Alumni Council Representative Election

Candidate Statements

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Wayne LoCurto

Until retiring in 2001, I spent my career in the consumer packaged goods and marketing services industries. I founded and ran two marketing services companies. In addition, I held a variety of leadership and management positions with Fortune 100 companies and service companies.

Since graduating from Tuck in 1968, I have stayed engaged with Dartmouth. I have contributed to the Alumni Fund every year since graduation. I have lectured at Tuck on marketing and new products. I have been an alumni interviewer, town chairperson for interviewing and a class agent. For the last six winters, I have held weekly office hours at Tuck to coach students on interviewing skills and networking. For the last three years, I have coached the Dartmouth Football Team on interviewing skills as a Friend of Dartmouth Football. I have attended every class reunion and two of the three class birthday parties. I will be in Santa Fe next spring.

In addition to my commitments to Dartmouth, I have served on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Theater Foundation and on the Presidents Council of Americares. I have been a major supporter of Childhelp USA. My wife, Kathy, and I continue to be major supporters of the Westport Country Playhouse. Kathy and I have been married for forty-two years and reside in Westport, CT. We have four daughters and twelve grandchildren. Our Dartmouth ties include our daughter and two sons-in-law.

I love Dartmouth! I have since I first stepped foot on the campus as a football recruit during the winter of 1962. A new administration will be in place next year. As our class representative, I will make sure that our voices are heard in Hanover. While many of us have had problems with past administrations, I remain optimistic about the future of Dartmouth and particularly her students. As your representative, I will communicate with you frequently so that I can accurately and forcefully represent the views of our class to the College. Thank you in advance for your support.

Terry Lowd

Thirty eight years as a health care administrator including serving as the CEO of hospitals in Maine, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New Hampshire. Served on a number of national health care committees including the National Commission on Nursing, board of trustees of the American Hospital Association, and board of directors of the National Rural Health Association. Spent three years in Washington (1993-96) as a lobbyist for the National Council of Community Hospitals.

Presently (since 2004) president and owner of Pemaquid Marine, Inc. in New Harbor, Maine, a full service boat yard which also builds the ‘Banks Cove 22’ - a high end power yacht of our own design. Serve as the Chair of the town’s Planning Board, also serve on the town’s budget committee, and am a member of my church’s executive board.

Married to the former Judith L. Richardson and have four grown children.

Currently Class of 66 mini-reunion chairman. Served as class president in the mid-seventies. Chaired the fifth reunion and served on the reunion committee for the tenth. Also have assisted in fund raising and done alumni interviewing for the admissions office. Served as president and now (twenty years) treasurer of the Kappa Kappa Kappa Alumni Association.

There are many critical issues facing the College which will shape her future for many years to come. I would welcome the opportunity to represent our class at the Alumni Council where these issues will be debated, and as your representative I hope you will share your thoughts on these issues with me so my voice will truly represent the feelings of the Class of 1966. Partially because of our proximity, having lived in New Hampshire or Maine for the past thirty years, but also because of a genuine interest in current activities in Hanover Judy and I have managed to stay in touch with the campus an have a good sense of the feelings of the undergraduates, faculty, and administration. It is a great place and every time we are there we always come away with a good feeling about the College and what is happening on the campus.

I would be honored to serve the Class of ’66 and the College as your representative to the Alumni Council and if you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me at lowd@midcoast.com . Thank you.

Rick Reiss

I am the Founder and Chairman of Georgica Advisors and its affiliated entities, Reiss Capital Management and Value Insight Partners. In 1978, I joined Cumberland Associates as a General Partner and in 1982 became a Managing Partner of the firm and its three investment funds. Prior to Cumberland, I was a Senior Vice President and Director of Research for a predecessor company of Citigroup.

I am Chairman of Capital Q Restaurants, a franchisee of Qdoba, Chairman of Java Nova, a Dunkin Brands franchi- see, Co-Chairman of MCR Development, a hotel REIT, and co-founder and member of the Executive Committee of O’Charley’s. I also serve as a Director of The Lazard Funds, Inc., North Country BBQ Ventures, Inc. and as an observer on the board of Visible WorId. In the past I served as a Director of Grey Global Group, Eller Media, Cable Systems USA, PageOne Communications, Ltd., RFS Hotels, Archer Education and LSSi, and on the boards of a number of educational and cultural institutions. I am a Trustee of The New School, the Manhattan Institute, Prep for Prep, and a member of The President’s Leadership Council at Dartmouth College. I am a former Trustee and Treasurer of Barnard College and a former member of the Board of Advisors of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth. I graduated from the New York University School of Law (JD 1969).

I believe I understand the issues facing the college, educational institutions generally, the concerns of the alumni, the respective roles of the faculty and administration and most importantly the views and needs of the students. I believe the way to resolve issues is through non-confrontational, amicable and negotiated compromises. The future of Dartmouth depends on reasonable, rational and concerned alumni to help direct the College. Without each of these constituencies functioning with some degree of harmony, there will be no future for Dartmouth.

Since graduation I have started and built a number of successful investment and other businesses. I have committed substantial time to educational institutions with major problems including Barnard, The New School and Prep for Prep. In contrast, Dartmouth is one of the great “brands”; every once in a while it needs a bit of polish and some TLC. Its survival, however, is not at stake – simply the magnitude of its greatness.

I have worked diligently for the college; as an interviewer, a fundraiser, the Rockefeller Center Board and the President’s Leadership Council. I have been an outspoken critic of the administration when I thought it was wrong (student life, Board size, and misguided decisions on athletics). I have been hugely supportive of those programs that make the college more attractive for students. I understand the intangibles that make Dartmouth a terrific place -- not just because I have son who recently graduated, but because every year my family has 6 full scholarship students who meet regularly and who express their great delight for being part of the Dartmouth community. It is this ongoing contact and interaction with students from every conceivable background, demographic and geography that constantly reminds me that Dartmouth is not about us – it’s for them! Let’s keep it that way.

Dean Spatz

I have put my name in to serve the class of 1966 as their representative to the Alumni Council. I have been active in the Alumni Association and that effort is part of the reason that we are voting for our class representative rather than having someone appoint him. I am pleased that this has given more representation to each member of our class. I am very concerned about the “trustee stacking” that President Wright is trying to pull off and I will fight to keep the Alumni represented at the Board of Trustees in the same ratio as was agreed to in the 1895 agreement with the College.

I hope all of my classmates who feel as I do will vote for Wayne LoCurto who is an ideal candidate for our class and lives closer to Hanover than I do and who will be actively involved in the Council. Since you only have one vote and since I feel that Wayne and I have very similar feelings about the direction of the College, I hope that you will give Wayne the vote you may have given to me.

Thanks.