Class Note 1972
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
As I write this column the winter season has just begun and the first few snowfalls in New Hampshire are in the record books already. Here’s hoping 2017 is a very good year indeed!
We have news that Farrell Delman is leaving the Tobacco Merchants Association (TMA), where he has served as president and chief executive officer for more than 40 years. The TMA board has authorized a search for a new chief executive, but in a letter to its members the TMA board of directors expressed its gratitude for Delman’s many years of dedicated service, hard work and leadership.
In November Greg Yadley was spotted monitoring a discussion group on exempt securities offerings at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s small business forum in Washington, D.C. He also co-chaired the plenary session at the conference. Yads is one of 15 members of the SEC’s advisory committee on small and emerging companies. Of greater importance, each of Greg’s children produced a male heir and he hopes that, as with generation-skipping transfers, his two grandsons will wear the Dartmouth green in another 17 years.
Jon Einsidler reports that he and his wife, Karen, are spending their first winter as snowbirds at their new place on Longboat Key in Florida. Jon has already connected with other members of the Dartmouth family down there and by all indications is enjoying the weather and the good company. Jon’s son, Teddy ’20, is a member of the Dartmouth Cords a cappella group that toured the West Coast in December. Teddy also swims for the club team. By all accounts, he takes after his mom, Karen, who is a top masters swimmer and, unlike Jon, can actually sing!
On Tuesday, December 11, Bill Roberts and his wife, Ingrid, and daughter Karen attended the Dartmouth Club of Chicago’s Hamilton theater event. Before the musical about 20 alumni and guests met for dinner, and among them was Joe Mathewson ’55—who interviewed Bill for admission to Dartmouth 48 years ago! They probably hadn’t seen each other since then. It was a great reunion. Joe is currently teaching journalism courses at Northwestern University’s Medill School.
After celebrating the 2016 holidays early with daughters Erika, a veterinary assistant and volunteer at University of Washington’s natural history museum, and Rachel, a rocket scientist at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space company, Bill Price and his wife, Lori, ventured off to take in the wonders of Tikal, one of the massive Mayan ruins in Guatemala that sank into jungle oblivion before the Spanish arrived. Bill reports that this is his 83rd country visited and he’s still counting!
Finally, in our continuing quest to locate missing ’72s, here are the names of 10 classmates for whom we have no usable contact information (if you know how to reach them, please let me know): Charles Erickson, Kent Foster, Robert Godshall, Bjorn Halsteen, Stephen Himmelman, Fred Hodgson, Kenneth Kelly, Jack Kersh, Stephen Kessler and In June Kim.
As always, thanks for your help. Be well!
—Dave Hetzel, 5 Chestnut St., Windham, NH 03087; dghetzel@gmail.com
We have news that Farrell Delman is leaving the Tobacco Merchants Association (TMA), where he has served as president and chief executive officer for more than 40 years. The TMA board has authorized a search for a new chief executive, but in a letter to its members the TMA board of directors expressed its gratitude for Delman’s many years of dedicated service, hard work and leadership.
In November Greg Yadley was spotted monitoring a discussion group on exempt securities offerings at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s small business forum in Washington, D.C. He also co-chaired the plenary session at the conference. Yads is one of 15 members of the SEC’s advisory committee on small and emerging companies. Of greater importance, each of Greg’s children produced a male heir and he hopes that, as with generation-skipping transfers, his two grandsons will wear the Dartmouth green in another 17 years.
Jon Einsidler reports that he and his wife, Karen, are spending their first winter as snowbirds at their new place on Longboat Key in Florida. Jon has already connected with other members of the Dartmouth family down there and by all indications is enjoying the weather and the good company. Jon’s son, Teddy ’20, is a member of the Dartmouth Cords a cappella group that toured the West Coast in December. Teddy also swims for the club team. By all accounts, he takes after his mom, Karen, who is a top masters swimmer and, unlike Jon, can actually sing!
On Tuesday, December 11, Bill Roberts and his wife, Ingrid, and daughter Karen attended the Dartmouth Club of Chicago’s Hamilton theater event. Before the musical about 20 alumni and guests met for dinner, and among them was Joe Mathewson ’55—who interviewed Bill for admission to Dartmouth 48 years ago! They probably hadn’t seen each other since then. It was a great reunion. Joe is currently teaching journalism courses at Northwestern University’s Medill School.
After celebrating the 2016 holidays early with daughters Erika, a veterinary assistant and volunteer at University of Washington’s natural history museum, and Rachel, a rocket scientist at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space company, Bill Price and his wife, Lori, ventured off to take in the wonders of Tikal, one of the massive Mayan ruins in Guatemala that sank into jungle oblivion before the Spanish arrived. Bill reports that this is his 83rd country visited and he’s still counting!
Finally, in our continuing quest to locate missing ’72s, here are the names of 10 classmates for whom we have no usable contact information (if you know how to reach them, please let me know): Charles Erickson, Kent Foster, Robert Godshall, Bjorn Halsteen, Stephen Himmelman, Fred Hodgson, Kenneth Kelly, Jack Kersh, Stephen Kessler and In June Kim.
As always, thanks for your help. Be well!
—Dave Hetzel, 5 Chestnut St., Windham, NH 03087; dghetzel@gmail.com