President Jack and '55 First Lady Marilyn Doyle hosted a party at their beautiful Weston, Massachusetts, home for local '55s—Bruce and Mary Jane Alexander, Marty and Ellen Sax, Brooks and Gale Parker, Peter and Betty Buhler, Dick Mount, Herb Gramm, Lew and Joan Weintraub, Larry Hagar, Mike and Karen Gorton, Woody Goss, Ralph Sautter and Carol Cacciamani, Larry Blades '57 and Beverly, and Iris and Bob Fanger.
Ralph Miller, M.D., was flying to San Francisco to attend a conference about endocrinology when I reached his wife,' Pam, retired mayor of Lexington, Kentucky. They skied at Snow Basin, Utah, this past winter. Ralph continues his practice as well as instructing interns and residents at the University of Kentucky. Pam is chair of the Pritchard Committee for Academic Excellence, an independent, nonprofit, citizens' advocacy organization dedicated to improving the public school system. Their son Alex '87 is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His wife is president of the Martin Luther King School in Cambridge. The Millers have three grandchildren. Ralph continues to hang glide and to run road races in order to keep up with Pam.
In the international '55 travel tournament started by Gus Aberle, Tom McGreevey reports that he has visited 49 countries without counting two that he passed through on his way to another destination: 32 were business stops and 17 vacations. Tom and Sharon lived in New Canaan, Connecticut, before building a home in Durham, North Carolina, facing the 15th hole of a golf community. His profession, with Stanford Research Institute, was economic and petrochemical consulting as well as defining markets for products and evaluating competition. These activities sent Tom to Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, to name a few. The Greeveys enjoy river cruises in western Europe. Their children live in Atlanta and New Jersey. A daughter has twins.
Roy Pfeil is another traveler having visited 48 countries not counting the U.S.A. Roy's wife, Juliana, has a sabbatical for the next year from teaching eighth- and ninth-grade history at the New Canaan Country School. They will be singing with the Greenwich Choir in Paris.
Dick Mount has just returned from Roy Emerson's Tennis Camp at Gstaad, Switzerland. He partnered with a 65-year-old from Flagstaff, Arizona. They beat Roy Emerson and his partner, 6-1 and 6-4. Emerson won 12 professional singles Grand Slam events and 16 doubles titles. Last year Dick won the Gardner War Chase—the highest award in New England for tennis.
On July 8 Dick will receive the Ned Weld Award with a $4,000 check that will be given to a charity. He is the coach of the Brookline, Massachusetts, High School girls' tennis team, with a record 184 wins and 42 losses.
For your calendar: Dartmouth Homecoming—Friday, Octoben.17-19. Washington, D.C., mini-reunion—April 23-26, 2009. Please contact Betty Brady at doverhugh@ co mcast.net. One hundred have already expressed great interest. The programs being planned are excellent!
Happy summer!
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