1971
Steve Zrike and CharlieCollier want me to remind you that in September you will receive the first request for biographical information for our 25th Reunion Yearbook.
Steve adds, "A one-page form will be included in the next issue of the class newsletter from our illustrious editor, Jerry O'Brien. We also ask that you put pen to paper to write a short personal statement to reflect on your life since Dartmouth. I say 'pen and paper' euphemistically since we would really prefer you send it on computer disk, Mac or IBM. However, typed pages from your old Royal portable will be accepted! Details will accompany the form."
On a personal note, Steve reports that his daughter Sara Maria has been admitted to the Dartmouth class of 1999 and will be joining her brother Steve Jr. '98 on the Hanover Plain. Since these kids are the oldest of five, Steve will soon be selling old WDCR memorabilia to help defray the cost of their educations.
Malcolm Jones sent a letter full of news which I quote (more or less) in its entirety: "My public-finance investment-banking career came to an end with the demise (firesale to Paine Webber!) of Kidder, Peabody & Cos. Based on my assessment of the public-finance market (DLJ and First Boston both dropped out of that market early '95) and my own career ambitions, I decided to make a change. In March I accepted an offer from Sun America Inc. in Los Angeles to become director, institutional marketing. Sun America is a diversified financial-services company with about $15 billion in assets. I am very excited about my opportunities. The day I accepted my offer, my wife (Karen Roche) resigned from Cresap (Towers Perrin) and accepted an offer from a boutique management-consulting firm called Sibson, where she will continue to focus on sales-management effectiveness. With both of us changing jobs at the same time, we promptly left for Thailand and Nepal for a month. Confirming it is a small world, our trekking leader in Nepal was the brother of Kesang Tashi '70, a fraternity brother of mine at Pi Lam! After a fabulous vacation, Karen and I are both enjoying our new careers.
"Karen and I share tickets to the San Francisco Symphony with Peg and Willis Newton. Willis is chief financial officer for First Republic in San Francisco and doing great. Willis and Peg's son Andrew enters kindergarten this fall.
"While in Boston, Karen and I had brunch with Linda and Rich Harvey. Rich is president of BNY Associates in Boston. Their oldest son, Justin, is off to college this fall, and Jared, my godson, is a sophomore in high school.
"I had lunch recently with Dick Wenzel. Dick and Ruth and their family are doing great and living in Fremont, Calif. Dick continues to work at BART and played a key role in keeping the system up and running following the '89 earthquake.
"I continue to be active in the Will to Excel Campaign as regional chairman for special gifts. My fundraising activities will also focus a lot during the next 12 months on the class of '71 as we approach our 25th Reunion."
And Don O'Neill (who?) reports that he has a new job as a result of the untimely demise (that is, sale) of the equity real-estate portfolio at ITT Hartford, where he has been a senior asset manager for the last eight years. He is now toiling as manager of the mortgage portfolio with the short-term goal of disposition. So much for job security in the nineties! See you all in Hanover in June 1996. Best wishes.
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