1963
Remember, you read it here first! Two lawyers, covered recently in this column, were profiled during the winter in American Lawyer. Ed McCabe, who founded a new law firm in Boston, was the subject for the Heavy Hitters" column in February, and Morris Kramer, a mergers and acquisitions specialist, figured prominently in a frontpage feature on his New York firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, in March.
Morris, according to the story, headed the team that "held together the biggest deal in history: Texaco's $10-billion takeover of Getty Oil," A protege of Joseph Flom, "the firm's chairman and guiding genius," Morris is considered a member of the front-line that manages the monstrous takeover battles that characterize Skadden, Arps's practice. American Lawyer described him as "the wild man of Skadden's corporate team, the lawyer who is still happiest in the frenzy of a takeover fight, going without sleep for days, as he did on the Getty-Texaco deal."
"Brash in Boston?" was the headline for Ed McCabe's story, which decribes the meteoric rise of his fledging firm in the space of less than two years. McCahe/Gordon "launched a specialty practice that is flashy, aggressive, and successful," said the publication. They've located in "plush art-deco offices" and have the latest in computer technology including lawyer work stations and electronic mail. Ed, who just opened a New York office, specializes in bankruptcy for clients including the stockholders of Wilson Foods and the bondholders of Braniff International Airlines.
Tom Berardino, a member of our executive committee, has been named president of the newly-formed electronics materials and services group of Olin Corporation in Stamford, Conn. A vice president at Olin since 1982, Tom had come from Exxon Company, U.S.A., where he spent 17 years in a variety of management positions. Tom studied engineering science at the College and earned an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University.
Two more executives were recently promoted with Steve Lister being named vice president, corporate budgets and planning, at Colgate-Palmolive Company.
The second recently-promoted classmate is Steve Frank, appointed group comptroller, manufacturing, fabricating,chemicals, and associated subsidiaries,for U.S. Steel. Steve, whose promotion was briefly noted here recently, began his career with U.S. Steel in 1966 as a treasury department trainee in Chicago. He got to Pittsburgh, headquarters for U.S. Steel, via Detroit in 1972, but left for a few years in the late seventies to manage the sales office in Baltimore. Prior to his promotion, Steve was president of U.S. Steel Credit Corporation. In college he studied economics, went on to earn an M.B.A. at the University of Michigan, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Kirke Vernon, transplanted from Worcester, Mass., is marketing manager at Western Paper in Kansas City, Kans. Suffering from the flu in April, Kirke was sidelined from a rigorous schedule of running and tennis. A 4:15 marathon runner, Kirke recently ran into Bill Heimovics, a Kansas City native. Kirke and Martha have two children Chris, 12, and Pat, ten.
Roger Parkinson, who gained national prominence through his efforts to save TheBuffalo Courier-Express, one of a number of major afternoon daily newspapers that had to cease publishing in the eighties, is publisher and president of The Minneapolis Star andTribune and executive vice president and member of the board of directors of Cowles Media Company, the parent company. Roger's wife Maureen is a 1982 graduate of Georgetown University Law School and a tax associate with Dorsey and Whitney, the largest law firm in Minnesota. The couple's daughter Deborah is five.
Jeff Plancey, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Dental School, practices in New Providence, N.J., and lives with his wife Linda and two sons, Howard, 15, and Michael, 12, in nearby Summit. Mike Cardozo does a lot of traveling with his wife Haralyn to do international negotiations for G. William Miller and Company, an investment banking firm where he is partner. A relatively new father, Mike has two daughters Eden, one and a half, and Julia, four months. Larry Bailey is a lawyer in Seattle in a firm which includes his good friend, Bill Neukom '64. Larry recently joined the firm in a year of big changes which included a new home and a new baby, Andrew Phillip (ten pounds, eight ounces). Other children are Bruce, 13, Peter, 11, and Robin, nine. Larry saw PaulMeunzner not long ago.
Jon Moscartolo is a painter with studios in New York and Cape Cod and is working on an anti-nuclear mural to be exhibited this fall at the Alpert Gallery in Boston. Formerly a member of the art departments at Skidmore College and Wheelock College, Jon is married to Delphia, director of nursing and administrative vice president at Waltham Hospital. They have two children, Jonas, a freshman at Tulane University, and. Jason, a junior at Newton North High School.
Denis Eagle is "looking forward to the 1984 mini-reunion with great excitement, as it is not only a time to renew old friendships but our first football weekend with son Jevin accepted on early admission to the class of '88." Jim Page, Nordic director of the U.S. ski program in the 1984 Olympics, competed as a cross-country skier in the 1964 Olympics 20 years ago and was head coach of the Dartmouth ski team for four years, winning one NCAA championship. And a note to fans of Mick Friedman and John Krumme: they are reported to be alive and well in the San Francisco Bay area. More remembrances of times past next month.
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