1964

Last column, I threatened you all that if not inundated by mail and news from you, I would personally seek you out. Since I have been entirely uninundated, I have had my first two victims—Tom Adams and Mike Bailin. I just got off the phone with Tom Adams. Tom reports that after graduating from law school at Northwestern he started his legal career with Chicago Title and Trust Company, the parent company of one of the largest title insurance companies in the country. Tom has had a stable, satisfying, and successful legal career, capped now by being corporate general counsel and secretary to the company. His work is tremendously varied, and he supervises the in house corporate staff as well as outside counsel. Tom takes great pride in the two children he and his wife raised one, a junior at Carlton College now studying in the Soviet Union; the other, a high school junior starting the college search. Tom's outside interests concentrate on tennis and skiing. Although he is concerned about the reported conservative-liberal unrest on campus, Tom is encouraged by the in- creased diversity on campus and increased interest in social issues evidenced on campus.

Taking a different, but also satisfying, career path is Mike Bailin. In 1977, Mike was one of the three founders of a not-for-profit corporation which assists governmental jurisdictions and foundations in establishing programs and studies to assist disadvantaged youths in reaching satisfying career goals. It is now supported by 40 private foundations and 20 large corporate sponsors. Mike, as its president, supervises a staff of 50, in cluding psychologists, lawyers, and sociologists, and develops programs and studies. Mike's devotion to the work and cause he obviously loves has survived the cut-backs of the Reagan era and the euphoria of the Carter years. Mike has used his law degree from Yale, and Master of Urban Studies from the same place, in exciting and valuable ways since graduation. From working with Dartmouth students in the Jersey City urban education program, to vice president of experimental programing at Franconia College, to being counsel to the South Shore Seaport in its formative stage, to working as assistant to John Lindsay and on political campaigns, and finally on his present job, Mike has been a force in creating and working for people and ideas. While he complains of having too little time for his family through his total immersion in his job, it is obvious from talking to him that he has capped a successful and loving 21- year marriage, with a strong relationship with his two high school age girls who Mike describes as good people —athletes and scholars. While Mike's considerable athletic skills have been slowed by a problem back, he stays in shape by swimming, walking, and biking. When you're around Philly, please give Mike a call.

As you can see, it is interesting and uplifting to learn from our classmates. It permits us to understand the benefits of the Dartmouth experience and variety of life out there. As Bob McArthur stated in his moving memorial service in Rollins Chapel at our 25th Reunion, "The snapshot of this period in life finds most of us having hit our stride. There is still much to do, and we will make changes in our lives and lifestyles in the years ahead, but we have completed a substantial chapter of creativity and commitments. We gather, confident in our achievements, and yet humbled by the memory of our setbacks and the suspicion that there may be more to life's meaning than we have yet uncovered." Len Glass reminded us that "we have reached a new level of trust with each other in sharing the triumphs and disappointments of our journey. Our agenda now is less to compete with one another than it is to learn from one another at mid-life and create a larger fellowship of support for what lies ahead." Please let me know what you have been doing so that you can contribute to the learning and support of which Bob Mc- Arthur and Len Glass spoke—which is what the Dartmouth fellowship is all about.

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