Class Note 1973
Lazy days of summer….
Last August Mark Ayers participated in the Hanover Partners conference at the Le Méridien Versailles-Montréal Hotel in Montreal, Canada, at which professor John Rassias was an honored speaker.
Two and one-half years ago Jon Dreazen in Reading, Pennsylvania, switched from family medicine to occupational medicine. The change was prompted by reflection on his role as husband and parent in relation to medical needs of his wife and daughters. “The major difference is that I no longer have a pager on my belt and I have no night or weekend calls. This has given me the time and space to learn about myself and to be physically and emotionally present for my family.”
Fred Radke is the senior general surgeon at the Maine Medical Center and chief of surgery at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine. In 2008 he was inducted into the Orono (Maine) High School Athletic Hall of Fame due to his 11 high school varsity letters in football, basketball and baseball. This June he was a member of the 35th annual class of inductees into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame. “Radke was an all-state and all-conference football player in basketball and football at Orono who continued his athletic career at Dartmouth College. He was all-New England in football and track and a National Football Hall of Fame Foundation National Scholar Athlete Award winner in 1972. He was also elected as an NCAA postgraduate scholar at Dartmouth Medical School before graduating in 1976.”
On the professional sports end Clark Judge has spent the past 22 years covering the NFL. He started covering professional football in 1982 for the Baltimore Evening Sun and moved to San Diego in 1984. After 16 years in California, sometimes as a beat reporter following the Chargers and SF 49ers, Clark moved to New York City in 2000 as a senior writer for CBS Sports (www.cbssports.com).
Bruce Ling is a managing director of Credit Suisse and chief operating officer of the investment banking department. He also is chairman of the global corporate bank and serves as a member of the capital asset risk management committee and the global management council. Bruce divides his time between London, where he is stationed; New York City, where he maintains a residence; and Wyoming, where he and his wife have a ranch outside of Jackson Hole.
I was fortunate to attend two events in the San Francisco Bay area where President Kim spoke about cultivation of habits of mind as being critical to a Dartmouth education and to world progress on critical issues. The 16 habits of mind deemed essential characteristics for success are: thinking about thinking, remaining open to continuous learning, thinking flexibly, persisting, finding humor, striving for accuracy, listening with understanding and empathy, gathering data through all the senses, thinking and communicating with clarity and precision, thinking interdependently, creating-imagining-innovating, responding with wonderment and awe, applying past knowledge to new situations, questioning and posing problems, managing impulsivity, and taking responsible risks. Now cogitate….
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org
