1933

"Stay in shape" and "be relaxed" are the words of advice which Pete Mankowski offers as worthy guiding principles while he ponders the riddle of the universe in storied San Juan Capistrano, Calif. After 32 years of coaching football and baseball and teaching Shakespeare and creative writing (there's a combination for you) at Edison High School in Minneapolis, he and his singer wife, Claris, headed for the West Coast, where he follows his own advice. Besides his educational activity and broad public service, he has written for Esquire and worked as a real-estate salesman. A Great Lakes coal passer and deck hand in his youth, Pete now settles for a brisk morning walk and a bit of golf. He used to do push-ups, but now merely "rolls over and looks at the sky." He's thinking of Hanover next June.

Whipping across the continent to Sands Point, N.Y., we chatted with Heagan Bayles who, with his wife, Jane, had recently returned from a cruise to Nantucket and the Vineyard in their Grand Banks boat. He had recovered from a hip operation and was reveling in a painless result. After 47 years in the advertising business—with four years out on a special Washington war-time assignment—he retired in 1980. His major activity now is "keeping out of jail" and "betting on who the next President will be," although he is not optimistic about any President being able to change the permanent bureaucracy. When his first wife died, Heag married a lady with eight children, so that between them he and Jane have 11 offspring and 19 grandchildren. Apparently they took seriously that admonition in Genesis about replenishing the Earth! But single-handed?

Hopping over Long Island Sound, we reached Jack Masten in Rye, N.Y., whither he and Laura moved 40 years ago. He retired in 1977 after serving Phelps Dodge for 26 years, latterly as vice president. He had gone from Yale Law to Davis, Polk, then to the Metals Reserve with a period of service as assistant counsel in the Mitchell investigation of Pearl Harbor. Back to private practice, then to Phelps Dodge. He enjoyed having a part in the 1977 Dartmouth Institute which started as Kemeny's project for educating and broadening men of business. Jack served the Rye Library board for 25 years and was vice chairman of a study which brought about a change from the local to the City Manager form of government.

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