1961

It's not too late to go to New Orleans Thursday, April 20, to Sunday, April 23. KenKolb still will take reservations for "A Taste of New Orleans." He said 63 of our classmates and spouses have already paid to go to the 1961 special reunion, which will be centered in the French Quarter. You need to call Ken now at (504) 861-8158 to get in on this fun time and good deal. He can fill you in on details.

Dick Beattie is back in the news in a big way. This time he'll be trying to bring peace to Cyprus, another European flash point. On January 5 President Clinton named Dick as his special emissary to that troubled island, where partition has symbolized the tensions between Greeks and Turks. His unpaid appointment is for 13 0 working days. According to the Washington Post, the Cypriot population of 700,000 is overwhelmingly Greekspeaking Orthodox Christians, but about 20 percent are Turkish-speaking Muslims clustered in the north, protected by the Turkish army. They consider the area to be a separate state. Said the Post, "If Beattie can find a formula acceptable to the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities and to Greece and Turkey, he will have pulled off a feat that has eluded diplomats for a generation."

A few weeks earlier, Dick's picture dominated the front page of the National Law Journal, which called him the "top rainmaker" of the New York law firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett because he was the key lawyer in the buyout of RJR-Nabisco by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Cos. As a result, he became the law firm's chairman in 1991. The firm "has retained its reputation as a congenial place to work," the article said.

The current issue of Dartmouth Medicine features Matt Friedman in his work as executive director of the National Center for PostTraumatic Stress Disorder. Post-traumatic stress disorder, popularly associated with war, can also result from accidents, natural disasters, and domestic abuse, and can affect anybody, including policemen, firemen, and medical personnel. "Certainly people in the medical profession who are dealing with fresh casualties all the time are a very high-risk group. They usually don't give themselves permission to be human beings and be stressed out," Matt says.

Some people may be at greater risk of developing the disorder than others, such as those previously traumatized. "If you've got a strong family support system, a strong marriage, you're more likely to be able to recover from the impact of traumatic stress than if you're in a disruptive, alcoholic, chaotic, violent family situation."

Other news: Bill Kupinse has been appointed to an affordable-housing task force in Easton, Conn., placing him in the middle of a debate on affordable housing. According to the Easton Courier, he has been speaking against affordable housing on behalf of Citizens for Easton.

Vic Rich has been appointed one of five trustees for the New York State Society of CPA's Foundation for Accounting Education, which is responsible for all continuing professional education for certified public accounts in the state.

John Zabriskie has been elected a director of the Kellogg Cos.

Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1015