These pages contain all class notes from the Yale Alumni Magazine from 1957 on. The notes appear unchanged from their original publication save for the correction of misspellings and other small errors. The few gaps in coverage that exist result from the absence of Class of 1957 notes in a few issues of the magazine over the years. Also, in keeping with changes in the magazine itself, the frequency of publication occasionally changes.

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Notes: December 1988
Notes: November 1988
Notes: October 1988
Notes: Summer 1988
Notes: May 1988
Notes: April 1988
Notes: March 1988
Notes: February 1988

Notes: December 1988

I expect that if there is any universal truth, it must be that nothing in this world is free. It now costs top dollar to see Bud Trillin perform. His one-man show, Calvin Trillin's Uncle Sam, had a brief run in October, not too far off-Broadway on W. 46th Street. The New York Times laudatory review attributed some of the best laughs to descriptions of "doltish" classmates and also assured us that Bud was "never solipsistic." Being doltish, I had to look that word up. How about you?

More legitimate artistic fare in the Big Apple is being offered by Hannes Somary, a conductor of Amor Artis. On New Year's Eve, he will lead a performance of Vivaldi and Charpentier and next March 20 will conduct the Bach B Minor Mass in Alice Tully Hall.

Mini-reunion II is firmed up for Saturday, January 28, and should be even better than last year's successful gathering. There will be a choice of basketball versus Princeton or hockey versus Dartmouth and matinee and evening theater performances at Yale and New Haven theaters. Dinner will be at the Law School. Our speaker will be Vinnie Marchesi of the Medical faculty, who recently was honored by election to the National Academy of Sciences. A class meeting, gallery tours and other delights are also being planned by Bernie Kosto. Mark your calendar. A special mailing will go out to classmates in New York and New England. Drop me a card or a phone call (301-244-7510) if you would like to come. I hope you will and aren't from the Great Northeast. I will send particulars.

Our hats are off to Don Backe who was left a paraplegic after a tragic automobile accident in the summer of 1987. Don has met this crisis with courage, determination, and good cheer and is back at work selling real estate in Annapolis, after a long stay in the hospital. Don helped put together Luke Finlay's well attended and enjoyable class cocktail party in Crabtown after the Navy game on October 1.

Fernando Alvarez de Toledo writes in from Concord, Mass. He is presently with Meditech developing new products in the field of radiology and rowing in his spare time to keep fit.

I am pleased to report that Mike O'Hearn has accepted the important job of Class Chairman for Bequests and Endowment. Like it or not, we are now at an age where we should be considering not only testamentary gifts, but the advantages of one of the several outstanding unit trust and annuity programs Yale offers. We can receive immediate tax benefits while helping to give long-range support to Yale's significant needs for scholarship and faculty salary funding. As someone who has made an endowment commitment to Yale himself, I can assure you of Yale's keen interest and thoughtful consideration for all such efforts. I hope we will give Mike our attention and support.

Hope to see a good class turnout in New Haven on January 28. Until then, season's greetings to all.

—Thomas P. Perkins III

Notes: November 1988

Some of you may have noticed the New York Times profile of Tim Towell a few months back. Tim is our new Ambassador to Paraguay. This appointment by the President caps Tim's twenty-six year career in the Foreign Service, half of which time has been spent in Latin America, principally in Brazil, Bolivia, and Cuba. For the last few years, Tim has been Deputy Chief of Protocol. Congratulations, Tim, and we expect a red carpet for classmates passing through Asuncion (hopefully not seeking political asylum).

The Times also recently did a lengthy piece on Paul Chevigny, lauded as a "civil rights lawyer, law professor (at NYC) and jazz aficionado," a true Renaissance man. Paul used all these talents at one time in successfully litigating a suit "single-handedly burying the sixty-two-year-old New York City cabaret law." The ill-fated cabaret law limited the number of performers and instruments on stage at any one time in NYC watering holes. Paul obtained a ruling that this was a violation of free speech, thereby pushing the First Amendment to one more new frontier.

I am sorry to report that Bill Jensen passed away in August. At the time of his death, Bill was living in Naperville, a suburb of Chicago, and was working for Ameritech as Manager of its capital recovery system. Bill is survived by his wife, Justine and his sons, Eric and Clinton. They can be reached at 2300 S. Wehrli Road, Naperville, IL 60565.

