Jack M. Ferraro of Park City, Utah, received the Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Service Award from Cornell University. Jack earned an M.B.A. in finance from Cornell in 1970. Jack retired in 2000 from Neuberger & Berman, LLC, where he spent 21 years as a money manager of individual and institutional accounts. He became a general partner in 1983. Prior to joining Neuberger, he was a portfolio manager at the Banca Del Gottardo in Lugano, Switzerland, and a securities analyst with Oppenheimer and Co. in New York City and London. Attending the award presentation held in New York City was Mark K. Sisitsky, a partner at Jones Day in Washington, D.C. Mark earned his J.D. in 1970 from the University of Michigan Law School. He practices finance law and co-chairs Jones Day’s banking and finance practice. 


I had a visit from Bob Drake, who is putting together a 50-year history of the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS) for the College. The DTSS was implemented to run on a GE-200 series computer in 1962. Students and faculty under the direction of John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz collaborated on its development with “ease of use” as the priority. “Kemeny’s Kids” from the class of 1967 include Richard P. Lacey, Ronald M. Martin, David W. Rice and Wesley J. Rishel. Richard Lacey is a program manager at Fort Meade, Maryland. Ron Martin is a senior software engineer working in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is a senior developer of complex computer-based systems. David Rice is a partner with FLG Partners LLC in San Francisco. He left College early, earned a B.S. in mathematics from Arizona State University and later an M.B.A. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. David joined FLG in 2005 and has more than 30 years of financial and operational management experience, principally in the software and high technology industries. David is also director and treasurer at Coast Life Support District in Mendocino and Sonoma counties. Wes Rishel of McKinleyville, California, describes himself as a retired healthcare computer nerd. He works with the federal advisory committee for healthcare information technology (IT) standards, the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. His recent publication, titled “Predicts 2014: Healthcare Delivery Organization IT Leaders” (Gartner), will be of interest to leaders struggling with managing IT standards. Professor (and President) Kemeny would be proud of how well his kids have turned out. 


Start assembling your photos and personal stories for the 50-year class book. If you have photos or work about the campus computers, please let me know or alert Bob Drake for his project (bobdra.kay@gmail.com).


Keep me posted.


—Dave Mangelsdorff, 3410 Turtle Village Drive, San Antonio, TX 78230-3918; (210) 344-0942; dmangels@idworld.net