1957

In mid-August, Jack Cramer, Dan Goggin, George Johnston, Bob Shirley, and Phil Rollins played in the third annual golf tournament in memory of Phil's daughter Allison. As you will recall, she was a merchant marine officer who died several years ago in a tragic service-related accident.

The tournament is a scramble in which each player manually positions his ball within a club-length of his foursome's best previous shot and hits from that point. The Goggin/Shirley foursome's score was 57 (13 under par), another demonstration of matchless class loyalty.

In the raffle, Bob Shirley won a big basket of assorted libations, and Lucky Dan Goggin won an all-expenses-paid weekend in Hyannis, a stone's throw from his and Connie's country place on Cape Cod. Dave Thompson expected to be at the tournament but was forced to scratch at the last moment due to a big real estate deal for Land Vest (which is the firm Dick Perkins started).

Across the sound, Herb Roskind was engaged in some higher-tech recreation. He had arranged for a full-scale flight simulator to be delivered by Federal Express to his summer home on Martha's Vineyard. On the deck overlooking the water, Herb was honing his flying skills in anticipation of taking the test for his instrument rating.

At Jay Greene's suggestion, I phoned Jan Wlodarkiewicz in San Diego. Since he was in Memphis on a business trip, I had the pleasure of a long conversation with his wife, Reba. She is an award winning television-interviewer-turned-producer and owner of a company that makes promotional films. Now and then the opportunity arises for Jan to join her on location; and when we talked, a trip to Russia seemed to be an imminent probability.

A few minutes later, Jan returned my call and told me that after leaving Dartmouth he got a master's in international studies at Johns Hopkins, intending to join the foreign service. It then developed that a condition of State Department employment was at least five years of American citizenship, which Jan didn't have at the time.

So he served in the national guard for six months and then, as a result of a federal examination he had taken, was offered and took a job as a programmer for the air force in California. So much for international relations. Jan's entire career has been involved with the management of major computer projects for RCA and other corporations. At the present time he is associated with a company based in Phoenix that develops and installs communication and reservations systems for the likes of Visa, Motorola, and numerous hotel chains.

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