1965

3610 Oriole Drive Columbus, IN 47203

Frustrated at the lack of a subject for our final class notes of the year, I was disturbed when my eight-year-old son, Brock, burst into the room, singing at the top of his voice. The particular selection he performed was from a current television commercial and repeated the line "Nytol will help you get your ZZZ's." After his departure, I decided such an interruption must have significance and perhaps the time had now come to visit the very end of our class listing.

The first "Z" I was able to locate as I began the search was Mike Zare. Mike, a French major at Dartmouth, received his master of arts in teaching degree from Harvard. He taught at Roxbury Latin School in Boston before accepting a position at the Punahou School in Hawaii. While in Honolulu, he met his future wife, Joan, a graduate assistant at the University of Hawaii. After their marriage, the Zares spent three years in Taiwan, where Mike was chairman of the language department at Taipei American School. Returning to his wife's native Jamaica, Mike taught at the Belair School and became involved in teaching adults to read. In 1974, he received a grant to continue work in this area at Florida State University. Mike and Joan decided the time had finally come to "set down roots" and Mike became a teacher in New Port Richey, Fla. Three years ago the family moved to the Sarasota area primarily for the four Zare sons to enroll in the Pine View School. Mike describes Pine View as a unique program setting aside an entire public school for academically talented students in grades two through twelve. Mike teaches French and reading at another school in the Sarasota area and works part-time in real estate and insurance. He continues his lifelong interest in classical music, but says, with four children, most of his hobbies are now centered around his family.

Following an easy graduation from Dartmouth (he says "71 s" were almost never called on in class), Bob Ziemian went to aviation officers candidate school at Pensacola Naval Air Station. He flew as a transport pilot in the Caribbean and after completing active duty went to law school at Suffolk University. He served as an assistant. district attorney and subsequently went into private practice in the Boston area. Eventually finding himself looking for something beyond "just another divorce case," Bob responded to the newly-elected Essex County district attorney's call for experienced trial lawyers to join his staff. Bob's specialty became the control of drug usage and he was instrumental in the development of a program for "demand re- duction through street enforcement." He has recently been asked to accept a challenging position as the head of a major state-wide program designed to keep offenders from returning to drug usage. Bob's wife, Carol, is a high school English teacher in Dedham, Mass., and they have two children, aged nine and six. Bob is involved with youth hockey and says he enjoys a change from his normal work environment through continuing service as a helicopter pilot in the naval reserve.

Al Zern, our class vice president, lives in Larchmont, N.Y., and is a managing director with the investment banking firm of Morgan Stanley & Cos. Al, a participant in the Dartmouth-Tuck School five-year program, joined his firm shortly after getting his M.B.A. degree and has been there ever since. He has held a variety of roles in the corporate finance area and now works largely in planning and other internal management functions. Last year he was heavily involved in the initial public offering of Morgan Stanley's common stock. His wife, Judy, graduated from Pembroke and Columbia Business School, worked for IBM, and joined Morgan Stanley as one of the firm's first female associates. The Zern family includes two children, Peter, 14, and Carolyn, 12. Al reports that times have changed and his children no longer have to sit at the back of the classroom as he was required to do in the days of alphabetical seating.

Irwin Zarembok, a native of the Bronx, is a radiologist living in Short Hills, N.J. He went to Dartmouth Medical School and completed work on his M.D. at Columbia University. His additional medical training was at the National Institute of Health in Washington, D.C., area and at the University of Pennsylvania. Irwin describes some of the major "futilities" in his life as finding more time for skiing and somehow discovering a satisfactory way to combine medicine and business. Toward the latter effort, he says he is seriously thinking about enrolling in an M.B.A. program. His wife, Peri, is active in the art world and is serving as the curator of a museum in Summit, N.J. The Zaremboks are the parents of two teenaged sons, who Irwin says are just beginning the difficult process of selecting their future colleges.

Having now explored this sample of those who were so often at the rear of our class, I can easily see the meaning behind the expression "last but not least." Our "Z's" have more than made up for any injustice forced on them over the years and seem to be leading both interesting and diverse lives. I even appreciate the inspiration my son provided for our marking the end of the year with the end of the alphabet.