If you’re a Krok, a Krok alum, or an Honorary Krok, you should have received a 60th Anniversary DVD in 2007. If you would like to purchase extra DVDs, please send a request to Steve Dostart ’86 at dvd@kroks.com for ordering instructions.

Attorney Greg Craig ’67 has been appointed White House counsel for President Barack Obama. (Read about his appointment, and him, here.)  Among Greg’s distinguished (and oft-controversial) career achievements — he’s represented Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Edward Kennedy, John Hinckley, Kofi Annan; and he’s served as Senior Adviser to Madeleine Albright and Assistant to President and Special Counsel to the White House, heading up the defense team in the Clinton impeachment trial — perhaps the oddest task occurred during the 2004 Presidential campaign.  To sharpen John Kerry’s debating skills in rehearsals, Greg landed the coveted job of impersonating George W. Bush.  He laments that he’d often bring his work home, spouting inadvertent Bushisms to loved ones.  His kids, presumably, went far away to college. (This note: Greg also went mavericky on us and impersonated Senator McCain in the 2008 campaign. A voodoo doll of Greg is reported to be hanging in GOP headquarters.)

Leo Kiely ’69 is the CEO of MillerCoors (read his company bio here), a joint venture of SABMiller and Molson Coors Brewing Company, which handles such beers as Miller Lite, Miller High Life, Miller Genuine Draft, Coors, Coors Light, and Molson Canadian in the U. S.  (We can only speculate on how his membership in the Kroks influenced the course of his later career.) Leo is also active in many charitable organizations such as The United Way and The Boys and Girls Clubs of America.

According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, co-authored by Krok alum Dr. Mitchell Gail ’63 of the National Cancer Institute (along with other docs from the NCI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), people who are overweight but not obese have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight.  Only the extremely obese (8 percent of Americans) had increased risk of death, as did the very thin.  According to an article in The New York Times (read it here), the finding caused "an uproar."  We think the restaurant industry is looking very kindly on Mitch, as are the Harvard Krokodiloes.