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The National Trust for Historic Preservation has appropriately chosen an alumnus of the College to carry out a wide-ranging study of the potential uses for the historic area of the Rockefeller family estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. He is George H. Bohlinger III, formerly deputy associate attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice where he ran the President's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, coordinating the work of 1,600 prosecutors, investigators, and support personnel throughout the country. The assignment will be a break from a career dedicated to law enforcement and correctional administration for George, which included directorships at correctional institutions in the states of Washington and Massachusetts and at American University's Institute of Correctional Administration. George had earned an M.S. at American University and later studied advanced management at Harvard. As assistant and acting administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, he closed out the activities of that agency. In his new assignment George will look into making Rockefeller's Pocantico Hills estate a historical and cultural landmark and center for meetings and group tours. The study will take two to three years. Declared a national historic landmark by President Ford, the estate has an outstanding collection of outdoor sculpture.
Elliot Gerson has joined the law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr, and Solis-Cohen as a partner in the corporate department. Before joining the Philadelphia firm, Elliot, who received his LL.B. from Stanford in 1966, was an attorney for five years with Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien, and Frankel. Wolf, Block was par ticularly impressed with Elliot's knowledge of securities and real estate syndication. He lives near Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.
Gordon C. Weir, professor and vice chairman of the department of internal medicine at the Medical College of Virginia, has been named medical director at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. No stranger to Beantown, Gordon earned his medical degreee at Harvard and held a research and clinical fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He remained in Boston for six years, leaving his post as assistant physician at Mass General and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard in 1976 to become associate professor of medicine at Virginia. He has authored more than 50 research papers, focusing on how islet cells function in both Type I (juvenile) and Type II (adult-onset) diabetes. One of Gordon's research collaborators is his wife, Susan Bonner-Weir, Ph.D., who trained at Joslin in the mid-19705. She will have an appointment at Joslin also and both will have appointments at Harvard. Gordon is a member of the board of the Virginia affiliate of the American Diabetes Association and president of the Richmond chapter, and has served on the boards of several professional journals including Endocrinology, American Journal of Physiology, and Metabolism. His awards and honors include a research career development award from the National Institutes of Health, a Zyma Fellowship as visiting professor at the University of Geneva, and "best professor" of an endocrine course at Virginia. In addition to his role at Joslin, Gordon will be chief of endocrinology and metabolism at Deaconess Hospital.
Steve Macht, a busy TV actor is also a successful family man. He has emceed 24 onehour shows for Jewish Cable TV in Los Angeles where his wife Suzanne is producer. The couple's daughter is a sophomore at Berkeley; two sons are teenagers, and son Jesse is 18 months old. No doubt his family life is helping Steve withstand the angst of Hollywood where he emceed an evening for the Israeli Olympians, welcoming them to L.A. Steve went to Poland and Romania for the first time on a fund-raising mission for the Jewish Federation of L.A., and made his third trip to Israel for the same purpose. He's just finished a run in Homesteaders, an L.A. play tracing the life of a former rebel of the sixties.
International Mill Service, a subsidiary of IU International Corporation, a Philadelphiabased company, has promoted David C. Rogers to executive vice president. Dave had been senior vice president, finance, of IMS which he joined in 1972 after earning an M.B.A. at Tuck. IMS makes, installs, and operates customdesigned systems and plants for material handling, metal recovery, and slag processing at steel mills here and abroad. Dave and his wife, Linda, live in Rosemont, Pa.
Jim Friedman, partner in the Cleveland law firm of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan and Aronoff, spoke on fund-raising and budget management recently at a seminar by the Federation for Community Planning on "How to Organize and Run a Tax Levy or Other Ballot Issue Campaign." A Harvard graduate, Jim has been executive counsel to the governor of Ohio, chairman of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, and director of the. Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
Standard Oil's employees can rest assured that their pension fund is in good hands, and, in fact, last year the Indiana company was the country's top performing internally-managed diversified pension, endowment, or foundation fund. One of their investment specialists is Ed Bales, who has been on staff since the bicentennial year of 1976, the same year he married Anne-Marie Ruter whom he met earlier at the Council on Foreign Relations. The couple has two daughters, Charlotte, five, and Caroline, two. Ed earned an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago after a stint for the Peace Corps in Bangladesh where he supervised 5,000 locals in the building of 50 bridges.
Mel Meyers has moved up to group vice president of the newly-named Flat Glass Products group of LOF Glass of Toledo, Ohio. Previously vice president, administration, for LOF Glass, Mel is now responsible for products in the commercial, furniture, and mirror glass markets including the supply of clear, tinted, and new online coated float glass products. He has worked for Hoover Universal and Samsonite Corporation.
Morris Kramer, partner in the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom, played a prominent role in a summer Business Week story on the leading Wall Street mergers and acquisitions law firms. The story described a moment in the famous Texaco-Getty deal in which Morris frantically checked all of his partners to see if any other companies eying Getty had hired Morris's firm. The anecdote illustrated how big and close to so many corporations Skadden Arps is and how imminent are the possibilities therefore of conflict of interest. Morris found that Skadden Arps had not been hired by another bidder and went on to help Texaco do its deal.
Hope your deals this month are as good, or almost as good, and even if you don't have any to report, you'll let me know what's new.
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