1963

Their worlds were once light years apart, but two basketball stars of the sixties got it together in March when New York City's Dwight School won its first private school state championship in its 116-year history. Steve Spahn, Ivy League standout and headmaster of Dwight since 1967, took a chance on a new coach, Pee Wee Kirkland, a local playground legend who went to prison after a brief start in the NBA. When he was released in 1981, Kirkland made a fresh start establishing a fine basketball camp and teaching courses on coaching at Long Island University in Brooklyn.

Laser disk technology is enabling museums to enliven exhibits with filmed documentaries. At the forefront is Steve Heiser, Portland, Ore., producer, whose work can be seen at the new Abraham Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the soon-to-open National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, Calif. You may also have seen the ex-Chicagoan's recent TV program on the mysterious Micronesian island city of Nan Madol. Steve began learning visual arts with his dad, a professional photographer, was further inspired by the Dartmouth film program, and went on to study at the Art Center for Design in Los Angeles. Steve and Norma, a school principal, have three sons, all wrestlers like Steve. Rod works at Steve's Odyssey Productions. Adam just graduated from Oregon State, and Aaron is a junior at Cornell.

Rob Tucker, Winston-Salem, N.C., medical oncologist, devoted his career to cancer research at Johns Hopkins. Now he's treating breast cancer and testing new chemotherapy at Wake Forest University. Wife Mary Kay is a nurse practitioner. Christine is at Bucknell and Elizabeth is in high school.

Richard Dickinson, Topsfield, Mass., retired after 20 years in the accounting department of GTE's North Quincy division. But finding his services very much needed, GTE brought him back as a consultant to help manage employee benefits. Wife Margaret teaches health education at Northeastern University. Sally is a biology major at Dartmouth and scheduled to study ecology next year in Costa Rica. Alice Louis studies at Stanford. Bill Bottger retired from law and promptly enrolled in the Glendale, Calif., police academy. Bill Weiler, retired from the botany department at Eastern Illinois University, and went fishing. Chinese investors, alleging fraud in the U.S. derivatives market, have hired New York securities lawyer Jonathan Kord Lagemann. Kord, who also represents brokerage firm employees, relaxes on weekends in his Ghent, N.Y., ski house. Wife Ellen teaches history at NYU. Nicholas is deputy director of the business council of the Democratic National Committee.

Indications of a rising economy emanate from Denver, where Peter Wells' Charter Group is busy buying, revitalizing, and operating strip shopping centers. Pete and Ceci have a son, J. D., a hotel manager, and Debby, a student of alternative education at the University of California.

Len Levitt, Stamford, Conn., back at his beat covering New York police for Newsday, stays in shape at the Princeton Club squash courts. Chuck Racine, biologist at Hanover's Cold Region Laboratory, gets his exercise raising lambs with wife Marilyn on his Barnet, Vt., farm with breathtaking views of Mt. Washington. Winter weekends the couple tours their property on skis...

Harry Zlokower, 516 Fifth Ave., Suite 606, New York, NY 10036,

Steve Heiser's documentaries are enlivening exhibits at tile new Abraham Lincoln Museum and the soon-to-be-opened National Steinbeck Center. HARRY ZLOKOWER '63