Late Breaking News: Walter Berenson, Professor of Physics at Michigan State, has been honored with one of West Germany's top scientific prizes, a Humboldt Award. Starting next fall, Walter will spend a year in Darmstadt and Frankfort in heavy-iron research. Brave new worlds for lawyers, Don Bab and Eddie Meyer recently broke away from mega-firms in Manhattan to start, respectively, Bresler and Bab and Meyer and Driscoll. Binky Davis now makes money the old-fashioned way, as an account executive in the Smith Barney office in Hartford. King Cross picked Leap Year Day to marry Elizabeth Schafer and end his reign as the Class's most determined bachelor. Sandy Clark's loyalties will now be somewhat divided, after his successful completion of the Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program. Sandy is C.E.O. of Clark Direct Marketing in New York. Walter Loesche, out in Ann Arbor, Mich., recently completed a term as President of the American Association for Dental Research. Jim Cunningham is in London, as a top executive of Creditanstalt-Bankverein, Austria's largest financial institution. Bill Greaves is back in Ontario after a six-month stint in Beijing teaching postgraduate linguistics. Bill will publish in the next few months two books in his field, systematic linguistics. In the energy game is Charlie Strong, Vice President of Monterey Power, based in Fort Lauderdale. Finally, Warren Cox's firm, Hartman-Cox Architects, Washington, D.C. is the recipient of the 1988 Architectural Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects.

As you can see, 1957 is a pretty diverse and talented bunch. Dare I also say interesting and imaginative?

—Thomas P. Perkins III

Notes: October 1988

Charlie Abuza died on June 28 following a long bout with cancer. An active and loyal classmate to the end. Charlie was one of the speakers at our Class Dinner in New York in March. A large number of classmates attended Charlie's funeral in Rye: Pierre Bourquin, Chris Stone, Alan Hockstader, Art Diefendorf, John Watling, and Your Secretary were honored to serve as pallbearers.

Charlie flourished as a sole practitioner, a rare phenomenon in Manhattan legal circles, specializing in estate planning and litigation. Charlie started out as business manager for his aunt, the celebrated entertainer Sophie Tucker. As you may recall, she stole the headlines when she came to see Charlie and the rest of us graduate from Yale. A kind, caring and thoughtful person, Charlie was an avid sailor and member of the American Yacht Club. Charlie is survived by his wife Susan and by his children Zachary and Alexandra. They can be reached at 425 Grace Church St., Rye, NY 10580.

The Class has been and will continue to be active this fall. To start things off, we held a class cocktail party in Washington, D.C. on September 7, hosted by Jim Banner and Bob Joost. This was a warmup for the Navy game October 1 and a class gathering afterwards at Luke Finlay's eighteen century restored townhouse in Annapolis. About the time this reaches you, Don Bab and a group of faithful will be gathering with the Class Council and other students at our adopted college, Saybrook, over Columbia weekend. Don is doing a terrific job on our Saybrook College project and would welcome participation in this interesting effort. Don can be reached at 212-983-5818. Finally, as I write these notes in early August (YAM is working on the lengthy publication lag time), Roger Cogswell and Mo Raker are working on a class gathering in Cambridge on Harvard weekend. We will send out a regional mailing on this, but those planning to be in Boston on November 18 from faraway places should touch base with Roger at 617-969-4534 to get particulars.

Thanks for all the news coming in. I can't fit it all in this month, but let me highlight some interesting career changes, just to document the fact that 1957 is still alive and kicking.

Those of us who thought the report that Tink Thompson really did leave his tenured professorship in philosophy at Haverford was a hoax should read his new book, Gumshoe, recently published by Little, Brown. Tink vividly and eloquently describes his new life as a private detective in San Francisco. It reads better than his book on Kierkegaard. Tink recently won an award as the top private eye in the Bay area. Let's just hope he never gets retained by any of our wives.

Tink isn't the only one. Chris Sonne recently left Goldman Sachs for an equally challenging job of structuring the development of approximately 2500 acres of land surrounding Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Bill Eaton is now Washington, D.C.'s best travel agent, capitalizing on his experiences during his career in the State Department. Pete Bouscaren has moved laterally from building suburban shopping malls in cornfields for the Rouse Company to commercial leasing of recycled waterfront properties as Vice President of Historical Developers of Pennsylvania, Inc. John Loudon reports in from London that he is now Executive Chairman of a new enterprise, Warrior International, Ltd., specializing in the mining and metals industries, after his career as Executive Director at N.M. Rothschild & Sons., Ltd.

