Meeting up with long-lost buddies, often unexpectedly, is an enduring personal experience in landmark reunions, but what about the collective experience of reconnecting with faculty and deans, our role models, authority figures and mentors? Class president Larry Bailey scored for us by recruiting Thaddeus Seymour, affectionately known as Thad, to join us June 7-9 for our 50th reunion. Larry spotted our genial dean at a Dartmouth football game and made his pitch. Thad, who will be 85 in June, responded in a November e-mail, “Polly and I are delighted to accept with pleasure. We have many special friends in the class and it will be fun to be with you, now that you’re all ‘grown up.’ ” Details on when and where Thad will be with us will follow. But you can be sure he will say a few words to us en masse.


The way things are going, there will be a lot en masse for Thad to address. Participation/attendance chair Tom Perry projects a record 568 classmates and still counting. Expected among them is Bruce Berman, professor emeritus of political studies and history at Queens University, Ontario and an authority on Africa, who will be inducted Saturday, June 8, into Dartmouth’s Phi Beta Kappa honorary society. One alum is chosen for this honor each year. 


You should have received your schedule of events beginning with an early-bird arrival June 6 and ending, for those who can stay, on June 11. Among some exciting activities added to the Saturday program are an architectural walking tour of the campus, led by Marlene Heck, senior lecturer in art history and history, a student-guided bus tour of the campus and the Hanover area, a “Dartmates” baking class at King Arthur Flour and a John Merrow-moderated panel on “Why You Definitely Should Plan on Attending our 75th Reunion.”


The law firm Lankler, Siffert & Wohl recently represented Peter Madoff, who was sentenced for 10 years in his brother’s Ponzi scheme. White-collar crime is nothing new to this 27-lawyer New York City firm, one of whose partners is Frank Wohl, formerly a federal prosecutor and head of the city’s civilian review complaint board, a watchdog on the NYPD. A graduate of University of Chicago Law School, Frank was deputy chief of the criminal division and then chief of the civil division for the Southern District of New York. The firm was formed in 1984 and handles civil, regulatory and criminal matters, defending charges of insider trading, market manipulation, antitrust violations, bank fraud, money laundering and other charges on behalf of hundreds of clients. Despite the stress of his practice, Frank is known for his courteous and professional manner, his personality comparable, wrote The New York Times, with Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper. He and Lisa, a writer, have two daughters. 


I regret to report the deaths of Willy Pacheco, Charles Sullivan and Timothy Bissell. Obituary articles will follow in the online edition of this magazine.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@ zlokower.com