1967

The class of '67 executive board met at Jack Curley's office in New York on Friday, the thirteenth of June. Despite the inauspicious date, quite a bit was accomplished, of which the following are merely highlights:

Mark your calendars to show that you're booked for the weekend of October 24-26. That's Cornell weekend in Hanover, and the '67s will be in town for a mini-reunion. I'm sure you all recall with a sharp pang of nostalgia just what the dear old campus can look like on a home football weekend in late October, so make plans to relive those good times this year. Details to follow from Bill Yaggy, mini-reunion chairman.

From Bill Bogardus, an update on 1967's legacies to the College: in addition to those offspring of our class named in the April column, Ralph Cohen will be sending his daughter, Amy, to Hanover this fall, Jim Reeves his daughter, Katie, Dan Sullivan his son, Michael, and JimTaitsman his daughter, Lisa. Other items for this month:

Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis has appointed Joe Alviani the Commonwealth's secretary of economic affairs. In his new port, Joe will serve as the state's chief policymaker in the areas of economic development, job training, and international trade. Before his appointment in December 1985, Joe was a partner in the Boston law firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar. Joe, Judith, and Matthew live in Wellesley.

Doug Darby dropped a line to say he's living in Belle Terre, N.Y., and working with Dillon Read & Company on Wall Street, where he's a senior vice president dealing in municipal bonds, primarily of the sinking-fund type. Doug's daughter, Kim, is starting her sophomore year at SUNY Cortland; son Paul was reportedly being heavily recruited for his basketball skills last spring as a senior at Port Jefferson High School, and son Scott, a "talented artist," is starting his junior year at Port Jefferson High. Doug reports that business has brought him into contact recently with Rick Trepp and Bill Adams, in the latter case indirectly, by reason of Bill's marriage to one of Doug's colleagues at Dillon Read.

Legislator Fred Cowan reported last spring he was running for his third term in the Kentucky House of Representatives, loving every minute of it and contemplating a future bid for attorney general of Kentucky.

John Valentine, a financial writer for the Wall Street Journal, wrote a column last spring praising his cardiologist, RalphKirmser, for an extraordinarily perceptive diagnosis which led to early detection and apparently successful treatment of a lifethreatening cancer.

And finally, a note from yours truly: the press of other matters has prompted me to take early retirement from my post as your class secretary. It's been six years and change, which is pretty hard to believe, because by and large the job has been a lot of fun, and I've enjoyed the contact with many of you. It's just time to move on to other things. If by chance any of you happens to be harboring a secret wish to have a crack at writing this column for a few years (at least until our 20th reunion), why don't you drop me a line? I'll pass it along to the executive board's selection committee. In the meantime, I'll be staying at my post until properly relieved.

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