On June 21, 1982, John W. Hinckely was found not guilty by reason of insanity for his attempt in the previous year to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. The trial and verdict produced an outcry that led Congress and some states to revise laws or abolish the insanity defense. The trial also put the spotlight on Roger Adelman, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted Hinckley in, by Roger’s own account, “a unique case in that there were very few insanity cases of this magnitude that had this kind of financial support and lawyering on both sides.” Now a lawyer in Washington, D.C., Roger was named the 2015 recipient of the Justice Potter Stewart Award by the Council for Court Excellence. From 1979 to 1981 Roger prosecuted Richard Kelly, a Florida congressman videotaped taking bribe money in the famous Abscam trials, named for an FBI sting operation that also inspired the 2013 Academy Award nominee American Hustle.


Brad Denny fulfilled a longtime goal when he won a fourth term on the town select board as a supporter of merging the Town and Village of Northfield, Vermont. The merger was accomplished after a yearlong campaign, which ended with resounding public and state approval of a new town charter, effective July 1, 2014. The merger combines the village’s electric, water and sewer utilities with the tax-supported functions of the town to create a much stronger municipality. Northfield is located 50 miles northwest of Hanover (at I-89, Exit 5) and is best known as the home of Norwich University, now evolved from an all-male military institution of 600 students to a coed institution of 2,400 students with a broad range of academic programs. Brad spent a dozen years in the newspaper business and then three as Norwich University director of public relations before assuming responsibility for Denny family properties. In 2004 he designed and built his own house. Brad and Mary have children Joseph, Heather and Nathan ’88 and four grandchildren.


Bob Gitt, whose interest in broadcast and film began as technical director of WDCR, is producing a noteworthy DVD series on the history of sound and motion pictures with funding by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, among others. Bob retired in 2005 as head of film preservation at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, where he had worked since 1977. In his retirement he continues to restore films, including The Red Shoes, a 1948 British film about the history of ballet directed by Michael Powell. After college Bob worked for Dartmouth Film Society director Blair Watson for seven years. He lives in Studio City, California.


Wally Roberts has been named Network Fellow at Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard and is working on a book on the failure of regulation to reduce neglect and abuse in nursing homes. Class president Larry Bailey announced Bob Bysshe will be our next class Alumni Council representative, succeeding Bruce Coggeshall.


I regret to report the deaths of Jim Bieneman and David Boldt.


—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com