1963

63 As a literary incubator, Eau Claire, Wise., may be America's best-kept secret. Concord, Mass., on the other hand, is where it all began. Acouple of'63s have chosen each locale to carve out their own literary destinies. In Eau Claire, a manufacturing town and home to a branch of the University of Wisconsin, English professor BillNolte runs a literary tavern. In Concord, the spiffy Boston suburb with deep literary ties, Tom Holzel is business executive by day and novelist by night. Bill Nolte is featured in a recent issue of Poets and Writers Magazine as owner of The Joynt, where well-known writers read and talk to rapt audiences. Poet Donald Hall and John Ciardi have been Bill's guests. Tom, who markets complex defense electronics equipment for Raytheon, just published his third book, a World War II spy thriller, and is working on a fourth about the discovery of Hitler's bunker and neo-Nazis. Earlier books covered varmint hunting and the biathlon.

Bill Price of Belvedere, Calif., is listed in "The 50 Most Wanted in Finance," published by Global Finance magazine. He's coordinator of equity investment strategy and research at Rosenberg Capital Management, San Francisco, which has $23 billion in assets under management. Bill found his way into money management after early stints at the State Department and on the faculty of City University of New York. Prior to RCM, he managed the $7OO million San Francisco office of Alliance Capital Management. RCM is famous for grassroots, "talk-to-the users, check-store-inventories-type research."

Last word from Gordy Fowler of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was that he was off for his thrice-yearly visit to Moscow to improve nuclear safety in the Ukraine and Russia. "The situation is bleak," said Gordy, whose new bride, Kathy, teaches statistics and public administration at George Washington University. "Nuclear plants over there are unlicensed and unregulated." All is under control in the new Fowler nuclear family, however. There are seven kids, all of whom either swim competitively or play soccer or both. Gordy's three daughters play soccer. Kathy has two daughters and two sons, one of whom is captain of the Johns Hopkins swim team.

Michael Moriarty, actor, composer, poet, musician, is now a novelist. Mike, who lives in New York with his wife, Ann Martin, and son Matthew, 21, has a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster. The first is a mystery, tentatively titled The Voyeur, due out early next year. Recently he appeared in the CBS miniseries Children of the Dust, co-starring Farrah Fawcett and Sidney Poitier.

In the Rust Belt of Western Pennsylvania, Povl Jorgensen is doing his part to keep American entrepreneurship alive. The former Ford Motor Cos. executive purchased a bankrupt company which he turned into a thriving stainless-steel tank and container manufacturer for the pharmaceutical and foodprocessing industries. "America may be moving toward a service economy," says Povl, "but if we don't have solid manufacturing, we're all going to end up selling hamburgers to each other." Povl and Barbara have two children, Greg, a sophomore in engineering at Leigh, and Elizabeth, at Towson State in Baltimore.

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If we don't have solid manufacturing, ; we're all going to end up selling hamburgers to each other. POVL JORGENSEN '63