1963

You can go home again! After years of world travel, including a prolonged stay in London as a director of the investment banking house London Lombard Odier, Tige Harris has joined the Portland, Ore., office of U.S. Trust, where he'll market products to institutions and high net-worth individuals and direct the regional office's investment policy. Tige had been recently in Lombard's New York office, but wanted to go back to his hometown where he had once worked as a salmon farmer after graduating from Dartmouth.

Bob Bysshe, Granite Springs, N.Y., will chair the '63 class 35th Reunion set for June 15-18, 1998. A vice president at Bankers Trust in New York, Bob is also class vice president, mini-reunion chair, and devotee of Sunday breakfast at the Four Aces in West Lebanon, N.H. He's going to need help, lots of it, to make the 35th a success. Call Bob at (212) 454-3727 and volunteer.

Mike Emerson, who manages government contracts for Boeing in Seattle, has been appointed by Washington Governor Mike Lowry to a five-year term as trustee of nearby Highline Community College. Also in Seattle, Mary Lord, widow of DanWatts, has earned a national license as a massage therapist.

Lee Phillips, a New Canaan, Conn., real-estate consultant, died in January. An article will follow in the obituary section. Coming this month to your local bookstore is the reissued 15th anniversary edition of psychologist Steve Bank's top-selling The Sibling Bond, a study of how sibling relationships affect our lives.

Gordy Weir, former head of Boston's prominent Joslin Diabetes Center, is now spending full time at what he loves the most, trying to find a cure for diabetes. Gordy is a senior researcher at Joslin and professor at Harvard Med, studying how to preserve insulin cells after they have been transplanted. Doctors have successfully transplanted the pancreas where insulin is produced, but transplanting cells alone has been more difficult. Gordy and wife Susan, a cell biologist, are a team at Joslin. Daughter Dascha is in med school, Kytja is a '98 at Dartmouth.

Steve Rosen is looking to help classmates and others with retirement and personal investments as founder of Aloha Asset Management in Skokie, Ill., a feebased manager of no-load mutual funds. He had been institutional salesman at Goldman Sachs for the past 25 years. Steve Buckley has left his publishing post at the Troy( N.Y.) Record to take the helm of the Burlington (N.C.) Times-News.

Kevin Lowther, Springfield, Va., returned to Hanover this past winter to play goalie in the annual alumni hockey game. He runs the Southern Africa region for Africare, a growing technical assistance agency he helped found in 1971. While an integral part of the U.S. foreign assistance program, Africare is coming to rely more and more on recruiting and training qualified Africans to perform its work, a trend that has been welcomed by South Africa, Zambia, Angola, and other host governments.

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