1970

I am pleased to be able to share a lot of good news with you this month. It has taken me a while to accumulate it and I am eager to hear from all of you so that there will be more to share in months ahead.

I had a note over the holidays from Lenny Banos, who had a lot to report. His wife Jan is working as a professional recruiting consultant for General Electric on a part-time basis, taking care of the children during the rest of the time. Lenny, for his part, has left Compugraphic and with three others has bought a graphic arts dealership in the south part of Boston. Lenny wrote that this represents quite a change, but it's his, as he says, and there is great satisfaction in that. Lenny is the financial wizard who worries about billing, cash flow, collections, bank relations, etc. The company has 20 employees and 10,000 square feet of warehouse space and Lenny sounds very enthusiastic about the venture.

Sandy and Louise Ferguson wrote to report that they are the proud parents of one Andrew Barnett Ferguson, who was born on December 19, 1983, weighing seven pounds, nine ounces. Sandy and Louise are quite taken with their new arrival, who apparently is built like Atlas, with broad shoulders and black hair, and is a tall fellow for his age.

In mid-January I had a chance to get caught up with Tom and Jan Evans. These folks have taken the Cape (Cape Cod, that is) by storm. Tom is the headmaster of Cape Cod Academy, an.independent day school with classes from kindergarten through grade 12. Under Tom's direction the academy has expanded significantly. For her part, Jan is a very highly-regarded kindergarten teacher in Osterville, Mass. Listening to some of the innovative things she is doing with the young folk of the Cape was fascinating and it is no wonder that people hope Mrs. Evans will be their child's teacher. Tom and Jan have worked on a beautiful Cape house and have really settled into their environment.

I also had a note from Stu Zuckerman, who, it turns out, lives about three blocks away from me and had been parking his car in the garage in my apartment building. The past year has been an exciting one for Stu and his wife, Carol Masius (NYU '70). Their daughter, Kathryn "Kate" Leigh, was born in December 1983 and both Stu and Carol began new jobs shortly thereafter. Stu joined Katz Independent Television as New York sales manager for the Metromedia stations. For Stu it was a logical transition, since he had been with Metromedia since 1974, initially as a director of promotion for WNEW-AM, where he worked with Gene Klavan, among others. In 1976 he moved over to Metro-TV sales as an account executive and has been in the marketing and sales end of television ever since. Stu's career responsibilities include the representation of Metromedia's TV properties in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Washington, D.C. This makes use of his graduate work in marketing and communications at Stanford which followed his time at Dartmouth.

Carol, for her part, has started the Carol Masius Literary Agency. This venture began shortly after Kate was born. To this, Carol brings quite a background first on the editorial side at Simon and Schuster and Putnam's, then as a, literary agent at International Creative Management. Carol's authors ran the gamut from those writing romance novels to physicians who are doing definitive studies on various diseases.

In addition, Stu made mention in his letter of the fantastic 25th anniversary celebration at WDCR this past spring. Our class was represented by Paul Gambaccini, who was in from BBC in London where he hosts popular radio shows, as you may recall from prior columns; Stu; and Bill Moyes, who runs a radio consulting firm called the Research Group and who also owns a chain of stations.

Tom Coffman, who is an architect, is the project manager of a new village center on Skidaway Island in Georgia. Tom works with Sasaki Associates. They are providing master planning, architectural, and landscape architectural service for the 110,000-square-foot site in a resort and residential development on the island, which is near Savannah. The town center will include retail shops, a grocery store, offices, banks, and other servicerelated facilities to serve the island community. The firm is headquartered in Watertown, Mass., and has regional offices in Coral Gables, Fla., and Washington, D.C. The firm also provides urban design, civil engineering, and environmental services.

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