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Louis V. Gerstner Jr., vice chairman of the American Express Company, did us all proud by being selected for a profile in "Dartmouth in the World," a booklet celebrating the launching of the John Sloan Dickey Endowment for International Understanding at the College, included in the December issue of this magazine. Lou, who was elected chairman of the executive committee of American Express in January, competes in the booming travel and tourism business with Richard Braddock, executive vice president of Citibank and a classmate of Lou's at the Harvard Business School. Rick supervises the New York branch system of Citibank but, more important to this discussion, is responsible for Visa, Mastercard, Diners Club, and Citibank travelers checks. Rick, who lives in Manhattan with his wife Susan and two children, was about to leave for the Orient when we talked about his career in marketing which began with General Foods. Oklahoma-born and Greenwich, Conn.-raised, Rick joined Citibank in London eight years ago. He stays in shape by playing squash but has had to lay off jogging for a year following a fall in a Manhattan street ditch in a 5:30 a.m. pre-dawn run.
Stuart Richards, founder and president of Warren Realty at Sugarbush, Vt., is developing Pinnacle Condominiums, 150 units at Killington, which attracts 800,000 skiers yearly and is expected to grow to a million like Mammoth in California and Vail in Colorado. A licensed real estate broker, Stu has been in business 12 years and employs six brokers. He lives in Sugarbush with his wife Miriam and two hockey-playing sons, aged seven and nine, and tries to take in events at Hopkins Center when possible.
John T. Whitmer has been named vice president and director of marketing for ITT Continental Baking Company, the nation's largest wholesale baking company, located in Rye, N.Y. John started out with Lever Brothers and held senior marketing positions at Scott Paper, Ted Bates, and Combe Inc. Most recently he was senior vice president, marketing, at Cooper Care of Fairfield, N.J., a consumer health care products company. A native of Essex Falls, N.J., John earned his M.B.A. at Tuck and lives with his wife Rosemary and three children - Marc, Craig, and Julie - in Old Greenwich, Conn. A member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, John also serves on the executive committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Association in Fairfield County.
Our class did well also in the November ALUMNI MAGAZINE on "Dartmouth at the Movies," with the inclusion of actors Michael Moriarty and Stephen Macht, writer Chris Miller, and film preservation specialist Robert Gitt. Mike Moriarty, incidentally, was praised by The New York Times for his role as Captain Queeg in a new stage production of The CaineMutiny Court-Martial, which opened in january at the Stamford, Conn., Center for the Arts. Another denizen of theatrical circles pleasing the critics is Robert Greenwood, a member of Sun Ergos, a two-member theater and dance company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Bob and fellow performer Dana Luebke toured England, Scotland, and Wales last summer and fall and got rave reviews. Described as a "highly trained, experienced, and versatile actor and mime," Bob performed in an hour-long program of short dances and dramatic sketches including "The Stroke," a piece aimed at understanding the physically handicapped.
Speaking of entertainment, the film Gandhi comes highly recommended by Frederick"Rick" Asher, author and teacher on Southwest Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Rick has written two books, Art of EasternIndia 300—800 A.D. and Epigraphy in the Art ofIndia, and is vice president of the American Institute of Indian Studies. (Epigraphy by the way is the study of ancient writing.) A Chicago native, Rick lives in Minneapolis with his wife Catherine, a University of Minnesota historian on Islamic architecture, and two children Tom, nine, and Alice, six. Rick is working on an archeological report on the Buddhist University, once the largest university in the world in the fifth through 12th centuries, predating European universities.
There's news this month from the East Coast about four classmates who practice corporate law, from New Hampshire to Maryland. Two are labor lawyers on behalf of management: Norman Buchsbaum, a partner in the Baltimore office of Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler and Krupman, a 25-year-old firm with 80 lawyers and offices in eight cities; and Peter Stern, a partner in the 40-year-old Philadelphia firm of Kleinbard, Bell and Brecker, which has 17 lawyers. Both Norman and Pete went right to their specialties after graduating from Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. When I spoke to Norman he was leaving on a business trip to Los Angeles, where he hoped to look up college roommate Howard Culver, corporate lawyer with Western Airlines. Active in student recruiting for the College, Norman lives in Baltimore with his wife Roxanne and two children —Jeffrey, 14, and Emily, 11. Pete and his wife Lillian, a radiologist at Philadelphia's Methodist Hospital, also have two children Danny, ten, and Karen, 16 as well as a golden retriever dog named Josh. Pete has taught law at Temple University and owns Chips 'N Twigs, a boys' clothing company. He also serves on our class executive committee.
The two other corporate lawyers are John Rose, a commercial litigator and partner with Byrne, Shechtman and Slater in Hartford, Conn., and Peter Rotch, our newsletter editor, a partner with McLane, Graf and Middleton in Manchester, N.H.A graduate of Yale, John worked for legal aid and as a Connecticut prosecutor before joining Ribicoff and Kotkin in 1968 as the first black lawyer in a major Connecticut firm. He helped start his present 16-lawyer firm five years ago. John and his wife Claudia live in Bloomfield and have two children a girl, Anika, age ten, and a boy, Khari, age five. John is active in student recruiting.
A graduate of the University of Chicago, Pete has spent his entire legal career with his firm and lives with his wife Susan, son Duncan, 12, and daughter Heather, ten, in Amherst, N.H. Besides handling our newsletter, Pete is a trustee at the White Mountain School, a college prep school, and Susan assists at an elementary school in Amherst.
Alan V. Davies '63, appearing slightly chagrined, though amused, was presented with a'63 freshman beanie as part of a light-heartedceremony last November in San Francisco inducting him as 1983 president of the Instituteof Real Estate Management. The beanie wasretrieved from the College's archives for the occasion, which also saw Davies, who is an honorary deputy fire chief for New York City, donning headgear suitable for that role. Davies ispresident of theJ. Clarence Davies Realty Company in New York and in his year at the helmof IREM will travel all over the world—fromMidland, Tex., to Jakarta, Indonesia.
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