Class Note 1980
Old acquaintances should not be forgotten. They should be remembered, as well as emailed, telephoned and visited. Together, you can drink a cup of kindness, grateful for times past and hopeful about tomorrow.
A new year lies ahead, but another football season is behind us. Larry Margerum was a quarterback on the football team in 1979, earning All-Ivy honors as a senior punter. He completed a Ph.D. in inorganic photochemistry and electrochemistry in 1985 at the University of North Carolina. Since 1995 Larry has been a professor of chemistry at the University of San Francisco, where he teaches courses in general, analytical and inorganic chemistry.
This past September Crystal Morgan Phillips, Ann Donovan, Joan Draper and Catrina Cash Corey gathered together on the links to celebrate 40 years of friendship. Joan is an ophthalmologist in Danbury, Connecticut, where she specializes in vision rehabilitation for patients with visual impairments. Joan is married to Gary Townsend, an otolaryngologist. Joan and Gary prefer patients from the neck up, not that I blame them. One of their daughters, Victoria Townsend, a ’14, now works as a wealth advisory strategy analyst at BlackRock in N.Y.C.
Dartmouth acquaintances roam around the girdled earth. Daniel Auerbach is the senior managing director and managing partner of FIL Capital Management, the Asia Pacific private equity and venture investing arm of FIL Limited. Daniel has held this role since 1994, a significant part of his 27 years in Asia as an early pioneer and leader in the development of Asia’s private equity industry. When not directing and managing, Daniel is a trustee of Hong Kong’s WWF (formally World Wildlife Fund) and a member of the presidential advisory board of the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
For any questions you ever had about the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) but were afraid to ask, call Peter Rosenberg at Ropes & Gray in Boston. Peter advises fund managers, employers, and other fiduciaries on the full range of ERISA issues. Peter represents clients before administrative agencies such as the IRS and U.S. Department of Labor on a variety of interpretive and settlement matters. Clients describe Peter as “spectacular” and “very strong.” Those are the same descriptors that first come to mind whenever I think of ERISA lawyers.
James Wilson in 2001 joined Carl Marks Management Co., where he is a general partner. Founded in 1925, Carl Marks remains family owned and operated, one of the investment community’s experienced merchant banks. With a name like Carl Marks, it has to be good.
One of the nicest people I knew at Dartmouth, George Lombardi is now a bet-the-company litigator at Winston & Strawn in Chicago. George is the co-chair of the firm’s 500-lawyer litigation practice. He routinely serves as lead trial counsel for companies in highly publicized patent cases. For example, his $1-billion jury verdict on behalf of Monsanto was recognized as the No. 3 verdict in The National Law Journal’s Top 100 Verdicts of 2012. Best wishes for the season, but if someone crosses you, call George.
—Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412, (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; (813) 300-7954; robdaisley@me.com; Frank Fesnak, 242 River Road, Gladwyne, PA 19035; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@gmail.com
