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Among the news this month is word that Mike Diaz was named president of American President Intermodal, the double-stack, container-train operating unit of American President Companies, a container distribution and transportation services company based in Oakland, Calif. Before his recent appointment Mike was senior vice president, marketing and logistics, of American President Lines, the company's Pacific Basin container shipping unit. Among the other positions he has held since joining the container shipping unit of the company in 1978 are vice president, North America, and vice president, special services.

After graduating from the Yale School of Architecture in 1975, Tim Masters worked for a year in Mexico and ten years in B.oston before starting his own firm, Masters & Sargent Architects, in Boston. Over the past 20 months the firm has grown to a ten-person shop. Tim writes that the firm is always looking for new projects from Dartmouth classmates and friends.

John Pierce has been named vice president and a member of the executive committee of Yankee Publishing and publisher of The Old Farmer's Almanac. John, a native of New Hampshire whose home is in Dublin, N.H., has been with the company for 16 years. He will continue in the role of managing editor of Yankee.

Earlier this year Mike Furey assumed the presidency of the Morris County (N.J.) Bar Association. A trial lawyer by trade, Mike is a partner in the Morristown law firm of Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti.

Jim Bays is currently vice president and assistant general counsel of TRW, Inc. He and wife Martha have two children: Carter, 14, and Abby, 8. Last year, the Bays clan moved to a new home in Shaker Heights, two blocks away from their old spot.

Art Hittner, a partner in the Boston law firm of Peabody & Brown, recently became a minority stocldiolder and director of Diamond Action, Inc., which owns and operates the Elmira Pioneers, a minor-league professional baseball team in the Class A New York-Penn League. The team is an affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.

After six years in private practice with the Boston law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Steve Goldstein has moved on to become general counsel to the Pyramid Companies, a New York-based regional shopping center developer with a New England office in Boston. Andy Urban a partner in the 100-lawyer-plus Mintz, Levin firm is the proud father of a six-year-old son, Tim, and a 17-month-old daughter, Lindsay. Last summer the Urbans moved to West Newton, Mass.

That's all for now. Send in your cards and letters. We'll be back in the fall.

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