1959

1959

We begin with a heartfelt thanks and a hearty well done to Bob Werbel as he retires from his position as the editor of our class newsletter. Bob has applied his love of Dartmouth, his outgoing personality, and his enthusiastic energy to those newsletters, which helped us get through the pandemic. Sam Werner will be the new editor, and I am sure that with his Ph.D. in physics he will be able to use the newsletter to help us better understand the universe.

John Ferries shared some of the details of a meeting with Harvey Galper in the Washington, D.C., area. Harvey is a classmate who makes us proud. He is a contributing citizen to this world and, in John’s words, “He has had an amazing career that included achieving the rare trifecta—successes in academia, in government, and in the private sector. In academia he received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale and taught on the faculty of Dartmouth, Georgetown Law School, and UC Berkeley. In government he worked for the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury, where he was a senior tax policy advisor. In the private sector he worked in senior positions for KMPG and Deloitte and was a senior fellow for the prestigious Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Harvey provided financial and tax policy advice to developing regions such as Egypt, Kazakhstan, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, and Ukraine. In Ukraine Harvey and his wife, Alice, concurrently worked on projects for different Ukrainian organizations. And for the last nine years, ending in December ’21, Harvey was a pro bono visiting fellow at the Urban Institute. In that role the most recent major project he directed was for Kenya. Working with people from a Kenyan analytical institute, they revealed that the financial system being run by the national government made it more difficult for local Kenyan counties to provide necessary services for their people.”

Harvey is a great example of the contributions that our classmates have made across a spectrum of endeavors. Please let me know of your next interaction with a classmate.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@ 7nsn.C07n

Charlie MacVean