Take the 61s who played football for Dartmouth. Most today are a success in life by anybody’s standards; and some by everybody’s standards. We’ve written often about the accomplishments of Dick Beattie, who has contributed mightily to public education in New York and nationally and who has handled key diplomatic and executive jobs at the federal level but who probably gained the most notoriety as the lawyer who crafted the takeover of RJR Nabisco by KKR Associates, L.P. There’s Chuck Chapman, who’s been CEO of two major companies now.

We ran into Ken DeHaven at Mike Gazzaniga’s house after the Dartmouth Night bonfire. You may remember that Ken was center and captain, first team AP and UPI all New England. He went on to medical school, became one of the world’s leading arthroscopists, and indeed, as a 1961 fellow, introduced the use of arthroscopy to the Dartmouth Medical School. But there were a bunch of doctors off that team, including Al Rozycki, who took numerous post season honors, and who is now on the Dartmouth faculty as one of the Upper Valley’s leading pediatricians. Jim McElhinney, one of Denver’s leading orthopedic surgeons, has served as team physician for the NFL Denver Broncos.

Ken’s kept up with many of his teammates, and quickly mentioned others: Hank Gerfen, who has already retired after owning his own Madison Avenue advertising firm; John Henry, who owns his own real estate company in Oklahoma City. Standing nearby was class president Oscar Arslanian, who was manager of that football team. Several other of today’s class leaders were also managers, including class treasurer Ivar Jozus in hockey – now the head of his law firm and Red Facher in baseball, now also in a law firm that bears his name.

Two off the soccer team have gained national prominence, John Zabriskie, who recently resigned as CEO of Pharmacia-Upjohn, a leading pharmaceutical company, and Dave Blake, just named as dean of the University of California, Irvine, Graduate School of Management, one of a string of business school deanships.

When Bob Naegele laced up his hockey skates, no one would have dreamed of his taking the same principle into inline roller skates, and world prominence as Rollerblades.

The lacrosse team included future diplomat Jake Gillespie, Seattle physician Terry Rogers, and Ron Wybranowski, who has devoted such service to our class. Among those on the baseball team was class vice president Roger McArt, who has built a career as a business consultant

When you include the other varsity sports and the club sports, like rugby and sailing, you quickly get a lengthy list – far too long to go into in the space allocated for this column.

Robert Conn

Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem NC 27157-1015
Rconn@wfubmc.edu

Note:  This column is limited to 500 words at the request of the Alumni Magazine.