Class of 1970

Ever wonder what the most common last names are in our class? I did and found Anderson (or Andersen) was one of them.

David Andersen got a Ph.D. in management at MIT, and after a short stay in the Navy he taught middle school in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He went back to grad school and became a professor of public administration and information science at University of Albany Rockefeller College of Public Affairs.

Eric Anderson spent his career in real estate and managing the Anderson Insulation Co., a family business.

Gail “Vic” Anderson writes, “After a brief law school stint in the fall of 1970 I decided what I really wanted was a medical career. Following medical school I completed an emergency medical residency at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital. Early in my training I witnessed periodic system problems that impeded effective patient care. Physicians then didn’t get administrative instruction as part of our training, so in the mid-1980s I completed Emory’s M.B.A. program while overseeing Grady’s surgical emergency clinic. Shortly thereafter I was also appointed the hospital’s associate medical director. Ultimately, I served as its first chief medical officer, a position I also later held at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.” Vic is currently collaborating with a dynamic Congolese doctor (the only specially trained emergency physician in a country that has no ambulance service) and has established an emergency care training there in his father’s name, who became University of Southern California’s first professor of emergency medicine in 1971. Vic lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and regularly plays golf with John McCravey.

Jeffrey Anderson ended up in Red Lodge, Montana, where he purchased and manages the oldest theater in the state, the Roman (see photo in our e-newsletter).

Philip Anderson practiced law in Hartford and Southington, Connecticut, before joining Tate, Capasse, and Johnson in nearby Westport.

Hill Anderson writes: “I’m an M.S.W. social worker in a private psychotherapy practice with an office in Norwich, Vermont. After graduating I founded Headrest and for 12 years was on the faculty of the Dartmouth Medical School department of psychiatry, where I coordinated group and family therapy training and teaching residents. Then I went into private practice; became Vermont Law School’s counselor for students, staff, and faculty; and served as a senior clinician at the Clara Martin Center in Randolph, Vermont. Most recently, I wrote a novel, Stoneport. I have also been a student of Buddhism for 50 years. It informs my practice and personal life.”

—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com