1964

1964 is "the greatest Dartmouth Class," in case there was any question in anyone's mind. This is how SandyMcGinnes reported that our class was introduced at the Alumni Fund awards banquet on September 23 in Hanover. Our class awards were accepted by Sandy, Woody Flowers, Bob Cahners, and Chris Palmer. Apparently RogerAaron, co-chairman with Sandy, and others on the committee, couldn't be there. A nice sounding phrase for a class which won the Class of 1938 Award for largest reunion total of $1,718,064, the Joshua Davis Award for greatest dollar improvement, and the Roger Wilde 1921 Reunion Award for extraordinary achievement in setting a new reunion record, and finally, to our own Sandy McGinnes, the Alumni Fund Committee Award for the best all around achievement, which included the alumni record and 77 percent participation. Congratulations, guys, for a great job!!! This month your class scribe and detective

has uncovered information about two classmates both attorneys who have taken different and fascinating career paths Richard Neeley and Jim Marx, who unsuccessfully attempted to avoid me by not writing in our reunion Alumni Book. I caught Dick Neeley, our class jurist, and one of its most best-known and prolific authors, on Sunday afternoon on his front porch overlooking the private road leading to his house in Charleston, W.Va., working on his computer writing another book. Following law school at Yale and his R.O.T.C. commission, Dick went to Vietnam where he used his economic and law background to have important responsibility in the formulation of rural economic development policy. Returning to his home state, and following his family tradition of political and public service, Dick soon ran for and was elected to the state legislature in 1970. Instead of running against an entrenched incumbent in a race for the U.S. Senate in 1971, Dick ran for the West Virginia Supreme Court and was elected, at age 30, as the youngest state supreme court justice in our country's history. Dick remains in that Court today, and has developed a national reputation as a keen and outspoken analyst and critic of the role of the judiciary, as well as an exert in the field of product liability. Dick's five published (and successful) books are written with the same flair and charming and outspoken manner with which he ap- proaches his lectures around the country and teaches economics. Having remained single until 38, pushing various carefree "undergraduate" pursuits until then, Dick is happily married to one of the most beautiful and lovely women in West Virginia, has no "male menopausal anxiety," and looks forward to raising two sons, age 9 and 2, and vacationing in France at his family retreat. In discussing present "controversies, " Dick describes Dartmouth as a good bottle of Bordeaux —consistently excellent over time. Dick's life sounds like it has more than a little sparkle of champagne.

Jim Marx, my college roommate, has also followed a fascinating career path. After graduating from Stanford Law and marrying his college sweetheart, Helen, Jim moved to New York City, where for years he practiced corporate and securities law by himself and as a partner in a large Manhattan law firm. There he developed expertise, a reputation, and interest in creative investment banking, venture capital, and tax-loss-oriented transactions. Jim has utilized his expertise in these areas very successfully and has dealt with many wellknown investment firms and groups. When Jim is not working, he and Helen are out devoting much of their time to charitable and philanthropic activities in the Metropolitan area. Jim and Helen live in Bernardsville, N.J. His two terrific children, son Douglas, Harvard '9l, and Bradley 17, have rounded out an interesting, successful, and stable career and life since 1964.

I look forward to hearing from you all.

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