1957

Erv and Liz Phillips's daughter Sarah died in the Pan Am disaster over Scotland last December. A student at the University of Colorado, she had been studying in Europe and was on the way home. George Johnston, Bob Macdonald, Paul Raslavicus, and Bob Shirley attended the memorial service. Bob Shirley said, "The Episcopal Church in Newton was jammed, mostly with Sarah's high school friends, and many people stood outside in the rain. It was absolutely, overwhelmingly sad. Erv was best man at my wedding and my roommate at med school, and we are very close. After the service, I walked into his kitchen and just hugged him for five minutes."

Erv asked that any gifts in Sarah's memory be sent to Rosie's Place, 889 Harrison Avenue, Roxbury, Mass. Bob Shirley described it as a place for the homeless to get patched up, a meal, and a start toward getting back on their feet. Rosie runs it with no overhead, so every penny that we might contribute will get used for something good.

For the last sixyears, Gene Booth has been executive director of the Rhode Island Human Rights Commission. He and his staff enforce anti-discrimination laws in employm ent, housing, and credit. Gene feels the greatest problem he faces is the contem porary bureaucratic climate. "What we do isn't very popular right now. There's an attitude that discrimination doesn't exist any more, and if it does, so what." Previously, Gene had been director of the Massachusetts agency responsible for educating the state's institutionalized population aged three to 22. Though he's pretty much hung up the basketball shoes, Gene has been doing some running and a lot of vegetable gardening. He sees fellow Weston, Mass., resident Bob Macdonald "at least once a month, at the dump or somewhere."

In the 25th Reunion book, Moose Leavitt reported he had worked his butt off, made some money, and retired. He now 'fesses up that, "I retired from the law practice and got involved in some other things that kept me very busy. I own one of the largest law schools in the country ... with over seventeen hundred students, and campuses in Orange County and San Diego, California. I'm the chief financial officer and, unfortunately, don't participate in the academics. Right now I'm trying a securities fraud case that should be over in a month and then I'm going to go into retirement again."

The New York mini-reunion in late January was attended by two dozen '57s and significant others. In addition to the regulars, it was great that Pete Buswell, DickMason, Keith Nolan, and George Roumanis made the party. Hanny Mason cooked up a full schedule of meals and amusements in the Big Apple, including the Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition at the Metropolitan and a performance ofM.Butterfly. Dinner at the Yale Club on Friday night was a combined affair with the class of '56; and their social chairman, Cube Conroy, hopes the two classes will do more together before our joint 35th.

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