1961

It's November and all your secretaries now have 1990 calendars. Take a moment to hand this column to your secretary to block out June 11- 14 for your 30 th Reunion. Remember this reunion is midweek; June 11 is aMonday.

On that first day, we'll have dinner in Thompson Arena with all the other classes, then hear a Glee Club concert. Tuesday, we've got a joint picnic with 1959 and 1960 at Storrs Pond, and a joint dance with them on Tuesday night. Wednesday, we'll have our traditional class reception and class dinner, followed by our class dance. The weekend will include lots of opportunities to socialize, a number of College or class- sponsored panels to expand our minds or figure out how to change careers now and plenty of chances for exercise.

Congratulations are in order for all members of the class of 1961 who participated in the 1989 Alumni Fund —and especially to those who sent the letters and made the phone calls. We won the Green Derby for our group of classes, which always is symbolic of outstanding effort. Thanks to all who went the extra mile. Participation is important.

Charlie Chapman is back in the news again. In mid-August, he was named executive vice president of Tambrands Inc. and president of the company's feminine protection subsidiary in tne United States and Canada, according to The Wall Street Journal. In September, after the abrupt departure of John F. Bard, the company's president and chief operating officer, Charlie and another executive divided Bard's duties. Tambrand's chairman and chief executive officer is Martin Emmett, a former colleague of Charlie's at RJR Nabisco.

Michael Gazzaniga had a major article in the September 1 issue of Science on the organization of the human brain. In the article, Gazzaninga contends that the human brain had a modular organization, and uses studies on split-brain patients to illustrate the point. The article also carried his official Dartmouth Medical School title, which I hadn't seen before: Andrew W. Thomson Jr. Professor of Psychiatry, Program in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Former class president Gerry Kaminsky has become one of six new general partners in Cowen & Company, according to a July 24 notice in The Wall Street Journal.

John King, president and chief executive officer of the Evangelical Health Systems in Oak Brook, 111., has been elected to the 25- member board of trustees of the American Hospital Association. The board is the major policy making body of the AHA, which includes just about every hospital in America. For those of you serving on a hospital board or in a medical staff leadership position, remember you've got a friend at the AHA. John previously had been chairman of the Illinois Hospital Association and was an Illinois delegate to the AHA, and is involved in the leadership of a number of other hospital organizations. He has been with Evangelical Health Systems since 1980.

For those of you just waiting to hear whether I was deranged enough to follow through and actually compete in a second triathlon: yes. I finished the Camp Lejeune "toughman" triathlon in 3 hours flat, an improvement.

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