1973

News from the Big Apple is that Gordon Sleeper has been promoted to group senior vice president of Doyle Dane Bernbach/New York, one of the world's leading advertising agencies. Gordon went to Doyle Dane Bernbach/New York from Compton Advertising in 1980. At Compton he was the vice president/account supervisor on Ivory Soap, Comet Cleanser, and Duncan Hines Cake Mix. Gordon's new responsibilities will include the Sherwin Williams account and Procter & Gamble business.

Jonathan Winer was chosen to represent Dartmouth at the inauguration of Paul J. Reiss at the 14th president of St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vt., on September 29, 1985.

Likewise, Weymouth Crowell represented Dartmouth at the inauguration of J. Herman Blake as the 10th president of Tougaloo College on October 12, 1985.

A brief message on the back of the class dues request card indicates that my good friend, Phil Maloney, is still enjoying the world of skiing out at Lake Tahoe. Phil's actual address is Incline Village, Nev., where he is an orthopedic surgeon. I guess Phil just collects the broken bones at the bottom of the mountain.

I recently spoke with Harold Kurland, who is now residing in Rochester, N.Y., where he is an attorney with Nixon, Hargrave, Devans, and Doyle. It is one of the largest if not the largest law firm in that area of New York State. Harold and his wife, Tina, have two children, Tommy and Andrew. He has been active on the executive committee of the local Dartmouth Club in Rochester.

Finally, I received a terrific letter from Steve Leighton, a physician in North Carolina. He writes that "after six to eight months of frustration I left the practice I built at a place called Park Medical Center in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina. It was a culmination of a series of events that ended with my being quite clear that the directions the practice was ultimately ... moving in were not the directions I was interested in pursuing. 'Twas a bit of an agony there for a few months as I contemplated this major disruption of my 'comfortable' pattern of the last three years. In the end, just as my partners and I decided that it was time to call it quits ... I happened to participate in a five-day Intensive Executive Development Workshop at a place called Farr Associates in Greensborough, N.C. Well, I'm here to tell you that it literally changed my life.... By the end of the fifth day, I, along with this entire group of previously closeminded, hard-nosed, successful executives had gone through one of the most powerful experiences of my life.... Well, to shorten an otherwise lengthy story, I returned the next week to talk with Jim Farr, Ph.D., the founder of the center, about possibly working there. It turned out that he had recently decided that he needed to expand his programs, previously focused in the area of organizational and leadership development, into the area of physical health and wellness. This is exactly the direction I've been pursuing for the last five or six years, and the timing could not have been better. I am now in the process of developing a Health and Wellness Development Center with Farr Associates, and among my first contracts is developing the Wellness Improvement for State Employees (WISE) program for the state of North Carolina.

And even that is just the beginning. We're looking forward to developing a center that would encompass growth in all areas of a person's life from the physical to the psychological to the spiritual. Right now we are referring to it as the Whole Life Center, but who knows—for myself, it is clearly the right place to be." See you next month.

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