1975

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Jerry Lovejoy is vice president and general counsel for several business units of Allied Domecq P.L.C., a European conglomerate that owns Baskin-Robbins, Dunkin' Donuts, and Togo's. Last year Allied launched a new strategy to combine these three food brands at the same retail locations. Jerry's legal department took on responsibility for developing the combination franchises that comprise the new strategy. Jerry says, "What I like about this job is I actually have had input in what direction we should be going." He feels he is "part of a team chartered with revitalizing the business."

During his five years with the company, Jerry has headed the legal team that negotiated a joint venture agreement to develop stores in Vietnam, reduced the length of real estate transactions by 30 percent, created franchise dispute resolution procedures, and counseled two unionized ice cream plants. Jerry went to Harvard Law School on an Earl Warren Scholarship. He lives with his wife, Paulina, and claims his favorite ice cream flavor is pralines and cream.

In a January Boston Globe newspaper article, Matt Dwyer commented on Boston commercial real estate trends. Matt, a principal with Spaulding & Slye, said that in 1998 average vacancy rates crept up in the suburbs, where a furious building boom put 4.4 million square feet of new office space on die market. However, this year, the volume of new space delivered should fall to 2.6 million square feet. According to Matt, "That's a big drop in new development activity, which is a result of the capital freeze emanating from Wall Street."

Trustmark Insurance Co. named Glenview resident Robert McGee vice president and actuary of the group division. Trustmark is a leading mutual health and life insurer and benefits administrator licensed nationwide. Robert came to Trustmark from Conseco Services in Chicago, where he was a vice president. Prior to that he held a number of management positions with Washington National Insurance Cos., where he worked for 20 years. Robert is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Rick Lifton has been appointed chair of the department of genetics at the Yale School of Medicine. He will preside over a department that includes some of the most distinguished scientists in modern genetics. His own pioneering research in hypertension has led to the identification of more than a dozen genes that regulate blood pressure. His discoveries in the genetics of hypertension, which established the field, hold the promise of new generations of safer, more effective medications for a disease affecting more than 50 million people in the United States alone. Rick holds M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford. He joined the Yale faculty from Harvard in 1993. The Yale Medical School dean said, "What makes Rick an outstanding choice for this job is his great ability to bridge the worlds of basic science and clinical medicine. That is increasingly important in an era when laboratory discoveries are being translated for the benefit of patients more quickly than ever before." Another medical school colleague added, "He's someone who is interested in the genetics of common disease, which most people agree is the future of human genetics."

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jerry Love joy helped bring Baskin-Robbins and Dunkin Donuts shops to Vietnam. PAMELA SCHLOBOHM '75