1957

Two of our class architects were recently in the news. Mort Scharmann, one of the real live wires of the 25th reunion, has unmasked his serious and professional side by recently being elected president of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation. The foundation is devoted to preserving New Jersey farmland, including protecting the Pinelands, creating river-front parks, and taking innovative approaches to the regulation of land use. Working from offices in Morristown, NJ, Mort specializes in energyefficient designs. Recently he completed restoration work for the New Vernon Historical Society. Charles Tseckares was the featured speaker at a Boston conference sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The conference addressed issues concerning the adaptive re-use of historic mill complexes for industrial use. Charley's remarks focused on the unique problems of rehabilitating historic industrial buildings. Charley and his firm are specialists in the area of adaptive re-use and are responsible for many of the widely publicized projects in the Boston area.

In the last couple of years, Bob Towbin has received impressive coverage by the business press, including the Wall Street Journal,Business Week, and the New York Times. The reason for this coverage is that Bob is vice chairman and a managing director of L. F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, a leading underwriter of initial common stock issues of small to medium-high technology companies. These companies include some spectacular high-fliers such as Cetus (biotechnology), Dysan (computer storage), Cray Research (computers), Tandem (computers), Tandon (perhipheral equipment), and Nutri/System (weight loss systems). A recent Fortune article recounted how Bob's direct approach convinced Convergent Technology's chairman to work with Bob and his firm. In any case, classmates who sincerely want to be rich should consider the L. F. Rothschild offerings.

Bob Creasy has been appointed chairman of the Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, effective this fall. Bob had been a professor in his field and director of the maternal-fetal medicine program at the University of California in San Francisco. He was also chief of obstetrical service in a San Francisco hospital. On announcing his appointment, the dean of the University of Texas said that Bob is "the most sought after candidate in the world to head up an obstetncs/gynecology department. Anyone who has reviewed his curriculum vitae can understand why this is true, since it consists of wall-to-wall high academic and professional honors.

I have asked Bob Cope land to help me pull together information for a future article on '57s living in the Washington, DC, area. As a holding action, let me note that John Lange has just been elected to the Cosmos Club, a prestigious Washington organization with many senior-level federal government employees. John is currently director of the Office of Trade Finance for the Treasury Department and chief U.S. negotiator to a 22-nation meeting dealing with export credits. John s son Mark is a senior at Dartmouth and was the winner of the 1982 Oxford Triathalon, which consists of a 20-mile run, a 50-mile bike race, and an 8.5-mile row down a Maryland river. Sounds as if he could keep up with Harvey Epstein and Joe Stevenson.

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