1963

SMALL TOWN BOY MAKES GOOD! He kept his nose to the grindstone from Ashland, Mass., to Hanover to Tuck to Madison Avenue with time out for motorcycling and moun tain climbing, as well as travel, skiing, and beach volleyball with wife Jane. And now Barry Linsky has been named senior vice president of planning and business development of The Interpublic Group of Companies, the billion-dollar New Yorkbased advertising and marketing conglomerate. He'll assist Chairman Philip Geier in client and advertising activities, new business, business analysis, and industry association involvement, and run several units of Interpublic. Barry worked his way up from Interpublic's Marschalk Company, now known as Lowe & Partners, which he joined in 1972 and where he became an executive vice president in 1982. His clients have included Braun, Johnson & Johnson, Lehn & Fink, and Mennen. Barry started in consumer marketing at Lever Brothers, Bristol-Myers, and Squibb Beech-Nut.

And talk about concentration. RJR-Nabisco Holdings posted a 15 percent rise in fourthquarter operating profit, reducing its net loss to $13 million, its narrowest since LouGerstner took over in a leveraged buy-out by Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Cos. two years ago. Launny Steffens, head of Merrill Lynch's retail operations, announced an increase in some customer fees to offset rising costs and the Wall Street downturn. At the same time improvements were announced in brokers' compensation and training.

Tom Richards, a 2 2-year veteran of the insurance industry and a licensed stockbroker, heads a 75-person, 13-ofSce insurance agency and stockbrokerage for Northwestern Mutual Life in Colorado and Wyoming. Wife Susan is a student at University of Colorado Law School, Chip is a '92 at Dartmouth, Steve graduated from the University of Arizona, and son Scott, an instructor at the National Outdoor Leadership School,rrecendy climbed Mt. Aconcaqua in Argentina—at 22,384 feet, the highest in the Western Hemisphere. Gary Lange, formerly president of the Puget Sound Savings Bank in Seattle, has acquired his own mortgage brokerage and escrow company. EdMcCabe has left Gaston & Snow in Boston to form The McCabe Group, trial lawyers in Cambridge, Mass., and Washington, D.C. And that patient instructor at Vail who kept asking you about your childhood was actually psychiatrist Ned Harley.

Steve Bank, Wesleyan University psychologist and an expert on sibling relationships, advised "parents to make their wills as clear as possible so that their children don't fight over who gets what" in a New York Times article on how sibling relationships change after the death of parents.

Dave Bunting and Dave Schaefer have formed the Dartmouth Executive Network to assist alumni in finding jobs and recruiting people for their own companies. Bunting, a professional recruiter, says they've placed one person already and four others are likely to get placed. Candidates pay a small administrative fee, and the companies pay the rest. Bunting is at 5 Nary Shores Road, Wolfeboro, NH 03894, 603/569-3000. The Schaef is handling marketing for the enterprise.

New fathers: Bob Silverman, Atlanta builder, Tyler Hutton Silverman, his fifth; and Rick WyckofF, City of Seattle Manager of Information, twin boys: Samuel Justin and Oliver Michael to go with older son Peter 12.

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