1955

Everybody needs a good lawyer, more so now than ever before. Happily, the class of '55 has provided our society with its fair share of competent, talented, and dedicated legal talent.

Dave Page headed to Harvard Law School following graduation, and then back to Michigan where he became, in 1958, the fifth lawyer in a firm which has now grown to 180 lawyers. While Dave says that his first and abiding interest is the practice of law, he has combined that by serving for 15 years on the board of Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, as chairman of the board for the last seven years. At 290 beds, it is the sixth largest children's hospital in the country, Dave is heading up the hospital's second fund drive within the last century. Further, Dave served Allied Supermarkets of Michigan, a New York Stock Exchange company, as not only an officer and director, but also chairman and chief executive officer, merging that company into the largest market chain in southern California. He then further engineered a $46,000,000 leveraged buy-out of the Michigan stores and is now back serving as chairman and chief executive officer (on a parttime basis) of Meadowdale Foods Inc. Operating primarily under the Great Scott name, it's still the largest supermarket chain in their area.

Most people work hard to become a fulltime chairman and CEO and engage lawyers for service advice needed. With all that, however, Dave has reversed the process. Dave and his wife, Andrea, still find time for family with a son studying in Colorado, a second son as a senior in high school, and a daughter in junior high.

One of Dave's roommates at Harvard was Jerry Kleinman, who headed to Santa Monica, Calif., after his graduation from Harvard. He has been with his firm of Loeb and Loeb for the past 23 years, driving 20 minutes from the office back to his home a halfblock off the ocean. As Jerry has said, the smog makes for beautiful sunsets, particularly in the winter time. Jerry and Barbara have three boys located in Wisconsin, Australia, and Paris (which gives ample encouragement for the Kleinmans to travel).

Allen Palmquist is using his Tuck training to administer the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. It's a nice challenge, given the liability insurance problems, particularly at an institution which handles the difficult cases. He and Lillian, married for 30 years, have three girls and a boy to show for it—two out of college and two headed into college. (It's what's known as cash flow.) Allen, on the phone, was gracious indeed and beyond reason, having just watched the St. Louis Blues go down to defeat at the hands of the Philadelphia Flyers. The timing might have been poor, but the results were good.

Ken Lundstrom, however, has abandoned the Delaware Valley, moving his wife and three sons from Wilmington, Del., to Nashville, Tenn. Ken took early retirement after 22 years with DuPont to join Reemay, Inc., which had acquired the spunbonded business from DuPont.

There is nothing like ending a column on a high note. John French, a senior partner in the New York law firm of Beveridge and Diamond, and Marina Gundlach, also of New York, were married in November. That's nice!

There are lawyers all about us. Happily, fortunately, of necessity—even better if they went to Dartmouth.

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