1963

If stress and uncertainty are getting to you, try the ’63 Hanover minireunion October 23-25. There is plenty you can count on in this activity-filled weekend. It’s all fun and worry-free and the price is not bad either. Warm up with a tasty, convivial dinner planned for the Canoe Club on Main Street Friday night and march down Main Street with our class to Dartmouth Row and the brilliant bonfire on the Green. Rise early to experience the sharp and misty morning en route to the historic Treasure Room of Baker Library, where the class executive committee meets. All are welcome. Spouses and friends come too! Can you believe we are planning our 50th? Take time afterward to linger on the Green or have lunch at Lou’s before game time. But be on time for the kickoff. You will be free after the game to saunter down to the river, but allow at least a half hour for the scenic drive to the home of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes. There you will escape in conversation and memories, swing to ’50s and ’60s tunes from the Rockapellas and wine and dine in the best tradition of the Upper Valley. If you need a place to crash, mini chair Sam Cabot has reserved rooms for ’63s at the Comfort Inn in White River Junction, Vermont. More info coming but you can also contact Sam at scabot@cabotfamily.com, (978) 927-2333.

Jack Stobo was named senior vice president for health sciences and services for the University of California system, an enormous job that consolidates positions held by two vice presidents. Jack reports directly to Mark G. Yudof, UC president, and is responsible for the university’s academic health education and clinical care functions. The appointment caps an outstanding career in medical teaching and leadership that Jack has enjoyed since graduating from State University of New York in Buffalo in 1968. Previous to his UC appointment Jack was professor of medicine and executive director for academic programs at the University of Texas in Galveston and from 1985 to 1994 professor of medicine and director of the department at Johns Hopkins University and chief of medicine at the hospital. He holds many awards and is distinguished in Oslerian medicine, which emphasizes the humanistic and general approach to primary care—treating the whole patient not just the disease—endangered values in our era of specialization and managed care. (Dr. Osler was a founder of Johns Hopkins.).

Memo to college administrators: You want to get alumni worked up about trustee elections, throw someone off the board. The trustee vote to not reelect Todd Zywicki ’88 did that, setting off a storm of e-mail blasts from Dick Berkowitz, Gordy Weir, Dewey Crawford, Chris Wiedenmayer and Bill Wellstead, each venturing a definitive voice on the matter. Gordy’s missive revealed that he sat next to Jim Kim, Dartmouth’s new president, on a transatlantic flight and learned that Dr. Kim “is especially impressed with Dickey and Kemeny and solidly behind the fraternity and sorority system.”

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