1975

By the time this column appears in print, I will have seen many of you during our class officers' gathering on October 21-23. I would like to predict boldly a month before the event — that it was wonderful, and that every single officer for the class of 1975 managed to attend a spirited and effective meeting on a glorious fall weekend which saw the Dartmouth football team wallop Cornell 55-10. All of the above sounds probable, but not very likely, as I type it on October 2.

Now for reality. That Frederick Waddell is so modest. He gets promoted to vice president in the Commercial Banking Department at the Northern Trust Company in Chicago and doesn't say a word about it. The company's corporate communications department has to put out a press release to let everyone know. Apparently, he's been assigned to the natural resources division of the special industries group, where he will be responsible for energy-lending in Oklahoma City. Break out the champagne, Rick and Cate.

No doubt the good word I put in for Rick helped him win the promotion. Northern Trust called me up and asked if I thought he could handle the VP post. I just cited the outstanding job Rick has done as class treasurer for the past few years, and that seemed to do the trick.

Same thing happened with Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago. I put in a good word for ThomasDenison, and they bumped him up to second vice president in the Minneapolis regional office. Tom earned his M.B.A. in finance and accounting in 1977 from Penn and joined Continental in 1979. He was named an officer in 1981. Congratulations, Tom.

Cabell's Mill in Fairfax, Va., was the scene of joyful nuptials for Bob Hirama and Susan Rieth last May 1. Susan, a graduate of Wellesley College, received her master's degree at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She's a staff scientist at Environ in Washington, D.C. Bob graduated from the University of Virginia Business School. He is currently with the Naval Air Systems Command in Washington.

Pamela Gerver has been appointed to the faculty of the University of California at San Diego as a fellow in ultrasound and CAT scan. According to my information, this is "the most prestigious position of its kind in the United States." Pamela graduated from New York Medical College in 1979 and completed her residency as chief of radiology at Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Center in New York City.

And more kudos to one of our classmates, this time D. Curtis Starr, who was promoted to management advisory service manager in the Pittsburgh office of the accounting firm of Price Water house. Curtis joined the firm in 1980, after a stint with the Weirton Steel division of National Steel Corporation.

Sadly, another month passed and I wasn't promoted to vice president of anything. I am happy to report, however, that a song I coauthored with Montreal madcap comedienne-chanteuse Diana Marcovitz is being used in a National Film Board of Canada production called The Gilded Cage. It's a documentary about a middle-aged woman's adjustment to life on her own after her husband dumps her for a younger woman. The film also contains information about women's legal rights in such a situation and about available counseling and social services. The song, a slightly cynical little ditty, is definitely going to be a bullet on the top-40 charts with definite cross-over potential to country and western and soul. Definitely. Bring on the limos and the coke parties. Definitely.

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