1962

The mailbox, e-mail, and fax-drop were empty but we do have some '62 news thanks to the Dartmouth clipping service. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal reported dissatisfaction by some stockholders with the performance of top management at Reebok International Inc. Our own Paul Duncan, chief operating officer, continues to have additional responsibilities added to his duties. Perhaps it is time to bring in a top outside executive to assist Paul!

A fall television column in The Washington Post previewed TheBuccaneers, Masterpiece Theatre's season premiere. The Buccaneers, a television adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel of an invasion in British society of four husbandhunting American women, gets mixed reviews, but the actors received high marks, including Rya Kihlstedt, daughter of Folke Kihlstedt. Our congratulations to "Tyko" and wife Andrea for Rya's success. We urge them to give us advance notice of Rya's future engagements so many '62s can enjoy her performances, and, we would love to hear from you.

The July issue of Commercial Property News reports the joint development by our Mahlon Apgar IV's Apgar & Cos. and Dunn & Bradstreet Corp. of Real Estate Scope, a software-based management tool for corporate real estate managers to rate their real estate operations against industry averages. The core of Real Estate Scope is Sandy's Apgar Score, a quantitative formula for measuring a company's real estate operations for amount, price, grade, and risk. After 13 years, most of which were spent in London developing the international practice of McKinsey & Cos., Sandy founded in 1981 Apgar & Cos., a corporate and institutional real estate consulting firm. Sandy's interest in education and his particular interest in developing outstanding teachers has not been limited to his dedicated and active leadership role for our 1962 Faculty Fellowship. Sandy recently established the Apgar Fund for Innovation in teaching concepts and methods by Harvard Business School faculty, the ninth in a series of awards he has sponsored for universities, schools, and professional organizations. We '62s should be proud of Sandy's generosity and our children and children's children will benefit from his commitment to education.

Perhaps the paucity of letters from '62s merely reflects the revolution in communications we are undergoing this very moment with a shift from the printed word to the use of electronic media. In this regard I recommend The GuttenbergElegies: The Fate of Reading In An ElectronicAge by Sven Birkerts (University of Michigan, 1973), a book review of which appeared in the Winter 1995 issue of Michigan Alumnus. In a series of 14 essays, Sven Birkerts "explores technology's undermining of literature, reading, and centuries-old social constructs. These historical meditations, scholarly arguments, and autobiographical reflections convincingly point to soft and hardware's morbid effects on reading, the human condition and the lost of the humanistic ideal." However, notwithstanding my preference for books and letters, you can be assured that I will gladly respond to your messages and news whether transmitted electronically or otherwise. Keep the news coming, we really want to hear from you!

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