Class Note 1966
Issue
Sep - Oct 2018
Fifty-six years after we matriculated at Dartmouth, the achievements and good works of our multi-talented classmates continue to amaze your scribe and accumulate at an astounding pace. Current examples follow.
Alan Macdonald retired earlier this year as president and CEO of Hallmark Health System, a community health group north of Boston. During his 20-year stint he engineered a number of key changes, including a recent affiliation with Tufts Medical Center. “Albie” also served for 23-years as executive director of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable. He’s currently an executive committee member of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, a group he helped establish to promote more comprehensive use of electronic health records in managing care.
Lawyer Allan Ryan, in his 33rd year as director of intellectual property at Harvard Business School Publishing (Harvard Business Review, etc.), also teaches law courses at Harvard summer school. Allan was a producer of the March 2017 PBS special Dead Reckoning about war crimes from WW II on and is at work on another PBS documentary on the Sandy Hook school killings and their aftermath. More? Allan chairs Veterans Legal Services, which provides legal counsel to homeless and low-income veterans in Massachusetts. Allan and Nancy have been married 40 years, their two grown children live nearby, and they take an annual battlefield exploration trip with Patty and Bob Bryant (to Chattanooga, Tennessee, this year).
The indefatigable Jim Cason has retired after six years as mayor of Coral Gables, Florida, and 38 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, including assignments as chief of mission in Cuba and ambassador to Paraguay. He’s now working to create a national coalition of coastal states (www.SeawallCoalition.org) to prepare for sea-level rise. Jim and Carmen, married 46 years, also stay busy with global cruises and their six grandkids, three each in Brazil and San Diego, California. The Russian Mineralogical Society (RMS) has elected Edward Grew, a University of Maine research professor, as a foreign honorary member. Only 18 people from the United States have been so honored since the RMS was founded in 1817. During the past 45 years Ed, who is fluent in Russian (he started learning at Dartmouth), has embarked on many explorations and published numerous papers with Russian coauthors.
Dr. Jeff Brown, an internist and rheumatology specialist for 48 years in Silicon Valley, still serves as a medical director one day a week. He continues with his lifelong passion—contemporary oil painting (see jeffcontemporyoils.com)—and spends time with grandkids and traveling the world. And playing golf. Jeff joined other ’66ers and spouses at the sixth annual class golf mini-reunion last March in Tucson, Arizona, where he and Alex and John Arnold, Mary and Rich Daly, Pam and John Harbaugh, Jo and Al Keiller, Rick MacMillan, Linda and Don Ries, Steve Smith, Carol and Dean Spatz, Mary and Brad Stein, and Ken Zuhr successfully met the challenge of four scenic courses and four excellent restaurants.
Jeff also passed along a thought that might strike a reassuring or helpful chord: “Today is the oldest that you have ever been and the youngest that you will ever be.” Pass on the good news.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com
Alan Macdonald retired earlier this year as president and CEO of Hallmark Health System, a community health group north of Boston. During his 20-year stint he engineered a number of key changes, including a recent affiliation with Tufts Medical Center. “Albie” also served for 23-years as executive director of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable. He’s currently an executive committee member of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, a group he helped establish to promote more comprehensive use of electronic health records in managing care.
Lawyer Allan Ryan, in his 33rd year as director of intellectual property at Harvard Business School Publishing (Harvard Business Review, etc.), also teaches law courses at Harvard summer school. Allan was a producer of the March 2017 PBS special Dead Reckoning about war crimes from WW II on and is at work on another PBS documentary on the Sandy Hook school killings and their aftermath. More? Allan chairs Veterans Legal Services, which provides legal counsel to homeless and low-income veterans in Massachusetts. Allan and Nancy have been married 40 years, their two grown children live nearby, and they take an annual battlefield exploration trip with Patty and Bob Bryant (to Chattanooga, Tennessee, this year).
The indefatigable Jim Cason has retired after six years as mayor of Coral Gables, Florida, and 38 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, including assignments as chief of mission in Cuba and ambassador to Paraguay. He’s now working to create a national coalition of coastal states (www.SeawallCoalition.org) to prepare for sea-level rise. Jim and Carmen, married 46 years, also stay busy with global cruises and their six grandkids, three each in Brazil and San Diego, California. The Russian Mineralogical Society (RMS) has elected Edward Grew, a University of Maine research professor, as a foreign honorary member. Only 18 people from the United States have been so honored since the RMS was founded in 1817. During the past 45 years Ed, who is fluent in Russian (he started learning at Dartmouth), has embarked on many explorations and published numerous papers with Russian coauthors.
Dr. Jeff Brown, an internist and rheumatology specialist for 48 years in Silicon Valley, still serves as a medical director one day a week. He continues with his lifelong passion—contemporary oil painting (see jeffcontemporyoils.com)—and spends time with grandkids and traveling the world. And playing golf. Jeff joined other ’66ers and spouses at the sixth annual class golf mini-reunion last March in Tucson, Arizona, where he and Alex and John Arnold, Mary and Rich Daly, Pam and John Harbaugh, Jo and Al Keiller, Rick MacMillan, Linda and Don Ries, Steve Smith, Carol and Dean Spatz, Mary and Brad Stein, and Ken Zuhr successfully met the challenge of four scenic courses and four excellent restaurants.
Jeff also passed along a thought that might strike a reassuring or helpful chord: “Today is the oldest that you have ever been and the youngest that you will ever be.” Pass on the good news.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com