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Although most members of our class have logged 30-plus years of postgraduate labor, it appears that the moving van is still providing some transportation for better than ten per cent of us each year. For many, the move is only across town, but for some, it seems to augur a change of lifestyle amid more tranquil surroundings. For example, Dave Raynolds, who has been attached to the Foreign Service Office and has had a Washington, D.C., address, now gets his mail at Table Mountain Ranch in Lander, Wyo. Marshall Blake (formerly Dick Raybold) has relocated from Santa Fe, N.M., to Tamworth, N.H. Ed Grant, a long-time resident of Worcester, Mass., now lives at Windrush Lane in Osterville, Mass. (on Cape Cod), and Dan Sullivan has turned in his New York City mail drop for a P.O. Box in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., overlooking Chappaquiddick Island. It all sounds euphoric — how about filling in some of the details.

Charles (Jay) Urstadt hasn't changed his address, but he has added another significant chapter to his business and public service career with the purchase from W. R. Grace and Company of Pearce, Mayer, and Green Inc., one of the country's largest real estate mortgage brokerage firms. The purchase was made by a group of investors that included Henry Pearce and Jules Mayer and was led by Jay, who will serve as president and chief executive officer. PM&G was founded in 1928 and purchased by W. R. Grace in 1972. Annual mortgage and sales brokerage volume is in excess of $550 million. The firm also has active insurance and management divisions and serves as the investment advisor to Hanover Square Realty Investors, a real estate investment trust formed in 1972. Jay has spent the past 12 years in public service, working from 1969 to 1973 as deputy New York state commissioner of housing and community renewal and most recently chairing the authority charged to create housing and shopping facilities for 40,000 people on landfill along the lower Hudson River, in the area of the World Trade Center.

Burt Proom was in the insurance news again recently, having been elected president of the National Society of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters at the society's annual meeting in Boston. Burt, who is president of American Nuclear Insurers, has been quoted regularly in the trade and national press in connection with the nuclear incident at Three Mile Island.

One final note reveals that John Gallup has been named to the Massachusetts committee for Republican presidential candidate George Bush. John is president of Strathmore Paper Company in Westfield, Mass., a director of the Third National Bank of Hampden County, and a trustee of Springfield College.

Have a good Thanksgiving.

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