While other college and
universities struggle with low graduation rates by student athletes, Dartmouth athletes
succeed over a lifetime. Take the 61s
who played football for Dartmouth. Most today are a success in life by anybodys
standards; and some by everybodys standards. Weve 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. Theres Chuck Chapman,
whos been CEO of two major companies now.
We ran into Ken DeHaven at Mike
Gazzanigas 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 worlds 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 Valleys
leading pediatricians. Jim McElhinney, one of Denvers leading orthopedic
surgeons, has served as team physician for the NFL Denver Broncos.
Kens 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 todays 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
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