Buzz Beam, after an outstanding career at Ernst & Whitney, where he rose to the position of Vice Chairman, is now a principal of a holding company based in Cleveland which was organized to purchase controlling interests in manufacturing companies. Talbott Huey is on his third career. After the Foreign Service and faculty appointments in government and political science at the University of Massachusetts and other institutions, Talbott is now Curator of Rare Books at the University of Maryland. Finally, Bob Rosefsky reports in from Pacific Palisades, Calif., that his new career is not "retirement" but "regeneration." Bob has resigned his broadcasting commitments at ABC. He will be writing and teaching, using London and Los Angeles as principal bases. Bob's Personal Finance will be published before year-end by John Wiley & Sons and McGraw-Hill will publish Money Talks early next year.

With all this excitement, it is good to know some things never change. Don Roberts turned in an unusually good time in the Boston Marathon, where he competes every year, rain or shine.

—Thomas P. Perkins III

Notes: Summer 1988

I regret to report the loss of our classmate Jim Robertson on March 28, 1988, after a long bout with cancer during which Jim displayed considerable courage, enduring several operations and experimental therapy. Jim was a Senior Vice President at First National Bank of Chicago. He is survived by his wife Sara, and by three children from a prior marriage, Jim, Carolyn, and Susan. Sara can be reached at Unit 2207, 3200 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Il. 60057.

The Class Dinner on St. Patrick's Day in New York City was not fun but highly educational. Bud Trillin instructed us on the timely subject: "Farm Price Suppports: A Thirty-Year Overview, Concentrating on but Not Exclusive to Soy Bean Pricing Structures." The rapt audience, hanging on every word, included (some with consorts), Kaplan, Wolf, Clark, Hutchinson, Marden, Mongillo, Watling, Halpern, Quick, Herrmann, Chittenden, Jones, Ted, Clayton, Guggenheimer, Sweedle, Copelin, Armor, Mininberg, Kner, Nef, Van Buren, Gillis, Carothers, McEligot, Hopkins, Peet, Davis, Roberts, Robbins, Girdler, Bab, and Perkins, as well as the featured speaker, and Charles Abuza, who gave a memorable introduction of his former boss at the Oldest College Daily.

By the time this gets to you, Bud Trillin will hopefully be our second classmate, following Vern Loucks, to be elected an Alumni Fellow of the Yale Corporation. Hope everyone voted right. It will certainly be a welcome innovation, I'm sure, to have Kansas City ribs served at stuffy Corporation dinners.

Ted Jones told us at the Class Dinner about his quest for election to the Republican Central Committee for the State of Ohio. Who else out there is running for office?

Those of you who watch the financial pages know that life has been hectic at Avis. Five ownerships in five years have now been followed by an employee buyout, the largest Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) ever. The architect of his successful and innovative effort was Joe Vittoria. Joe continues as chairman and C.E.O. at Avis, working now for himself and his fellow workers.

Rucky Barclay reports in that he has recently set up shop in Santa Fe, N.M. The Rutgers Barclay Gallery will feature contemporary American realist painters and also house a branch of Rucky's New York gallery, Portraits, Inc. Bob Yale has started a new business up in Northboro, Mass. He is president of ComVest Realty Services, Inc., handling commercial, industrial and investment properties.

This column ends Your Secretary's first year on the job. I would like to extend special thanks to Sandy Clark and Bernie Kosto for running our New York and New Have gatherings. Thanks also to Dave Mininberg, our Alumni Fund leader, to Johnny Herrmann, who ran the Alumni Fund phonathon, to Don Bab, who has been working hard on structuring a class project with Saybrook, the college we "adopted" at our 25th Reunion (more on this in the fall), to John Marden, our AYA representative, and to Yale's best class treasurer, Rod Correll.

Next year, we will plan to have another mini-day in New Haven, probably in late January or early February, a spring dinner in New York and hopefully a class event in Washington, D.C., and perhaps a gathering in Boston on Harvard weekend. We would encourage volunteer sponsors of class events in other cities. Drop me a line and we will help with the mailing and organization. Other ideas for class events are welcome.

