1963

Michael Moriarty surfaced, sporting a cap and cool as a cucumber, for his new nightclub act at New York's Ballroom. Mike calls it "jazz cabaret, not cabaret per se," said The New York Times music critic and writer Stephen Holden, "a quirky, fascinating show that breaks down the distinctions between music-making and acting. Midway in a program that mixes jazz standards and original songs, he suspends the music altogether to deliver a monologue from his new one-man play 'A Special Providence.' One leaves the Ballroom having been shown an unusual portrait of the actor as musician.

"Music and acting are the same for me," Michael told The Times. "Among the schools of acting, my technique is the music of pause and silence. I think of acting as silent music. If you just elevate the level of musicality in speech you have singing."

Singer and pianist, with a bassist and drummer behind him, Mike acknowledges the pre-jazz rock of Miles Davis whom he salutes in an original song called "Miles."

Mike's early career focused on acting, including the Broadway Tony Award-winning Find Your Way Home in 1974, the baseball movie, "Bang the Drum Slowly," and the TV series, "Holocaust."

Mike just released an album of original jazz songs, "Reaching Out" (Evergrowth), whose music he arranged electronically. He is planning an album of original classical chamber music. His poetry is being serialized in The New York Quarterly. An acting teacher for IS years, Mike is completing an experimental film with his students. He recently finished the latest of several screenplays. And he is set to appear next season in an NBC series, "Law and Order."

"I feel like the chrysalis is complete and the butterfly is opening up," Mike said of his creativity to The Times. "I'm either a Renaissance man or a scatterbrain, whatever you choose to think."

It's time to spotlight '63 children in the Class of '91, a near-record number second to the '93s. They are David B. Bartels (Michael G. Bartels), Stephen P. Brown (Peter T. Brown), Samuel G. Cabot (SamuelCabot III), Brent R. Cromley Jr. (BrentR. Cromley Sr.), Marjorie R, Culver (Howard L. Culver III), Carrie M. Davies (James F. Davies), Kimberly V. Ford (Freeman A. Ford II), Laura M. Friedman (fames M. Friedman), Laura C. Gadd (Joseph C. Gadd Jr.), Elizabeth A. Horwich (MarkS. Horwich), Susanna S. King (William H. King Jr.), Margaret L. Lord (Daniel B. Watts), Ashley T. Mattoon (RobertH. Matton Jr.), Eric D. Schwartz David S.Schwartz), Samuel N. Shukovsky LeonardJ. Shukovsky), Drew C. Steffens (John L.Steffens), Joanna Z. Stevenson Peter F.Stevenson), and Elyse D. Wolland (Michael Wolland).

John D. Hashagen Jr. has been named president and CEO of Vermont Financial Services Corp., the parent company of Vermont National Bank which he has headed since 1987. A Tuck M.8.A., John began his banking career with Chase in New York and First National Bank of Rochester, N.Y., before going to Vermont in 1967. John, who holds a number of directorships, lives in Brattleboro with his wife, Huntly.

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