1978
Just returned from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference. It was a terrific opportunity to attend lectures by some of today's leading authors including Mary Karr, Jane Smiley, Frank McCourt, Jane Kramer, Mark Salzman, John Burnham Schwartz, and many others. It brought back great memories of undergraduate days, as I cannot say that b-school classes quite matched my liberal arts experience. Dartmouth was well represented with two authors: Mary Turco, professor of women's studies and author of Crashing the Net, the story of the Olympic gold-medalwinning U.S. women's hockey team; and Lori Arviso Alvord '79, M.D., associate dean for minority and student affairs at die Medical School and author of The Silver Bear and the Scalpel.
Robert Gray sent news as follows: "I recently joined Deutsche Bank, following 18(!!) years at J.P. Morgan & Co. I am in Latin American investment banking, with a primary focus on the telecoms/media sector in the region, together with responsibility for coordinating investment banking activities in Colombia across industrial sectors. This is quite an exciting place following the acquisition of Bankers Trust, which really rounds out the product spectrum. Having been at J.P. Morgan so long, with its very cohesive structure and culture, I am fascinated by the process of integration of the two firms, and I think there are few banks that have the potential as a global wholesale financial services provider that this one does. The challenge is teamwork in a new huge bank incorporating highly diverse cultures. Anyway, I am refreshed by the change, and by the process of finding something new after JPM, which led to this option among others. My new addressDeutsche Bank, 130 Liberty St., NY, NY 10006; (212) 250-7633. It's been a long time since I have checked in, so I will also report that I have been married to Carol Goodnow called Goody since 1987. We have three children Priscilla 11, Robert 9, and Harry 3. We are very happy with suburban life in Darien, Conn., and enjoy tennis and boating on Long Island Sound when the kids' sports schedule permits!"
David R. King joined the Wells Fargo Bank in L.A. in June '99: "Settling into our new home on the border of Pasadena/San Marino with my wife, Chandra. Happy to be done with the long-distance commute! Looking forward to a week-long fly-fishing trip with my dad, brother, and nephew celebrating my dad's 77th birthday. I'll try to catch one or two for Rick Sunshine."
Across the Big Pond, Pierre Kirch's Parisian law firm, Moquet Borde & Associates, joined with the partners of three other leading continental European corporate law firms to form an integrated and fully multinational legal group named BBLP. According to Pierre, this means, first of all, that everyone is now paid in euros. And, if you're in trouble in Germany, France, Italy, or Switzerland, just call on BBLP and tell them you're a friend of Pierre's. Also on the international front, Jackie Kaiko writes that she spent ten days in Russia at the end of July, split between Samara and Moscow, discussing credit with a group of Samara Region bankers. "Samara is a commercial and industrial center about 1,000 kilometers SE of Moscow which, for many years, was a "closed city," i.e., off-limits to foreigners. The project was sponsored by the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, an organization which organizes financial infrastructure-building projects in countries developing market-oriented economies mainly, republics of the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia. Observing die turbulent economic and political Russian scene from the perspective of first a provincial city, and then from Moscow, was a truly fascinating experience!"
Finally, from Jon Keeve: "I did some volunteer work in orthopedic surgery in Vietnam last November, still play guitar and harmonica in a funk/soul/rhythm and blues band. My orthopedic practice is busy and our kids are getting bigger by the minute."
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Stoney Morrell '78's heritage, p. 45
