1963

Three lawyers! Three directions! In Wilmington, Del., Jerry Herlihy is completing his sixth year on the state municipal court bench. In Chelmsford, Mass., John Steele is eagerly anticipating increased earnings in fiscal '95 for his startup company, MRS Technology Inc. And in Los Angeles, John Westwater, senior VP, U.S. Trust Cos. of California, was named among 100 most influential executives by Los Angeles Business Journal.

Jerry Herlihy, one of three '63s who are judges, is not known for leniency. He has sentenced three convicted murderers to death. All are on appeal. He also handles civil cases, notably ones pertaining to environmental cleanup. Earlier Jerry was counselor to the governor and helped restructure the state government from a loose group of commissions to a centralized cabinet form. He's also had his own practice with his brother Thomas '57 and late father Thomas jr.'26. APenn Law School grad, Jerry is married to Mary Ann and has two children, Thomas 11 and Catherine 7.

John Steele got to be vice president of his own $20 million public company the hard way. A Vietnam veteran, he found a job through the Dartmouth placement office with GenRad Inc., a Massachusetts manufacturer of silicon-chip testing equipment. John went to law school nights and became the company's first general counsel, helping to take GenRad public in the seventies. But business turned sour for GenRad when its major customers—IBM, Digital, Wang, etc.—floundered in the early eighties. So John and five others started up MRS Technology Inc., Chelmsford, Mass., which makes a hot machine called the "wafer stepper" for customers such as Sony, Xerox, and, yes, IBM, among others. The wafer stepper is used to make chips for laptop-computer panel displays. Future applications include desktop computers and televisions. MRS is traded on the NASDAQ. John and Carole live in Concord. Son Neal sells electronic equipment; Adam is an accountant; and Amy is studying journalism.

Following stints with Korn Ferry and Spencer Stuart, two of the nation's premier headhunting firms, John Westwater focuses these days on helping clients plan and probate estates as head of the personal trusts and estates department at U.S. Trust in L.A. "If people aren't careful, inheritance can sometimes be more a burden than a benefit," says John who doubled the department and tripled its revenue in two years. He practiced law for 18 years in L.A. and lives in Hancock Park with wife Chris. Daughters Laura and Angela are with Koll Real Estate in L.A.

College athletics have become the specialty of Gene Kersey's 16 year old fundraising consulting concern in Bethesda, Md. It helps build markets and develop programs for such clients as Virginia Tech, Franklin & Marshall, Ohio State, and Tennessee. Through a system of alumni and boosters and other tactics, Gene helps schools triple their athletic fandraising. Previously he was professor of political science at Minnesota. Gene and Lolly have two kids, Andrew '94, a film producer in L.A., and Chris, an Emory University med student.

Jim Friedman, partner at Cleveland's Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, again was named to The Best Lawyers in America. J. Ernest Nunnally, former Dartmouth development officer and currently director of development at Caltech in Pasadena, was appointed a trustee of the Polytechnic School in that city. Ernest is an adopted member of our class.

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