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The College forwarded two pictures of Rick Klupchak and his brothers Michael ’73, Bill ’77 and tom ’85. the first was taken at tom’s graduation in 1985 and the second was from Homecoming weekend last fall with the four brothers youthfully striking the same pose in front of Dartmouth Hall nearly 30 years later. Rick lives in Atlanta, while the other three lads live in the Chicago area.
On a recent business trip to Jakarta I was delighted to meet Joe Bartlett for dinner. Joe has a long history with Indonesia that started early on. Joe came to Dartmouth from Tulsa, which at the time was considered the oil capital of the world. at the invitation of his brother andy ’62, Joe took a leave of absence after freshman year to go to Indonesia and work on a book about the history of the oil industry there and the consolidation of petroleum exploration, marketing, management and distribution companies into Pertamina, the national oil and gas company. What was originally planned as one term off turned into 18 months away. Joe returned to complete a government and international affairs major, graduating in December 1975. He went back and forth several times after college but returned to Indonesia to live in 1988 after completing an executive M.B.A. at the Drucker School of Management at Cla- remont Graduate University in California. For many years he worked in business development, consulting with foreign companies and helping them to establish local joint venture operations. Seventeen years ago Joe joined PT Citra Tubindo Tbk, a publicly traded company that produces seamless steel pipe for oil and gas well drilling,
where he is marketing general manager. Joe and his wife, Ambarwati, have two sons, 9 and 15 years old. Joe is active in the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia and currently serves on the amCham’s education and workforce develop- ment working group. Joe stays in touch with Paul “lukes” lukeman.
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—Rick sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; samplejr@msn.com
