1962

A couple of military mat ters on the docket this issue. Hasbro Inc.'s GI Joe line of toys is 25 years old in 1989. As if this wasn't news enough, Hasbro recently announced the appointment of Barry Alperin as Gl (executive vice president in charge of legal affairs) for the large toy manufacturer. Barry, our former head class agent, and his wife, Mimi, operate out of a headquarters command bunker in New York City.

From the naval side comes word that Craig Dorman retired as a rear admiral, USN, on February 1. Craig has accepted the position of director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod. He and Cynthia will be relocating to Woods Hole in April and the Dormans invite all '62s to visit them while waiting to get across the Bourne Bridge.

Savings and loan institutions need all the good management talent they can get these days, and Naples Federal (Florida) got just that when it recently named Carl Palmer as president and chief operating officer. Carl joins the 43-branch organization after some 25 years in the commercial banking area (Chemical Bank of New York and Southeast Bank in Miami). He plans to move the healthy Naples Federal more into the consumer and commercial lending fields with less emphasis on the troubled S&L segment.

In another financially troubled area— Massachusetts higher education—PaulTsongas was recently named to head the state's Board of Regents. The board is responsible for 29 campuses, 20,000 employees, 180,000 students, and a $8OO million budget. It is hoped that Paul's appointment will give the Dukasis administration a "much-needed credibility transplant."

Also making the rounds of colleges is Rick Meyers, who is reporting on tne recent discovery of an 1,800-year-old mosaic floor in Israel. Dubbed the "Mona Lisa of Galilee," the mosaic portrait has been the subject of several television specials and will be on display in April at Jerusalem's Israel Museum. Rick and his wife, Carol (Wellesley '64), are both professors of archaeology at Duke University in Durham, N.C., ana co-directors of the Duke-funded Mona Lisa dig.

New digs are in order for Frank Barber as well. Frank was married last August to Debbie Estey, and the couple are living in Issaquah, Wash, (hang a left going north after the Bourne Bridge). Frank is continuing his radiology research work with a small institute in the Seattle area and enjoys the proximity of excellent skiing facilities.

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