1959

Our most recent class secretary, Bill Long, and his family are relocating to the United States after six and a half years in England, where Bill was executive director of the London office of Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc., the New York executive recruiting firm. In his new assignment in the firm's home office at 245 Park Avenue, Bill will continue to focus on the financial services industry, particularly international investment and commercial banking, but will also be involved in conducting searches for senior level financial executives in industry, as well as for other types of general management positions.

Bill looks back on his stint in London as a highly stimulating professional experience, and he says that the family enjoyed being there. However, they are all excited about returning to the United States and renewing contact with their friends and acquaintances here. Bill's wife, Tina, leaves a successful catering business in London. The couple's 16-year-old daughter, Katie, plays field hockey at Westover School in Middlebury, Conn., where she is a junior. Their son, Will, 11, enters the American school system for the first time in Bronxville, N.Y., where the couple will take up residence in their old house at 73 Sagamore Road, 10708. Moving back into their old house has got to help smooth the family's transition to life in the U.S., but I'm sure the Longs would be delighted to hear from their many Dartmouth friends now that they are back!

Sam Swansen says he had a great time back in August at a cookout at the home of Dr. Ken Williams. The group, which included two other '59s, enjoyed munching on renowned Lancaster County "Silver Queen" (whitish) corn on the cob. Along with several of their children, they engaged in a spirited game of water polo which, Sam says, "in the best Quaker traditionwas fiercely played to a tie." Present with Sam, who is a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Dechert, Price, and Rhoads, was wife Donna, who is a landscape designer in the Philadelphia area. As we reported in the April 1985 issue, host Ken is the director of Addiction Treatment Services at Northwestern Institute of Psychiatry in Fort Washington, Pa. Hostess Cindy is a nurse and part-time tax accountant. Rounding out the Williams contingent were son John, 13, and daughter Liz, 10, whose performance at water polo, according to Sam, authenticated her nickname of "Tiger." Also splashing about were John May, who has successfully practiced law with his dad for some 22 years, his wife, Barbara, a social worker in Lancaster, and two of their three children: Sarah, who is a Dartmouth student, and her younger brother John. Karl Holtzschue, a partner with the law firm of Webster and Scheffield in New York City, made it down for the occasion, as did wife Linda, who is an accomplished interior designer, and their youngest daughter, Sara, 16, who attends a private school in New York City. Sam mentions that another Philadelphia lawyer of some renown on the Hanover Plain, Jack Nason, and wife Laura were to have hosted a Dartmouth Club picnic at their spacious farm in central Bucks County, Pa., on September 7. Sam speculated that Jack's bright red, refurbished 1953 MG with purple "antique" license plates might have been expected to stand out against the otherwise serene setting for the picnic. Speaking of cookouts, Waltand Marian Vincent and Joe and AnnGoodwin were among the guests who ran themselves out of breath in a spirited game of volleyball at the home of yours truly in September. They then recuperated at croquet and in equally old-fashioned style listened to the soothing sounds of an accomplished barbershop singing group.

Tom La Polla who, like yours truly, is an attorney interested in golf and tennis, writes that he is part of a successful twoman general practice in Warren, Ohio. To the extent that either partner specializes, Tom tends to concentrate in probate, estate planning, and corporate law, while his partner concentrates in labor law. He says that insurance law has occupied more of his time recently, since a devastating twister touched down less than a quarter of a mile away from his home in late May of this year. Tom has served terms of two years as president of the Trumbull County Bar Association, and eight years as president of the Niles Board of Education. In tennis, he teamed with his partner to win a men's doubles tennis league. The same partner teamed with Tom's wife, Judith, to win a local doubles tournament. Tom explains that as a husband of 27 years, he has more sense than to play mixed doubles with his wife. Says he: "Opponents, possibly - partners never!" Tom also swims 1,200 yards a day. The couple has three children: Karen, who is a 1985 summa cum laude graduate of Youngstown State University in biology; Susan, who finished first in her class in X-ray technology and has just made the decision to go to college; and Thomas 11, who is majoring in computer science at Ohio State. They also have a five-year-old grandson, daughter Karen's boy, whom they find to be a real joy.

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