1968

In case you have not heard, a Dartmouth news release immediately following our 20th Reunion announced that Phi Beta Kappa graduate Bob Reich had been appointed to serve a fiveyear term as an alumni Trustee of Dartmouth. After a distinguished career at the College, Bob, the Rhodes Scholar, earned a master's degree from Oxford, and then a law degree from Yale. He adds this recent Trustee appointment to a list of impressive accomplishments as author, public servant, and public policy professor at Harvard.

Another attorney classmate, Bob Lynn, brought to the 20th the good news of his appointment to the bench in Minnesota. Judge Lynn's district will include the City and County of Minneapolis.

Farther west, in the great city of Chico, Calif., Bill Vail operates a booming business renting all manner of equipment, from hand trucks to dump trucks. Ann and I had the pleasure of catching up with Bill and Cathie at our '68 class dinner in June. Bill and family had begun their East Coast vacation an evening or two earlier elsewhere in New England, where they joined Lew Joel for dinner. Bill advised us to be on the lookout for Lew's second novel.

Sherwood Guernsey is another '68 whose writing has attracted attention. A state representative from Williamstown, Mass., Sherwood last spring authored a controversial legislative amendment that would have required the auto insurance commissioner to set rates for each of the 26 geographic territories in Massachusetts according to their actual insurance claims experience. The proposed amendment, narrowly defeated, certainly raised a sensitive issue among the state's urban and rural lawmakers.

Speaking of rural folks, I discovered at the 20th that Woody Thompson and his wife, Louise, were neighbors of mine in nearby Wayne, Maine. With a Ph.D. in geology, Woody works in Augusta for the Maine Department of Conservation as director of its Bedrock and Surficial Geology Division.

It turns out that Rick Dolsky works with surface lines, too, but not with bedrock. The news of Rick's work spread around Hanover in June, and recent newspaper articles tell of his pioneering efforts with liposuction in the United States. His expertise in this highly specialized process of extracting excess fat cells from human waistlines, hiplines, necklines, and other body lines has attracted some 2,000 clients since 1982, ranging in age from 15 to 70 and in occupation from beauty queen to TV news personality. Rick hinted to Ron Weiss that at least a few of us at the 20th might be candidates for liposuction.

This brings me to the subject of physical fitness. I still have not learned who finished first in our 20th Reunion runs and must therefore assume that all who ran were winners. Hooray!

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