1960

Attention all Fed watchers and anyone who can't figure out this country's monetary policy! Armed with his Economics 101 textbook and 30 years in the banking industry, Joel Alvord has been named a class A director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Let's see, if demand is on the Y axis and supply on the X axis, interest rates ought to fall somewhere in between, or something like that.

Meanwhile, Jack Benson has made the next logical switch in careers. After banking and real estate development, Jack has joined the Boston law firm of Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster as executive director. Business cycles never affect lawyers. However, Dennis Coyle recently left a Miami law firm to assume the new position of vice president and general counsel of the FPL Group, Inc., a Florida utility holding company. Maybe demand for electricity has surged? If none of the above information makes sense, we can ask Bill Gould to develop some software for the UNIX operating system he now heads up as vice president of software engineering at Apollo Computer, Inc. Not a bad move for a chemistry major.

After raising more than $50 million for Democratic party coffers during the Dukakis campaign, Bob Farmer, not surprisingly, moved from the Charles River of Boston to the Potomac to become party treasurer and to join a lobbying firm. In a Wall Street Journal interview, Bob modestly admitted the obvious: "What I do best, I guess, is raise money." Maybe after his sojourn in Washington he can be convinced to try his talents at a little college overlooking the Connecticut River.

In the kudos category (that's what the Greeks called a round of snaps), Jim Herbert, professor of art at the University of Georgia, was recently awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to further his already considerable talents as a painter. Jim was one of 198 scholars chosen from a field of 3,144 applicants. Those odds are stiffer than applying to Dartmouth! While on the subject of admissions, Tony Rodolakis, who serves as secretary for the Dartmouth Club of Springfield, Mass., dropped me a note saying that Dick Weiler had been honored by the club for his many years as district enrollment director for the area. Thanks, Dick. And from a person unknown to me came a note that Richard Slosberg received the Chairman's Award for Physicians at the Matthew Thornton Health Plan's Employee Recongnition Banquet in May. Richard is one of the founding physicians of this health-maintenance organization which is in the process of merging with the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health Plan.

As a postscript to a thoughtful letter which I will report on next month, JonRichardson related that he had walked around with Gary Vandeweghe as Gary played in the finals of the Santa Clara County Golf Championship, finishing second. Jon went on to say, "I vaguely remember playing Gary in the Dartmouth championship during our undergraduate years. As I recall, we both shot in the low 70s, and I won. Gary is still shooting in the low 70s. I am not. He's also current club champion at the Sanjose Country Club and competing at or near his former playing weight. I am not." And finally, a splash about yet another of Dartmouth's ageless jocks. The newspaper photo caught JakeCrouthamel as he hit the water of a dunking tank, baseball cap on his head and lacrosse stick in hand. It seems Jake had volunteered as a target to help raise funds for the Central New York Kidney Foundation's Celebrity Dunk. For $10, frustrated Syracuse fans could shoot three baskets to dunkjake. I'll bet Bob Farmer could figure out how to make more out of that,

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