1969

Roy Hitchings has become the chief executive officer of Falmouth Hospital in Massachusetts. Roy comes to this position from St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., where he served as vice president. In that capacity, he had responsibility for major clinical services as well as directing major studies in areas of corporate diversification, program development, and facilities expansion. Roy has an M.B.A. from Harvard and has worked in Boston for Maryland Casualty Company and in Los Angeles for the California Medical Group and later for Booz, Allen, and Hamilton as a management consultant for clients in the health care field. Roy is married and has two children, Seth, seven, and Kate, four. This information, by the way, is from a newspaper article sent to me by the secretary of the class of '29, Hal Ripley.

I sat with Ed Kozelka at the Yale game this fall. Ed works for an investment firm, PPS Security Corporation, and lives in Katonah, N.Y., with his wife, Van, and kids TJ and Jamie.

The newsletter from the anthropology department informs us that Richard Jordan is currently director of the Karluk Archaeology Project on Kodiak Island, Alaska. It would be nice to get a letter with a few more details.

John Skirius writes that his address as it appeared in the "69 Times" was incomplete. It should read Department of Spanish, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

As many of you are aware, Mike Stratton has made a name for himself helping kids through the Outward Bound Program. He was named as an outstanding young American by Esquire magazine last year and a profile of him appeared in Newsweek in January as part of an ad campaign. Mike's program challenges kids and by helping them meet these challenges instills in them a self-confidence and sense of self-worth that had otherwise been missing.

Mike now faces a challenge all his own. He asked me to tell you that he has an inoperable, malignant brain tumor. Radiation therapy has taken his hair but not his spirit. His motto is "I Cancervive." The smart money is not betting against the big guy. Our thoughts and prayers are with him. Take care and write.

Jose A. Mina '69, center, head of the U.S. Desk at the Argentine Foreign Ministry andrecently appointed to the senior rank of counselor in the Argentine Foreign Service, accompanied the President of Argentina, Dr. Raul Alfonsm, right, during his state visit to theU.S., where they met with President Ronald Reagan, left.

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