1961

We're at an age when it gets more and more difficult to get (or stay) in shape. Something happened in the past year or so that changed the formula for many of us. For me, a few days off the pavement produced a 30-second slide backwards in running time from which recovery seemed impossible. Another business trip a few months later produced another 30-second slide, and suddenly 10-minute miles are an achievement and not an extremely bad day. Hopefully just a winter slump, but we've watched our older friends and running partners go through the same thing. Argh.

Another indicator: when our children have grown up. As a youngster, Richie Rosier, son of class VP Bob Rosier, went to many reunions and mini-reunions. Now he's joined the New York law firm Feldman and Ellenoff as an associate. Congratulations to the Rosiers.

Election season produces the usual spate of candidacies (and the usual paucity of postelection results). John Starr, president of the China Institute of America, was running for re-election as a member of the board of education of New Canaan, Conn. Bob Goff was running for district judge in Great Falls, Mont. He has practiced law there since 1972, and has served on city government advisory committees and on the Great Falls Housing Authority.

Keith Ober, who retired after a very visible career as a school superintendent in Milton and Wells, Vt., just may go back to work as a superintendent again. He was listed as one of the two finalists for the job in Hollis.

It's amazing what happens when a guy gets appointed CEO of a big national company. We've talked about John Zabriskie's appointment as head of Upjohn Co., a widely reported story. The longer versions mentioned Dartmouth; a few noted that he graduated with honors in chemistry. And one got up-close-and-personal: "As chief executive officer at the Upjohn Co., John Zabriskie will get his kicks in a new career challenge. But when he was doing his undergraduate work at Dartmouth he got his kicks playing on the varsity soccer team. Zabriskie was a letter winner in the 1959 and 1960 seasons." Another noted his involvement in the debate over health-care reform "as a member of the think-tank Jackson Hole Group, from which President Clinton drew an outline for his health-care reform measures...."

The story of the struggle of Tom Dalglish to see his sons again, sent to everybody in the class by newsletter editor Tom Conger, is of interest to a wider circle of his Dartmouth friends. The top of the front story in the Seattle Sunday paper described the 1990 abduction of Pablo and Gabriel by Tom's former wife, who fled to Brazil, and Tom's struggle to at last see them again. He has legal custody in the United States. The story begins with this poignant verse: "My distant sons, caught in a storm across the sea / Their laughter leaving lightning in its wake. / Becoming a flash of pain, not boys. / Unseen, unheard, they haunt me in my sleepless night." TC reports that Tom in fact did get to see his boys again during a trip to Brazil last summer. By the way, Tom has remarried, to Ellen, and they recently had a baby.

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