For the 1988-1989 class notes, I would like to encourage op-ed pieces from class members on topics concerning the world, the nation, or perhaps a personal experience. Publication is not guaranteed, but you will get the benefit of the doubt, particularly if your "insight" is 20 lines or less. Your "reward" will be a contribution in your name to the Yale Alumni Fund. Have a good summer and take time to send in some news, with or without your op-ed piece. --Thomas P. Perkins III

—Thomas P. Perkins III

Notes: May 1988

I regret to report the death of Peter Winslow Johnston who was a victim of an automobile accident in Fort Myers, Florida in January. Pete had a varied and interesting career. A native of Caribou, ME, he owned and operated a jewelry business in Caribou for many years. He then became a certified potato seed grower and went on to operate his own potato farm in Fort Fairfield. Pete served in the State Senate in Maine, as a public member of the New York Mercantile Exchange Board of Governors, as a trustee of the University of Maine and as an honorary commander at Loring Air Force Base. At the time of his death, Pete had been living and working as a project manager for a real estate firm in Naples, Fla.

Vern Loucks continues his distinguished service to Yale as a member of the Corporation and as the highly successful Chairman of the Yale Development Board, whose membership also includes: Phil Weymouth, Ron Ragen, Tim Childs, and your scribe. Vern was recently named a Gordon Grand Fellow at Yale and as such delivered a lecture in February on "Business Strategy in a Health Care Environment." Vern is C.E.O. of Baxter Travenol Laboratories in Chicago and currently serves as well as a Director of Dun & Bradstreet, Emerson Electric, and Quaker Oats. The Gordon Grand Fellowship is an effort to bring outstanding business leaders on campus and to make them available to students for informal discussions as well as formal presentations.

Recently I warned that I didn't have space to report on all your progeny matriculating at Yale. Therefore, to qualify for parental pride notices in this column you have to show a little imagination. Tony Frayne did just that when he sent me a copy of his son Steve's recent term grades. All I can tell you is that the son is eclipsing the father by a long shot. Tony, by the way, runs his own law firm in Philadelphia, with a branch office in Wayne, Pa.

Karl Van Horn reports his new business address as Posthorn Global Asset Management at Two Broadgate in London. Presumably, with that company name, Karl can pretty much take care of all of our needs just about anywhere. Bob Bentley has had a successful and interesting career as a portrait painter. Bob is based in Lake Forest, Ill., but gets all over and would be happy to memorialize any one of us for posterity. In addition to the portrait he is presently working on of John Curlett, Bob's portrait of Sir George Solti, the distinguished conductor of the London Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony, now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Keith McEligot reports that he recently ran into Denny McGill on the "streets of Jersey City." Keith says that he and Denny "both looked like we had never left." I think that is supposed to be a compliment.

Late Breaking News: Mort Zalutsky, our Portland, Ore. legal whiz, is now a Vice Chair of the tax section of the American Bar Association. Jim Crooks has recently been appointed the official historian for Jacksonville, Fla., supplementing his work at the University of North Florida. I hope that the archives down there don't turn up any exploits of fellow classmates as undergraduate during Florida spring vacation. Cheebee Everett continues as President of Globe Pequot Press., Inc., up in Boston. Harold Hochman has spent the past academic year on leave of absence from Baruch College teaching economics at Wesleyan and at the University of Turin, Italy, an interesting combination. John Hughes is in Tucson, keeping an eye on fellow medic, Tim Brown, and lecturing at the University of Arizona. John served as a surgeon in the Navy before coming to Tucson. Bob Hewett is back in D.C. after three years with the State Department in Munich. Finally, Peter Robertson reports in from Seattle, where he commutes to work on the Puget Sound ferry from Mercer Island to Seafirst Bank, where Pete is a senior trade finance officer.

—Thomas P. Perkins III

Notes: April 1988

Thanks to the organizational efforts of Bernie Kosto, our Class Day in January was a great success. At our class meeting, Rod Correll was officially presented with a Yale Distinguished Service Award by Randy Guggenheimer in grateful recognition of Rod's leadership in establishing a record 30th Reunion Gift. The meeting was followed by a spirited and informative panel discussion led by Sam Chauncey on Yale's role in New Haven redevelopment. We then adjourned to the elegant surroundings of the Presidents' Room in Woolsey Hall where Maestro Kosto served up cocktails and dinner. Then it was on to the Yale Whale and an evening of watching bright and vigorous scholar athletes on ice skates in Cornell and Yale uniforms (but mostly with Canadian passports) bash each other merrily before a sellout crowd.

