CLASS NOTESJanuary/February 1978

   It's now 1978. Many of us began thinking about applying to Dartmouth in 1961. You remember 1961 - West Side Story won the Academy Award for best picture, everybody was reading To Kill A Mockingbird, and Roger Maris hit 61 home runs. Not so long ago ... only 17 years - about half a lifetime for the Class of 1966.

Harris and Jeannine Jones, and one-year-old William, have moved from Bloomington, Ind., where Harris had a postdoctoral position at the University of Indiana, to Stormville, N.Y., from whence Harris commutes to his research staff position at IBM's Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights.

Bill and Sally George are the newest owners of the oldest house in Middleton, Mass. - the Lt. Thomas Fuller House, built around 1680. Bill is treasurer of Middleton Golf Course, Inc. a public 18-hole, par-three course, while Sally manages Bart, three, and Olivia, one and a half.

After two years with Cities Service in Costa Rica, Dick Naylor has moved his kids, Jason, 11 and Whitney, five, to West Texas where he's now engaged in exploration for precious minerals as a geologist with Gold Fields Mining Co.

Gordon Leversee has been promoted to associate professor in biology at Nasson College, Springvale, Mass. Gordon, who has a Ph.D. in zoology from Duke, served as acting dean in 1976 and has received summer research grants from the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, S.C.

Captain Jonathan Leach, a C-130E Hercules pilot instructor, is now serving with a military airlift command unit at Yokota AFB, Japan. Dr. David Dewan, formerly staff anesthesiologist at the Naval Regional Medical Center at Camp Lejeune, N.C., has been named assistant professor of anesthesia at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University.

In Des Moines, Tim Urban is president of his own home-building and land-development firm, a Des Moines city councilman, husband of Toni, and father of Andrew, five, and Heather, seven.

If yau're a subscriber to the 1978 Who's Who in Finance & Industry you'll find Edgar Holley's name and the fact he's publisher of BMF Magazine. You might not discover that his wife's name is Mary Anne, his son, Edgar Jr., is going on seven, and that the Holley's live on New York's unique Roosevelt Island. You can only get that information here.

Neal Zimmerman used to be an external consultant with Arthur Anderson. No more. He's now an internal consultant with Paine Webber Jackson Curtis. Plus he's a suburban home owner, having bought a Scarsdale, N.Y., co-op, and he and Sherrie are expecting their first in February.

If Roger Brett doesn't hold the class record for job longevity, he's got to be a contender. Roger signed on with Pacific Telephone in San Francisco in July 1966, and according to his wife Korki, who should know, he's still there, now designing and implementing minicomputer systems.

Ed Jereb has opened his own architectural firm in Denver ...Ken Zuhr was appointed assistant manager of the Gilroy, Calif., Chamber of Commerce ...Dr. Phil Wade is practicing internal medicine at the Harvard Community Health Plan in Cambridge, Mass ...Kirk Ditzler is a self-employed San Francisco artist who works in watercolor and stained glass.

At Phillips Exeter Academy Jef Fellows is a counselor. ... Need a room? Contact Mike Diracles, vice president and treasurer of Motel 6, Inc., a budget motel chain based in Santa Barbara, Calif. ... Rick Wadsworth has represented the New York Life Insurance Co. in the Upper Valley around Hanover since 1974. Kit Combes is assistant national editor of The Washington Star, and he and Connie are expecting a second child (Andrea is ll).

Bob Vogel, an associate and project architect with Keyes Associates in Weymouth, Mass., married Tricia Gilligan on November 4, 1977 . . . . Devin was born to Stephen and Florence Zeller on September 18. Steve is an economist with the Federal Reserve Board.

After successfully launching the public defender system in New Hampshire, Paul Semple has been in private practice in Concord with MCSwiney Jones & Semple for two years. Barbara sings in the well known Concord Chorale and tends Chris, six, and Kate, two.

An assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Boston, Caleb Loring is responsible for relations with companies throughout Southeastern Massachusetts. As a concerned citizen, he's treasurer of Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, a trustee of Beverly Public Library, and a busy Dartmouth alumnus. As a family man, he provides for Bronwyn and Caleb, six, and Caitlyn, four.

Two members of the Class - Charles Spehrley, vice president of Creare Innovations in Hanover, and. Paul Stokstad, president of PASCO Scientific, San Leandro, Calif. - have been appointed to a Thayer School of Engineering review board formed to evaluate prototypes of new products being developed by undergraduate "firms" in the "Introduction to Engineering" course. Few of the new products ever reach the marketplace, but one, a system of reverse osmosis to desalinate brackish water (developed by Dean Spatz 14 years ago) became the seed for a company named Osmonics, Inc., which has an annual gross of about $2 million.

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