1965

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Dartmouth hockey fans have suspected there was something unique about the skaters from the class of 1965. Not until recently, however, was I able to interview three of our former players and finally identify the characteristic that made them so different.

Chuck Zeh, a defenseman, told me that after our graduation he returned to his native Duluth for a year of advanced study in economics at the University of Minnesota. He received a law degree from Cornell Law School in 1969 and volunteered for a legal services program under VISTA. Assigned to Reno, Nev., Chuck decided to remain in the area after his period of service was over. He became director of the agency he had served as a volunteer and led several classaction suits on behalf of the civil rights of low-income persons. He was instrumental in establishing senior citizen and Native American programs on a state-wide basis as well as one of the first domestic violence units in the United States. After 12 years, Chuck entered private practice and is currently in a law partnership with the mayor of the city of Reno. He represents several corporate clients, including one of Nevada's largest casinos. Chuck says he no longer plays hockey, but he often thinks of winning the Ivy League championship our junior year and the great game the team had against Boston College as seniors.

Chip Hayes, a center, came to Dartmouth from Ann Arbor, Mich. After receiving an ROTC commission in 1965, he spent a portion of his two-year naval service aboard an LST carrying supplies on the rivers of Vietnam. He went to Harvard Business School and, following completion of his work there, joined the investment banking firm of A.G. Becker in Chicago. In 1975, Chip was assigned the responsibility of opening a new office in Los Angeles. Working primarily in mergers and acquisitions, he became involved in several major leveraged buyout situations. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette selected Chip to lead their West Coast operation in 1986 and he is presently managing the initial public stock offering of lowa Beef Processors, one of the largest such transactions ever attempted. Although Chip says investment bankers lead intense lives, he still finds time to chair the board of directors of a symphony orchestra and plays tennis regularly. He and his wife, Connie, live in Bel Air and are the parents of a seven-year-old daughter, Stephanie.

Jim Cooper, captain of the team our senior year, was from Rochester, Minn. He graduated from medical school at the University of Minnesota and served a threeyear active duty obligation with the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Hawaii. After further study, Jim spent two more years with the military at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. In 1974 he returned to Rochester for a position at the Mayo Clinic and remained there until joining a small clinic in West Palm Beach, Fla., two years later. He is now associated in an internal medicine practice with two other Florida physicians. Jim has not played hockey since his Minnesota days, but says he did get a chance to see and admire the facilities of Thompson Arena when he returned for our 20th Reunion. He and Barbara, his wife of 22 years, have two daughters who, in spite of Jim's advice to head in a more northerly direction, are both students at Southern Methodist University.

As you can see from these reports, the obvious factor making our classmates unique is their level of intelligence. After countless hours in unheated Davis hockey rink, all three wisely sought alternatives to the snow and cold of their youth. They have proven that hockey players with a liberal education can find happiness in the temperate climates of Nevada, California, and Florida.