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Bob Downey has been selected as one of three vice chairmen of the Securities Industry Association, the largest trade association of brokerage and investment banking firms in the U.S. and Canada. Bob is a general partner and head of the municipal bond department of Goldman, Sachs & Co. In addition to his professional accomplishments, and after about 20 years with the same firm, Bob still has time to be supportive of this class and Dartmouth College. Congratulations to Bob and wife Nancy on this recognition of his standing in the industry.

The Chicago Tribune of December 2, 1988, displayed a photograph of Bill Race in the business section. Bill is now president of the Cole Taylor/Ford City Bank, part of a group that covers the Chicago area.

A tiny history lesson. Pete Heegaard, a banker with Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis, is married to Ann Mintener Heegaard, whose father Bradshaw Mintener organized Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 writein victory in the Minnesota primary, a major step toward his eventual election. The Minteners were the first guests of the Eisenhowers in the Oval Office on the President's inauguration day. Ann Heegaard is now a public affairs consultant with Hoffman Heegaard Associates in Minneapolis.

Jerry Green is now group vice president of the Marmon Group, Inc., a Chicagobased congrolomerate with over 50 companies and sales of $3.2 billion. Among Jerry's duties will be to act as consultant and advisor to the marketing and metal products groups in the U.S. and England. Jerry was president of J.I. Case from 1978-88. He holds an M.B.A. from Tuck and is a certified public accountant. Welcome to Chicago, jerry.

Owens-Illinois, Inc., promoted LeeWesselmanxi to senior vice president and chief financial officer and elected him to the board of directors. In my years writing this column, no classmate has been promoted through the ranks as steadily and frequently as Lee Wesselmann. There cannot be many financial positions of responsibility at Owens-Illinois that Lee has not held. Lee received his M.B.A. from Cornell in 1960 and joined Owens-Illinois in 1961.

John Whiteley and his Alumni Fund team deserve your help. Dartmouth deserves your generous support. Many students say that Dartmouth taught them how to reason. It upsets me to hear one poorly reasoned excuse or another for "cutting off' giving to Dartmouth. Please take the long view. Dartmouth is a terrific school, one that students all over the world are striving mightily to enter. Dartmouth gives 43 percent of its undergraduates some form of aid. Admission is on a "need-blind" basis. Without the Alumni Fund none of this would be possible. Over the years things like the Indian symbol, co-education, and the Review have offered the latest fad reason for not helping Dartmouth. Everyone is entitled to any position on each issue but look at the big picture. The College—a better Dartmouth will be flourishing years after these truly trivial controversies are long forgotten.

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