1963

How would you like to go to a cocktail party once a month and meet some of the most interesting people in the world? I do it without leaving my desk, and that's good, because few bartenders could live on what I put away.

This month I came across BusterWelch, a researcher for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, who lives in Winnipeg with his wife, Cathy, and three sons and a daughter. Buster used to do limnological (lake) research but is now working on the Arctic Ocean, on the productivity of marine mammal food chains. Last year Buster and Cathy did a lot of work on the Northwest Passage, traveling by snowmobile and small boat around the Central Arctic Islands. Next year they move to the high Arctic and are having a 42-foot vessel built in Nova Scotia just for the trip. Buster relaxes by making furniture and canoeing and hunting. He also reads and thinks a lot about disarmament and urges us to do the same. Buster says his youngest son, Colin, is a chip off the old block when it comes to fishing and has taken over his old fly-tying desk, where he used to turn out flies for Sid Hay ward and Corey Ford.

When last heard from, Dave Bowman was in.Mexico City, churning out editorials for The News, Mexico City's Englishlanguage daily, but found time to produce a glowing book review in the summer issue of this magazine on The Fall of Saigon by David Butler, whose earlier New YorkTimes review was recapped here in September. Bowman's opinion? "A masterful book, a triumph of reason, which any correspondent would be proud of." And that from a foreign correspondent himself, formerly of Costa Rica for the United Press International and the Memphis Press-Scimitar. (Butler was a correspondent for NBC radio in Vietnam.) Bowman, too, is writing a book about Mexico City.

Rick Asher, author and teacher on Southwest Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota, has been named dean of faculty affairs at the College of Liberal Arts.there. Two books by Kick are Art ofEastern India, 300-800 A.D. and Epigraphyin the Art of India. Not too far away, Jeff.Rosen is a senior systems analyst in the data systems center at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, doing both analysis work and coding. Hilda, who met Jeff at Winter Carnival in 1963, is a clinical instructor/pediatric respiratory therapist at the Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor. They have two daughters.

What do Bugs Bunny, Big Bird, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Sid Vicious, the Sex Pistols, and the Human League have in common? They have all been clients at one time or another of Jim Palik, a lawyer engaged in the practice of domestic and foreign trademark and unfair competition law. How would you like to get. sued by Big Bird? Now Oscar the Grouch, I can understand. Jim is managing partner of New York law firm Rogers, Hoge, and Hills and recently talked to Harris Aaronson, "who was winging from coast to coast in legal representation." Maybe he handles Superman. No, Harris's client is a computer entrepreneur.

Looking for a nice investment on the west coast of Florida? Maybe something on or near the water? Try Bruce Deery, who specializes in these homes for Merrill Lynch Realty. He lives in Siesta Key and can be reached on weekdays at 813/922- 0791.

If you have a personal or business computer in your life, and we're all affected one way or another, then some thanks should go to Steve Garland, professor of computer science and mathematics at Dartmouth. As an undergraduate Steve teamed with former president Kemeny (then Professor Kemeny), Professor Thomas E. Kurtz, and Robert Hardgraves '61 to create BASIC computer language and the world's first operational timesharing system. Today Dartmouth leads the nation in student- computer use. Last fall some 80 percent of the freshman class and 40 percent of the upperclassmen bought personal computers in a special arrangement between Dartmouth and Apple Computer, Inc.

Bang the Drum Slowly, the 1973 film about the friendship between a hapless catcher and the team pitching ace, star-, ring Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty, was shown, appropriately, on national television this summer. The NewYork Times called it a "compelling drama."

A couple of classmates, Dave Schwartz and Jim Linksz, offer ways of getting away from the desk and sometimes even performing a social service. Schwartz, a radiologist in Worcester, Mass., has been flying his own plane to the northeast and Canada over the past seven years; Linksz, who is dean of faculty at Catonsville Community College, used to drive ambulances while he worked his way up the academic vine in rural Maryland.

A graduate of Albert Einstein Medical School in New York, Dave Schwartz lives in Northboro, Mass., a suburb of Worcester. He and wife Nancy, who owns a computer software business, have two boys, Eric, 15, and Daniel, 13, and a summer house in Cape Cod. Dave sees RonRosenfeld, a cardiologist in Nashua, N.H., once in a while. Jim Linksz earned a doctorate at Columbia Teachers College and was the first dean at Maryland's Rapahannock Community College before moving to Catonsville, where he teaches art and humanities. Jim lives in Ellicott City, a Baltimore suburb, and has an eight-year-old son, Justin.

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