1951

I don't know whether any of the readers of this column have considered the matter, or even give a damn about it. But I want to take the journalistic liberty of toying with "it" this month.

"It" is the order in which news items appear in this column. I can assure you that there is no overall consistent pattern. For purposes of this column, all classmates are equal in the eyes of the scrivener. (Ed. note: How pompous can you get, Dilks?)

For any given months's assortment of available items, however, a pattern may suggest itself. This month, I decided to arrange the items in alphabetical geographical order. This would mean, of course, that we would start with "Apple, Big" as the listing appears in the Manhattan telephone book.

Jim Balderston, about whom I shall have more to say anon, insisted that "Chicago" came ahead of "York, New." While not agreeing to that transposition, I would like to point out that Jim and, it seems, half of our other Chicagoland classmates live in a place called "Winnetka," which stands ahead of only the rest of the W's, X, Y, and Z.

When I made that point, Jim agreed to trade a "Chicago" listing for my listing "Apple, Big" under the B's as "Big Apple." The net result is that my lead news item comes from Berkeley, Calif., our most populous state, where, if you are reading this column at 8 p.m. Eastern time, there are probably more people in freeway traffic jams than reside in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined.

Mike Heyman therefore appears first in his new capacity, as of last September 3, as vice chancellor of the University of California's Berkeley campus. Lawyer Mike will continue teaching property, zoning, urban renewal, and environmental law at Boalt Hall. (For the benefit of non-lawyer readers, "Boalt Hall" is the name used to distinguish the U. of C.'s premier law school at Berkeley from other law schools in the U. of C. multiversity.)

As a breather before undertaking his new responsibilities (which should be somewhat less trying than they would have been a few years ago), Mike and family took an extended vacation in New Zealand and Australia. He and wife Therese, who is curator of graphics at the Oakland Museum, have two sons, Stephen, 14, and James, 11.

If my memory serves me correctly, after Tuck and the Yale Law School, Mike clerked for the late Chief Justice Earl Warren. Since Mike was a "Big Apple" native, I am curious whether, in order to land that prestigious job, he had to enter into some kind of a bonded indenture with the Chief Justice to go to California. Nonetheless, Mike is doing alumni interviewing of candidates for admission to Dartmouth.

Turning to the "Big Apple," Red Balaban, who came from Rye, N.Y., and now lives in West Haven, Conn., is opening a jazz "saloon" on 54th St., between 6th and 7th Aves., in mid- town Manhattan as soon as the bureaucrats process his liquor and cabaret licenses. This follows "15 years as a cattleman and part-time musician [in the Florida Panhandle] and seven as a full-time musician and [band] leader."

Red writes: "It will be called Eddie Condon's, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, after the site of my wedding reception . . . Eddie was a close friend of mine since college days, giving me the guitar with which I worked my first paying job. . . . "

After two years in Hanover, Red transferred to Brown "because Providence was reputed to have more women than Hanover. One of these women was a Pembroke girl named Mickey, whom 1 married. To carry the story further, we have three kids, Michael (Brown '74), Steven (UConn '77) and Rachel (?'80)."

While Mike Heyman visited Australia on vacation, Bill Lamade spent two and a half of his 19-year career with Marsh & McLennan, insurance brokers, "down under." For the last month of his tenure there, Bill served as secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Australia.

After five years with M&M's domestic organization in New York, Bill joined the company's international operation. After three years traveling out of New York, he spent four and a half years as manager of the Caracas, Venezuela, office. He was then promoted to a director of M&M's Australian company in Sydney.

Three years ago he returned to New York as an account executive and vice president, with total responsibility for dealings with corporate risk managers in the New York area. Bill, wife Barbara, son Steve, 16, and daughters Elizabeth, 14, and Jennifer, 11, reside in suburban Summit, N.J. In his copious free time, Bill hunts, fishes, and interviews Dartmouth applicants.

Manhattan West Side resident Jim Asker joined Gulton Industries, Metuchen, N.J., last May as corporate director of personnel and industrial relations. Gulton is a $100,000,000 electronics manufacturer with 20 locations. It makes loud-speakers, microphones, etc., for both the professional and consumer markets, printed circuits for missiles, ceramic transducers, connectors, power converters, electro-optic and measurement devices.

Jim's previous 12 years were spent, with Sun Chemical Co., one of the biggest printing ink manufacturers, where he was director of employee relations. Son Jim, 22, a recent graduate of Rice, is now a reporter with the Houston Post.

Lifetime New Yorker, M.D. Bob de Napoli combines practice with teaching neurology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, where he served his residency following graduation from Harvard Medical and two years with Uncle Sam, Bob and wife Joan have two children: daughter Joyce, 15, and son Robert, 14.

Whoops! I almost forgot Jim Balderston, who, since last reported on in this column, has demoted himself alphabetically geographically from Dallas to Denver to Winnetka. Ill. Jim had his own management consultant firm in Dallas, then moved to Denver in 1971 to do the same thing.

He then got into venture capital in Denver and moved to join Heizer Corp., such ah outfit in Chicago, in late 1972. In November he joined G. D. Searle & Co., a broadly based health care company, as director of diversification. Jim and wife Dorie have three children, Jim, 19; Nancy 17; and Kathy, 15.

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