1949

A couple of years ago we had the awesome spectacle of Slade Gorton leading his wife and three children by bicycle from Seattle to Hanover. Now, we salute the stately George Hartman and wife Anne, showing the kids how to do it via a cruise this summer from Rhode Island to the Virgin Islands as a rerun of their honeymoon trip 25 years ago. The honeymooners' boat, you can be assured, was much smaller then, in consonance with the financial state of a freshly-minted bridegroom. George and Anne live in Barrington, R. 1., with two daughters: Katharine, a junior at Barrington High School who has artistic proclivities, and Elizabeth, a sophomore at Barrington High, who is tall and a basketball player (genetics does work). The boys in the family, Michael and Steven, are men of Dartmouth. Michael graduated in 1983, majoring in physics. He teaches at the Wooster School in Connecticut and is due to be married on June 1 in St. Johnsbury, Vt. Steven is a member of the class of 1985, majoring in government and aspiring to a career in foreign affairs, having already lived in Spain, Ecuador, and Mexico at various times in his young life. George and Anne own one-half of a ski house near North Conway, N.H., as well as a 100 percent interest in a sailing boat which they maintain in Barrington. With Textron, Inc., in Providence since 1981, George is a group vice president and a vibrant and energetic regional leader in the capital gifts campaign for the Thayer School.

Elliot Baritz is the president and proprietor of the Handy Button Machine Company, which sounds like a fictitious entity from one of those Tuck School courses that either fas- cinated or dulled the boys 35 years ago. The Handy Button Machine Company is a metal stamping business, which produces such items as metal tops for aerosol cans, "church keys," the inside of caskets, and rabbits' feet. How's that for a potpourri of profitable trivia items? Ellie has his main plant in Woodside, N.Y., one in New Jersey, and two in Illinois. Visiting Chicago on a regular basis, he touches base with Reed Parker. Ellie and wife Margie have four children. Eric, married, is a computer specialist in Chicago; Neil lives in Brooklyn and is a lawyer with E.F. Hutton; Marc is a salesman with Ellie and due to be married this spring; Cindy, the youngest at 19, works in the metropolitan New York area. Ellie is running for re-election as a fourth term mayor of Roslyn Estates on Long Island and was looking forward to two weeks in Acapulco after the election.

Rod Finkbiner is a physician specializing in gastroenterology with a medical group in Bryn Mawr, Pa., consisting of 24 doctors. After graduating from Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Rod interned and did residency work in Boston and has been a member of that group for 27 consecutive years. Wife Joyce and he have spawned three children. Isabel, married to a lawyer in Media, Pa., is a member of the class of 1977 and mother of three children. Brent is a member of the class of 1986 at the College, and Richard, who is 26 years of age, is a senior at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Rod and Joyce own a condominium near Tampa, Fla., and Rod's main hobby is golf, although the swimming pool in the back of the family domicile offers the opportunity for immediate exercise on a regular basis.

From Deke Jackson in Altamonte Springs, Fla., emanated a lively note and a livelier snapshot. The message advises that "Bean- bag has come to central Florida!" and depicts Spud Parsons ("who pitches the bag with a wicked curve"), Deke (who "early retired" from the Chicago banking business and landed in Orlando, only to reenter banking with more moves than ever before), and the well known "insurance and financial mo- gul," John Everatt, (who wants to franchise beanbag and retire). Deke and wife Nadine left daughters Mary and Jill in Illinois. I don't know if they know about this beanbag phenomenon. Thus far, no proven link to senility has been established.

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