1972

Some of you may remember that I began my tenure a year ago with a few reflections from our 15th reunion. One of the ideas I put forth was that our class is slowly but surely coming of age. Supporting evidence of that thesis continues to mount. Each month news trickles in concerning the marriages and births of our late-blooming, baby-booming class. This summer, news was very slow; I did not receive a single postcard from vacationing classmates. However, I did receive some press clippings and letters, which are more evidence of our collective rise in the world.

Karl Loos has been elected a vice president of Arthur D Little Inc. by the board of directors of the international management and technology consulting company. Karl stayed at Dartmouth to earn a B.E. from Thayer and then went on to Harvard for his M.B.A. He currently resides in Sudbury, Mass.

Norman Cohen was recently named deputy commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Juneau. In 1975 Norm graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law and moved to Alaska to work for the Alaska Legal Services Corporation. Since then he has worked for a number of Alaska state departments and nonprofit corporations, mostly on resource and environmental issues. Norm began work with the Department of Fish and Game in 1983 and in his new position will oversee the activities of four of the department's divisions. Having spent quite a bit of time in Alaska on business, I can vouch for the prominence of Norm's new job, which might not be apparent to some of the class in the lower 48. However, the best part of the story is that Norm was married June 7 to Barbara Scheinberg. Barbara is a staff analyst for the Alaska Office of Management and Budget.

Not exactly in the press release category, but equally impressive to me were a couple of nice notes from Kirk Andrus and JackBrooks. Kirk has retired (finally) from playing rugby, but is still involved in the sport as a referee. He recently worked some of the matches at the Monterey Tournament/National Collegiate Championships in Monterey, Calif. Wayne Young, who had coached the College side last fall, was there to urge on the Green, which was making its second consecutive appearance in the "final four" of college rugby. Alas, the Dartmouth side lost out to heavier West Coast competition again, but Kirk, Wayne and Brendan O'Neill had a good reunion. Kirk and his wife, Quincy, and their three girls live in Lake County, Calif., where Kirk recently opened a solo family medical practice.

Jack Brooks is living in his hometown of East Moline, Ill., where he is a principal in a law firm he started with two high school friends in 1980. Jack claims he concentrates on civil litigation and trying to win the Illinois lottery. Jack and his wife, Cheryl, missed reunion last summer due to the impending arrival of their son, Aaron. Jack reports several visits with Mike Huft in Kansas City, where Mike is a defense lawyer with his own firm. Mike and his wife, Kathleen, have a four-year-old daughter.

As if receiving a two-page letter from Jack Brooks isn't enough, my final bit of news comes from Henry Eberhardt '61, Director of the Alumni Fund. After 15 years of hard work by class agents but rather poor statistical performance (relative to other classes), we've finally done it! Our class, under the leadership of head agent David Bailey recently set a new College record for 15 years out. The last official indication I had from Hanover was that we would exceed our $65,000 goal, with greater than 45 percent participation. Dave and all the agents certainly deserve our thanks for a job well done—let's hope we can live up to the challenge of continuing to improve.

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