Class Note 1973
Primavera!
Did everyone catch “Fire Works” in the Sept/Oct 2015 DAM issue about student volunteer firefighters featuring Garson Fields? About five years ago Garson sold his electric cable company and took up rowing, as both a competitor and coach. He rows in Holyoke, Massachusetts, at Holyoke Rows and drives 70 miles three days a week to coach about 30 high school students from the Bernardston area, just below the Vermont border. During the winter he repairs shells in Holyoke.
Will Hiltz serves as a senior managing director of Evercore Capital Partners II, L.P, in New York City. He focuses primarily on the firm’s corporate advisory business. Will has 39 years of experience in investment banking. He advised CVS on its acquisitions of Eckerd and Albertson’s free-standing drugstores and the CVS merger with Caremark, as well as CVS Health on its $13 billion acquisition of Omnicare. He served as chairman of the board of Lenox Hill Hospital from 2003 to 2014 and continues to serve as a trustee. Will also serves as a trustee and member of the executive committee of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and previously was a trustee of the Salisbury School.
A few years ago Phil Catchings retired from his position as senior vice president of the Boston Consulting Group, a worldwide business consulting group. In 2004 he joined the board of directors of the Empire State College Foundation and began a three-year term as chairman of the board in October 2009. In December 2012 Phil was presented with the presidential medal, the highest award the college bestows, for his outstanding leadership of the foundation board of directors. The presidential medal recognizes significant career achievement, scholarly excellence, leadership in the professions, noteworthy public service or humanitarian endeavors, societal impacts, innovation, courage, character and ability to inspire students. Phil led the board during the peak of the global financial crisis and by working diligently together the members of the board, college administration and foundation staff increased the college’s endowment by 25 percent. Belated kudos.
Eric Schwartz is a partner in King & Spalding’s New York and Paris offices and a member of the international arbitration practice group. He is a former secretary general and vice president of the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration. During the last 35 years Eric has acted on behalf of some of the world’s largest companies, public authorities and sovereign states in international arbitration proceedings in all of the principal European arbitration venues, as well as in Africa, Asia and the United States. He is considered one of the most highly regarded individuals in the world in his field. Chambers Global 2015 describes him as “truly one of the outstanding arbitration lawyers of a generation.”
Word came that in late November David Sullivan died. Many will recall his accomplishments in Davis Hockey Rink, where Sully was a standout player and earned a spot on the Dartmouth men’s hockey all-time roster of outstanding players. Find his obituary at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org
