1957

The following have been nominated as class officers for the five-year term that will begin at our 30th reunion: President, Jack Hall; Secretary, Adam Block; Treasurer, George Johnston; 30th Year Head Agent, Hanny Mason; Head Class Agent, BillFlood; Resource Chairman, Eric Eichler; Newsletter Editor, Tom Schwarz; Social Chairman, Ted Spetnagle; and Alumni Councilor, George Johnston. Messrs. Hall, Johnston, Schwarz, Mason, and Spetnagle are already holding these positions. Also proposed is a slimmed down executive committee admonished by class President Jack Hall to "really work" and consisting of the following: Frank Bruni, Tom Donahoe,Eric Eichler, Harvey Epstein, Bill Flood,Dan Goggin, Bob Macdonald, Dick Perkins, Dan Searby, Joe Stevenson, and DickSunderland.

Dave Hurwitz is making a big move from his law firm where he was senior partner and a founding father to become legal counsel ]of Mark Goodson and GNG, Goodson is a well-known television producer who has been making investments in newspapers throughout his career. He now has 50 papers including his recent acquisition of the New Haven Register. Dave will continue to be located in New York and will serve as the primary spokesman for the group in addition to overseeing financial activities and assisting in the acquisition of additional projects.

Did you know that our class had an indirect connection with Irangate? William Satire's column reported that "nosy members [of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board] not beholden to William Casey, such as the diplomat Seymore Weiss and the economist Martin Anderson, were booted out at just the time the CIA's involvement was expanding." So that's where Marty was when we needed him.

Dick Van Riper has begun a new business following his Atlantic Richfield division having been shot out from under him through a divestment. He is now a manufacturing representative and the head of Van Riper Sales Company. His products include both raw materials and engineering components which are sold to New England's OEMs. As Dick gets started, wife Mary is contributing to the cash flow through her activities as a relocation counselor in Fairfield, Conn. Dick plans on being back for our 30th reunion and showing a little early speed in the 3K run.

A role model for '57s for that way-off day when we retire is Jay Greene. An eye ailment has left him unable to read and forced his early retirement from San Francisco General Steamship Corporation, where he was a managing director and major shareholder. Has he gone quietly into the night? Nope. Some of his activities in recent months: marrying wife number three, Paulina, and moving to the small town of St. Helena in the lovely Napa Valley. He continues to follow his historical and literary interests through students who come in the afternoon to read to him and through Books on Tape, which he recommends to classmates who have long daily car commutes. He is a member of the Bohemian Club Chorus and has just had a solo recital (baritone yearning to be a tenor) of songs from the British Isles and Broadway. And if that was not enough, he is an active colleague of Don Johanson's (discoverer of four million-yearold Lucy) Institute of Human Origins. Jay just came back from two and a half weeks with Johanson digging in Africa's Olduvai Gorge and the Serengeti. Now that's what John Sloan Dickey meant when he talked to us on becoming "men of parts."

57's in town again RETURN TO THE SOURCE June 15-17, 1987

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