1963

Dedication! Perseverance! These themes of the season are appropriate for '63s. Walter Kobialka, a neighbor of mine in Bayside, N.Y., forgoes the routine train or bus ride to Manhattan and heads instead for Rikers Island Facility for Men, where he is chief of medicine and becoming something of an expert on venereal disease, tuberculosis, and prison violence trauma. Walter, who supervises a staff of six doctors and 12 doctor's assistants, had been doing general internal medicine and gynecology at Einstein Medical Center in the Bronx. A graduate of the Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, Walter came to New York in 1978. Edna, his wife of three years, is expecting their first child.

Morris Kramer, cited as one of the best corporate lawyers in America in a 1983 volume by Woodward and White, thrives on allnighters and weekend work, even though he has partner status at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, the premier merger and acquisition law firm. Morris was bleary-eyed recently after 54 straight sleepless hours of defending a client from an unfriendly takeover. The Harvard Law graduate, who publishes and lectures on hostile tender offers, was born in Brooklyn and lives in Manhattan with his second wife, Nancy, an interior designer, and two sons, Jeremy, 14, and Oliver, three. Morris has taken up squash and is looking forward to a rafting trip on the Gauley River in West Virginia, which he says is the scene of the film Deliverance.

Back in the sixties, when the economy boomed, Tom McLaughlin went into labor relations and personnel work. His biggest problems then were probably recruitment and appeasing the unions. Now all that has changed at Bethlehem Steel, Tom's home base, as layoffs are the way of life, even in the public affairs department where Tom handles personnel and industrial relations. Even so, says Tom, Bethlehem has compensated with great success in outplacement counseling and assisting displaced workers into other jobs and occupations. Tom, who is divorced, lives in rural Hellertown, Pa. He has two sons - Tom, 21, and Jim, 17, and a guitar which he's begun to play.

Don McKinnon, one of Dartmouth's alltime great football players, is managing director of institutional sales and trading at the brokerage firm, AG Becker Paribas Inc. He and Nancy have two sons Donald, 16, and Andrew, 14. They moved to New York nine years ago from Boston, with a year in Texas sandwiched in between. In the winter, Don jogs; in the summer he and his family retreat to a summer house in Connecticut.

Steve Lister joined Colgate-Palmolive Company 18 years ago fresh out of Columbia Business School. He's survived long periods of travel and heavy corporate demands to become international controller and director of international finance, while raising a family in suburban Darien, Conn. The family includes his wife Joan and three children Scott, 14, Allison, 11, and Keith, six.

The so-called Third World has been an object of fascination and commitment for some '63s. Lenny Levitt is one who has been described here, and there are others, including Kevin Low ther, regional representative of a non-profit development organization called Africare, which he helped create in 1971 after serving in the Peace Corps. Kevin, his wife Pat, and. daughters Allison, 14, and Andrea, 12, are due back home in Keene, N.H., this fall, after five years with Africare in Zambia, and thousands of touring miles logged on the African continent. Kevin had been an editorial writer for the Keene Sentinel before taking on his latest African assignment.

Dan Schiele, a psychiatrist specializing in adult and adolescent problems, family therapy, and alcohol and drug abuse in Mission Viejo, Calif., is obviously dedicated, yet a master of leisure arts. He once built a solar powered modern house of his own design in Wisconsin and now does his own painting and sculpture and collects Chinese porcelain, American Chippendale furniture, and contemporary American paintings.

Michael Rie, who, I believe, was the first freshman I met on my first day at the College, was appointed by the governor of Massachusetts to the policy review board of that state's Rate-Setting Commission. Mike works in respiratory-surgical intensive care and performs clinical research at Massachusetts General Hospital.

While Morris Kramer is defending some companies vulnerable to takeovers, AaronGreen wald of Maple wood, N.J., is looking to consult with failing businesses that want to do a turnaround. Aaron recently completed a turnaround in the retail field and also invests in small and medium-sized businesses. The former class treasurer lives in Maple wood with his wife Ruth, manager of one of the town libraries, and two daughters Rachel, 12, and Emily, eight. Aaron is president of the Dartmouth Club of Morris and Essex Counties and does enrollment interviewing.

Congratulations to Gary Lang of Seattle, Wash., promoted to executive vice president of the Savings Bank of Puget Sound, to MarkCorey, who's been named associate dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences in Arkansas, and to Tom Holzel, who formed Arcturus Inc., Concord, Mass., manufacturer of video projectors with computer graphic displays.

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