1953

Integrating population demographics into economic planning models and defining the impact of declining birth rates are important subjects, especially when you are Dave Horlacher and have this responsibility for the United Nations. In another field, Jim Sullivan is vice chancellor of administration at the University of California at Davis, managing a $700 million budget. Both classmates have Ph.D.s, came to Dartmouth from Pennsylvania, and have established distinguished careers.

Most of Dave Horlacher's life has been spent in Pennsylvania-his father was dean of men at Dickinson. But in 1980 he was offered such an attractive position at the UN that he left Pennsylvania for Queens, N.Y. Dave attended Dartmouth under the NROTC program. June 14, 1953, was a banner day as he received both a degree and a commission in the marines-and married Marie in Rollins Chapel! A brief honeymoon was followed by a year's tour in the Far East and two years in California. After his discharge in 1956 Dave received a fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied and taught economics. Earning a master's in 1960, he joined the Bucknell faculty to set up their undergraduate school of business administration. He stayed ten years at which point, the father of four, he was lured to Susquehanna University by a higher salary. Penn State awarded him a Ph.D. in 1973 in the field of econometrics. Happenstance associations at Penn State led to a series of UN-contracted studies of population demographics and family planning in the Far East. Dave took sabbaticals during the early seventies to perform these studies. The UN has extensive nonpolitical activities-for example, world population statistics are sourced there-and Dave is their authority on population planning models.

Jim Sullivan came from Nunhall, Pa., where in 1949 only 11 of a graduating class of 300-plus entered college (half were football scholarships). College was for Jim a tough experience and a key driver towards his Ph.D. and present position as vice chancellor of the University of California at Davis. To transit from Nunhall to Davis is no mean feat socially, culturally, or academically-'a postcard was the extent of my writing experience," he adds. He majored in government and continued that study in graduate work at University of Colorado after the service. His attraction to Colorado was influenced by a former Dartmouth professor, their dean of graduate studies in public administration. After earning his master's, he entered city management. His main criterion-"a nice place to live"-influenced acceptance of positions in Napa and Monterey, Calif. In 1962 he returned to Pennsylvania to earn a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh. He returned to California, first to teaching and administrative positions at the University of California at Riverside, and in 1978 to his present position at Davis, near Sacramento. Jim and spouse Carol have a son and daughter, both of whom graduated from UC Davis. Carol, trained as a registered nurse, returned to work in 1980 as a supervisor in surgery. They are thinking, not planning, about retirement in "a nice place to live-Carmel, Calif."

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