We hope to see you at our big 65th reunion September 27-29. Following are comments from expected attendees you may not have seen for a while. Bob Eckerson came to Dartmouth in March of 1944 for one year in the Navy V-5 program. He did his preflight training at the University of North Carolina and flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas. The Navy no longer needed pilots and he returned to Dartmouth in 1946 and earned his A.B. in 1948 and M.E. from Thayer in 1949. He recalls that he and Arlene got married on August 21, 1948, in Jamaica, New York, on the same day our late classmate Carl Evans got married. Bob worked for a number of companies and completed his career with Rockwell International, where he was involved in the supply of equipment for the newspaper industry. He enjoys his retirement with Arlene and their two children and is active in his church and the town of Durham, New Hampshire. Marty Ullman came to Dartmouth in June 1943 in the U.S. Marine V-12 program and left in late 1944 for boot camp and subsequently officer candidate school, where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. He was sent to China for a year, was discharged and came back to Dartmouth in 1946. He took his A.B. in 1948 and M.B.A. from Tuck in 1949. In 1948 he and Ann were married in Claremont, New Hampshire, because it was the closest Jewish synagogue. He recalls a big wedding with some 50 of his classmates attending. He then joined his family’s California plastic business, the Royal Pacific Co., which had a proprietary line of housewares and a broader volume of custom business. When it was sold in 1985 Ann took a position teaching English in China. They moved to Shanghai, where Marty also got a job teaching English to high school students. Ann passed away five years ago, but Marty and their two children remain in the far west. He happily lives in Santa Rosa, California, in the heart of Sonoma wine country and where he can see three wineries from his hill.


—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 853-3582; djkurr@verizon.net