1959

I hope everyone had a fine summer and is now rarin' to go as we head into our 25th reunion year. We began autumn with a good flow of communications which have come in during the past several months. Do keep it up!

Bill Sweet has been promoted to executive vice president at Wells Fargo Bank, where he is deputy, group head of the corporate banking group. Bill joined Wells Fargo in 1966 as a credit officer and served in the bank's international group and eastern and midwestern corporate banking offices before moving to Los Angeles in 1974 to head the energy and utilities department. Congratulations to you, Bill!

Paul Stein writes from Summit, NJ, that he had lunch with Howard Geiger, who is one of Merrill Lynch's top analysts of small computer companies. Paul said that Howard is doing well and that his recommendations have done "spec- tacularly" in the market. Paul is human resource director at Merrill Lynch and finds his job "fascinating and terribly challenging."

I was pleased to learn about Jim Gidden's ongoing interest in music at Dartmouth. Jim has generously established the James W. Gidden Endowment Fund for the purpose of supporting piano and keyboard studies, concerts, and the like. One of the first events under the fund's sponsorship was a campus concert in Faulkner Recital Hall last May 6 which featured sonatas and interludes by John Cage.

The latest news from George Fisher is that he has been appointed dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. John was formerly chairman of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and professor of geology. He said that his new job is a "major challenge and a lot of fun except that there is little time left for geology!" George lives outside of Baltimore in Towson, MD.

Craig Harlan reports that he was promoted from vice president, marketing, to president of Technical Materials Inc., a subsidiary of BrushWellman. A resident of Barrington, RI, Craig explains that TMI supplies specialty strip materials to the electronics industry.

We have a proud father in Bob Filderman, now living in San Diego, who tells us his son Jay is enrolled in the class of 1987. He quips, "Guess I'm getting old."

Harry Jeffrey spoke, debated, and prepared papers for the June and July Trilateral Conference in London, England. He states that the conference was composed of members of Parliament and associates of the political parties of three countries: Britain's Conservative Party, West Germany's Christian Democratic Party, and the United States' Republican Party. Harry is a professor of American history at California State University in Fullerton.

Another Californian, Mike Melvoin from Los Angeles, is pleased to announce that he was elected president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the organization which awards the "Grammy." Mike, remembered for his participation in the Sultans and the Coast in 1958 and 1959, said that he continues to compose, arrange, and play music for records, film, and TV.

Steve Levine writes from Haddonfield, NJ, that he and his wife Rhea have three children "who are growing up faster than we care to admit. Liz is at Smith College, class of 1985, and spending her junior year at University College, London; Mike has been filling out dormitory requests and applying for the freshman canoe trip - he'll be starting at Dartmouth this September; and Zach will be a junior at Penn Charter. As for myself, I am practicing gastroenterology in Cherry Hill, NJ, and Philadelphia, and playing golf to forget about tuitions. Rhea shuttles between the United States and Germany doing research."

Myron Lewis is practicing gastroenterology in Memphis, TN, where he serves on the governing board of the American College of Gastroenterology. He is also an associate professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee.

Congratulations to Bill Colehower and his strong team of Alumni Fund agents, whose efforts placed the class of 1959 at the top of the 1983 Green Derby - our first victory since 1966. This sets the stage nicely for a best-ever 1984 reunion-year extravaganza!

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