1984

The amazing thing about these columns is that I usually have no idea what I am going to write about until a few days (hours) before the column is due. Every month, however, a higher force miraculously intervenes at the last moment and I am spared the embarrassment of a blank space where my column usually appears. This month was no different, and as I scanned die wedding page of the New York Times, I came across a picture of a Melissa Jaeger, whom I noted was a dead ringer for Melissa Margetts. As luck would have it, the bride was in fact our classmate, and I am able to report that Melissa was recently married to Richard Jaeger. She is studying public policy at Kean College and is a public affairs specialist with the Environmental Protection Agency. Richard, a Graduate of Adelphi University, is a unit roker for Nathan & Lewis Securities in New York.

I was also lucky enough to receive a letter from Califorinia State Senator Quentin L. Kopp '49, who told me that his nephew RoyForbes recently enrolled at USC's business school. Roy has spent several years working in advertising for J. Walter Thompson, most recendy in Atlanta where he worked on the Ford Motors account.

A last piece of luck, as far as the column goes, was a recent conversation with PeterFeinberg, who was thankfully in a talkative mood. Peter works for the pension advisor RREEF as an associate in the real estate acquisitions area. He recendy attended the wedding of Merrie Levy to Bruce Schwartz. Merrie is an editor in the Salomon Brothers bond research department in New York and lives in Hoboken, N.J. Her bridesmaids included Debbie Stark, who recently left her advertising job in New York to travel to Alaska and South America. According to Peter, Debbie may head to Switzerland to visit fellow bridesmaid AnneArquit, who completed her Ph.D. in oceanography and is now working in Bern. I, of course, questioned the fact that Anne was working in oceanography in a land-locked country, but since Peter was rolling I did not want to slow him down with senseless details.

Keith Howard is working at Sumitomo Bank in New York and was one of Peter's housemates in the Hamptons last summer. Dr. Steve Volin is working in ob-gyn in a Washington, D.C., hospital, and has gone skiing with Peter the past few winters. Joining them has been Bruce Sibley who left teaching high school in Brooklyn in search of a big bucks M.B.A. at North western's Kellog School.

I have learned that Gordie Saul, now in Stanford's M.B.A. program, was awarded a grant for his business and Japanese language training. Before business school, Gorcfie worked in consulting for BCG and, most recently, in Tokyo as Far East manager for Technical Data International Corp. Finally, I am happy to announce that Lisa Leffert recently wed her fellow Harvard Medical School classmate Lee Schwamm in Newport, R.I.

As another column comes to a close I wish everyone all the best for a happy and healthy holiday season. 'Til next we talk.

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