1954

Dave McLaughlin died August 25, a great loss to his family and friends, to Dartmouth and to our class. Dave as the 14th president of Dartmouth lent prestige to our class. Daves active participation in all our gatherings and his service as class president and member of its executive committee established solid friendships throughout the class.

Dave died peacefully in his sleep in Alaska while on an annual fishing week with Dartmouth '54 classmates and his two sons. Our condolences to his wife, Judy; his daughters, Wendy and Susan; and his sons, William and Jay, and their families.

Final results from our grand 50th reunion reported by the Alumni Fund was our participation level of 96.6 percent! The fund reports no class in its recorded history that has surpassed this percentage.

Pete Barker has produced a newsletter that covers all aspects of our reunion with style and wit. At 14 pages (probably the longest newsletter in our long history) it could serve as an addendum to the great class book MoreReflections, which has made Bill White and Wayne Weil, editors and publishers, so rightly famous and admired.

Pete and John Gillespie, masterminds of the reunion success, are forever to be thanked by the surprise refund check all participants received.

While reading More Reflections your secretary found that he had worked with Andy Guilliano's daughter, Evelyn Lopez, while establishing Olympus' Latin America head- quarters in Miami, where she was an executive. Evidently Dartmouth was not mentioned during the year we were associated.

Post-reunion activities include the great yacht trip on The Monet down the Dalmation coast. Organized by vice president Don Berlin and mini-reunion chair John Fenn, this late- September voyage will have 57 '54s and spouses and significant others on board. Following a Venice gathering the group will board Monet and visit Dubrovnick, Split and other ports of call. Participants represent another great gathering of the class. In alphabetical order, the following have signed on: Adnopoz, Berlin, Berry, Coffin, Dame, Dean, Fenn, Galper, Hartman, Hvistendahl, Kane, Kelsey, Mandelbaum, Martin, Mullins, Murane, Nolin, Novascone, Osmond, Page, Petty, Rauch, Robinson, Roth, Schenck, Tofias, Tyler, Wilkins and Zwart.

The group now identify themselves as the boat people." Yes another voyage is being planned for those now not on board.

Supreme Court Justice Norm Veasey has retired from the Delaware bench and has joined the firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges as a senior partner. With offices in New York and Wilmington, Norm will act as a strategic advisor to a number of the firm's practices, including mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, litigation and corporate governance.

Dave Martin continues to offer his services to the State Department as an election observer. He will participate in that role in Macedonia in November. He will also support his daughter, Mollie Cullom, in her quest to become state legislator from suburban Denver.

The Huntington (West Virginia) Herald-Dispatch reports on Tom Scott's skill as a cook and reports that he had submitted many recipes to a locally produced cook- book. Tom is better known as an orthopedic surgeon and for many years volunteered his medical skills in Haiti. He also served politically as a state senator.

Ron Dougherty has established himself in the Canton, Ohio, area as a leader concerned with wilderness and environmental issues. He has been named as the honoree at the areas wilderness center at its annual dinner to be held in November.

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