Class Notes

1949

NOVEMBER • 1985 Quentin L. Kopp
Class Notes
1949
NOVEMBER • 1985 Quentin L. Kopp

Stu Sayre is running an interesting business called American Abrasive Metals Company, which is located in Irvington, N.J, It is a kind of family business in that Stu's father and brother were associated with it until his father died in 1967, at which time Stu joined his brother. Manufacturing coatings for United States Navy vessels such as the U.S.S. Coral Sea, and the U.S.S. Enterprise, and the U.S.S. CarlVinson, Stu does a good bit of traveling to navy ports at San Diego and Alameda, Calif., and elsewhere.

Stu and wife Nancy have three children. Libby, a 1975 Middlebury graduate, lives in Berkeley and is the administrator of the history department at the University of California. She was recently elected the president of a new local union formed by the administrators at U.C. Stephen, a graduate of Tufts, obtained a master's degree at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts and, later, a master's of business administration at Wharton School. He is married and engaged in a software capital venture firm in Cambridge, Mass., known as Softbridge International. Son Casey is a Cornell graduate who is employed, by Data General Corporation in Boston. Stu plays a good deal of tennis, paddle tennis, and golf, and will be attending the 40th reunion of his graduating class" at the Episcopal School in Virginia in lieu of our class fall mini-reunion but expects to be with us in 1986.

Jack Hartwig is an orthopedic surgeon who lives in Bloomington, Minn., and practices in the Minneapolis area. Mary and he have five children, the youngest of whom, Steve, is a member of the class of 1988 at the College, after graduating cum laude from the Blake School in Minneapolis. Another son, Paul, is in a rock'n'roll band known as Limited Warranty, which recently won first prize in Ed MacMahon's syndicated cable television show called "Star Search." The prize is S100,000. Jack flew to the finals in Los Angeles from two months of winter vacationing in Colorado. From Colorado, Jack and Mary flew to Paris for Jack's 60th birthday and a party given by daughter Martha, who has been studying for the past year in Europe and attends Carlton College in Minnesota. Son David is engaged in commercial fishing in Alaskan waters for salmon. His wife and he reside in Seattle. Daughter Anne, who was a top-flight Olympic level skier, is married and living in Fargo, N.D. Last year, after attending a medical convention in Yugoslavia, Jack rented an automobile and visited the places in France and Germany which he had seen as a soldier in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Another happy traveler is Bill Boardman. He's in the insurance business with Hare and Chase Corporation in Ardmore, Pa., outside Philly, and won a prize for production. As a result, Ohio Casualty Company invited wife Sarah and him to Edinburgh, Scotland, and then London. Subsequently, they toured France, Belgium, and the Netherlands on their very first trip to Europe. In autumn of 1984, they toured California from San Francisco to San Diego and then visited Hawaii. Bill plays golf and contends that at the age of 60 it seems advisable to make up for lost time with peregrinations of that sort. His son lives in New Hampshire and his daughter, who has a boy of two, lives in Vermont.

Last May, the Vermont chapter of the American Society for Public Administration announced that the 1985 recipient of its Rolf N.B. Haugen Award was RichardW. Mallary. The award is given every two years for "distinguished service to public administration in Vermont." It was presented to Dick at a dinner in Burlington. Dick's career was characterized as remarkable for its diversity and for the acclaim he has received for his bedrock integrity, commitment to the work ethic, and innovative thinking, especially in administrative reorganization. From small town officials to halls of Congress, Dick was recognized as epitomizing the Vermont tradition of public service. He was a selectman from Fairlee from 1951 to 1953, a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, Speaker of the House from 1966 until 1968, member of the Vermont State Senate, Commissioner of Administration, secretary of the new Agency Administration, vice president of the Farm Credit Bank, member of the Congress of the United States, and executive vice president of the Central Service Corporation. Dick, who lives in Charlotte, Vt., is chairman of the board of Cantherm Corporation in Burlington. His father is a member of the class of 1921, and his brother DeWitt graduated magna cum laude in 1947. Dick himself was a Rufus Choate Scholar and graduated summa cum laude.

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