Class Note 1970
As I pen this column, another Christmas has come and gone. We all wonder what the New Year will bring. I hope it will bring many updates from far and wide.
Duncan Wood sent along a report of the following recognition given to Dave Stonebraker at a recent event held at Sunday River in Maine. Dave was inducted into the Maine Ski Hall of Fame. He was recognized for coaching high school ski racing programs for nearly 40 years and being actively involved as an official in U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association events that ranged from regional juniors to the National Alpine Championship. He was also recognized for his long-term effort to improve and maintain the ski trail network at Hebron Academy. He first went to Sugarloaf during spring break in March 1970, and has been a fixture in Maine skiing since 1976, when he moved to Maine.
Tom Peisch made his first foray onto the class website. “Very cool,” he says. Tom is happy to report that classmate David Ruedig was named Citizen of the Year by the Greater Concord (New Hampshire) Chamber of Commerce, after having been nominated by U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen. Dave has served as president of the Concord school board, chair of the N.H. board of education, and chair of the Concord Hospital board of trustees, among other endeavors. He and his son, Adam ’99, operate UBS affiliate the Rueding Group, financial planners and advisors, also of Concord.
A recent note from Art Brown stated he had a book published in 2013 which might still be of interest to some of the readership. The book is The Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, 1960-2010, published by Borden Institute. Begun in 1959 as a result of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), the Thailand SEATO Cholera Research Project in Bangkok, later the Medical Research Laboratory, and finally the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in 1977, was a collaborative research effort between the U.S. Army medical department and the Royal Thai Army. Throughout the institute’s history, U.S. Army and Thai doctors jointly pursued research and therapy for illnesses that threatened both U.S. troops and Thai citizens. The book is available on Amazon.
Since the last column, two additional members of our class have passed on. Robert A. Paley died in May 2018 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Bob was a member of Tabard. David F. Noyes died on November 30 in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Dave had been our class treasurer since 1993 and an active member of the executive and reunion committees.
Save the date for our 50th reunion on June 11-16, 2020. If you have recently retired or changed your email or contact information, please update the alumni directory at http://dartgo.org/update.
—Gary Miller, 7 East Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; garettmiller@mac.com
