1969

Frankly, I'm at a loss as to where to begin this month. Unsolicited offerings coupled with a response of cornucopian proportions to my tedious entreaties for news have produced a stack of mail which simply overwhelmed an otherwise adequate letter opener. The first three envelopes proved easy zippings, but that last one had to be finished off with an already overworked church key. There's a crying need for twist-off envelopes in this country.

I was delighted to receive from Peter Imber a very interesting note, the contents of which I shall attempt to condense here for your reading pleasure. Peter is presently working toward his M.F.A. in motion picture and television production at U.C.L.A. He spent seven years in Israel where he met his wife Mira and became a member of her kibbutz. After trying his hand at farming and teaching, followed by a stint in the military, he became involved in video, making programs for a teachers college in Tel Aviv. With a degree in agronomy, Mira is now play- ing the role of the "reluctant bookkeeper"; Peter has worked as a salesman for Radio Shack; and together they manage the apartment building which they call home near Los Angeles. He hopes to have earned his degree by this time next year and expects to return to Israel eventually and kibitz a kibbutz with an eye toward producing a documentary series about life down on the farm.

For the past four years, Tom Cronan has been attending law school nights while toiling for Ma Bell during the daylight hours. Jan and their two daughters must certainly have been pleased to see dad graduate last month. Tom reports that he has become fairly active in awareness training involving issues of sexism and racism and plans a legal career specializing in the defense of obscene phone callers. Congratulations are in order for fellow attorney Russell T. Granik, who was recently named general counsel for the National Basketball Association.

Dave Gilliatt was kind enough to respond to my groveling appeals for news with a two-page autobiography, the Reader's Digest version of which follows. Dave's communication begins with the startling revelation that he has not yet been named a junior vice president of anything nor has he fathered any progeny. Equally unbelievable is the stark admission, dittoed by wife Karen, of a boundless affection for the Big Apple. Without question, this is "Real People" stuff. In his sixth year of antitrust litigation with a midtown law firm, Dave has most recently concerned himself with the uranium producers' cartel and avers that he has visited every town in the U.S. that has a "nuke" or ever contracted for one. When not at the office, he dabbles in music, windsurfing, and fighter kites. He also reports that this year he was bold enough to take Karen, who aspires to an acting/singing career, as a business tax loss. At least there aren't many dishes to wash after a hearty serving of homemade gruel. On occasion Dave sees Rod Smith, who is living in Washington, D.C., and commuting regularly to Russia, in pursuit of information regarding war criminals. Within the past several months, he has also run into Pete Schaeffer and Giff Foley at the Yale Club gym, which is probably the moniker of a classy beer and taco joint down in the Village somewhere. Dave asked after PaulGlover, who lives in West Hartford and travels New England with his abacus for accountants Coopers & Lybrand. Andy McLane is in Marblehead and banks in Boston, as I recall. More details from the horse's mouth would be appreciated.

Received a note from an admirer of BruceAlpert stating that Bruce is an assistant professor on the faculty of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. A specialist in pediatric cardiology, he has an impressive number of learned research papers to his credit, including one entitled "Peak Meridional Wall Stress During Supine Exercise in Children with LeftSided Cardiac Disease," which, unless I'm way off base, is an in-depth study of Little League southpaws and in particular their seeming inability to deliver the ball satisfactorily while lying on their backs. Bruce has three sons and a daughter, all of whom play the field.

And finally, Colin D. Campbell, professor of economics at Dartmouth, wrote a note to say that Stephen J. Entin has been appointed deputy assistant secretary for economic policy in the U.S. Treasury Department.

On a closing note, this year's Alumni Fund drive still has a couple weeks to run; if you haven't done so already, please participate posthaste. Head Agent Dick Glovsky and company have put a lot of time and effort into this year's campaign but without your cooperation it will all have been for naught. Let's improve on 1980's participation and dollar figures. Let's be number one amongst our peers for a change. Please keep in touch.

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