1968

The latest batch of classmate mail opened with a snail mail from Bill Philip, from Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He noted that he ran (and finished, an important qualifier!) a 100-mile footrace through the mountains around Leadville, Colorado. Heights above sea level ranging from 10,000 to 12,300 feet; of 425 who started, only 175 finished. Bill finished in 29 hours, 29 minutes. While he was half thinking (and hoping) he'd get some drug-free hallucinations, no such luck; instead he got one blister. Maybe next year...which he does plan. The Roanoke (Virginia) Times shared some news about Pete Wonson, who was just appointed a principal of James Madison Middle School. Prior to this promotion, he had been an assistant principal at a local high school and assistant headmaster at a nearby private school. A teacher for 28 years, his first few years out of Dartmouth were as a lead singer in a rock band (the paper didn't give us the groups name...can anyone help us on this? Not you, Peter). The Easton(Pennsylvania) Express Times featured Marshall Wolff, a hometown boy who at first didn't really want to be a hometown boy. His father was a partner in an Easton insurance company, and as Marshall headed off to Hanover in 1964, he said he had three goals in life: leave Easton, do something other than work at his father's company and certainly not work in insurance. As he notes, he is o for 3. After Dartmouth, he spent three years in the Army, with nine months in Vietnam, and realized Easton was a special place for him. And so in 1972 he joined the firm of Kressler, Wolff and Miller (founded in 1923 by his grandfather), and has served as its president for the last 13 years. With the support of his wife, Kay (married in 1976), Marshall is active in the community: Lions Club, Easton Economic Development Corp., Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, and chairs the Valley Health Foundation, fundraising arm of the Easton Hospital. He is also volunteer president of the board of Easton Cemetery, continuing a family tradition. He and Kay have a daughter, Amy, a recent graduate of Goucher College. And finally, an e-mail note from Mike Chu, sending his best regards to all of the class. He noted that he had joined classmates Pete Fahey and Jon Newcomb opening a time capsule from the 1990 board of trustees, among other things predicting what the world would be like in 2000. Bob Reich was dead-on predicting who the president would be! Mike continues his involvement in ACCION Capital Markets, and recently started, with some friends, Pegasus Venture Capital, focused on the Latin world (Latin American and the Iberian peninsula). The new enterprise requires periodic commutes from Boston to their first office in Buenos Ares. Wife Victoria remains ever patient with him (are there more trips to Hanover or Buenos Aires?). Son Nicholas, now 16, worked construction for the summer, so he could afford his first set of wheels, immediately aging his parents a decade or two. And waiting for mail ages me! Write soon and keep your humble secretary young (and the column full).

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