1952

Our freshman year is finished; 50 years ago. We know what to change and what to continue as we become silly, silly sophomores. But more than anything, we are looking forward to our first summer as collegians. Those in the Naval ROTC are excited about the biggest adventure of our 19-year-old lives: a train ride across the country to board USS Toledo, a heavy cruiser lying alongside Treasure Island, Calif., for a voyage across the equator, around the Galapagos Islands to San Diego, Los Angeles, and back to San Francisco. We will obey a third-class bosun's mate, who is our age complete with bosun's pipe and sneer. He teaches us how to refinish a teak deck with left-over bricks from a boiler in a process called holystoning. He says we are stupid and useless. We have one hell of a time. The Korean War is still a year away.

A picture of a guy jumping off a bridge with his arms spread out and his back arched liked a swan-diver fell out of an envelope. Was this an advertisement from Dr. Kevorkian? No. It was a picture of George Davis bungie-jumping off the Kawarua Bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand.

From Dartmouth George went to Arthur Anderson to pick up a C.P.A. and 12 years later joined Thomas Lipton as controller. In 1972 he became treasurer of C.R. Beard Inc., a health-care company, from which he retired in 1993. As he says, "My last job was executive VP and CFO and my last title was vice chairman. Great pay, no responsibilities, and lots of perks— I could have stayed!" George, who is a widower, operates out of two apartments in the New York City metro area. He has a summer house in Southampton and keeps busy with "lots of dinners, theater, museums, opera, and the city, and golf, tennis, and beach in the suburbs plus volunteer work." He stays close to his three children and enjoys three grandchildren with more on the way. Daughters Carol '82 and Leslie '85 graduated from Dartmouth. Son Steven went to another college beginning with "Y." George's advice for his classmates: "The best is yet to come."

Doc Dey, former head of Choate Rosemary Hall for 18 years, was the subject of a compelling article in the fall '98 Choate's alumni magazine. Though retired from academia, Doc is busily marching ahead with lance at the ready fighting for those who in our society have not had an equal chance. The article is an incisive summary of how effective Doc has been. He operates from a three-acre farm in Lyme, Conn., which, since 1992, has been his headquarters for follow-up activities on ABC students from the sixties and the Start-on-Success Program he set up for the National Organization on Disability with Al Reich. SOS has now expanded to Alabama, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Urban Universities of Maryland and Pittsburgh have provided all the job sites and undergraduate mentors necessary for the program. Doc's current target is Ohio. But what about reward, the article asks? "That's in there somewhere," Doc said. "After all, I'm not being noble. I'm being selfish. I get nothing but satisfaction out of seeing a youngster make something of his or her life."

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