1964

This month's column focuses on classmates who lived in Topliff Hall during freshman year. But first, Richard Klein (Wood-ward Hall) faxed in from Bermuda, where he is president of Hamma Galleries and has an interior-design practice that serves such clients as H. Ross Perot and Silvio Berlusconi.

A note from Topliff's Roger Simon revealed one of 1964's "gifts to the world." Roger is a screenwriter and novelist who was nominated for an Academy Award for Enemies, a Love Story. He is the author of four other feature films including Scenes from a Mall,Bustin' Loose, and The Big Fix. He has also written eight novels including the Moses Wine detective series.

Moving on to the professions, Bob Bennett (Worcester, Mass.), Jonathan Weber (Atlanta, Ga.), Roger Wolfert (Piano, Texas), Bill Segel (Montpelier, Vt.), and Barry Pressman are physicians. Barry further reports that he is president of the California Radiological Society and chairman of the Imaging Department at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Frank Rath is a practicing psychologist and half-time member of the clinical faculty at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Hoping to join Frank in the practice of psychology is Bob Raiser, who is working for the Vermont Division of Rehabilitation and doing graduate work to become a licensed psychotherapist.

At least four Topliff residents went on to practice law. Al Pierce is a solo practitioner in Martinez, Calif., and Tom Clark has finally become a "Hartford Lawyer, after many years of practicing in the suburbs. Also a member of the Connecticut Bar is Bill Craig, who is a partner and chairman of his firm's real-estate and environmental-law department in Branford, Conn. John Whitmoyer is an attorney specializing in financial, commercial, and bankruptcy law in Lebanon, Pa.

Topliff '64s in education include FrankHannah (Phillips Academy) and Matt Piccolo (Mahwah High School) at the secondary level, and Duncan Holthausen Ray Wakefield, and Fred Eidlin at the college level Duncan is a professor of economics at North Carolina State, while Ray is an associate professor of German and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. Fred, who is a professor of political studies at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, was in Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, trying to get away from me, but I tracked him down by e-mail.

Throop Brown is a professional philatelist and proprietor of Connexus Philatelic Services in Guilford, Conn.

Moving over to the business and Financial worlds, Burt Alimansky is an investment banker in New York, while Jay Regan directs Harbourton Enterprises in Princeton, N.J. Alan Woodbury works for Price Waterhouse in San Francisco, advising multinational corporations on international tax planning opportunities, particularly in the Asian Pacific. Alan reports that Mike Saphier, his freshman roommate, is now a health-care attorney in Century City, Calif. Dana Kelly is also in the Los Angeles area, where he is die director of marketing for group-insurance products for the Prudential insurance company. To the northeast in Sheridan, Wyo., is Will Cook, who is president of Cook Ford Sales and reports that he's had the same wife, home, and business for more than 20 years. Quite an accomplishment in our society today! Back in Boston George Fesus is an executive vice president for State Street Bank. Jack Kindergan is working for Caltex Petroleum in Irving, Texas, and travels extensively in Africa and the Far East. I am sure on some of his trips he comes back through New York, where classmate Dave Plavin is the director of aviation for the Port of New York. In this position Dave oversees the operation of all three airports in the Big Apple.

That's all for now. Keep those questionnaires coming. Next month Lord, Richardson and Butterfield Halls.

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