Class Note 1966
Issue
Dr. Jeff Brown: Is he or is he not retired? You be the judge. Based in California’s South Bay, Jeff is the medical director of a retirement home, does “some consulting” with nonprofits as part of Stanford’s School of Business alumni consulting team and with the California State medical board, writes a weekly financial column for PhysiciansMoneyDigest.net, has an oil painting studio and is on the board of the Silicon Valley Dartmouth Club. “Factor in a lot of travel, a growing family and the golf course,” Jeff admits, “and I have a pretty full dance card.”
“No retirement for me yet,” writes Bob Bryant. He’s a board member and treasurer of Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research, a Delaware based nonprofit hired by BP to lead the wildlife rehab to rescue birds in the Gulf. “Our team,” Bob reports, “has been down there washing pelicans and gannets since April.” Bob’s also active with the Delmarva Ornithological Society, which recently initiated a lights-out project to darken big downtown buildings in Wilmington, Delaware, during migration to reduce glass-crash that kills millions of birds around the United States. Betsy and Bob travel when they can. They’re just back from the Serengeti. And they made a recent swing through New England visiting Al and Nancy Ryan in Cambridge and Peter and Harriett Griffin in Maine.
Going somewhere and got a question? The Bridgens have probably been there, done that. Ask them. Each year since he left the turmoil of corporate investment banking and started consulting with former clients in 2000, Dick and Betsy have taken at least one cruise and one or more escorted tours. And we’re not talkin’ the Staten Island Ferry. They just returned from a Shetlands and Faroes Islands voyage, which was preceded by a month of sailing from Hong Kong to Athens. “Have covered all continents using virtually all modes of transportation,” Dick reports. When stateside the couple lives on Lake Norman, North Carolina, and enjoys watching their grandchildren, ages 6, 8, 10 and 13, grow up.
Grandkids are also a big part of Erv and Chris Burkholder’s life. After 34 years in northern Virginia they are moving to Montclair, New Jersey, to be near their children and grandchildren. Daughter Zoe, a professor at Montclair State has two, and with just-married independent film producer Tai “there is hope,” as Erv writes, “for more to come.” Erv, formerly VP of marketing at Arbor Arces, a leading global poultry breeding brand, is recognized as one of the top industry consultants and continues to advise on international poultry projects, most recently in Bulgaria and Kazakhstan.
Short takes: After living and teaching in Switzerland for many years Paul Darling is back in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, on the staff of the Louis Stokes Veterans Administration Medical Center in Brecksville. After 40-plus years at his alma mater Exeter Academy, most recently as chief financial officer, Jef Fellows has retired. “Though I am still getting up at 5 a.m. life is much slower,” Jef reports. Class vice president and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center board member Al Keiller held the ribbon at the dedication of DHMC’s new outpatient surgery center in June.
There still may be time to make it to the ’66 Homecoming mini-reunion in Hanover October 29-30 (the Harvards are in town), and to start packing for our 45th next October. Details? Check ’em out on our class website—www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/66.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com
Nov - Dec 2010
Dr. Jeff Brown: Is he or is he not retired? You be the judge. Based in California’s South Bay, Jeff is the medical director of a retirement home, does “some consulting” with nonprofits as part of Stanford’s School of Business alumni consulting team and with the California State medical board, writes a weekly financial column for PhysiciansMoneyDigest.net, has an oil painting studio and is on the board of the Silicon Valley Dartmouth Club. “Factor in a lot of travel, a growing family and the golf course,” Jeff admits, “and I have a pretty full dance card.”
“No retirement for me yet,” writes Bob Bryant. He’s a board member and treasurer of Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research, a Delaware based nonprofit hired by BP to lead the wildlife rehab to rescue birds in the Gulf. “Our team,” Bob reports, “has been down there washing pelicans and gannets since April.” Bob’s also active with the Delmarva Ornithological Society, which recently initiated a lights-out project to darken big downtown buildings in Wilmington, Delaware, during migration to reduce glass-crash that kills millions of birds around the United States. Betsy and Bob travel when they can. They’re just back from the Serengeti. And they made a recent swing through New England visiting Al and Nancy Ryan in Cambridge and Peter and Harriett Griffin in Maine.
Going somewhere and got a question? The Bridgens have probably been there, done that. Ask them. Each year since he left the turmoil of corporate investment banking and started consulting with former clients in 2000, Dick and Betsy have taken at least one cruise and one or more escorted tours. And we’re not talkin’ the Staten Island Ferry. They just returned from a Shetlands and Faroes Islands voyage, which was preceded by a month of sailing from Hong Kong to Athens. “Have covered all continents using virtually all modes of transportation,” Dick reports. When stateside the couple lives on Lake Norman, North Carolina, and enjoys watching their grandchildren, ages 6, 8, 10 and 13, grow up.
Grandkids are also a big part of Erv and Chris Burkholder’s life. After 34 years in northern Virginia they are moving to Montclair, New Jersey, to be near their children and grandchildren. Daughter Zoe, a professor at Montclair State has two, and with just-married independent film producer Tai “there is hope,” as Erv writes, “for more to come.” Erv, formerly VP of marketing at Arbor Arces, a leading global poultry breeding brand, is recognized as one of the top industry consultants and continues to advise on international poultry projects, most recently in Bulgaria and Kazakhstan.
Short takes: After living and teaching in Switzerland for many years Paul Darling is back in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, on the staff of the Louis Stokes Veterans Administration Medical Center in Brecksville. After 40-plus years at his alma mater Exeter Academy, most recently as chief financial officer, Jef Fellows has retired. “Though I am still getting up at 5 a.m. life is much slower,” Jef reports. Class vice president and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center board member Al Keiller held the ribbon at the dedication of DHMC’s new outpatient surgery center in June.
There still may be time to make it to the ’66 Homecoming mini-reunion in Hanover October 29-30 (the Harvards are in town), and to start packing for our 45th next October. Details? Check ’em out on our class website—www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/66.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com