1962

We know that many in the class of '62 are going to be having a most joyous Christmas season this year, because as we prepare this column and recall some of the columns of the past year, it seems to have been a most exciting year of promotions and personal and career achievements. We wish you all continued success and happiness in the years to come.

As perhaps many of you already know, Michael L. Slive has been named assistant executive director of the Pacific-10 Conference. After graduating from Dartmouth, Mike received a law degree from the University of Virginia and a master's of law from Georgetown. He served as assistant director of athletics at Dartmouth from 1968 to 1970, before entering private legal practice. Then Mike spent five years as a district court judge before becoming a superior court administrator. It was in one of our earlier columns (October 1977) that we wrote about an incident during his service as the Hanover district court judge that made good reading in many of the East Coast newspapers.

This latest move of Mike's brings him to the West Coast. After a Pac-10 council meeting and a "pre-football season" tour of the conference schools with the media, Mike started his new job officially, in early September. He will have responsibility "for all scheduling, all eligibility matters, and all NCAA rule matters," and will be "keeping up with the legislative and legal aspects of athletics" as they apply to the Pac-10. He'll also help organize the Rose Bowl footbail game and coordinate the conference's television schedule. Slive feels that the Pac-10 has "the finest collection of intercollegiate athletics in the country."

Mike, his wife Elizabeth, and their six-year-old daughter Anna have moved to the San Francisco area, as Pac-10's offices are located in Walnut Creek, just across the bay from this lovely city. Mike must be extremely gratified with this exciting new move, since he was quoted as saying that intercollegiate athletics are his "first love." He noted that his new position will allow him to combine his collegiate, judicial, and law experience "in the complex world of intercollegiate athletics."

David E. Orr '57 recently wrote to let us know about the latest news of Bob Aiken. Dave mentioned that Bob's help with the cover for the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl program was much appreciated, as his illustrative contributions always are. In late July, Bob accepted a new appointment as executive director of the Vermont Professional Standards Review Organization. The VPSRO is a federally-funded physicians' self-reviewing group. It has statewide responsibility to set standards for medical practice and to devise methods of reviewing service delivery to determine that those standards are met. This is especially significant in the health care field in this country, with the federal cost-containment and national health insurance proposals now coming to the fore. Bob and his wife Edwarda and daughter Dawn Dee live in Jericho, Vt. Bob earned his M.S. at St. Michael's College in 1971, and has worked as assistant director of Welfare Medical Services for the State of Vermont.

Robert L. Goodman, a professor of radiation therapy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, also chairs the departments of radiation therapy at both Penn and the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He must be pretty excited at the news that came out in September that the National Cancer Institute had awarded an $11.8-million contract to those two organizations to mount a cooperative effort for large-scale studies of a new type of cancer treatment. This joint effort will be one of only four such programs in the nation. The program will take place over a tenyear period and will involve a total of at least 3,500 patients. Fox Chase is also undertaking a million-dollar construction project for a radiation therapy facility which will be almost entirely below ground level. Construction is expected to be completed in less than a year and controlled clinical studies are expected to start in 1981, introducing neutron therapy and hyperthermia treatment for cancer patients.

After graduating from Dartmouth, Bob earned his medical degree from Columbia University in 1966. He served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School from 1969 to 1977 and then joined the Penn faculty. He also directs the radiation therapy service at the Veterans Hospital, belongs to several national professional societies as well as to the Keystone Area Society of Radiation Oncologists, and is associate editor of the International Journal ofRadiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics. Bob and his wife Paula have two daughters and make their home in Gladwyne.

In closing, and in the spirit of this season, my wife Barbara and I and our three children - Tri, Clay, and Jenner - wish you all a most joyful Christmas and a happy and rewarding New Year.

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