1961

I hope you noticed that our own Dave Birney will be master of ceremonies at the big Dartmouth shindig in Boston on Friday, October 16: Catch The Spirit of Dartmouth. Though it honors new President James O. Freedman and new football coach Buddy Teevens, a main purpose is to commemorate the 25th year of the Hopkins Centera building we (obviously) never got to use as undergraduates, but for which Dave and his wife, Meredith Baxter-Birney, have worked. Your executive committee, which met in June, hopes many of you can turn out for it.

Our official mini-reunion, however, remains in Hanover for Yale weekend, October 30-November 1. Mini-reunion chair Dave Prewitt has reserved a block of rooms at the Sunset Inn, which is newly renovated; a catered class dinner is scheduled for the Tom Dent cabin on Saturday night. Bruce Forester will be signing copies of his new book, Fatal Memory at the Dartmouth Bookstore that weekend. That's his third.

By the time you read this, Sam Bell and Ross Sandler will have spoken in Hanover as 1961 Fellows on "Implementing Policy and Politics." We'll try to have a report in the October issue. Meantime, newspaper clippings continue to pour in about both.

Sam is regularly profiled about his work in the Florida House of Representatives. Ross is a target for New York columnists. For instance, New York Post columnist Beth Fallon took aim at Ross's penchant for walking to work from his 9th Street home in Greenwich Village, In fact, the column said, he doesn't even own a car, and takes the subway when his destination is beyond walking distance. She then launches into a tirade on how difficult it is for her to get home, and concludes, "I really think we should force Commissioner Sandler into an automobile when he wants to get somewhere. Maybe then, we'd all start to get somewhere."

Mac Arthur Award: For Stuart Kauffman, a terrible tragedy last October—the loss of his 13-year-old daughter Merit Leslie Kauffman to a hit-and-run driver—is still so overwhelming that he wants and needs to talk about it before he'll speak of his once-in-alifetime prize, a $290,000 no-strings-attached grant from the MacArthur Foundation. "We're missing her very much," he said. "They have never found the person who did it." On the prize, he said, "I don't know what I'll use it for."

Lucky slot: Steve Bosworth will spend six months at Dartmouth as a Dickey Endowment Fellow, teaching primarily in the government department with professor Gene Lyons. The post will serve as a bridge from his 25 years with the U.S. Foreign Service and his as yet unchosen future career. He'll also use the opportunity to write, primarily about his experience as ambassador to the Philippines, where he played a key role in the departure of President Ferdinand Marcos and the first year of Corazon Aquino's government.

Bosworth is the first recipient of the Diplomatic Award of the American Academy of Diplomacy, for his direction of the successful U.S. effort to. avert civil war in the Philippines by inducing Marcos's departure, according to The Washington Post. The award was established in 1985 to "recognize exemplary and sustained performance of diplomatic duties under conditions of unusual hardship, stress and danger."

Rumor Mill: Dick Beattie was prominently mentioned in a New York Post "exclusive" as a potential successor to New York City Corporation Counsel Frederick Schwarz. Dick already serves on the New York City Board of Education and, according to the Post, recently completed a report on how to overhaul the Human Resources Administration.

News Notes: Marshall Ledger is editor of Penn Medicine, a new alumni magazine for the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, after 11 years at The PennsylvaniaGazette, Penn's equivalent of this magazine. His office is part of the public information office at the school of medicine. In mid-July, when we spoke, he was in the process of hiring staff.

Donald B. Highlands, head of the real estate finance division of the Central Trust Co. in Cincinnati, has been elected senior executive vice president. Dick Lefcort has become financial consultant (today's term for a stock broker) at The Robinson-Humphrey Company, Inc., a division of Shearson Lehman Brothers, in Jacksonville. BenGitchel has joined Computer Concepts of White River Junction, Vt., as a sales representative. John A.M. Hinsman Jr., section chief of internal medicine and director of executive health at the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pa., has been appointed a member of the Citizens & Northern Bank's AthensSayre Advisory Board. John Moxon, president of Evans and Moxon Capital Management Inc. of Yardley, Pa., has been elected to the Washington Crossing Foundation Board.

And Ken DeHaven is president-elect of the International Society of the Knee. His election came at the Fifth Congress of the Society in Sydney, Australia, and he'll be installed as president in Rome in 1989. The election follows on the heels of his presidency of the Arthroscopy Association of North America. Ken, professor of orthopedics and director of sports medicine at the University of Rochester, was one of the developers of arthroscopic knee surgery.

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