1964

The first museum exhibition organized jointly by Soviet and American curators will provide some insight into the desolate 4,000-mile arc of land between the North Pacific and Arctic Oceans. Bill Fitzhugh headed a team of 12 American and Soviet curators who overcame politics—in the form of the downing of a Korean airliner and intra-Soviet jurisdictional disputes to put together an exhibition that challenges long-held views about the beginnings of civilization in the Americas.

At an award presentation held in Hanover, Sandy McGinnis received the "Class of 1964 Award" for achieving the greatest number of s1,000-and-up gifts in a nonreunion class. While cynics among you may question the validity of an award with such a name, this is the real thing. The award was established after our performance in the 1987 Alumni Fund campaign. We won it legitimately during the 1988 campaign and Sandy certainly deserves all the recognition he has been getting as one of Dartmouth's all-time great class agents.

Pete Thomsen was recently named president and director of Michigan National Bank, a subsidiary of Michigan National Corp. He retains his title of executive vice president of Michigan National. With an M.B.A. from Harvard, Pete was senior vice president for retail distribution at Citicorp Savings. He also was president of Citicorp Information Resources and president of Thrift Resources. Before joining Citicorp he was vice president for corporate card marketing and sales at American Express in New York.

If you haven't sent in your Reunion Yearbook material by now, and plan on doing so, you had better call me pronto. The deadline has come and gone and while you procrastinators still have an outside change of getting in, the odds are getting slimmer.

June 15-18! Be there!

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