1971

Among this month's news is word that Frank Drislane and his wife, Rosemarie, acquired a son, Edward James, born April 24, 1990, which just might make him the youngest offspring in the class come reunion time. Rosemarie writes, "His big smile earns him favored status with his two sisters (and many innocent bystanders in the grocery stores, etc.)."

Steve Besse, armed with a master's degree in business administration from Stanford, has the envious distinction of holding down the position of president and CEO of Dryden & Palmer in Branford, Conn., producers of world-famous, old-fashioned rock candy the closest thing imaginable to "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (to borrow the words of a recent article profiling Steve and his company). The candy is made from a hot, saturated solution of white cane sugar poured into large vats strung with row upon row of fine strings. As the solution cools, it crystallizes on the strings and at the bottom of the vats. The crystals are harvested in large batches and sold as rock candy strings, crystals and swizzle sticks. Talk about tough work!

Meanwhile, Bill Phillips is toiling away in Hollywood as a screenwriter, with more than a decade of screen credits to his name. Some of you may recall that Bill wrote the script to the 1989 Burt Reynolds thriller "Physical Evidence." After Dartmouth Bill went to the University of Southern California and earned a master's degree in writing and production. He went on to a five-year stint as a writer/ director with the Dartmouth Medical School, producing educational programs and in 1978 started his own filmmaking company called Northern Lights Productions, doing commercials, documentaries and other projects. After moving to Los Angeles in 1979, he worked as a camera and sound man and a writer/director of product films for General Dynamics. His first major screenplay, "Summer Solstice," was aired on ABC television in 1980 and starred Henry Fonda. That led to three projects for CBS, including an adaptation of Bing, the biography of Bing Crosby, followed in 1983 by an assignment on Steven King's "Firestarter," "Christine" a year later, and numerous other projects since.

Dr. Alfred Chang is a surgeon, cancer researcher and associate director of clinical affairs at the University of Michigan Medical Center, specializing in adoptive immunotherapy, a cancer research field which has largely emerged since 1985 and involves the sensitizing of a patient's own blood cells to the patient's tumor by treating the cells in the lab and reinfusing them into the patient. After graduating Dartmouth and Harvard Medical School, he completed his surgical internship and residency at Duke University Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania and held a fellowship in surgical oncology at the National Cancer Institute, where he worked as a senior investigator with two of the leading adoptive immunotherapy pioneers. He was recently awarded a three-year federal grant, the only one of its kind in the United States, to test the adoptive immunotherapy procedure in larger intravenous doses with melanoma, colon, and renal cell cancer patients, for whom there is now no effective therapy.

A pre-reunion class dinner was held on March 14 at Rene Pujol in New York City. Tony Fitz Patrick, Jerry O'Brien, and JohnRyzewic did a fantastic job organizing the event and assuring an excellent turnout. Also in attendance: John Colangelo, Mike Furey,Ron Harris, Tom Jackson, Bill Jacobson,Thornton Jenness, Bill Kennedy, ChrisKirk, Ramon Marks, Jeff McElnea, TomMcGuane, Kevin Murphy, Don O'Neill,Bob Osborne, Bob Peters, Mike Press, Dr. Tom Price, Pete Ruegger, John Shanaban,Pete Webster, Scott Wiley and DickWooster.

A final reminder: our 20th Reunion is less than a month away and not to be missed. A record turnout is in the offing, with a great time to be had by all. We'll see you there!

32 Hamilton Road, Irvington, NY 10533-2311

DARTMOUTH Class of 1971/20 Years Later June 14th-16th. 1991 REUNION