1952

Once again it is a pleasure to report that our class under the leadership of class agents Jim Churchill and Ev Parker has outdone itself in its support of the Dartmouth College Fund. The total of $487,997 contributed By 65 percent of us set a new record for a 59-years-out class, exceeding the prior record, set by the class of 1944, by more than 250 percent. It also represents an increase by more than one-third of last year’s record-setting amount, which, considering our languishing national economy, is a remarkable accomplishment.

Jim and Ev would have us share our pride in their achievements with the cadre of assistant class agents who have been steadfast and hard-working in their efforts over the years: Jack Boyle, Bill Breed, John Brower, Howard Carter, Jack Clow (sadly posthumously), Sam Daniell, John Lloyd, John McCrillis, Dick McDonough, Bill Montgomery, John North, Bill Rooke, honorary classmate Liz Russell, Lyle Spalding, Ernest Stephens, Harry Wachen and Pete Zischke.

In a series of midsummer phone conversations and e-mail exchanges, Dan Gutterman outlined a daunting schedule for his then upcoming 17th teaching excursion behind the former Iron Curtain. If his plans have worked out, as these notes are published he has finished a weeklong series of seminars on international business law at the Lviv Business School of the Ukrainian Catholic University and is or will be heading for a six-to eight-week stint teaching business law at the Tatarstan Institute of Business Development in Kazan, Russia. This will be followed by a return to the Innovative University of Eurasia in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, where Dan taught in the spring of 2010. All of these assignments are by invitations from the host institutions.

On the personal side, the trip (or trips) will afford Dan and wife Susan the opportunity to spend some time with their son Steve, who is chief Russian correspondent for the Reuters news service, a position he recently assumed after many years of reporting from Moscow for the Associated Press.

Our 60th reunion is barely eight months off, June 11-14, 2012. I look forward to seeing you there.

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