1978

Greetings from Manhattan! As I near the end of my three-month assignment in Manhattan, I can report on my efforts to track down our classmates in the Big Apple. The easiest person to find was Ron King, who was working on my floor at Prudential. Ron is a manager in the group responsible for structuring and pricing Prudential's private placement loans. Ron tracks the financial markets carefully and has become a wiz in the use of PC's, calculators, and Telerate machines. The guy is awesome! Ron and wife JenniferJarvis are the proud parents of two young sons, and all are living in suburban New Jersey. Also easy to find was Marc Farley. As I stood at First Avenue and 62nd Street watching the New York Marathon go by, Marc calmly jogged up the street looking cool and fit—unlike his fellow runners, who looked wilted and tired after 15 miles.

Turning to phone calls, I found SusieKrysiewicz, who reported on herself and husband Tom Bell. Susie is chief of Uroradiology at N.Y. Hospital Cornell Medical Center, a position that combines academic and clinical medicine. Husband Tom is an associate at Simpson, Thacher & Bardett in Manhattan. Tom studied politics and economics at Oxford and then returned to the U.S. to graduate from Yale Law School. He has been busy doing mergers and acquisition work, and he was mentioned in the book Barbarians at the Gate, an account of the R.J. Reynolds buy-out

I also called Lissa Howell MacCallum, who was married to lan MacCallum in June. Following a honeymoon in Bermuda, they are now living in Manhattan. Lissa continues her work providing financial advice to Western companies doing business in the Third World. Lan is an investment advisor with J&W Saligman.

I also found David Corey, who is a vice president, management supervisor, with Satchi & Satchi (advertising). David is in charge of the Tyson Foods account, which takes him to exotic places such as Arkansas and North Wilkesboro, N.C. David shares a 30-foot sailboat, Notorious, with Todd Anderson on Long Island. David's past adventures include white-water rafting on the Salmon River, and he had plans to spend a week in November on the coast of Venezuela. He had recently attended the christening of Ephraim Radner's daughter Hannah. Ephraim is working on his doctorate in theology at Yale. His wife is the vicar of an Episcopal church in Connecticut.

Fred de la Vega reported that he is a financial planner working in private practice in Manhattan. I also talked to Daryl Bornstein, who has his own company designing sound systems for Broadway plays. Daryl works on sound projects all over the world, including France and Belgium, plus a planned project in China. Daryl keeps up with Libby Hopkins, who is marketing for Arts & Antiques magazine and is planning a wedding in the near future. Daryl also reports that Franca Taylor is living in Santa Cruz, Calif., and is also planning a wedding next year. Franca escaped the 1989 earthquake without injury or any serious damage.

Last, but certainly not least, I found JohnHarvey at home in Manhattan. John is working on a promotion strategy for the turn-around of Playboy magazine. He has also recently completed a script and score for a musical which he is entering in a national writing competition. An earlier script has been optioned by Guber & Peters (the production team that brought us the movie "Batman"). John has also done freelance writing for Sports Illustrated. His wife, Glynnis Jones, is a Ford model who has previously appeared in ads in Playboy, but John points out that she was not a playmate. John sent along news of AlvaroSaralegui, who is head of promotions for Sports Illustrated, and David Dietze, who is happily pursuing his career at the law firm White & Case in New York.

Well, that's the news. In ten days I will be returning permanently to Atlanta, so send all your news along to this address!

34 Ivy Chase N.E., Atlanta, GA 30342