1954

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Thanks to Dave Mandelbaum, I have enough news for this column. If Mandy continues his regular correspondence I might even avoid missing future columns. An impressive announcement came in the mail, indicating that David J. Mandelbaum and Company P.C. and Rich, Levine & Company Certified Public Accountants announced the merger of their practices under the firm name of Rich, Levine & Company. Dave can now be reached at the offices of Rich, Levine at 230 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10169.

Jerome Goldstein is extending his activities in the financial area. As you know, Jerry has been involved as a partner with Bear Stearns for many years. He recently has begun to taper off his administrative responsibilities and is devoting more of his time to developing investment opportunities individually and with other investors, including Bear Stearns. In an article in TheWall Street Journal, Bear Stearns announced that the company, with Jerry and the chairman of Jewelcor, Inc., had made an offer to purchase Jewelcor—a Wilkes-Barre, Pa., operator of catalog showrooms and printing and binding plants.

This winter the Sunday New York Times business section featured an article by Norm Veasey discussing the enactment by the state of Delaware of a new statute "intended to strike a balance between an unfettered market for corporate shares and the well-documented and judicially recognized need to limit abusive takeover tactics." Norm is a partner in the firm of Richards, Layton, Finger and is past president of the Delaware State Bar Association and former chairman of its corporation law committee.

Jim Berry has been selected to participate as one of five American humorists in an exchange program with the Soviet Union. The group, which includes Art Buchwald, will leave on June 19 for two weeks in Moscow, Leningrad, Tallin in Estonia, and Yerevan in Armenia. The trip is being organized by the Washington-based Workshop Library On World Humour, which studies the art of being funny. Jim draws "Berry's World" and has established a national reputation as a satirical cartoonist.

Maybe we can prevail on Jim to give us a report in a future DAM that draws on his trip—pun intended.

Don Berlin and his legion of assistant class agents are hard at work to produce another year of outstanding results for the class of 1954 Alumni Fund drive. If you haven't already responded to Don and the College, won't you please do so now.