We hope to make this an annual mid-winter event, perhaps including a Dramat or Rep play and/or an underground tour of one of the galleries or libraries. Ideas and suggestions are welcome. In attendance mostly with wives/guests, in addition to your scribe and the above-named folks, were: Abuza, Almond, Bab, Childs, Chittenden, Davis, Diefendorf, Fournier, Gillis, Jones, Dick, Jones, Ted, Kellogg, Marden, Meyer, Mininberg, Mongillo, O'Hearn, Resnick, Shapiro and Watling.

Sam Chauncey's news, at our gathering, was that he is moving on from the presidency of Science Park in New Haven to assume a similar role as C.E.O. of Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford, Conn. Gaylord is principally a long-term rehabilitation facility. We know that Sam will serve Gaylord with the same distinction as Science Park and Yale where Sam accomplished so much to foster meaningful town-gown relations as Secretary of the University during the Brewster era.

Our Arkansas report this month features Dr. Fred Guggenheim, a recent addition to our Class Council. Fred is now in Little Rock as Marie Wilson Howells' Professor of Psychiatry and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas. Fred also serves as President of the Arkansas Psychiatric Council. Fred was in good form in a recent phone call with the writer. Incidentally, this is a reminder that membership on the Class Council is open to anyone interested. All it takes is the 22 cents to mail me a letter expressing interest. For that matter, a postcard will do just fine (but include a little news).

Also prominent is psychiatric circles is David Griffith, who is now serving as Chief of Psychiatry and Clinical Director of the Department of Psychiatry at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in Massachusetts. David lives in Lexington and still maintains a part-time private practice in addition to his appointment at Melrose-Wakefield.

Our reunion impresario, Howie Gillis, has recently moved his law office to a handsome new building at Two Whitney Towers in New Haven, known as Whitney Grove Square, which is part of the new look in downtown New Haven. Come see if for yourself.

Finally, word just arrived from Cleveland that George Dunn has been honored with a prestigious CZA Award from his outstanding art collection and wine cellar. George is flourishing as Chief Legal Officer of the Standard Oil/British Petroleum empire, working out of Cleveland but with a world-wide reach. In his spare time, George sails the length and breadth of Lake Erie, dodging the local species of lake trout, in his Akbar IV.

More next month....

—Thomas P. Perkins III

Notes: March 1988

Most of us brag about the accomplishments of our natural offspring. Dana Bray writes in about his filly who won last year's edition of the Kentucky Oaks, the distaff counterpart of the Kentucky Derby. Juleps all around. Dana promises tips on future races to all classmates who keep their dues current.

Dick Arnold has recently been appointed Chair of the Committee of Appellate Education of the Federal Judicial Center, a critical function in ou federal appellate system. Dick continues his distinguished career as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. For the benefit of the handful of classmates who are not lawyers, this means that only the Supreme Court ever get a shot at telling Dick he is wrong. Don't be surprised if Dick winds up on the Supreme Court himself. First one ever from Arkansas, I'll wager.

Congratulations to Ken Gergen who was awarded an honorary doctorate in social sciences from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Ken, Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore, has received numerous other awards and grants over the years, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

Some of us just play monopoly for fun, but it is Jack Turben's vocation. Jack is flourishing as C.E.O. of Cleveland based Kirkland Capital Corp., a highly successful venture capital firm with the rather unique strategy of taking large leveraged positions in mature companies in mature industries, such as refractories and, with a prior company of Jack's, decorative laminates. This is all good news for lawyers, particularly. Ted Meyer, who keeps Jack on the straight and narrow, is now based in Columbus, Oh., running this office for Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue.

We have many other entrepreneurs. John Onthank reports that he has left Cadbury, Schweppes and is now C.E.O. of Ergogenic, Inc., a newly formed company organized to bring out a new beverage in the sports drink market, with Ivan Lendl and possibly as celebrity sponsors. Keep an eye out for it.

