1963

The American Indian, Dartmouth's legacy, is achieving economic independence and new hope for the future, according to a new television film produced by Steve Heiser of Banks, Ore. Entitled "The New Capitalists: Economics in Indian Country," the 60 minute documentary premiered recently on the national Public Broadcasting Service.Narrated by host Eric Sevareid, the film documents the remarkable development of business enterprises on Indian reservations across the United States. Though many tribes were once entirely dependent, isolated, and poor, today, according to Steve, they are building thriving businesses and prosperous communities "in what has been described as a quantum leap into the 20th century industrial world."

Steve, who is president of Odyssey Productions of Portland, Ore., sent his crews to 28 reservations to view Indians working as cattlemen, ranchers, loggers, foresters, industrialists, and economic planners. He found that as tribes thrived, so did mental health, family stability, educational achieve ments, and community pride. Alcoholism, oft-considered the bane of Indian life, decreased. The film's range wanders from the $10-million, 12,000 acre farming enterprise of the small 436 member Ak Chin tribe in Arizona, built without public money, to the high tech centers, lumber mills, and cattle ranches of the 160,000 strong Navahos.

Steve began his career as an artist and advertising art director but turned to film ten years ago, an interest he cultivated as a member of the Dartmouth Film Society. Like another prominent midwesterner, Ronald Reagan, Steve migrated west from his native Chicago and avidly rooted the Cubs on this year to their long awaited Eastern Division National League title. An art major at the College, Steve went on to the Art Center of Design in Los Angeles where he roomed with Hank Parker, now a Chicago based designer and illustrator. He still stays in touch with Clayton Hering, an Oregon real estate executive, and Bill King, a Virginia lawyer, who were his roommates at Dartmouth. Steve's passion for the Northwest is reflected in his marriage to Norma, an Oregon resident. The couple has four children: Maureen, an adopted 18 year old Korean; and three sons born to them, Rod, 14, Adam, ten, and Aaron, eight.

Evidently these Oregonians are a close knit group, as Larry Harris, who moved from the states last summer to England, was reportedly also in touch with Clay Hering, as well as Jim Cogswell, a radiologist in Dallas, Ore., and Bill Price, a partner of Rosenberg Capital Management in San Francisco. Now Larry, director of the London subsidiary of Lombard Odier, a large Geneva private bank, joins John Quitter, a 14 year London resident and group head for Citicorp/Citibank commercial banking in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Heading west is John Farnsworth, from New York to San Francisco, where he joins the private banking group in Bank of America there. Bill Gerstley is in New York and is a stockbroker with Prudential Bache Securities at 1411 Broadway, 212/221-7721. With an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, Bill spent ten years in arbitrage at Goldman Sachs, another giant brokerage firm. Bruce Deery has moved to Sarasota, Fla., and is looking forward to establishing his own business after 20 years in various sales management positions. Jeff Galper is now in Burlington, Vt., as a certified rolfer (sic), where deep tissue body work is designed to change body structure. Jeff had been professor of social work at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Brad Denny is director of public relations at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., and his wife, Mary, teaches at the local high school. The couple's son, Joe, 20, serves in the navy in Washington, DC.; Heather, 18, studies at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash.; and Nathan, 17,is a freshman at the Big Green.

Gerry Mark is senior vice president with IRAS Development Corporation, a process engineering firm in White Plains, N.Y. Gerry has been with the firm for 17 years, having earned a master's degree in agricultural engineering at the University of Missouri. IRAS designs facilities worldwide for the processing of food, beverages, and potable and industrial alcohol. Gerry lives in Stamford, Conn., with his wife, Sandy, and three chil dren, Jennifer, 17, Mandy, 11, and Larry, 14. He sometimes runs into Tom Berardino who is with Olin Corporation in Stamford.

Congratulations are in order for Roy Benson, who has been named executive director of the 2,600 member Atlanta Track Club. One of Roy's chief responsibilities will be to oversee the Fourth of July Peachtree Road Race which draws more than 25,000 runners. Roy had been head track and cross country coach at the University of Florida. In Atlanta, Roy has joined an active Dartmouth Alumni Club which includes Jack Huber, Bob Silverman,Jim Valentine, and Bill Messerly. Roy also owns the Green Mountain Runners Club, which holds summer sessions at Dartmouth as well as in Lyndonville, Vt. If you're interested in running in Hanover under Roy's tutelage this summer, write to him at 3097 E. Shadowlawn Avenue, NE, Atlanta, GA 30305 or telephone 404/396-0175 (H) or 404/231-9064 (O).

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