1949

I regret that my reliance on the tardiness of delivery of the ALUMNI Magazine resulted in foreclosure of my class notes column in the March issue, but I am assured that the authorities are taking steps to guarantee timely printing and mailing of the Magazine, which should please all of us. Meanwhile, I assuage your understandable thirst for information by a bit longer column in this edition.

Your reporter had the very pleasant experience of joining Paul Woodberry and his wife Sandy in mid-February for breakfast at the Stanford Court on Nob Hill. The deceptivelyenergetic Boston Latin School graduate enthusiastically resides in Dallas, where he is executive vice president of Centex Corporation, a major real estate developer. Paul also serves on the Board of Directors of Boothe Financial Corporation, a San Francisco-based firm with exotic moves in financing mechanisms and entreprenurial whiz-bangs of all sort. There are no less than five children of that part of the Woodberry clan (Paul's brother, Bob '54, is the beloved president of our Dartmouth Club of Northern California and Nevada and a "big man around town"), consisting of Laura Lee '78, who was captain of the women's .varsity crew team in her mighty heyday; Seth, '79; Helen, a' senior at the very literate Middlebury College; Sarah, a member of the class of 1987; and Sturgis, who received early admission to the class of 1988. Not bad for one of Tuck's finer products.

Paul transmitted to me a copy of the January 30 edition of The Wall Street Journal which gave United States Senator Slade Gorton major credit for altering President Reagan's policy on the national deficit. At a U.S. Senate hearing in Salt Lake City on January 16, Slade expressed to Treasury Secretary Donald Regan "sharp disagreement" with the "let's-not-rock-the-boat-until-after-the- election" attitude regarding the deficit, and told Secretary Regan, "Even from a political standpoint, dealing with these problems (this year) will pay real dividends." In President Reagan's subsequent State-of-the-Union address, the President proposed that a bi-partisan group meet to formulate a "down payment" to reduce the deficit by $100 billion over three years.

My son Shep was in the Salt Lake City area for a week of skiing and used the opportunity, at the old man's suggestion, to visit the Rustler Lodge at Alta, laying the groundwork for possible winter-quarter employment in 1985. Unfortunately, Shep missed the friendly proprietor, Lee Bronson, who has operated that premier Utah ski lodge for nearly 30 years. I spoke by telephone with Lee, who told me that Win Wilson, who resides in Tacoma, Wash., and his wife were staying at the Rustler Lodge that very week. Lee actually lives in Salt Lake City, since his stepson, Jeff Anderson '74, performs the heavy-duty managerial functions, thus also permitting Lee winter residency in Phoenix. Golf is his main game, although he attained his fame with skiing.

Skip Unger presented me with the longest shaggy-dog story of 1984 thus far. For a copy, please write Skip or me. It involves Manya (his dutiful wife), and some Welsh Terrier. Thanks, Skip - for nothing.

Our beloved president, Tom Schwartz, reports a successful "winter doldrums" weekend in New York in late March. This is a "first" for the class and, according to Tom, it "is definitely on the drawing board as an annual." From Friday evening until Saturday afternoon, a group of 14 participants, using a "sensational bargain rate at the Yale Club in New York," had dinner at a splendid Chinese restaurant, enjoyed a walking tour of midtown New York, saw a Broadway show, dined at one of the currently "in" restaurants, danced to "our" kind of music, and listened to some of the best jazz extant. He promises that in 1985 a date will be established well in advance for early March and he anticipates a larger throng.

Dr. Jack Hartwig is a longtime orthopedic surgeon in Minneapolis. Brother Bill Hartwig '48 advises that Jack's son Steve received early admission to the class of 1988.

Finally, Jay Urstadt's publicly-owned real estate company, Pearce, Urstadt, Mayer and Greer Inc., announced in early March that it had applied for a federal-stock-saving bank charter. Jay is chairman and chief executive officer, and promised that upon approval by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, he would not serve in any official capacity with the bank, which will concentrate on mortgage lending to complement the business of the parent company. Gunther Perdue is an early investor, conditioned upon the first branch of the bank being opened in Canastota. Gunther doesn't like to fly to make his bountiful deposits, but he's still all heart.

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