Class Note 1976
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Greetings! From famine to feast! Someone finally answered my pleas. After reading news of Michael Montgomery, maybe others will follow suit. Michael says that after working all these years it’s tough getting up and not having to go to work. He’s still in L.A. after having merged the investment bank he started with his brother, Montgomery & Co., with Signal Hill. He didn’t join them. They started the company in 1999 and developed it into one of the best known banks in digital media over the past 10 years despite the timing of its inception. Allen Morgan was on the board for a number of years. Prior to banking Michael had been a “deal maker” for Disney and Dreamworks. When not in L.A. looking for classmates coming through town, he and his wife can be found in their house in the French Alps in Megeve. Fraser Marcus wrote that he and wife Rhonda are settled in Dallas with children settling in various schools. His younger two are in Dallas and his oldest is to graduate from Carnegie Mellon next spring. He’s still back and forth to Europe and the Middle East, and he and Rhonda participated in Dartmouth Peak Performance. Martha will have more in the newsletter. The weekend of September 20-22 was terrific here in Indianapolis, Indiana. The football team came to town to play Butler on Saturday and was victorious. Better than that was the celebration here in Circle City. I believe a total of more than 400 celebrated before and during the game, compliments of the College, the Friends of Dartmouth Football and the class of ’75. There were at least five other ’76s, four of whom I got a chance to speak to: Fred Arand, Phil Moy, Todd Morris and Parker “Speedy” MacDonell. I saw Rick Choate but did not get a chance to speak to him. Bob Hittle ’75 was instrumental in getting things moving for the entire weekend, and on Friday evening he and his wife, Rosita, hosted a ’75 60th birthday party. The weekend brought in lots of alumni including ’75s Dan Kenslea, Al Markman, Glenn Reed, Lon Cross, Jim Evans, Dave Robertson, Kevin McGillicuddy, Joe Brennan, Eric Martin and probably others I left out (sorry). There were plenty of other contemporaries there (apologies if I “mis-class” anyone). Class of ’74s Fritz Ledbetter, Dick Ellsworth, John Fisher, Marty Mehlberth and Mike Draznik with son Bill ’03, ’77s Chris Jenny and Martha and Wes Chapman and Chris Morris ’78. The weekend should be viewed as a rousing success. I hope it showed the College that finding I-AA teams to play outside of New England makes it a win-win situation all the way around. Students and alums in the area (in this case from as far as Texas, Alaska and Boston) get the opportunity to come together and see representatives of the College, which in turn gets people thinking about the College and connections developed during four years in Hanover and beyond. —Jay Josselyn, 304 Sussex Circle, Noblesville, IN 46062; (919) 804-2349; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com
Jan - Feb 2014
Greetings! From famine to feast! Someone finally answered my pleas. After reading news of Michael Montgomery, maybe others will follow suit. Michael says that after working all these years it’s tough getting up and not having to go to work. He’s still in L.A. after having merged the investment bank he started with his brother, Montgomery & Co., with Signal Hill. He didn’t join them. They started the company in 1999 and developed it into one of the best known banks in digital media over the past 10 years despite the timing of its inception. Allen Morgan was on the board for a number of years. Prior to banking Michael had been a “deal maker” for Disney and Dreamworks. When not in L.A. looking for classmates coming through town, he and his wife can be found in their house in the French Alps in Megeve. Fraser Marcus wrote that he and wife Rhonda are settled in Dallas with children settling in various schools. His younger two are in Dallas and his oldest is to graduate from Carnegie Mellon next spring. He’s still back and forth to Europe and the Middle East, and he and Rhonda participated in Dartmouth Peak Performance. Martha will have more in the newsletter. The weekend of September 20-22 was terrific here in Indianapolis, Indiana. The football team came to town to play Butler on Saturday and was victorious. Better than that was the celebration here in Circle City. I believe a total of more than 400 celebrated before and during the game, compliments of the College, the Friends of Dartmouth Football and the class of ’75. There were at least five other ’76s, four of whom I got a chance to speak to: Fred Arand, Phil Moy, Todd Morris and Parker “Speedy” MacDonell. I saw Rick Choate but did not get a chance to speak to him. Bob Hittle ’75 was instrumental in getting things moving for the entire weekend, and on Friday evening he and his wife, Rosita, hosted a ’75 60th birthday party. The weekend brought in lots of alumni including ’75s Dan Kenslea, Al Markman, Glenn Reed, Lon Cross, Jim Evans, Dave Robertson, Kevin McGillicuddy, Joe Brennan, Eric Martin and probably others I left out (sorry). There were plenty of other contemporaries there (apologies if I “mis-class” anyone). Class of ’74s Fritz Ledbetter, Dick Ellsworth, John Fisher, Marty Mehlberth and Mike Draznik with son Bill ’03, ’77s Chris Jenny and Martha and Wes Chapman and Chris Morris ’78. The weekend should be viewed as a rousing success. I hope it showed the College that finding I-AA teams to play outside of New England makes it a win-win situation all the way around. Students and alums in the area (in this case from as far as Texas, Alaska and Boston) get the opportunity to come together and see representatives of the College, which in turn gets people thinking about the College and connections developed during four years in Hanover and beyond. —Jay Josselyn, 304 Sussex Circle, Noblesville, IN 46062; (919) 804-2349; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com