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Bob Fuller got married to Karen Stansbury on a pleasant September weekend at his home in Wilton, Conn. Art Johnson, Ivar Jozus, Dick Spencer, Roger McArt, and Bruce Forester represented the class. Ivar noted that many classmates had already met Karen, who participated in our New Orleans, Vail, and Hanover reunions. "It was beautiful weather," said Ivar. "All the doors were open and the festivities flowed easily in and out. He said Bob and Karen went to Nantucket for their honeymoon.

Class President Oscar Arslanian convened a Boston meeting on Sept. 16 of some members of our executive committee, including Art Johnson, Pete Bleyler, Ron Wybranowski, and Ivar Jozus to talk about improving our Alumni Fund effort, particularly in increasing participation; about our 40th Reunion(!), about the upcoming mini-reunions, and about the class treasury. Thanks to the donations to the Frost statue fund, the class treasury remains in good shape with virtually all statue-related bills paid, Ivar reports. The class had 306 dues-payers in the last academic year, and a new dues campaign will start soon.

Oscar said in addition to the more formal mini-reunions, he is stressing informal get-togethers. Duane Cox, for instance, was planning a cocktail reception on Nov. 24th. The next big reunion is Chicago in 1998, and Oscar said Bill Glenn, Cleve Carney, Alan Orschel, Rick Taft, and Denny Engleman have expressed an interest in planning it. Call Bill Glenn at (708) 897-5919 to volunteer.

We told you last month about how John King is chairman-elect of the American Hospital Association. His picture graced the entire cover of Hospitals and Health Networks the type identifying the magazine was across his forehead. And inside was a profile that, with sidebars, ran to some six pages. The article spends a good bit of ink on King and Dartmouth. "He majored in sociology and read The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. He started graduate school at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, where most of his classmates dreamed of careers at General Electric or Procter & Gamble. 'But I was looking for opportuni- ties with more social worth than selling soap,' King says. 'And the thought of working for 20 years before I could get substantial responsibility just didn't appeal to me.'.. .At Dartmouth, King met Bill Wilson, who ran the Hitchcock Clinic at the time. His [business] economics professor, Herluf Olsen, who chaired the first national conference on graduate education and health care administration, knew the field and the best graduate health care programs. And finally, King met Jim Hamilton, a fellow Dartmouth grad who founded the graduate program in health care administration at the University of Minnesota."

One focus of that program was on health systems rather than simply hospitals. "We were being exposed to cutting-edge work." Most of Ring's career has been in running health systems in South Bend, Ind., in suburban Chicago, and now in Portland, Ore., where the Legacy Health Systems he took over in 1991 had net profits of nearly $4O million in FY '96 compared to $19.7 million in FY '95. Part of that success is due to job trimming "we're about at a productivity level we think is reasonable" and part through an incentive program that resulted in cash outlays of nearly $2,000 to almost all employees, according to The Business Journal.

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Author Robert Eaton Kelley '61, p 45