1969

This being June, your humble secretary is currently enjoying a brief respite from his duties as class biographer. This business of manufacturing news each month exacts a heavy toll on the imagination; and the pay is nothing to write home about. Nevertheless, a cursory spring house cleaning has turned up the following tidbits from my voluminous files.

Jim Treadway, holder of a degree in hotel management from Cornell University, was recently named general manager of the Olympic Hotel in Seattle. The third generation of a family of hoteliers, he has been with Western International Hotels for the past seven years. Jim has held various management positions for the company at the Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa; the Hotel Scandinavia in Oslo, Norway; and the Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. He arrived at the Olympic about a year ago and held the position of executive assistant manager prior to being elevated to the top post. At 31. he is the youngest manager of any major Western International Hotel. Chambermaids are advised not to dilly-dally in the linen closet.

My heart was wildly palpitating the other day as I ran my finger under the flap of an envelope addressed to me by the Veterans Administration. Was I being recalled to bolster the depleted ranks of the all-volunteer Army? Was Philadelphia being overrun by alien invaders? And would they take Camden as well? Ripping the missive from its wrapper, I read as follows: "To Whom it May Concern: Charles Eiriksson, M.D., Class of '69, has recently been appointed to be head, Dept. of Cardiology, Boise VA Medical Center." And to think I almost had a heart attack.

Jim Sutton, of Newtonville, Mass., has recently joined the staff of the Morse Institute Library. The announcement really should come as no surprise to those of you who will recall that it was Jim who, as an undergrad, distinguished himself by copping back-to-back "booker-of-the-year" honors. Formerly employed at the Stoughton Library, he has a degree in library science from Simmons College.

From the University of Western Ontario comes word that Professor Michael Groden has received the first Guggenheim Fellowship known to have been awarded a faculty member at that school. He plans to spend next year in New York working on two projects: a critical edition of James Joyce's works and a study of narrative obscurity in several novels. The Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded on the basis of annual competitions to candidates who are judged to be of high intellectual and personal unusual capacity for productive scholarship or unusual creativity. Mike turned down two other fellowships offered by the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The author of

"Ulysses" in Progress and general editor of the 63-volume James Joyce Archive, he is presently editing Joyce's Ulysses in collaboration with a couple of European scholars. Hell, I couldn't even understand the trot.

Yale University has announced that David L. Rutlen, assistant professor of medicine, has been appointed the first Duberg Scholar in Cardiovascular Disease. His research is designed to assess the influence of myocardial infarction on the arteries and veins throughout the body. Never touch the stuff myself. Dave's studies should provide a better understanding of how patients with heart attacks might be treated, and also how such attacks might be prevented. Prior to joining the Yale medical faculty in 1978, he was an instructor in medicine at the Harvard Medical School, where he also received his M.D. degree in 1973. In the interim, Dave underwent training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and was a Clinical and Research Fellow in the cardiac unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Have a nice summer and remember to jot down the highlights. This column will be featuring the standard "What I Did Last Summer" essay contest come September. Get your kids to help you with yours. Or, if they don't have time, simply forward copies of theirs. At least I'll have some material with which to placate the editors for a few months.

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