1963

I look forward to seeing you all at our major class mini-reunion, Saturday, October 21, in Hanover at the home of Dean and Barbara Edson (the corner of Ridge and Woodrow Road near the stadium), immediately following the Colgate game. On October 28, join '63 tailgaters before and after the Harvard game in the parking lot of the Harvard Business School, and on November 4 at Wein Stadium for the Columbia game. Contact mini-reunion chairman Bob Bysshe in New York, (212) 454-3727.

Jeff Lapic, assistant general counsel and head of the Legal Department-Corporate Group at Bank America in San Francisco, spearheaded the team of more than 100 attorneys in Bank America's acquisition of Continental Bank last year, which, at the time, was the fourth largest bank merger in the U.S. For his efforts, Jeff was awarded the chief executive officer's Eagle Award, the bank's highest recognition. Jeff and Gerri live in Kentfield, Calif., from where they track the activities of five kids in their extended family and their first granddaughter, one-year-old Gemma, born to their daughter Cecilia, a social worker in Sydney, Australia. Son Jeff is in New York working for jazz singer Jon Hendricks. Theresa is in the toy and novelty industry in Flong Kong. Angela is training for an 800-mile mountain-bike ride from Kazakhstan to Pakistan via the Karakoram Highway in the Himalayas. Marc just received his medical degree in Dallas. Jeff fondly recalls his visit in New York with AD brother John "Sponk" Rittershofer, a few months prior to Sponk's death in 1994. Though confined to a wheelchair by diabetes, Sponk was fully active and teaching English at Hostos Community College, Jeff remembers.

After leading on the first and second ballots, Burt Ulrich, rector of St. John's Getty-Square, Yonkers, N.Y., was defeated by Katherine Roskam in a close election for Suffragan bishop to serve in the Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland County region of the Episcopal diocese of New York. Burt also chairs Sharing Community Inc., which helps the homeless, hungry, and AIDS-stricken.

"Devastating" is what New York Newsday columnist Len Levitt calls the sudden closing of the ten-year-old paper by its West Coast ownership, Times Mirror Co. "Mark Willes, the new CEO of Times Mirror, is a tough guy who made a hard decision, but it was still unexpected," said Len, whose weekly column took New Yorkers inside police headquarters. "In the end it was money that decided our fate." Meanwhile it was business as usual at the home of Len and Susan in Stamford, Conn. Ten-year-old Mike needed to get to his All-City Little League game, and 12-year-old Jennifer plays for a city Softball league. Over in Philadelphia, the state Associated Press presented its 1994 managing editors award for column writing to Dave Boldt of the Inquirer. He's hard at work advocating reforms such as tuition vouchers to "get competition back into education."

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