1962

We will highlight this month's column with the announcement of the arrival of Robert Henry Sarpy Ill, the newest member of the family of Hank and Frannie Sarpy in New Orleans. His proud parents also have two young daughters, Annie and Dorothy, both of whom are anxious to get their hands on their new brother. This news was received from John Walters, who spent the last week in January at an American Bar Association seminar in New Orleans. Hank is also John's legal counsel in New Orleans, so he was able to do some business as well. In spite of all this work and the blessed event, I understand that Hank was able to introduce John to Bourbon Street.

John Clark was kind enough to relate to me a story concerning Steve Roth which is certainly worth telling. "Steve entered the real estate business after Tuck School and is president of Interstate Properties Inc. Along the way, he became interested in Vornado, a holding company traded on the New York Exchange; New York-based '62s will recognize them as the owners of the Two Guys (from Harrison) chain. Though Steve was evidently initially interested only in some of their locations from a real estate standpoint, he soon became more in- terested in Vornado, which was trading at $6.00 with a book value of $30. This resulted in a boisterous proxy fight, which our boy won. Steve had been asked to serve as a visiting lecturer for a real estate class at Tuck. In addition to unobtrusively arriving via Learjet and chauffeured limo (not confirmed whether he was chauffeur or the chauffee), he brought his rival in the proxy fight, and, with the aid of two groups of Tuck students, they refought the whole thing." (John didn't hear how Steve made out that time.)

In one of our recent issues we welcomed back Ann and Sandy Apgar. Their Christmas letter advised that they have settled down in Washington and have redecorated a house in Georgetown. As may be expected, Sandy seems to be getting involved in Dartmouth. One of his suggestions was that each member of the executive committee send me information on at least ten classmates. Hopefully others of you will do the same.

W. Bradford Wiley II was elected to the board of directors of John Wiley and Sons Inc. at a meeting of the board on December 19, 1979. Brad, one of the sixth generation of Wiley family members to take an active role in the company, will be representing family interests. Founded in 1807, the company is one of America's oldest publishing houses, eminent in science and technology, social science, business, and medicine.

Brian J. McCarthy has been promoted from major to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. A veteran of 16 years' service, including two tours in Vietnam, he has also served in Thailand. After graduating from Dartmouth, Brad attended Georgetown Law School. At present he is stationed at Fort Lee, Va.

John Walters reported that Dan Hummel (formerly known as the original 8.H.C.F.) has moved from Seattle to Ireland. Dan sent John a card, and we are glad to be able to share his news with you in this column. "I was in Japan most of the winter and have been in Ireland since then. It's a good place. It looks like I'll more or less be living here but will keep the Seattle address. In Ireland I'm at Glanroon, Kilcrohane, County Cork. Pass it on to friends traveling. Regards, Dan." Dan has spent several years acting as a tour guide for foreign traveling groups.

Josh Rich, who is vice president, marketing, at the American Stock Exchange, recently went camping with other invited members of the exchange on an Outward Bound expedition. Outward Bound is a wilderness survival and orientation course. One evening he and Michael Dritz, a specialist and a governor of the exchange, were asleep near the bank of a river, when Dritz was awakened in the middle of the night by water flowing on him from the river. Evidently a dam had been opened, unbeknownst to them, and the river had risen three-and-a-half feet. Mike wakened Josh and the two made it out safely. Arthur Levitt Jr., who chairs the American Stock Exchange, is a great believer in the values learned from Outward Bound. Its emphasis on training people for survival and bringing them into situations where they depend upon one another for support and survival develops, he feels, much more constructive working relationships back in the business environment.

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