1963

We re fervently looking forward to the lazy, hazy days ahead, but let's retreat for the moment to the middle of spring when the Bruins and the Celtics were trying for an all-Boston hockey/basketball sweep, keeping things exciting for Steve Nazro, director of special events tor at the Boston Garden. Steve started learning his usiness under Ernie Roberts, now sports edir at the Boston Globe and director of sports inforrnation at the College in the early sixties. Steve stayed on in the athletic deprmany with the army, and then began working his way up at the Boston Garden, starting in group sales. A typical year there now includes 220 events and not just sports, but the circus, the Ice Capades, even rock concerts. Steve is still trying to figure our how he kept his customers cool after the late Keith Moon took ill and had to stop in the middle of a Who concert. And, for the first time in his career, he saw the Bruins and Celtics survive playoff elimination on the same day at the Garden.

Fans of the eighties seem fascinated by the slam-dunk and the one-on-one, but in our day the focus was the soft, graceful jumper as practiced by Steve Spahn, who set several scoring records at the College and is now headmaster of the Dwight School, a private school for grades seven through 12 in New York. Steve and his wife Constance, who is an admissions director at Dwight, have two sons Blake, 12, and Kirk, five. Blake is upholding the family athletic tradition as a U.S. Tennis Association tournament player. Steve still plays tennis and is chairman of a number of organizations, including Down East magazine, Ad Week, Hanson Energy Products, Trident Scientific Corporation, and the International School of London.

I remember Denis Eagle as being a pretty fair basketball player on our intramural team, but now he skis and plays racketball and runs the Jonathan Logan dress companies as he's been doing since 1968. Denis is proud that the U.S. has surpassed Europe as the center of fashion, but he's usually worried about more mundane things like the turnout at the many trade shows his companies participate in. The Tuck '64 graduate has two teen-aged sons Jevin and Todd by his first marriage, which ended in divorce. For the past four years he has lived in Roslyn, N.Y., with his second wife, Kay, and her teen-aged children, Melissa and David.

I couldn't speak with J. Michael Emerson of Seattle about his work with Boeing because he was in Indonesia trying to complete a contract for a fleet of ten jetfoils (which are like hydrofoils but presumably faster). But Mike's wife Jane told me that he's in charge of the marine division and has been a company attor- ney at Boeing since 1974. After Tuck, Mike went to submarine school in New London, Conn., and was stationed for four years in Hawaii with the Navy. Jane and Mike have lived all over the country. He is from Montana and she grew up in northern Ohio, earning an M. A. in biology at the University of Michigan. Jane says they chose Seattle as much for its quality of life as for Mike's work. They have three young children Geoffrey, nine; Vaughan, seven; and Jennie, six. Mike and Jane play tennis and raise roses, which came up early this year because of the mild northwestern winter.

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live in the middle of academia? Joseph Connors and Phil Fisher have been doing it for years and like it a lot. Joe has been at Suffield Academy in Connecticut since 1965 and chairs the English Department there. He came to Suffield after earning a master of arts in teaching; he handles a variety of English courses, directs plays, and coaches riflery and lacrosse. With his wife Marilyn, who manages the Suffield school store, Joe is raising two sons —Joseph Jr., a freshman at Suffield, and Jonathan, 11, who attends the Enfield School. When he wants to get away, Joe takes his family to their house on Barnegat Bay in Island Heights, N.J., halfway between New York and Atlantic City. Last summer they went to Ireland so Joe could gather material for his sabbatical project on Irish literature. Phil Fisher, who heads up a small venture capital firm in Boston, has been living for a decade at Harvard's Eliot House, where his wife Laura is senior tutor and a specialist in Slavic languages. A graduate of Stanford Law School, Phil joined the firm of Holtzmann, Wise and Shepard, whose clients included the investment banking firm of Allen and Company and Aristotle Onassis. He later moved to the U.S. Trust of Boston, and joined the Cambridge Boat Club, which enables him to com- pete in the single scull three-mile race in the annual National Regatta. The couple has a fiveyear-old son, Adam.

David Cook is also in Boston, but his event is the Boston Marathon. This year was his third, following runs in Tucson and Phoenix after a 20-year layoff. Dave wants to hear from classmates "who are getting serious about their running." He's at 24 Teel Street, Arlington, Mass.

Congratulations to Lou Gerstner, newly elected as a director of Fireman's Fund Insurance Company; to Michael Moriarty, starring on Broadway in The Caine Mutiny Court-Mar-tial; and to all of you for helping me to get through my first year in this slot. Have a great summer and take notes so we can get off to a good start in September.

Michael Moriarty '63, center, is pictured in the latest addition to his long list of theatrical creditla leading role in the current Broadway production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Mart1'

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