Class Note 1963
Issue
A major issue in the national healthcare debate is how hospitals and doctors allocate resources to keep seriously ill patients alive and how such allocations are balanced between private and public needs. The Hippocratic Oath, Nuremberg Code, Karen Quinlan case, Dartmouth Atlas Project and Sarah Palin “death panels” are often cited in the discussion.
Mike Rie, professor of anesthesiology/surgery at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, has made a career of studying the issue and was recognized for his efforts with the 2009 Grenvik Family Award for Ethics by the Society of Critical Care Medicine. A former Harvard professor and Mass General physician, Mike has published extensively, including a 1986 breakthrough paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the ethics of resource allocation in intensive care units. Mike’s questioning stance has won him supporters and detractors, but he remains dedicated to the field. Nicole and I had the pleasure of seeing Mike and Gloria at their lovely pied-a-terre apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village. A native New Yorker, Mike comes periodically to visit family and friends and take a break from the calmer lifestyle of Lexington, where he has lived since the 1980s. Gloria, Mike’s bride of 18 years, hails from Manhattan and Scarsdale, New York. Mike is writing a book on his personal experiences.
Rick Braddock, chairman and CEO of Fresh Direct, the grocery home-delivery service, was guest of young Dartmouth alumni entrepreneurs at the home of Hermann ’87 and Peggy Mazard in the Carroll Manor neighborhood of Brooklyn. Rick was there to advise on how he invests in growing businesses. His best tip? “If you have the vision, you should do it.” Class fundraising guru and head agent Bob Bysshe has been chosen by the Dartmouth College Fund as the first president of the newly formed head agents association.
Steve Kardon and Ellen Sulkin, who celebrated their first wedding anniversary in February, were sweethearts in Lille, France, nearly a half century ago, according to a photo story in the Times “Vows” section. They were on a foreign exchange program, but Ellen, a Bennington student, was committed to another so they parted ways and did not see or speak to each other for the next 47 years. The two reconnected briefly in 2007 for an alumni article and, after Steve became widowed in 2008, he contacted her. No longer the shy boy, “he was persistent,” said Ellen, who was married twice and had been in a relationship that ended when her boyfriend died. The couple has 10 grandchildren. Steve is a radiologist at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. Ellen is, that’s right, a wedding and events planner.
Like cool jazz vocals? Click on http://bit.ly/1YreGH for this tune by Kelsey Jillette, daughter of John Merrow. She appears Monday nights at Swing 46 with the Big Bang Big Band in Manhattan. Proud dad Tom Holzel escorted daughter Maggie in her marriage to Christian Lange at the Congregational Church in York, Maine, where Tom’s mom, 90, lives.
—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com
Mar - Apr 2010
A major issue in the national healthcare debate is how hospitals and doctors allocate resources to keep seriously ill patients alive and how such allocations are balanced between private and public needs. The Hippocratic Oath, Nuremberg Code, Karen Quinlan case, Dartmouth Atlas Project and Sarah Palin “death panels” are often cited in the discussion.
Mike Rie, professor of anesthesiology/surgery at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, has made a career of studying the issue and was recognized for his efforts with the 2009 Grenvik Family Award for Ethics by the Society of Critical Care Medicine. A former Harvard professor and Mass General physician, Mike has published extensively, including a 1986 breakthrough paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the ethics of resource allocation in intensive care units. Mike’s questioning stance has won him supporters and detractors, but he remains dedicated to the field. Nicole and I had the pleasure of seeing Mike and Gloria at their lovely pied-a-terre apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village. A native New Yorker, Mike comes periodically to visit family and friends and take a break from the calmer lifestyle of Lexington, where he has lived since the 1980s. Gloria, Mike’s bride of 18 years, hails from Manhattan and Scarsdale, New York. Mike is writing a book on his personal experiences.
Rick Braddock, chairman and CEO of Fresh Direct, the grocery home-delivery service, was guest of young Dartmouth alumni entrepreneurs at the home of Hermann ’87 and Peggy Mazard in the Carroll Manor neighborhood of Brooklyn. Rick was there to advise on how he invests in growing businesses. His best tip? “If you have the vision, you should do it.” Class fundraising guru and head agent Bob Bysshe has been chosen by the Dartmouth College Fund as the first president of the newly formed head agents association.
Steve Kardon and Ellen Sulkin, who celebrated their first wedding anniversary in February, were sweethearts in Lille, France, nearly a half century ago, according to a photo story in the Times “Vows” section. They were on a foreign exchange program, but Ellen, a Bennington student, was committed to another so they parted ways and did not see or speak to each other for the next 47 years. The two reconnected briefly in 2007 for an alumni article and, after Steve became widowed in 2008, he contacted her. No longer the shy boy, “he was persistent,” said Ellen, who was married twice and had been in a relationship that ended when her boyfriend died. The couple has 10 grandchildren. Steve is a radiologist at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. Ellen is, that’s right, a wedding and events planner.
Like cool jazz vocals? Click on http://bit.ly/1YreGH for this tune by Kelsey Jillette, daughter of John Merrow. She appears Monday nights at Swing 46 with the Big Bang Big Band in Manhattan. Proud dad Tom Holzel escorted daughter Maggie in her marriage to Christian Lange at the Congregational Church in York, Maine, where Tom’s mom, 90, lives.
—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com