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It’s deadline time for your
hotel rooms for our Dartmouth By The Bay 61s @ 60 birthday reunion in San
Francisco. Reservation deadline, depending on the hotel, ranges from April 10 to April 13.
Once the rooms are released, they won’t be there, because of the annual Bay to
Breakers race on the Sunday of our reunion, which attracts tens of thousands.
You should have gotten the mailing: Bill Hutton’s committee has arranged a
busy schedule: Opening cocktail party/light buffet on Thursday evening followed by
"Beach Blanket Babylon" at Club Fugazi on Thursday night. Look up
www.beachblanketbabylon.com for just a hint of what this show is about and you’ll
order the tickets. On Friday, a Napa Valley wine tour and picnic lunch are followed by
class dinner on Friday night. The Empress Hornblower cruise on San Francisco Bay on
Saturday evening features live musicians, open bar and white linen dinner — read that
as elegant. Our Sunday brunch following the Bay to Breakers 7.5 mile race. Be there.
We thought he already was: Class President Oscar Arslanian is the new
president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. This is the group responsible for the
signature Hollywood Sign and the star-studded Walk of Fame. Oscar’s goal:
"Positioning Hollywood as the Entertainment Industry and Culture Capital of the
world." That’s why "make no small plans" is our class motto. Remember
it was "Dartmouth Goes Hollywood", not "Dartmouth Goes L.A.!" And Nyla
is still president of the Hollywood Arts Council, as she was during that reunion.
More Moves: Jud Goldsmith has been appointed chief financial office and vice
president finance of Hybrid Networks Inc., a leading provider of cable and wireless modem
systems in San Jose, Calif. "Jud Goldsmith has a proven record of success in building
a strong financial management foundation for a number of venture-backed and public
companies," said Carl Ledbetter, chairman and CEO.
In a lecture on World War II to the Virginia Historical Society, Ron Heineman
called the war "a major fault line in the history of America and Virginia." Ron
noted, in a story carried by the Fredericksburg Va. Free Lance-Star, that the entry of
women into the factory environment, where they performed magnificently, hastened the
women’s movement. Faith in the federal government’s ability to solve problems
increased when the allies won the war, and carried over into the postwar years with the GI
bill and home-owning programs. The war also made Americans, particularly Southern whites,
confront racial hypocrisy, he said. Signs reading "no blacks" were too close to
the signs reading "No Jews" in Germany. The war also transformed Virginia as the
population shifted from the countryside to the cities. The migration transformed
Washington "from a sleepy Southern city into a world capital."
Last month, we reported that Ron Wybranowski was moving from Boston to a
townhouse in North Andover, a far northern suburb. "This moving takes more effort
than I remembered," he reported in February, "particularly when you
repaint/recarpet the whole place before moving in. I still can find all my file folders
with my work in process. See you in SF."
See you in San Francisco!
Robert Conn,
Public Relations and Marketing,
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center,
Winston-Salem NC 27157-1015.
Rconn@wfubmc.eduNote: This column is limited to 500 words at
the request of the Alumni Magazine. |
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