1967

Having just returned from two weeks of Naval Reserve duty in Houston, Tex., I'm in something of a mad scramble to get many pending matters off my desk, not the least of which is this column. Happily, I have a few responses to my last mailing in hand, so the cupboard isn't as bare as it has been in the recent past. It's too bad more of you guys don't realize what a great vehicle this column is for getting your name into bold-face type now and then.

For a life-long Pennsylvanian, Houston was quite an experience. I happened to be there during the annual Livestock Show and Rodeo, so I spent about as much time playing cowboy as I did sailor. This girdled earth being the small place it is, I had the good fortune to meet Terry Adams '71, a member of our host Reserve unit, and a gang of us spent a memorable Washington's Birthday afternoon sailing in Terry's J 24 sloop on Galveston Bay. Definitely an improvement over a rainy February in this part of the country!

Gary Schwandt writes to say he's just been named a senior vice president of the Boston Company Real Estate Counsel Inc. (I checked the spelling with his secretary and it's correct), a subsidiary of Shearson-American Express. Ba- sically, the firm invests pension funds in real estate. His most recent transaction was a $ 140million deal in Pittsburgh, Pa., "which is where Bob Ramont lives and works for Westinghouse." (I know; I wrote to Bob a couple of weeks ago. Where are you, Robert?) Gary and family saw Bob, Robin Carpenter '66, and Jim Tonkovich '68 in Hanover at Harvard weekend last fall, and they're looking forward to seeing many more friends at reunion in June.

Gary's son Rob is a sophomore at Noble and Greenough School, and Cheri is "playing lots of paddle and trying to maintain her tan from a recent trip to St. Barts. She says all are welcome to visit us on the Cape (Cod) this summer. That's true, folks. She told me so herself. Thanks for the note, Gary.

Marvin S. Soroos writes from Raleigh, N.C., that he's an associate professor of politi- cai science at North Carolina State University, where he's been teaching international relations since 1970. He spent last summer touring India with a Fulbright-Hays group, studying the impact of science and technology on Indian society. He and Carol have two children, Joel, 11, and Valerie, six.

Berry Ratliff is running a small consulting and computer software development firm from his home on a lake 15 miles from Ann Arbor, Mich. "Our principal client has been General Motors and our principal service has been to provide time-sharing financial consolidation applications to their various divisions and corporate staff. Recently, like the rest of the software industry, our emphasis has changed from time-sharing applications to personal computer applications.

"Unfortunately," he concludes in his note, "I have completely lost contact with other '675." Well, friends, that's what your loyal, hard-working secretary's here for. Drop me a note and stay in touch with your classmates.

Dave Mangelsdorfif, president of the military psychology division of the American Psychological Association, has been awarded the association's 1982 Military Psychology Award for meritorious scientific and professional contributions to his field. Dave received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Delaware in 1972. Before joining the Academy of Health Sciences in San Antonio, Tex., he was a staff psychologist at the Crittenden Rehabilitation Center in Wilmington, Del., and taught numerous graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Delaware. Since moving to Texas, Dave has received a master's degree in English from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, and a master of public health degree from the University of Texas.

Ralph Smith '46 very kindly sent me a clipping from The New York Times of February 28, headlined "Perils of Being the Prosecution Team." It featured Larry Barcella's adventures as the senior member of the two-lawyer team from the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington prosecuting two former U.S. intelligence agents charged with illegally aiding Libyan terrorists. Larry is deputy head of the major crimes unit in the U.S. Attorney's office. His boss, Donald E. Campbell, is quoted as saying that "One of Larry's greatest assets is his imagination." It was that imagination which produced the scheme by which suspect Edwin P. Wilson was induced to fly from Libya to the Dominican Republic, where authorities placed him on the first flight to New York, where he was arrested. One of the government's charges against Wilson is that he developed a plan last year to assassinate Larry, co-prosecutor Carol E. Bruce, and five government witnesses.

Also featured in the press recently was Warren Cook, president of Chemical Fabrics Inc., headquartered in North Bennington, Vt., and operating plants in Buffalo, N.Y., and Kilrush, Ireland, as well as in North Bennington. The article in The Boston Globe was a tribute to Warren's entrepreneurial genius in taking the company, in six years, from a $ 1-million-a-year conveyor belt manufacturing operation to a $25-million-a-year diversified company ma-nu- facturing a broad range of industrial products. Chemfab's best-known products are woven fabric building roofs, and the company has 55 buildings to its credit, including the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich., the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minnesota, and the Carrier Dome at Syracuse University.

Over the past month, in an effort to beef up this column, I sent letters to about 37 of you. I got back three responses. Enough said? See you in June.

David Mangelsdorff '67, right, a psychologist with the directorate of combat development andhealth care studies at the Academy of Health Sciences of the U .S. Army, is congratulated here byColonel James Van Straten, deputy commandant of the Academy, upon his receipt of the 1982Military Psychology Award.

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