Among the three candidates nominated by the Alumni Council for the alumni Trustee position opening this June is Barry Grove. Since 1975 Barry has been the managing director of the Manhattan Theatre Club Inc. in New York City. He was previously an assistant professor of theater at the University of Rhode Island, and an adjunct professor at Columbia's Graduate School of the Arts.
President of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York City from 1987 to 1991, Barry is currently on the Hopkins Center/Hood Museum Board of Overseers. If elected, Barry can give Kate Stith-Cabranes some '73 company on the Board of Trustees.
Meanwhile in Hollywood, Bob Ryan may soon be giving up his day job if his recent run of television work continues. Bob was hired last fall for a speaking role in the Fox Network's NFL Sunday pre-game show that includes four-minute comedy pieces featuring former players Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long, who are now commentators.
Later, after submitting a proposed script to the NFL Sunday producers, Bob was asked to write regularly for the show in addition to playing character roles. He also appeared in the Christmas episode of Murphy Brown as a harried shopper arguing with Candice Bergen, who jumped the line waiting for the restocking of the latest fad children's toy.
Wally Curran has been appointed professor and chairman of the department of radiation oncology at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pa. He will also serve as a director of the college's Bodine Center for Cancer Treatment. Wally, a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia, previously has held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine and the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Jay Wright has been appointed president of New England Employee Benefits Group, a business unit of The New England, a leading Boston-based insurance and investment company. Jay's sales force is responsible for the 401(k) and group-life and health-insurance operations in 11 regional sales offices.
Jack Terrill and four other colleagues from a large downtown Philadelphia law firm have left behind partnerships and established a trusts and estates specialty firm in the suburbs. Heckscher, Teillon, Terrill & Sager is located in West Conshohocken, Pa. Jack reports that his wife, Kitty, holds the position of office manager, personnel director, comptroller, "and about ten other jobs." Kitty supervises a paralegal and clerical staff of seven (not including adult supervision of the attorneys).
Your class secretary, Bob Conway, returned to the classroom last fall as an adjunct professor for Webster University in St. Louis, Mo. Bob taught administration law and procedure to graduate students in Webster's public administrative and health-services management programs at the extension campus at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
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