from Dartmouth Alumni Magazine CLASS NOTES,
October 1966

With this column we officially complete our summer transition from the select circle of Dartmouth undergraduates to the somewhat larger, but no less cohesive, body of Dartmouth alumni.  As we progress from the last page of the class notes section onward to the first, this column will endeavor to mirror the achievements and record the triumphs of the Class of 1966.

If, as James Howell once wrote, "the hardest step is that over the threshold," nearly fifty '66'ers have the worst behind them.

College backstroke star Henry Art was, fittingly enough, the first to take the plunge"" marrying Pamela Leslie Beall on June 16 in Evanston, III. The couple will be living in New Haven while Hank tackles grad school at Yale and Pam attends Southern Connecticut University.

On the first weekend after Commencement a flock of men decided to solve their dating problems once and for all. James Newton and Susan Hendee Smith, holder of a master's degree from Mount Holyoke, were married on June IS in Princeton, N. J. Jim will study for the Unitarian Ministry at Crane Theological School in Medford, Mass.

DePasquales Restaurant on Connecticut's Berlin Turnpike, a frequent refueling spot for Big Green athletic teams, was the scene of the reception following the marriage of Jamie Stewart and Smith graduate Deborah Ayer Clark. They are living in Villefranche, France, where Jamie, a Navy ensign, is attached to the "USS Springfield," flagship of the 6th fleet.

Dave Slaney and Rob Trafford served as ushers on the 18th in Worcester, Mass., where Andy Kerr and Martha Webster Hammond, a Wellesley graduate, were married. They are now in Salem, Ore., where Andy is attending Willamette Law School And 66's Jim Skiles and Phil Wade were on hand at the same lime in Greenwich, Conn., when Miles Trumble and B.U. alumna Katharine Rogers Neilsen were married. They are living in Cincinnati where Miles is studying at the University's Medical School.

Pete Barber will have some help scouting Penn soccer for Coach Burnham tills season. After a year- of following Indian squads around the East Elizabeth Kimball Strong cornered Pete on June 18 in Newton, Mass., where Ted Amoral was the best man and Barry Machado and Albie MacDonald ushers. Kim, a Colby graduate, and Pete are in Philadelphia, at the Penn Grad School.

Ensign Parker Linton took a wife, Janet Lee Evans, in Port Jefferson, N. Y., one week after he received his Navy commission, at Hanover. Eighth to make the 18th the big day was Dale Heckerling, who married the former Miss Robbie (first name to be supplied in forthcoming installment) of Connecticut College in Quincy, Mass.

On Sunday, June 19, Francis Renna was married to Sarah Lawrence alumna Pamela Spring Newton in Morristown, N. J. He's now al Tufts' University Medical School

Tim Butterworth took his wife, the former Sue Ann Hallock of Mount Holyoke, on a four-month tour of Europe after their June 29 marriage in West Hartford, Conn. Ushers included class-and-crewmates Thornton Jordan, Larry Hopperstead, Steve Shipps and Ned Northrop.

The Junior-Senior High School in Milford, N. H., has a new art teacher, Carl Fike, and the art teacher bas a new wife as of late June, the former Gail Tappan Bowditch. Derek Lee was best man at the Rye, N. H., ceremony. Bob Bach, a second lieutenant in the Army reserves, married Middlebury College grad Janet Landon in Rowayton, Conn., on June 24, with Dave Stedman serving as usher.

Marquand Chapel of the Yale Divinity School was the scene of the marriage of Taylor Ullmann to Hilda Ecklund. daughter of the Treasurer of Yale University and a June graduate of Wellesley. The couple is now in Ithaca, N. Y., where Taylor is working towards his Ph.D. in math and Hilda is seeking a master of arts in teaching from Cornell.

From the West Coast comes word that Mike McConnell and Mary Elizabeth Baker, one of the twenty outstanding graduates mentioned in the UCLA yearbook, were married over the summer before 700 guests in Long Beach, Calif. Jim Idema was best man at the marriage of Charles Cannon and Paula June Osincup in Sioux City, Iowa, on August 6. They are living in Concord, N. C., home of (that's right) Cannon Mil1s.

Dan Wuensch and Ilene Schotlenstein were married on August 21 in Columbus, Ohio, and are now in New Haven where Dan attends Yale Med. On September 3 two more men signed on for life sentences. Harry Lowd married Mary Beth Tietze, a 1965 graduate of Mount Holyoke, in Chatham, N. J., while Charlie Wilmont and Margaret Rachel Brownridge were married in Springdale, Conn.

A few notes about the past before we look at the present in future months. ... Jan Westervelt and the former Diane LaJoie of Lebanon, N. H., summered on the shores of Lake Mascoma.... Mr. and MH. Joe McCarthy completed a VISTA training program and are spendil1g a year working with Eskimos in the village of Napaskiak, Alaska, just like Hanover, but warmer.... Gary Jefferson sailed for Chung Chi College in Hong Kong for Dartmouth Project Asia, and stopped off in Honolulu for "acclimation." ... Dave Coughlin looked sharp in a televised pre-season football game between his Boston Patriots and the New York Jets.... Herb Brown is a VISTA volunteer organizing a job-training program in Brooklyn. ... Steve Posniak, Pete Reichard, and Grant Brown were teachers in Alabama on the Dartmouth-Tal1adega Program, which encountered some opposition from local citizens.... Rick Reiss, Hank Streitfeld, Dave Johnson, Fred Gordon, Jim Cinberg and Neal Zimmerman were just some of the roving 66's who went abroad.... Pete Dorsen played tennis in New Jersey.... Bob Cohn worked at the National Municipal League in New York as a Pforzheimer (silent P) Foundation intern.... Mr. and Mrs. Kit Combes became the parents of a son, born in Mary Hitchcock on June 23, after which the trio returned to Quincy, Mass., where Kit is laboring as a journalist (a noble profession) on the Patriot Ledger. ... Steve Sloca, between newsletters, and Dave Muchnick, between conferences with his publisher, ran Washington from the offices of Tom Curtis and John McCormick, respectively.... Among those who could not tear themselves away from the Old Pine were Robin Foster, a campus guide, Bill Heckman, an eccy department statistician, and Rick Wadsworth, Warner Bentley's right hand man at the Hop.