1957

Well, no group of '57s ever had a better time than the Schwarzes, Silbermans, and Searbys, during a glorious February week in Jamaica. We stayed at a four-bedroom guest cottage on an estate overlooking Montego Bay and the Caribbean. We were pampered by a staff of three and had our own pool and lighted tennis court. The days were devoted to reading and tennis, where Tommy "The Shot" Schwarz prevailed. In the evenings we got even by a spirited pommeling to convince Tom that being an Eleanor Roosevelt thinkalike was okay in the fifties and sixties but not as useful for the problems of the eighties. As an act of contrition, Tom graciously agreed to a remedial reading list that included George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty and Paul Johnson's Modern Times. Each evening concluded with kindergarten teacher Shirley leading all of us, including three-year-old Ka-tie Searby and the Jamaican staff, in the "Elephant Walk," a wild, rum-fueled conga line that lurched from end to end of our cottage. At the end of the week it was tough to head north.

However, Larry Silberman had a special reason for returning: President Reagan has just nominated him to be a federal judge in the District of Columbia's influential Third Circuit Court of Appeals. This is the latest step in a distinguished career that includes postings as Under Secretary of the Department of Labor, Deputy Attorney General, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, and executive vice president of the Crocker Bank. Larry has pledged to solemnize all of 1957's future nuptials and to provide unlimited stays of execution. Corporate chieftains accused of white collar crime or antitrust manners should first consult the Baker Library New Wing Committee. All in all, it is nice to have friends in high places.

Another influential classmate is Marty Anderson, who in the past developed the seminal arguments which led to new approaches in public housing projects and to an all-vol-unteer army. You may also recall that last fall Marty was supporting Star Wars in The NewYork Times when a lot of folks thought it was an idea that would not get anywhere. Marty's latest derring-do has kept the Reagan Presidential Library from being located at the entrance to Portola Valley, the small California town in which he and I both live. Instead Marty has been able to overcome some faculty opposition and have the Reagan Library placed on a 20-acre site which overlooks Stanford's central campus. Marty, you're one hell of a guy!!!

Gordon Bjork has just been named the first Henry A. Walker Jr. Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Hawaii. This is a visiting professorship for the academic year of 1985-86. For the past ten years Gordon has taught economics at Claremont in California in both graduate and undergraduate programs. He is superactive and has authored three books and a number of articles, while maintaining a business consultancy. Gordon's post-Dartmouth career includes degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and the University of Washington. His Dartmouth daughter, Kate, class of '85, was picked as the outstanding freshman in 1982.

Can you believe that Ed Waldron is retiring from Bethlehem Steel after 27 years and leaving Cleveland, Ohio, the Hawaii of the Midwest. Ed and Jan will be moving to Tampa, Fla., where Ed will join a real estate company specializing in commercial properties.

Pete Buswell has sold his Florida Steel Company, North American Steel Corporation. He is forming a venture capital firm to invest in other start-up situations.

I got a nice letter from Andy Turner, who turned 50 at the beginning of 1985. Wife Ellie celebrated the event by cramming a host of well-wishers into their Mount Vernon, Va., house ("behind George and Martha's place," modestly admits Andy) for a surprise party. Present was John Stouffer, a former Turner roommate and cofounder of Sigma Chi's "Mermaid Room." John is now running the navy from Norfolk, Va. Andy still is with Computer Sciences' government contracts division while Ellie has a thriving travel business. Andy's aphorism for younger classmates: "If you look back too much, you run into things that will slow you down!!"

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