1966

This column is about awards, accolades and noteworthy accomplishments. In other words, it's about the class of 1966 . . . naturally. Hang on.

Dr. Stephen Abram, professor of anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin consin in Milwaukee, has been elected president of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia. It's a 7,000-member organization with specific interest in regional anesthesia, obstetrical anesthesia, and alleviation of acute and chronic pain.

Ed Kuriansky has been the New York State special prosecutor for Medicaid fraud control for 18 years. During that time the Special Prosecutor's Office, the longest-running statewide operation in the nation dedicated exclusively to the investigation and prosecution of health care crime, has conducted investigations that have resulted in the arrest of nearly 2,000 defendants, with an overall conviction rate of 92 percent. It has also instituted the recovery of more than $137 million in Medicaid, nursing home, adult home, and hospital overpayments, fines, and restitution. For all this, the Public Employees Roundtable has cited the Special Prosecutor's Office for special recognition in its Public Service Excellence Awards program.

William Rodarmor, managing editor of California Monthly, the Berkeley alumni magazine, won a Gold Medal in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's annual competition for best article of the year for his story "TKO in Sociology."

In more than 20 years at the National Institute of Health, William Risso has worked his way up from electronics engineer to deputy director for the Division of Computer Research & Technology. The DCRT is responsible for making computer power available to scientists.

Allan Ryan has been an attorney at Harvard for eight years. After his illustrious and much-publicized career in Washington, Allan and Nancy love the New England routine. Allan has been a clerk to Justice Byron White and worked with the Mariner law firm, the Solicitor General's office, and then the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, finding and denaturalizing Nazis living in America. In addition to keeping Harvard safe from negligence suits and employment scuffles, Allan teaches a class on "War Crimes, Genocide and Terrorism" at Boston College Law School and is on die executive committee of the New England Anti-Defamation League. Nancy just earned her master's in education and is substitute teaching while looking for a permanent position. Elisabeth, 13, swims, and Andrew, 11, plays hockey. They all like Mt. Moosilauke, where sometimes they hike with Bob and Ellyn Bryant and family.

In the "Why-did-it-take-so-long department, Maine papers are speculating that GusKing will be running for governor in 1994. Gus is host of a popular public television program "Maine Watch," a weekly public-affairs issue and debate program. He's also president of Northeast Energy Management Inc., a developer of electrical energy conservation projects at commercial and industrial facilities. Gus has also practiced law, worked in Washington, and taught at Bowdoin. Sounds like Governor's Mansion material to us.

Ben Cohen, a judge in Newjersey, presided at a highly publicized Glen Ridge, N.J., rape trial this spring. Dr. Pete Dorsen has moved his sports-medicine practice to the Wayzata (Minn.) Family Physicians group. Pete's a busy author on sports medicine and a competitive cross-country skier.

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