1962

The June issue of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine was waiting at home when Joan and I came back from an eight day trip to Paris toward the end of May. It had been a wonderful trip—our first visit to Paris together, although I had been there the summer after freshman year in 1959 and Joan in 1971 after her Peace Corps stint in Kenya. With keen anticipation I turned to the Class Notes section, to see in print the poignant musings and insightful reporting penned by this reporter back in March. Blank. Nothing. Nada. What in the world had happened? Must have clicked the wrong mouse button when I filed my story (doesn't that phrase sound important?) to Theresa D'Orsi, the Class Notes editor at the Alumni Magazine, via e-mail. Oh, the shame. The embarrassment. The loss to my classmates of beautifully turned phrases.

We had written of crocuses coming up in the back yard despite terrible northeast storms. We described how we were looking forward to the Dartmouth Boston area dinner coming up at the end of April, when a faculty panel of three professors from the College and the new dean of the faculty would conduct a seminar. And the dinner to honor outgoing President James O. Freedman. I promised to report in the September column how it went. (A fine occasion, it was.) All of this, and more, lost in cyberspace! Well, Richard, you Mike Barnicle wannabe, don't give up your daytime job. Dr. Stu Polly became chief medical officer and senior vice president of clinical affairs of The Med, a Memphis medical enterprise, reported the Memphis Business Journal last fall. Bill Shanahan is president and chief operating officer of ColgatePalmolive company, a company that has $8 billion in revenue. There was a nice interview with Dana C. "Woody" Bradford in the Omaha World Herald. "Bar President Wants Lawyers to Serve All," said the headline. The interview touched on legal fees, billing by the hour, and pro bono work; Woody's crisp answers and discussion were very impressive.

The Rev. Tom Grey was in an Associated Press story originating from Atlantic City a few months back. The article was kindly forwarded to me by John Clark. No, Tom was not cashing in at the gaming tables or the slots. As "America's foremost anti-gambling crusader," Tom spoke out forcefully at a two-day meeting that the federal National Gambling Impact Study Commission convened. (The article goes on to say that the head of MGM Grand Inc. was not in total sync with Tom's views.)

After Dartmouth College Jim Godsman earned an M.B.A. at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. He has been president of Cruise Lines International Association since 1985 and in 1997 was named Travel Executive of the Year. Jim lives in New Canaan, Conn. Say, I wonder if Jim might offer the class some advice about our 60th birthday bash in the year 2000? Art Hoover has joined the Rochester, N.H., law firm of Jones, Wensley, Wirth & Azarian in an "of counsel" capacity. An article in a Dover, N.H., paper details Art's considerable community service over the years in the Seacoast and Lakes regions.

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Jim Godsman, president of Cruise Lines International Association, has been named Travel Executive of the Year. RICHARD HANNAH '62