Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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WILLIAM F. ABRAMS, J R.$ 34 Overlook Drive, Woodstock, New York 12498 0965 InfoJ: Was with Mutual of Omaha tInsurancel as a Unit Manager, living in Kingston, New York. WALTER W. ACHERi: 2 Ventosa Drive, Morristown, New Jersey ROBERT JACK ADAMS nJack 2009 West Cape Rock Drive, Cape Girardeau, Missouri 63701 President 62 General Manager, Jack Adams Volkswagen, Inc. WIFE: Louise tStephenQ CHILDREN: J ames, 24; Robert, 21, and Mary, 19 all three at Missouri State; Adora, 16; Nancy, 14; Charles, 14; Martha, 12; Jacquelyn, 9. MILITARY SERVICE: 1942 to 1945; Navy; Paciiic Theater, Ensign; 1951 to 1954; Navy Mediterranean Theater; Lieut. 1947-1951 Sales Department Studebaker Corp., South Bend, Indiana- Trainee; Omaha, Nebraska-Car Distribution Manager; St. Louis, Missouri --District Sales Manager. 1954-1960 Owner, Crestwood Electronics TV Sales 8L Service. 1960-1961 Engineering tMechanicaD Sverdrup 85 Parcel-- St. Louis. 1961-1963 District Manager and later General Sales Manager of Volkswagen Mid-America WW Distributor for Missouri, Arkansas, Ne- braska, and Kansasy 1964 to present, President 8L General Manager, Jack Adams Volkswagen, Inc, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Golf, sports twatchingx Scout Troop Committeeman, Civil Defense tFire Chief of Auxiliary Departmentl Wolunteer Firemanl, camping, National Auto Dealers Association, Missouri Auto Dealers Association, Westminister Presbyterian Church, Cape Girardeau Country Club, Missouri Society of Professional Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers, Regis- tered Professional Engineer in Missouri .1fE9373. Louise is currently Presi- dent of Creative Artists Guild of Cape Girardeau, exhibits oil and water color paintings throughout local area and has won several top prizes. But here I am, living in Cape Girardeau, tWHERE?????1 Missouri, very happily married, with 3 sons and 5 llweddings to pay forll to total 8. Each child seems to have a talent, all are healthy and wise, and Pop had better hurry if he hopes to be wealthy with this brood. After two tours in the US. Navy, 21 degree in Engineering, a love for the retail automobile business tafter having been a factory representative with Studebaker and again with the Volkswagen Distributori, we have had our own dealership since 1964. I am recuperating tat presentl from my 3rd myocardial infarction and am starting to feel better and rested. No-Pm not trying to outdo Dwight D. Eisenhower in coronaries. Even though I attended Dartmouth for only two years, and subsequently went to Annapolis and graduated from thanoe U, I still feel very close to Hanover. We hope we can attend the 25th Reunion, but it may be more than we can handle with all of the kids. k WMHHUIIIW WM l xvtilllmllmllly w i 'u

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THE CLASS OF 1944 . . . then and now and in between . . . PHOTOGRAPHS 8L BIOGRAPHIES NB: an asterisk after a name indicates Alumni Records informatiom

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LAW LAMAR AGER 1100 South 3lst Street, Birmingham, Alabama 35203 Psychiatrist WIFE: Bessie tBirmingham Southerni CHILDREN: Loyer, 22 tUniversity of North Carolina; Law Jr., 19; Leila, 16; Emily, 14; Francis, 12; John, 10; Elizabeth, 9. MILIT118xRY SERVICE: 1941-1945; Naval Air; Pacific Theater; A.R.M. c. Total occupational career spent as a psychiatrist. Worked on a summer job after leaving Dartmouth in 1941. Volunteered for the Navy when confronted with draft which prevented my return to Dartmouth. Radio and gunnery schools, and after marriage to Loyer Zahner tCissiei in 1943, itshipped out. Two years in the Pacific and most of the big battles4and a lot of close ones. Attended U. of North Carolina after the war for pre-med; then U. of Maryland Medical School. Interned at the U. of Alabama Medical Center in 1952, followed by psychiatric training at the Meninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas from 1953 to 1955. It was there that Cissie died when our fourth child was born. Returned to Birmingham in 1955 to begin practice of psychiatry. Many problems getting the children settled, but many friends made the job much easier. In 1957 I married Bessie B. Shepard. Since that time my life has been filled with having three more children; teaching in the Department of Psychiatry; 21 very busy practice of predom- H inantly analytic psychotherapy; church activities at St. Marys Episcopal Church; golf, tennis and parties at Mountain Brook Club. Hunting and H fishing and until we sold our place in NC. spending most of our summer vacations in the mountains of NC. JOAQUIN AGUIRREt U957 Infoi Calle Columbia 40, Cochabamba, Bolivia Attended Stanford University. Served as Advisor to the Bolivian Govt. in the San Francisco Conference and then returned to Bolivia where he worked for an oil company. In 1951 he published a historical novel. vmhllliIWII x x7 111 M7 1 ARTHUR PRATT ALLEN, JR. Art 357 Highland Street, Dedham, Massachusetts 02026 Self-employcd Distributor WIFE: Doris CHILDREN: Arthur, 19 tDartmouthi; Robert, 16. MILITARY SERVICE: 1942-1944; Navy-Coast Guard; U.S.A. 1945-60 worked in automobile agency, ending up as dealer. 1960-67 brokered insurance. 1967 to present-Amway distributor. Church: deacon, teacher, chairman of Council and other committees; Masonic orders; Kiwanis Club. officer, past Lt. gov.; Town Meeting member 12 years; Little League and the usual. . After military service, entered automobile business, eventually becoming dealer. When wife became ill with cancer, sold the business to spend more time with my two boys. After death of first wife, I succumbed to the saying tlgotta have a woman around the house and remarried. Feeling that a good education is all important for tomorrowis man, enrolled my sons in Roxbury Latin School from which older boy graduated and is now at Dartmouth. Younger boy undecided as to future education-although 1 wish he would choose Dartmouth to assist in rebuilding some athletic teamsl! Some 25 years after leaving college for the military, must admit the ' feeling is always great to be on the Hanover plain! Those years have been i filled with happiness, despair, grief4highs and lows-but when I look back on them, Pm appreciative that: Dartmouth put up with me for two whole 1 years; that I have been most happily married two times4many don7t make 1. it once; for two young men who have really made my home 11home ; for i my good health; and of the fact that I was born in the USA... . . had the good fortune to attend Dartmouth and to be still living in the same U.S.A.