1963

"General Washington, I am Benedict Arnold from Connecticut." Well, actually it was Steve Macht from Connecticut, now from Beverly Hills, Calif., playing a role in the nationally-televised "George Washington" mini-series which ran four consecutive evenings in April. It was quite a month for Steve, who earlier played Maluch in the new ABCTV movie Samson and Delilah, a remake of the 1949 Cecil B. deMille film.

Another busy guy in the spring was Jim Puklin, who ran in the Boston Marathon to tune up for the London Marathon in May. Jim, an ophthalmologist on the faculty of the Yale Medical School, has been running marathons for three years. He runs an average of 60 miles a week and when he's feeling real good goes as high as 80. Jim commutes to New Haven from nearby Madison, Conn., where he lives with his wife Diane and two daughters, Barbara, 16, a high school cheerleader, and Eileen, 11. He is a specialist in retinal detachment surgery, having studied medicine at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois, and Chicago Medical School.

Dr. Frederick H. Chaffee Jr., resident astronomer at the Fred L. Whipple Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution and acting director of the Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory in Tuscon, Ariz., is a member of an international team of astronomers searching for keys to understanding the evolutionary sequence of galaxy formation in the early universe. Recently the group made the first measurement of the size of possible protogalaxies diffuse galaxy-sized clouds seen at cosmological distance. The observing team found evidence not only for the presence of a cluster of galaxies suspected to be the lens at nine billion light-years from Earth, but also for the presence of the intergalactic clouds lying beyond the cluster at a distance of approximately ten billion light-years. The extreme distance of the clouds from Earth, as well as evidence from other investigations, suggests they may consist of primordial material representative of an early stage of the universe and the type of material out of which all other matter has evolved. Such clouds have long been known to exist, according to the observatory, but this is the first time they have been shown to have the size of galaxies.

Back on Earth, Skip Mattoon moved from the University of Arizona a few years ago and has become the dean of faculty at Deerfield Academy, his alma mater. Among his staff is his wife Lyn, a teacher of philosophy and English, a Wellesley graduate whom he married in 1964. The couple has two daughters, Danielle, 16, a junior at Exeter Academy, and Ashley, 14, who will attend Milton Academy next year. At the University of Arizona, Skip was the associate director of the Latin American Area Center, a natural progression from his Yale doctorate in Latin American history and two years of research in Brazil. He taught history for nine years at the University of Michigan. Skip has been in touch with DonMcKinnon and Bill Gifford.

Bob Wilson, whose oldest son Andrew graduated this year from Deerfield, heads a corporate communications firm in Dallas, whose clients include Ross Perot's EDS computer service company, Texas Industries, and "The MacNeil Lehrer Report." Bob's wife Laura is a photographer associated with Richard Avedon, a nationally-known photographer whose work is exhibited at prominent museums and galleries. The couple has two other sons, Owen, 15, and Luke, 12. Originally from Boston, Bob has worked for Texas Industries and was president of the Dallas public TV and radio stations before launching his business eight years ago.

Also in media is Steve Buckley, general manager and vice president of Press Enterprise, a newspaper, magazine, and printing operation in Bloomsburg, Pa. The company publishes a small morning newspaper for northeastern and central Pennsylvania, three weeklies in the Scranton area, and Underwater USA, a magazine for scuba divers. A New England native, Steve worked up the newspaper ranks in such places as Morristown, N.J., San Antonio, Tex., Anderson, S.C., and Miami, Fla. He and Sue have two daughters, Melissa, 16, and Amy, 12. The last classmate that Steve has seen was Gamma Delta Chi brother Jim Page, and that was with the Olympic ski team on TV.

Popping up again in the media was LouGerstner, who was credited by BusinessWeek in April for reversing the erosion of American Express's share of the travelers' check business and boosting the number of AmEx cards in circulation to 17.7 million from 10.5 million in 1979. AmEx's Travel Related Services Company, which Lou heads, reported a 40-percent gain in earnings in the first quarter of this year, contributing about 60 percent of AmEx's total profits.

Busy in the business world are Denis A.Bassett of Wilder, Vt„ Steve Lewinstein of Providence, R. I., and Harold G. Knight of Chestnut Hill, Pa.

Denis handles automobile sales and leasing for a Ford and Lincoln/Mercury dealership a few miles from his home. He and Gene have two daughters, Karen, 14, and Annie, 15. Steve is senior vice president of UST Corporation of Boston and president of three of its subsidiaries involved in tax planning, real estate, and venture capital. He and Diana have an eight-year-old son, Marc. Recently Steve ran into Pete Rotch, a Manchester, N.H., attorney with whom he was involved in a bank workout situation. Harold Knight is assistant vice president of PNC Financial Corporation in Philadelphia. He and Deborah, his wife by second marriage, have an 18-month-old son, Ben. Harold has two children by his first marriage, a son Seth, 17, and daughter Chris, 15. He saw Dave Hope, a lawyer, recently.

Late bulletin: The class of '63 leads the Group VI division of the Green Derby, the College's fund-raising competition, ahead of classes from 1956 to 1962. We've raised $90,965 and have achieved 76.4 percent of our objective. Have a great summer and don't forget the 1984 mini-reunion at the Harvard game in Hanover in the fall!

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