Late Breaking News. Bob Ganger reports in from General Foods where he is Vice President for Development. Jesse Lemisch is Visiting Professor of History at Baruch College of the City University of New York. The new president of the Stamford, Conn. Symphony Orchestra is Dick Scheinbaum, which reminds me that Brayton Wilbur still runs the San Francisco Symphony. Ed Ingalls is now the Director of Greenbriar Treatment Center, a substance abuse facility in Washington, Pa. Recently elected as Vice President of the National Union of American Physicians and Dentists, the country's largest trade union for doctors, is Bob Weinmann. Gus Hollingsworth has set up a new business as a manufacturers' representative and a consultant on cryogenic processes after more than 28 years at Union Carbide. Finally, Walter Clarke is now teaching at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., after four years as Director for Intelligence Liaison at the State Department.

—Thomas P. Perkins III

Notes: February 1988

The hardest part of this job is reporting the loss of classmates. Bob Smith died on July 18, 1987, leaving wife Jeanne and three daughters. Jeanne can be reached at 99 W. Main Street, Cuba, NY 14727. Smitty received both a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering at Yale and held the post of senior staff engineer at Acme Electric.

Pete Hill died on August 10, 1987, in Merritt Island, Fla., where he was President of Banford-Hill, a real estate development firm. For many years, before moving to Florida, Pete was in advertising with Young and Rubicam. Pete's wife died two years ago. He is survived by his sons Rick and Peter.

I also had recent word of the death of Lyman Drake's wife Claire on November 8, 1987, after a battle with cancer. Lyman can be reached at 8811 N. Coast Highway #129, Laguna Beach, CA 92651. Lyman and Claire's daughter Chloe is a member of the Class of 1990 at Yale. We extend our sympathy to Lyman.

On a much happier note, Binky Davis has to step aside as our most recent father. Mark Roth reports that his son Herbert arrived October 1, 1987 and was promptly enrolled in the Yale Class of 2009, on the tuition pre-payment plan. Probably the next news we will hear on this front will be from that prolific producer, Peter Fritzsche. One more in this department might lock up Peter's bid to be named a Papal Knight.

Frank and Nancy Mongillo provided a wonderful time for frost-bitten Eli fans after the H-Y game and we are much in their debt. After the ice melted from his glasses, your scribe spotted, among others, Ed Meyer, Art Diefendorf, Howie Gillis, Randy Guggenheimer, Ted Jones, Bob Goering, and Phil Wedemeyer. Bob and Phil had just participated in a Masters Fencing Tourney at Payne Whitney and appeared unscathed.

On the sports Masters front, Bill Reimann is a house afire in rowing. Last September, in Sweden, he won gold medals in F.I.S.A. World Masters' Competition in four-oared shells with cox and quadruple sculls. He came back home to win four gold medals in the United States Master Championship at Lake Placid, including a gold in the Grandmaster Single Sculls. Awesome is the only word for it. In his spare time, Bill is an active sculptor, working on several commissions, as well as teaching from his base in Cambridge, Mass.

Many of you have written in bragging (and rightly so) about the exploits of offspring in New Haven and other high-priced educational institutions. I can't print all of this news, but I can award our first annual 1957 Done Most for Yale Award to Dave Johnson. Dave currently has three undergraduates at Yale, daughters Elizabeth, Jessica, and Victoria. I defy any of you to top that record. Dave is on the faculty at the University of Tennessee, specializing in inter-national development and rearing Yalies.

An update from Bob Armstrong. After Yale, Bob taught at Williams and then went on to the Ford Foundation, spending three years in Cairo as adviser to the Egyptian Minister of Economy. Bob is now with the World Bank in Washington, D.C. as economic adviser for Africa, keeping tabs on a mere 45 countries.

Good news from Nortie Wright in Studio City, Cal. Nortie recently achieved a first, nationwide, in the Nielson ratings for his movie for NBC TV, Haunted by Her Past. He also wrote and produced for CBS TV, Sadie & Son, starring Debbie Reynolds. Also in the works is an Afghanistan war drama for HBO. Nortie's wife Susan appears on General Hospital. Boy, this sure beats writing just about lawyers, as great as lawyers are.

Late breaking news: George White is back from the Orient, where he directed The Music Man, the first American musical to be presented in China. Rick Kirgis is completing his career as Dean of the Washington & Lee Law School and will split next year as a Visiting Professor at Cornell and Virginia. Chuck Kerr is now a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona. Lennie Katz, although much better known for having invented the Buffalo Chicken Wing, is now editor of HMO Practice, a new medical journal. Finally, Brian Walsh is a recent groom, having married Daphne Gray Davis in New York City.

—Thomas P. Perkins III