1966

Tom Brady says he was "at the right place at the right time." After Dartmouth Tom earned a Ph.D. at Michigan and returned to his hometown of Maumee, Ohio, in 1971 to work on plastic bottle development for carbonated beverages with Owens-Illinois. By the mid1980s business was booming, Owens-Illinois was a major producer and Tom was head of plastic technology.

Tom was heavily courted, but decided to set up his own company, Plastic Technologies Inc., to provide the technology required for this business.Today Plastic Technologies Inc. in Holland, Ohio employs no people and designs prototypes, preforms, containers, tooling molds and specialty machinery for plastic manufacturing. And a sister company, Phoenix Technologies L.P. in Bowling Green, is the largest pelletizer of recycled polyethylene terephthalate in the world. Together the two units have annual sales of $25 million and have rightly made Tom a sought-after public figure in northwest Ohio—the governor has named Tom to the states technology action board and he is also chairman of the Regional Technology Alliance.

Tom's wife, Betsy, is as busy as he is. Not only does she manage all the financial, administrative and personnel duties for the Brady enterprises, but she is also chairman of the Toledo area chamber of commerce, is on the new mayor of Toledo's transition team and serves on the Promedica Health Care System board. Tom and Betsy see daughter Kathy, son-in-law George and granddaughter Caroline frequently. Cindy is closing in on a master's in international relations at Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Rick, a Dennison graduate, just landed a job with Ernst & Young in Toledo.

First Gus Southworth was listed in the 2001-2002 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, determined via nomination from lawyers and judges.Then he was included in Connecticut Magazine's cover story on top lawyers in the state. Gus, a civil litigator with a 65-person healthcare practice emphasizing defense of catastrophic medical cases, is a partner at Carmody and Torrance LLP in Waterbury. Gus is married to the former Susan Moorman of Hanover, a librarian for the Connecticut legislature. Hunter is a senior at Colgate and Taylor a senior at Westover High School.

Three '66ers participated in the Alumni Council meeting in late November, including your correspondent representing the Class Secretaries Association. This is a semi-annual, threeday affair in which the 96-person council, composed of representatives from classes, clubs, affiliated groups and regions, learns about the latest College happenings (like the plan for a big 500- to 600-bed complex to be built on the site of the old hospital) and provides feedback to the College on a variety of issues (communications, student life, admissions procedures, etc).

Perhaps most important of all, the nomination committee of the council identifies three candidates for the College board of trustees, one of whom is selected by a vote of all alumni. In all, seven of Dartmouth's 16 trustees are elected by the alumni, seven are selected by the board itself and two are mandated, the College president and the New Hampshire governor.

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