1967

The fifth mini-reunion in Boston was another great success. Twenty-seven classmates and significant others enjoyed dinner and memories after the annual squash classic. This year George Owens defeated BillBogardus for the championship, while JohnKornet won over Larry Langford in the consolation round. The one thing that everyone agreed on was that they had so much fun that they can't wait for our reunion in June. The road trip to Hanover will be another chance to see old friends and to make new ones.

No sooner had I shared Pete Bankart's letter in which he suggested that '67s who are educators get together in June than my mailbox was full of news from classmates who are candidates for such a discussion. David Brown writes of his experiences as the president of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He talks of "flexibility, openess, and humility—all nurtured at Dartmouth" as the most important assets in his work (along with a "great wife . . . 18 years of marriage and going strong," and new baby daughter, Meredith Lee).

David Curtis, a radiologist, left the army for the academic life. He is now a professor and coordinator of the residency program at George Washington University. With two teenagers choosing colleges, with Ebie, wife of 20 years and antique dealer working on a fine arts degree, and with his work at the university, David writes of his "full and enjoyable life."

Also among the medical academics is TadCampion. In addition to being an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Tad js deputy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and director of geriatric rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. Tad recently married Ellen McCarthy, who also works at Spaulding.

Perhaps we can get Steve Campbell to join a discussion on the personal rewards of the academic life. Steve writes that he is "still married, still raising two boys, still teaching and doing research at North Carolina State University, still happy, and I like to think, still growing and learning new things."

Certainly such a group should include Bob Bell and his wife, Ilona, both tenured professors at Williams and busy parents of two young daughters. In addition to his work on comedy in the writings of Joyce, Bob is the author of humorous pieces for Commonweal, The Berkshire Eagle, and National Public Radio (some wonderful examples of which were included with his interesting letter). Bob also shared a few touching recollections on some of the more painful experiences of our freshman year that I hope will find an appropriate forum in June.

On the professional front, a number of classmates have celebrated major changes and honors recently. Ethan Braustein was appointed professor of radiology at the Indiana University Medical School. JohnCumming has become an entrepreneur, joining a partner in Windfield Business Papers, a custom business-forms manufacturer. Sam Cockrel is about to be "unemployed, " having agreed to sell the family bank. Bob Burka joined friend Norman Knopf to found Knopf and Burka in Washington, D.C. Their legal practice ranges from general litigation and counseling to rather sophisticated trade work such as the U.S. Air/Piedmont merger litigation. Bob writes that he and his wife, Marcia, a chemical engineer who is now a program director at the National Science Foundation, are also busy with their three children who are "developing wonderfully."

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