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If you haven't made your plans yet get on the ball the first big class event of the year is almost upon us. Dartmouth Night Weekend, complete with torchlight parade, class cocktail parties, open-to-all executive committee meetings, breakfast with McLaughlin, and hopefully a Dartmouth victory over Harvard, all take place the weekend of October 19-21. The weekend begins on Friday evening with a class cocktail reception at the Hanover Inn at 6:00 p.m. After the torchlight parade by class there will be another cocktail party at the Inn for '54s and families. The executive committee meeting is scheduled for Saturday morning at the Hovey Grill at Thayer the more classmates in attendance the better. The class will meet again for frivolity and refreshments at the faculty lounge immediately following the great athletic contest of the day. So get your Big Green trappings together and make the Hanover road trip.

The "how soon they forget" department: Charlie Myserian saw Shelly Woolf at reunion and, referring to the Alumni Magazine article on the refocusing of Shelly's company, said to Shelly, "I love the article On you in the Alumni Magazine but I really can't remember are you a millionaire or did you fail?" Ah the power of the press!

Tony Kane continues the building of a new career in the theater world. Following his success as a model, as an actor in TV soaps, and as an off-Broadway producer, Tony was seen this summer in a lead part in the world premiere of Mr. & Mrs. 'A.' at the Harbor Repertory Theater on Staten Island. See you on Broadway, Tony!

While many of us were following less-thanintellectual pursuits at reunion Jim Doig was being recognized for his academic contributions by the Dartmouth Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Jim was inducted as an alumni member of Phi Beta Kappa in recognition of his distinguished career as researcher, teacher, and writer, in the fields of criminal justice, government regulation of business, and management control strategies. Jim has been a member of the Princeton faculty since 1961 and has held the rank of full professor at the Wood row Wilson School there since 1970. He is the director of the school's research program in criminal justice and has served as associate dean and director of the graduate program and director of the undergraduate program. Through Jim's efforts a number of important and timely reforms in the criminal justice system have been accomplished.

Jim's current research is in experimental leadership in government agencies. Among his more recent publication efforts, he has edited Criminal Corrections: Ideals and Realities, published in 1983 by Lexington-Heath, and coauthored New York: The Politics of Urban Regional Development, published in 1982 by the University of California Press.

Congratulations, Jim, on your Phi Beta Kappa induction and on a life so obviously well spent!

Speaking of distinguished class representatives in the academic world, Tom Malcolm donned academic robes to represent Dartmouth at the inauguration of Kenneth L. Perrin at West Chester University.

Glenn Wesselmann continues his outstanding career in health care administration with his recent appointment as president and chief executive officer of St. Clair Health Corporation. Glenn will continue to serve as president and chief executive officer of St. John's Hospital in Detroit, a position he was appointed to in February of this year. Prior to joining St. John's Hospital in 1979, Glenn spent more than 20 years in administrative capacities at the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Disease in New York, rising to the position of vice president for administration. Glenn is extremely active in various Michigan and Catholic health care groups as well as being a fellow of the American College of Hospital Administrators.

Dr. Lyon Greenberg recently received a National Institutes of Health grant to serve as senior investigator in the Albany, N.Y., area for the study of respiratory papillomatosis, a rare disease of the larynx. The study will be conducted over a three year period at about a dozen hospitals nationwide. Lyon, a pediatric ear, nose, and throat specialist in private practice, is also a clinical associate professor at Albany Medical College.

In discussing the study Lyon explained that the disease involves the development of warty growths on the larynx and trachea growths that can be fatal if untreated because they can close off the windpipe or seep into the lungs, causing suffocation. The NIH study involves combining laser treatments to destroy existing growths with injections of interferon to prevent new growths from developing. About 200 patients nationwide will be involved in the study.

When Lyon is not practicing medicine, teaching medicine, or involved in medical research, he is involved in managing his working farm on the outskirts of Albany, where rumor has it he is not above peddling his cash crop to hungry classmates.

As you all know, these columns are not the result of items plucked out of the air. There must be at least a semblance of fact included. It would be a great help if each of you would send me a note when you see a newspaper article on a classmate, run into or over a '54 at some business or social event, or just feel you would like to be represented in the column. The column will benefit from your help and so, certainly, will I.

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