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Jack Goodfrey has protected all of us since graduation. Sheldon Woolf will guide us through perestroika, and Bob Levine will take care of our leisure time in a few years.

Ten years ago in "Reflections" Jack Godfrey said that he still "believed in people, motherhood, apple pie, and the American Dream." Jack has spent a long and illustrious career helping to ensure that the rest of us have had the freedom to pursue our personal dreams. Lieutenant General Godfrey retired on November 1 after more than 35 years of distinguished service in the United States Marine Corps. In his last assignment, Commanding General, First Marine Force, Pacific, Jack had responsibility for more than 40 percent of the Corps' total manpower and about two-thirds of its operational combat capability, including two of the Corps' three active divisions, aircraft wings, and service support groups. Jack's career encompassed just about every kind of assignment that one could imagine, including command of the 3rd Shore Party Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, in Vietnam in 1968. Along the way, Jack earned a Master of Arts degree in government from Georgetown University and attended a number of service schools. He served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a General Purpose Forces plans officer and later as chief of the Force Planning and Programming Division. Jack assumed his last command upon promotion to lieutenant general in October 1987.

Jack and his wife, Jean, have settled in San Diego, Calif. They have two married daughters, Kathleen and Mary Kristen, and five grandchildren. Thanks, Jack —enjoy your retirement.

Sheldon Woolf's "hardware" business knows no boundaries. Sheldon writes about an exciting and groundbreaking trip to Russia with 70 American businessmen invited by the Soviet government to participate in a two and one-half week business conference. The meeting started in Moscow and took him and his wife, Elisabeth, 2,300 miles down from the Volga and Don Rivers. Much to his surprise, Sheldon now finds himself in partnership with a newly formed trading company called UCC (Universal Commerce Corporation) with three of the men on the trip and three others, natives of Russia who live in the U.S.A. Sheldon thinks there is great potential for trade and feels that the contacts they made will definitely help them to get through the bureaucracy and perhaps accomplish some meaningful benefits for both sides. A tangible benefit from the trip is a mink hat to help him face the Massachusetts winter.

Bob Levine is positioning himself to guide us gracefully into our "golden years." Bob has been a director of Saga Holidays in Boston for a number of years and he now has been elected to the board of directors of Saga Group, the parent company in the U.K. Saga Group is the world's largest travel organization catering to the over 60s market. Unfortunately, the way time flies, we'll all be eligible for such services soon.

Our last item enables us to put many names in play. On December 6 Dick Page, class president and College Trustee nominee, hosted what is on the brink of becoming a tradition, if not a legend the annual New York Holiday Luncn. Twenty-five of us gathered for a festive, congenial occasion, joined by our guest, Liz Russell from the Alumni Fund. On hand were Bob Adnopoz, Pete Barker, Bob Berry, Lo-Yi Chan, John Cunningham, Dick Davidoff, Joe Davis, Don DesCombes, Dave Dyche, John Gillespie, Jerry Goldstein, Pete Gutlon, John Heston, Tom Kelsey, Dick Lewis, Dave Mandelbaum, Steve Mullins, Dick Page, Harry Robinson, Rod Rockefeller, Hugh Roberts, Tom Sayles, Dick Steinberg, Bob Vorsanger, and Bill White.

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