1964

Greetings, all. As I walked past the Hanover Inn one Saturday morning I spied in I a rocking chair on the porch a man I thought I recognized. Well, I did, and it was Dr. Steven Sharfstein. Steve is the recently elected (January 1992) president, medical director, and CEO of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital located in Baltimore, Md. This Quaker-founded institution is the largest private mental-health-service clinic with an emphasis on clinical service and system development. Steve has for a long time been keenly involved and had leadership positions in planning and development of mentalhealthcare systems. Under President Carter, Steve was appointed director of the Division of Mental Health Service Programs for the National Institute for Mental Health. In addition to his daily duties, Steve serves as a clinical professor at the University of Maryland and as a lecturer at Georgetown and John Hopkins. Steve has authored or edited many books and a myriad of important articles in his field, and he is the editor of Economic Grand Rounds. Steve's enthusiasm about the critical mental-health issues facing the country was obvious during our talk, and I hope and expect that Steve will speak up about his views as our country addresses the economy and the substance of national healthcare issues. Steve attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government in addition to Albert Einstein Medical School. When he is not working or teaching, he finds time to enjoy his family. Steve and his wife, also a physician, have raised three children. Although two of them have shown some questionable judgement by choosing to go to Harvard, we are hoping the third will come to his senses and consider Dartmouth.

I spoke with Tim Brooks recently. Tim moved from WDCR, which he describes as his major at Dartmouth, to a long, successful, and interesting career in communications, TV in particular. Tim was bitten with the "communications bug" at Dartmouth and has been involved in writing and working in that area. Recently Tim was appointed VP of research for USANetwork's new Sci-Fi Channel which is being launched this September. They call him "Commander Data." Tim has been involved in die cable TV world since 1991 and before that worked for NBC and for national advertising agencies in the area of media and market analysis. Tim has authored and coauthored many books involving the history of TV and TV research. He is most renowned nationally for his editions of the Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, and he and his co-author appear all around the country on local talk shows to discuss the history of TV shows. Tim keeps in touch with his buddy Guy McMillan, with whom he worked at WDCR and who is an editor for the Keene (N.H.) Sentinel. We look forward to seeing Tim at the reunion.

Finally, please make sure to pay your class

dues and make arrangements to come to our class reunion in June.

Until next month.

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Tim Brooks is now VP of research for USA Network's new Sci-Fi Channel. They call him "Commander Data." HAL RABNER '64