1959

Tom Margetts reports that, building on the base established by Chris Cundy and Charlie Pinkerton in our 1995 Reunion campaign, '59 exceeded its 1996 class goal of $145,000 by more than $5,000. Class President Howard Greene correctly points out that this is no mean feat following a major reunion year. Moreover, 38 classmates who had not given over the past years contributed this year, and our class participation rate was 62 percent, which Howard indicates is a full ten percentage points higher than the participation rate for the entire alumni body. Congratulations to Tom and his group for an outstanding effort!

Heard from or about three bankers this month. In May Michael A. "Tiger"Tighe Jr., was elected senior vice president of the Chicago office of Inter Fin Corp., a privately held financial services and merchant banking firm headquartered in Long Beach. Tiger had previously been with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for six years, and with Northern Trust in Chicago for 20. He had developed an expertise in energy lending and reports that he is still drilling occasional oil wells with reasonable success. He said he was in a group of skiers which included KurtChristiansen at Aspen and Keystone this spring, and had dinner with Jim Bybee in Chicago in May.

Back in June it was announced that at the end of this year, another banker, LarryToal, will become CEO of Dime Bancorp Inc., New York, a holding company, and chairman and CEO of its Dime Savings Bank of New York subsidiary, succeeding Jim Large, who is retiring from those positions. Larry, who has been with Dime since 1991, is currently president and CEO of the subsidiary. With characteristic selflessness, Larry credited his predecessor with making the Dime "the right bank for what consumers are looking for today in terms of convenience, products, service and technology."

Larry is also a vice president and trustee of Big Brothers/Big Sisters in New York, chairman of the board of trustees at Marymount College, and a member of the boards of directors of several other worth-while civic organizations.

Congratulations to our third banker, Bill Sweet, who retired in June from the Union Bank of California, where he had been executive vice president and group head of UBOC's Corporate Banking and Real Estate Industries Group.

A Stuart Hansen, M.D., was recently named president and CEO of the Institute for Research and Education Health System Minnesota. In 1994, Stu was given the Stop the Violence Award from the Minnesota Medical Association. He is also a Minnesota delegate to the American Medical Association and is president and chair of the Minnesota Coalition for a Smoke-Free Society 2000. Stu specializes in pulmonary medicine at Park Nicollet Clinic Health System Minnesota.

"The granite of New Hampshire" takes on new meaning when Howard Greene tells us that Mal Swenson has moved to Hanover, where he continues to prosper in his career as a consultant to builders of mega projects regarding their facades and use of granite.

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Jack Zipes '59 tells a tale, p. 68