1968

The end of summer is upon us, and I have a couple of months worth of classmate news to share. Charles Adams wrote from Geneva, Switzerland, and reports he is still alive and well, as managing partner of the European operations of Chicago-based Winston and Strawn. He's been in Switzerland for 12 years, doing international arbitration and corporate and commercial law. An occasional '68 drifts through (Dave Walden most recently) and more are welcome. From California came news of Eric Jones, who in 1998 joined All-Ways Travel in Coronado. After a few years of "high-school teaching he became a travel agent in 1972, and spent several decades in the Boston area organizing group travel for special affinity groups, with particular specialization in all things French. A French-speaking gourmand (not gourmet, he noted), he has been to France more than 20 times (Editor's Note: Check your dictionary for the difference). Merrick Bobb was recently profiled by The Los Angeles Times. After getting his law degree at Berkeley in 1971, he spent years in corporate litigation for several law firms. In 1992 he volunteered to serve on the Christopher Commission looking into the L.A. Police Department after the Rodney King beating. He started as deputy general counsel, has since become special counsel, and has prepared nine follow-up reports examining areas of progress and continuing concern. He is known for his balanced, carefully documented reports and passionate belief in the necessity of his work. He also is celebrating the entrance of his son Matthew into Dartmouth, class of 2003. Merrick is an attorney with Morrison and Foerster. Charles Cramb, a senior vice president and CFO (since 1997) at the Gillette Co. in Boston, was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Private Sector Council. He held a number of key financial positions in Gillette's European operations from 1976 to 1981, as well as senior financial positions since then. He got his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. The moral dimension of the Kosovo conflict has brought Capt. Arnie Resnicoff into the news. He serves as command chaplain of the U.S. European Command (the first rabbi ever to do so), and is special advisor to the supreme NATO commander on religion, ethics, and morale. He coordinates the chaplain support for more than 100,000 U.S. personnel, and serves as liaison with civilian and military organizations in 89 countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia. DickLafrance has been out in Corvallis, Ore., for 21 years, where he works as a neurologist in a 70-physician practice. Brought up in Chelmsford, Mass., after Dartmouth, he went to the University of Rochester Medical School. The move west, he says, was to trade rain for snow. He recently remarried a woman from Australia whom he met on the only blind date he ever had in his life. A recent accomplishment of which he is proud is building a geodesic dome as his home. On one day he had a dome-raising party with 50 friends. I need similar help from all of you, in the form of news, to keep this column clicking...keep the news coming.

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Dick Lafrance held ageodesic dome-raisingparty with 50 friends. DAVID PECK '68