1974

Traveling in Atlanta on my way to the Farmer's Market I must have passed ten or more banks—sort of a strange feeling because I remembered representing various falks who allegedly robbed several of these institutions. The usual motive for bank robbery is the need for cash, but I had one particularly unusual client, Sam Massan, who tromped into the bank one day with a note, unarmed, and wanted to argue with the teller about his government benefits. Seems he had been injured on the job, couldn't work, and didn't like the way the government was treating him. So he decided he would just let the bank reimburse him. Sam gave the teller the note, she gave him the cash, and he limped out to his getaway car, a 1967 Corvair. Later, he was so upset about the poor job the government did trying to catch up with him that he turned himself in. He had used the proceeds to buy his wife a Mercedes which was later returned to the U.S. government.

My friend in Washington James F. Miller, has become counsel to the firm Verner, Lipfert, Bernhard, McPherson, and Hand, chartered in Washington, D.C., where he will continue his tax, legislative, and health-care practice. Jim served in the Bush administration as the Treasury Department's associate tax legislative counsel, There he played a significant role on behalf of the Treasury, being involved in all tax legislation which passed Congress during the Bush years, and he headed a regulatory team that worked with senior IRS officials on many regulations. Prior to his stint with the Treasury Department, Jim was a partner with the Washington firm of Silverstein and Mullens. He also served four years with the Honor Program in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Congratulations, Jim.

Tim Gilchrist, still with Fuller and Company, continues to be a leader in commercial real estate and was recognized for his outstanding sales this summer.

Nora Jacobson has taken an interesting route in life. Nora grew up in Norwich, Vt., and Paris. After graduating from Dartmouth, she studied avant-garde filmmaking in Chicago. She then started making mini-documentaries about life in Hoboken, featuring a sweatshop in one and a yuppie dressing for work in another. She lives in Hoboken and realized one December morning in 1985 how much she might be part of one of her own film stories. When the smoke alarm woke her that morning, she hopped out of bed, pulled on her jeans, and grabbed her 16mm camera to capture smoke billowing from the five-story tenement. Her documentary about the gentrification of hoboken is presently showing at the Cinema Village.

Overseas, Donald Nielsen is living in Greece teaching English and "Civilized Discourse" at Athens College, a private co-ed day school for children aged eight to 14. He travels whenever possible to the beautiful Green Islands and invites us all to visit. Sounds good.

Bob Minck is a development geologist with Chevron Overseas Petroleum in San Ramon, Calif., where he does development geology on Chevron's Angola holdings. His most interesting assignment has been on a well site at Chevron projects in Papua New Guinea. Good luck to Bob.

And finally, Jack Martin reports that he is considering joining the monastery in Conyers, Ga., in order to gather some information he will need on his new documentary film. We'll keep you posted.

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