1956

By the time this column reaches you, the 30th reunion will be fast upon us. June 15- 17 promises to be an exciting experience of education, entertainment, and empathy. Perhaps we should add exhausting. Reunion chairman Tom Rosenwald reports (mid-March) that 160-170 classmates will be returning, which, when added to wives, friends, and children, could result in 350 400 attendees. What better way to begin the summer. Be there!

Reuning and communing with the College are important. Of equal importance is the financial support which reunion classes particularly provide to the College. The Alumni Fund is not, in this writer's opinion, an opportunity; it is an obligation. Be there, too!

Good news must be the order of the day, reflecting the theory that "no news is good news," because the mailbag is decidedly light. As a P.S. to our column last month, a news release on George Brophy reports that he has been awarded the 1986 Achievement Award of the National Commercial Finance Association. George and several other investors LBO'd Morgan Products in 1983 and have quadrupled its value in under four years.

The state of California seems to like our classmates. Joining John Van de Kamp (currently attorney general) in government service is John Liebman, who has been appointed by Governor George Deukmejian to the California State World Trade Commission. John is a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Nossaman, Guthner, Knox and Elliott and specializes in multinational business transactions and international trade regulation. He reports that most of his activities involve lobbying the California Congressional Delegation on trade issues. John and his wife, Marilyn, intend to return east for the 30th reunion and expect to be joined by daughter Andrea, who will have graduated the weekend before from UCLA.

On a cold day in early February, your secretary and his wife combined attendance at a nephew's hockey game with a visit and dinner with Cube and Joyce Conroy in Simsbury, Conn. Cube continues his law practice in Avon, dabbles in Democratic politics, and journeys north with great frequency to visit his condo across the river from Hanover, where the second of two Dartmouth sons is a sophomore. Cube also provided a list of additional attendees at the January New York dinner: Art Katz, BillTell, Skip Sisson, Al Friedman, TomKuhn, and Dick Rosen.

On another cold evening in February, Ann and I joined Wally and Sybil Pugh at their home in Darien. Classmates will be surprised to learn that soccer and lacrosse never came up in the conversation. Wally is a partner of Price Waterhouse with a particular interest in supporting the education grants of the firm. Ours is a friendship that spans 40 years, starting on a muddy soccer field at a junior high school outside of Philadelphia. Who said nostalgia ain't what it used to be?

Think 30!

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