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I can easily explain why there has been a dearth of mail for this column: The address at the head of the column has been wrong for the last three months. It should read 884 Pueblo Drive, Franklin Lakes, N.J., not 984 Pueblo Drive. The zip code is correct, however. So if your letter or card of whereabouts and doings has been returned, try again with the correct address.
The news this month is brief, but interesting. Chris Coombs is busy managing Cairns Bros., the country's only manufacturer of fire hats the kind you see on "Eyewitness News" in Clifton, N.J. That's two blocks from where I work! Chris reports that he's expanding his business, acquiring a company that makes firemen's raincoats in Macinac, I11. (unbelievable), and another company that makes firemen's boots . . . vertical integration of a sort.
Ed Pratt has moved to Louisville, Ky., where he is executive director of Preservation Alliance, an organization involved in historical preservation. And Tripp Miller reports that he is trapped in Manhattan, having given up trying to escape ten years ago. He is vice president of planning for McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Company, while Jeannette, who has just completed her doctorate in psychobiology, is a research neuro-pharmacologist at N.Y.U. School of Medicine.
Ed Kuriansky was also in touch with some follow-up on his appointment as deputy attorney general for the Medicaid fraud control unit in New York. The Medicaid fraud unit is an outgrowth of the nursing-home fraud task force which Ed headed up prior to this appointment. It has been recognized as an innovative approach to prosecuting medical fraud cases in that the task force is integrated with attorneys, accountants, and investigators, all working under one department. While Ed has been chasing con artists, his wife Judy has been pursuing her own career in television. She is a consultant psychologist on A.8.C.-TV in New York a budding Joyce Brothers of sorts, appearing Thursday mornings, and also four times a month on Boston television.
Interest in the alumni four with cox or perhaps without, depending on what Don Reis' wife is doing is growing. In time for this month's column Frank Opaskar has added his name to the roster. So let's see . . . Fellows at stroke, Reis at three, number two is open, and Opaskar in the bow ... I always remember Frank in the bow.
Frank also dropped a few lines about his doings since graduation. Still single and holding he is back in his native Cleveland practicing pediatrics, doing some emergency room duty, doing research in sociology, and "taking time to enjoy the things he didn't have time for previously." I am sure there are more than just a few of us who, approaching the great "mid-life crisis" years, have not had the time to reflect on what we haven't done, nor are we in positions where we can take "personal sabbaticals" to figure out if we are really tracked on a course we want to follow for the next 20 years. Frank confesses to three passions: women, keeping in shape, and sailing his homebuilt sail boat. Not a bad way to keep out of trouble.
The last news of this column is a final pitch for the Alumni Fund. But in making this pitch I would like to share with you the results of a survey that Hector and Steve took earlier this year among non-givers to last year's campaign. Statistically, the non-givers broke into the following categories of reasons for not giving: 30 per cent said they had more important things to give to; 20 per cent were not happy with events at the College in recent years; 20 per cent said they feel the class has been shortchanged because reunions are never on "our" year; 20 per cent made a mistake and will give this year; 10 per cent said they can't afford to give. Which category do you fall into? Take a few minutes and reflect. The College has an ongoing need, just as strong as when we were there. The deadline is June 30.
And finally, I can tell you Marcia MacMillan was born March 5, in a blizzard, and weighed in at seven lbs two oz. Congratulations, Kris.
884 Pueblo Drive Franklin Lakes, N.J. 07417
