1961

Hop Holmberg has agreed to chair our 20th reunion this June (which is, of course, really our 21st, but is scheduled that way so we can also see our friends in '62 and '63).

President Gerry Kaminsky, who announced the appointment, said, "While a number of people whom I have contacted over the last six months have agreed to work on the 20th, you can be sure Hop will need assistance from as many people as possible." If you can help, call Gerry at (212) 578-0200 or Hop at (617) 353-2670. And block out the dates now —June 18-20, 1982.

Hop, by the way, is director of health management programs at Boston University's School of Management. This past April, he was chosen chairman-elect of the Association of University Programs in Health Management, a step which means he'll spend three years in the organization's top leadership. According to a BU press release, Hop "anticipates an active role in federal legislative proceedings that concern regulation of health administration programs and projects." The organization is a consortium of health administration programs in 26 countries at 132 universities. He's been active in health affairs, serving on the executive committees of the Massachusetts Public Health Association and the Massachusetts Health Facility Appeals Broad, and chairing the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Nursing Home Administrators.

A huge aluminum sculpture by Bruce Beasley, measuring more than 30 feet in length, has been installed at San Francisco International Airport, over the escalators in the North Terminal. It's titled The Hesperides, after the mythological Greek spirits of the air. Bruce has also got major works at Miami International Airport, the capitol office buildings in Sacramento, Calif., the federal office building in San Diego, and in the city of Eugene, Ore. He had a solo exhibition this past spring at the Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery in San Francisco, and he has work in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Musee d'art Moderne in Paris.

Another famous classmate, Dave Birney, was back on the tube in the spring, playing in a made-for-TV movie, The Five of Me, and in a CBS mini-series, Valley of the Dolls. He spent the summer touring in T'alley's Folly with his wife, Meredith Baxter. Meanwhile, he's established an award at the College, to be called the David Birney Award for Excellence in Theater Arts, given annually to the student "making the most significant contribution to Dartmouth theater during the previous year." He specified the winner of a cash prize and inscribed silver bowl had to demonstrate a "standard of excellence" as well as "genuine passion" and "a substantial emotional commitment to the art of theater." The first winner: Julia Mueller 'B2.

Britta McNemar, writing as director of career and employment services for the College, again thanked the class for our fellows program, which, she said, provided "an excellent career program for Dartmouth students this year. The visits of Ken DeHaven and Jim McElhinney were a tremendous addition to the career exploration offerings we were able to provide students. Since their visit, we have had several students in to listen to the tape and to talk to us about sports medicine. I think your class should be pleased and proud of the impact the first 'Class of '6l Fellowship' made on campus." And by the time you read this, Dick Beattie and Mike Kirst will already have made their presentations. More on that next month.

We've got three members of the Alumni Council: Russ Boss, Vic Rich, and John Henry, according to a report from the College.

News notes: Bruce Forester, assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, is publishing a murder mystery, In Strict Confidence (Ashley Books), next April. . . . Sam Bryan, executive director of the International Film Foundation in New York for the past seven years, married Susan Hall in August 1980. . . . Steve Grossberg, professor of mathematics, psychology, and biomedical engineering at Boston University, just published Studies ofMind and Brain (Reidell Press); he's also launched a center to do basic research on mindrelated topics, and he and Gail just became parents of Deborah Sarah. . . . Fritz Kern is national marketing manager for American Isuzu Motors Inc. in Los Angeles, after 11 years with Toyota as Gulf states vice president of sales and marketing. . . . Sheldon Baroff, an obstetrician and gynecologist by trade, sings with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. . . . Peter Beneville is now responsible for all of Africa for Wells Fargo Bank in London. .. . Peter Tuschak, after years in academe at Ohio State and the University of Illinois, is now with the DuPont Engineering Research Division in Newark, Del., and involved in master's swimming. . . . Bob Rundel is now on the physics faculty at Mississippi State University after six years at the NASA Johnson Space Center and six years at Rice University.

Fred Schwab is running again, too marathon distances. We'll just have to have a class 10K race come June. We need it.

the artist and his art: Bruce Beasley '61 (above, left) has, over the past eight years, completed nine large-scale commission projects forlocations throughout the United States. Among these monumental works is Atea (above, right), a 37-foot welded aluminum sculpture inthe international terminal of the Miami International Airport.

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