation. At least less savory than Jay's. Even out of office, though, Jay can present some opposition viewpoints.

Tony Jenks, in Santa Rosa, Calif., for nine years after 27 in the San Francisco Bay area, is still helping clients with their investments. He insists that his life is not exciting. He hopes that Dartmouth's next president will be more to his taste and that he will enjoy the class e-mail list.

Bob Sproull quoted Willa Cather (in a context of affairs in Washington, within the United Nations, in the Middle East):

"...there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."

Also in a Middle East context, Larry Selig reports after his seventh trip to Israel that he found Jerusalem much calmer (at the height of the "Bomb Iraq!" furor) than the crisis-mongering press had led him to expect. He was not pleased by what he observed about Israeli-Palestinian relations, or about the inconsistencies of U.S. foreign policy, but he observed that in Jerusalem there was "less military presence, more freedom of movement, and a more relaxed atmosphere than I had encountered [on previous trips]."

From Tony Williamson, by way of the class e-list: "Just a note to say I've signed on. Dartmouth and its culture often seem very far away from the eastern extremes of North America. I'm living in St. John's (the 'oldest city in North America'), and these days (having retired from Memorial University of Newfoundland) am consulting for the Labrador Inuit Association. Thus, I am back in Labrador, where I started 40 years ago."

To find the e-mail address of a classmate, point your web browser to the College and then navigate via "alumni" to "classes"; within "1957" you should have no trouble.

I was informed recently that Mai Brown died in January. Our condolences to his widow, Sandra, and their three children.

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