1981

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More details on the '81 Diaspora. John Mott came into my sights recently at a swish cocktail party in the East 40's, one which both of us had crashed, of course. John was sporting a wide Mottley smile, which I thought quite an achievement for a law student. He's in New York for the spring, clerking for a judge in Manhattan on a coop term of study with Northeastern Law School. Says he finds law a pretty stimulating pursuit... clearly a silver lining specialist. And speaking of silver linings, life in corporate America does, indeed, have its rewards. I called Glen Havlicek, now a VP at Chemical working on futures and options, to cull some info for this column and caught him and his wife on their way out the door for a week's worth of beachside bliss in the BVI. Needless to say, he could not have cared less about this column, and, admitting that his brain was already in vacation mode, he was able to tell me only that Neils Sokol was working for some mortgage bank in Boston and that Squeeze, John Pasquesi, was in San Francisco doing something. This is the kind of response I get.

For those of you who missed the People issue on the U.S.S.R. (April 16), go back to your local library and turn to the Publisher's Letter. There you will see a picture of a grinning Monty Brower freezing his tush in Tashkent. Monty, an assistant editor for People, was on the team dispatched to the U.S.S.R. to interview and write about our furry hatted friends and to bring glasnost to your local supermarket.

Dee Daly is working in the D.A.'s office in Manhattan saying no to drugs and drug offenders. Word has it she is engaged to a fellow lawyer. Scott Halsted was married in May to Mary Lorillard. Scott received an engineering degree from Thayer in 'B2 and finished up an M.B.A. at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management in June.

Jeff Gundlach was promoted to assistant vice president at Trust Company of the West and is working in fixed income investments. He joined the company in 1985 from TransAmerica Corporation, where he had been an analyst in the insurance division. Liz Viscott is wrapping up a job in PR for Ultrashort Magazine and will be starting the master's program in creative writing at Boston University this summer. And, Bill Burgess, I hear, will be leaving San Francisco for Baltimore and starting with the investment bank Alex Brown and Company.

So, that should be sufficient news to schmooz with at your next soiree. Talk to you soon.

All the best. Ernest & Julio

Three alums who happened to meet at Alta, Utah, during spring skiing season are, left to right, Holly Dustin '81,-David Gundy '62, and Betsy Knight '81.