1963

I got to wondering about values thanks to an interesting class notes column by Rick Mac Millan '66 in the March issue and another piece on "success" by E. R. "Skip" Sturman '70. In talking to classmates, I've noticed interests beyond day-to-day work ranging from family pride and new careers to social activism and community work.

For example, while debate rages over nuclear arms, Robert Bunnell, head pastor of the United Presbyterian Church of Charlton, N.Y., has been active in his church's national stand in favor of a freeze. Bob, who has been with his parish for 12 years, represented the church in March at Congressional meetings in Washington. His wife Margaret, whom he met while a student at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, is also an ordained Presbyterian pastor on the staff of a large church in downtown Schenectady. The couple love their upstate New York life, as evidenced by their economical wood furnace and white-water canoeing trips at North Creek with sons Steven, 13, and John, 11.

Another classmate active in anti-nuclear activities on a local level is John Charlton, who is senior lending officer for Africa for the Chase Manhattan Bank. John and his wife Chris live in Bucks County, Pa., just west of Princeton, N.J., and do a lot of horseback riding with son Joshua, nine, and daughter Sloane, three. Before taking the African assignment three years ago, John was regional credit officer for Chase in Tokyo, country manager in Taipei, and handled a joint venture for the bank in Cairo. In his present assignment he is vice chairman of another joint venture in Nigeria.

What's your view on the nuclear arms race? Should the United States take the lead in calling for a freeze or will it only weaken our position at the bargaining table?

Another banker active in civic work is Charles T. Parton of Rumson, N.J., who was elected president of the Midlantic National Bank/Merchants of Neptune, N.J., a subsidiary of Midlantic Banks Inc., a New Jersey bank holding company. Charlie earned his M.B.A. at Rutgers and learned much of his banking in over 17 years at the Fidelity Union Organization of Newark. Charlie has served as president of the Monmouth County United Way and the area Y.M.C.A. and was treasurer and president of our class in the seventies. He plays platform tennis and mixed doubles with his wife Trudy, whom he dated at the College. Trudy is planning to receive her nursing degree this month from Brookdale College and is looking toward the registered nurse examination in the summer. She also teaches swimming to the handicapped. The couple has two children, a daughter Laurie, 15, and son Chris, who is 13 this month. Happy birthday, Chris!

Not far from Charlie in Somerset, N.J., is Paul Cieurzo, who has managed to extricate himself from commuting to New York so he can be closer to his family. Paul is operations officer for A.C. Israel Enterprises, a White Plains, N.Y., financial firm specializing in the buying and selling of U.S. government securities, treasury bonds, futures, options, etc. Paul learned all about money with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York when he ran the securities operations area. Then he joined Charles E. Quincey, a New York government securities dealer. Even though White Plains is farther from Somerset than is the Big Apple, Paul doesn't mind after 15 years of commuting to Manhattan, and, anyway, he's moving to Wilton, Conn., where home will be closer to the new job. Paul, wife Heide, son Christopher, 15, and daughter Cori, 12, are active in Y.M.C.A. swimming programs. Chris is on both the Y.M.C.A. and St. Joseph High School teams in Metuchen, N.J., and his specialties for the 1982 state championship high school team are the backstroke and butterfly.

Here's a scenario for television's FantasyIsland: "Who's that, Boss?" "That, Tattoo, is Richard Berkowitz, who for 17 years has developed a successful corporate, real estate, and matrimonial law practice in Westport, Conn. "Gee, Boss. What's his fantasy?" "Mr. Berkowitz, Tattoo, has always wanted to be a varsity basketball coach."

And that he is. Dick both practices law and coaches (pro bono) Staples High of Westport, which plays in the tough Connecticut Class LL or large school level. A graduate of the University of Connecticut Law School, Dick is a partner in a seven-lawyer firm, Berkowitz, Balbirer, McLachlin, and has been married for nearly 20 years to Carole, his college sweetheart. A registered nurse, Carole teaches C.P.R. (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) and is an emergency medical technician in Westport. The couple has four kids daughters Jody, 18, Emily, 17, and Suzy, 14, and son Adam, 13. Dick also plays tennis and jogs, somewhere between the law office, high school, and home.

Also doing a lot of running these days is Steven Chase of Norwell, Mass. racer, soccer-player, and specialist in the growing emergency medical practice at the Cardinal Cushing Hospital in Brockton, Mass. Steve ran in the ten-mile Cherry Blossom race in Washington, D.C., in March and plays regularly in the Over-the-Hill Soccer League (and we're not talking about Bunker Hill) in Boston. The former all-New England college player describes himself as the "second oldest ambulatory competitor" in the annual College alumni soccer game held each fall. Steve started medical practice as an internist after graduating from Georgetown Medical School. He and his .wife Katherine, a Boston attorney, have a four-year-old daughter, Sarah.

Thomas Rhoad returned to the great state of Vermont, his birthplace, 11 years ago to teach history and psychology at Windsor High School after a long tour of duty as a naval officer. Tom has two of his children, Suzanne, 17, and Bob, 16, in class, which he thinks is great; but the kids would sometimes prefer that Dad not know so much about them. Ten-year-old Jonathan is not in high school yet, but Tom's wife Anne assists in the Windsor High hot lunch program. Tom heads up the prudential (budget) committee at the Old South Church and, in the winter, ski patrols at Mount Ascutney.

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