1963

Homecoming Weekend arrives October 27-29! Expect a nip in the air this year, a hint of a chill especially at night, but we're due for sunshine. Homecoming Weekend is always a blast, a welcome break from our new dotcom lives. The '63 mini-reunion committee reserved rooms for those who need them at Holiday Inn Express, a charming simulation of a New England inn with breakfast (603) 4485070. The weekend includes delicious, convivial meals at local restaurants, post-game revels and music by Dartmouth students, the class executive meeting Saturday morning (everyone's invited) and, of course, the big game against Harvard. Come to the class executive meeting and deliver your input on future class projects such as the "Eating Disorders/Exercise Abuse Class Project" created by Bill Breetz and Mike Emerson. Plan mini-reunions like last year's successful Springtime in the Shenandoah run by Frank DeSerio, the dinner and Dartmouth Glee Club Concert at Carnegie Hall organized by Bob Bysshe and Marty Bowne's turnout for a Dartmouth Alumni Seminar and dinner on the Princeton campus. This year there will be more talk about grandchildren and retirement, interspersed with war stories from the workplace. Art Williams and Neil Duprey have added grandchildren. Dave Browne, Bob Finney, Bob Nassau and Mike Marantz are among our current retirees.

Back to the workplace, chairman Larry V. Tate declared "an historic day" as he announced the appointment of Bob Baker as chief executive officer and president of CNH Holdings Cos., a publicly traded company in Kilgore, Texas. Bob had been president of Texas United Chemical Cos. in Houston, growing it during 16 years into a $4O-million international company. He was a chem major and earned an M.B.A. in marketing at Indiana.

Len Levitt, police columnist and long-time investigative reporter at News day, was invited to shed light on the 25-year-old Martha Moxley murder case in a front page analysis piece for Lens hometown Stamford(Conn.)Advocate. Fifteen-year-old Martha was murdered on October 30,1975. Greenwich police reopened the case in 1991 and, last January, they charged Michael Skakel, nephew of Ethel Kennedy, who was also 15 years old at the time, with the murder.

Rick Braddock, whose Priceline.com will get you anywhere you want to go for the lowest possible sible price, probably won't be able to make Homecoming. He's scheduled to appear that weekend at Real Estate Connect, a Silicon Valley event with real estate magnate Sam Zell and Sex and Business author Shere Hite. And IBM's Lou Gerstner? He might be on the course trying to move up on the top 200 Fortune 500 CEO golfers ranked by Golf Digest. Lou ranks 31, behind ninth-place Charles Schwab but ahead of AT&T's Mike Armstrong. Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems is No. 1 with a 3.3 handicap. Bob Bys she, Keel Jones, Norris Siert and John Kubacki aren't in those rankings but they managed to golf three rounds of their own at the first annual '63 Alumni Fund Leadership Agents' Invitational at the Doral Country Club in Miami. Agents or donors who want to join next year should call John Kubacki, our head agent, at (212) 632-6757.

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