1953

All the indications are that we shall have a banner 35th Reunion. What else would one expect from '53? Early attendance figures are record-setting. The program being well balanced between fun and mindstretching also gives time to just reminisce. A seminar is planned with a super cast of panelists: Ron Scheman, Chad Day, Warren Cassidy, Fred Whittemore, StuartFordyce, Maurice Schonfeld, Dave Halloran, Elsa Luker, Bill Beutel, LauraMenides, Loretta Holway, John Sigleralso Dizz Derzon and Dave Picker.

Dizz, of Mill Valley, Calif., has become a recognized expert in the field of healthcare management. Health-care expenditures now amount to over 12 percent of our GNP and are one of the primary socio-political concerns of our times. Dizz entered a career of hospital administration after Dartmouth and Tuck, holding jobs in four cities including San Francisco. In 1977 he went to Washington and managed the financing of Medicare and Medicaid. Leaving government late in 1979, he became an elected member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Science. In 1980 he joined the consulting firm Lewin/ICF as vice president—a firm with revenues of $400 million offering a broad array of services dealing with the environment, waste management, computer analysis, and technologies relating to the approval of new drugs.

Dizz is responsible for health care—financing, policy studies, cost containment, and problem solving. He has a world-class reputation, which has necessitated extensive travel. Vacations also include travels: wilderness canoe trips in Canada, mountain climbing in Kenya, and a China visit planned for later this year. Spouse Margo facilitates his penchant for travel as her job is managing travel activities for a non-profit organization which conducts environmental education in various parts of the world. The family includes two sons and a daughter: Jim is studying for a Ph.D. in public policy; Michael was Dartmouth '88 and is teaching; and daughter Andrea has just returned from Mormon missionary work in Finland. As an avocation, Dizz is the chairman of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center which, you may know, is relocating, raising $55 in capital, and expanding their services.

No mean task for an avocation.

Dave Picker, has lived in New York most of his life and yet his vocation, motion pictures, and his principal leisure interest, fishing, are suggestive of places other than the "Big Apple" In 1956 he began his career with United Artists and by 1969 was CEO. In 1973 he became an independent producer, thus setting the rhythmic pattern of his life. He has alternated between producing such films as "Lenny," "Juggernaut," "Smile," "The Jerk," "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," and "The Man with Two Brains" and being president of Paramount Pictures from 1976-78, Lorimar Productions from 1980-81, and Columbia Pictures from 1986-88. After eight years in Los Angeles, Dave is again back in New York producing a film, "Stella Dallas," which was first made as a silent movie in 1926. It will be released under a shortened title, "Stella."

Dave is divorced and remarried to spouse Nessa—a writer and director responsible for over 100 episodes of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." Two daughters from his first marriage, Caryn and Pamela, are marketing motion pictures and fine leather furniture, respectively. Dave can identify eveiy fishing stream within a day's trip of New York, and has fished Alaska, Mexico, and the Florida Keys. He reports that his trend is towards fly fishing, light tackle, bone fish, and tarpon. Other interests include cooking and tennis which he characterized as "fearless" although it is unclear which one deserved that adjective. And Dave is a trustee for Hopkins Center/Hood Museum.

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