1955

As summer ends, school comes back in session, all of our committee meetings are

called once again, and the pace of life quickens. Vacations are over, and we head back into the normal cool-weather routines. For some of our class, that routine takes place in a new location. For JimWallace, having spent five years with CitiCorp in London, it is back to Boston to work in private banking out of 1 Boston Place. His wife, Diane, is already enjoying Beacon Hill with, we suspect, the anticipation of a New England fall and potential trips to Hanover. Jim's daughters, Susan and Karen, however, have elected to remain Brits, at least for now. However, Jim says he is now "3,500 miles closer to the Alumni Fund. Yipes!"

But not all is happening across the Atlantic, for Bob Stirling has opted to cross the Pacific. He is going to spend two to three years in Tokyo with IBM with an independent business unit, addressing work station opportunities. That's a big, exciting distance from his position as account executive in Hartford, where the natives could mostly be understood the first time around.

Gene Gerard spent some time in St. Maarten on a vaction and discovered his waiter at La Nacelle Restaurant had worked for seven years with Bud Bombard, our premier balloonist out of Beaune, France. For the uninitiated, la nacelle is the basket that hangs under the balloon. Gene noted he had just missed John Demas in Geneva last fall, which also means he missed Cy Muromcew, who has been in Geneva more recently talking disarmament with the Soviets. Perhaps Cy will have the opportunity to meet with John and Ron Murphy, both residents.

There was always the discussion at Dartmouth as to whether genetics or environment had a greater impact on our development and subsequent ability and performance. It seems the question was never resolved even at final exams (which probably was merely an encouragement to return the next fall for the next course in line to learn of the conclusion in the never-ending debate.) Allen Root either adds to the resolution or confuses the issue even more. He is a professor at the University of South Florida College of Medicine and serves as the associate chairman of the department of pediatrics. His daughter, Jennifer, graduated from Dartmouth in the class of '85 and will attend Dartmouth Medical School in the fall. His son Jonathan '82 entered his fourth year at the University of Florida (Gainesville) College of Medicine. Another son, Michael, graduates from high school in June and has opted for Harvard, despite many discussions with Allen and his first two. (Sounds like genetics and environment played equally in the Root family scenario.) And, just to indicate that all this talent is no fluke, Allen received his college's Distinguished Scientist Award in February.

But you don't have to be a doctor to receive the accolades of your peers. NickKotz, writing in Washington, D. C., won the 1985 National Magazine Award for Public Service for his article "Where Have All the Warriors Gone?", a story of the decline in leadership values in the military services. Nick led a team of 14 students who were in a graduate course in investigative reporting that he taught at American University. The article first appeared in the Washingtonian, which made possible Nick's research. The article has been reprinted for the Army War College and the National Defense College and according to the citiation, "it stirred attention and debate in the . . . Congress and the military itself." Because of this and his seminars on C-SPAN National Television examining various aspects of media performance, American University named him its Outstanding Professor of the Year. (It's obviously a nice talent that both Allen and Nick have not only to be able to do something very well themselves but also to have a part in teaching others how to accomplish the same.)

Buck Kuttner was selected by Marquis for its publication Who's Who in the World. Buck is an attorney with offices in Roseland and Newark, N.J. After Dartmouth he headed to both Virginia Law School and Seton Hall. Buck was a judge of the State Court of Tax Appeals from 1977 to 1979 and is a past president of the Essex County Bar Association.

And John Elkas, another of our class medical doctors living in North Caldwell, N.J., has his son, John, headed for Hanover to join the class of 1989. That's when you really know that summer is over.

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