1972

72 Two years until our 25th Reunion. Those with ideas, talent, or spare time contact john Burke. If you have really good ideas contact Bill Usery, Donald Fehr, and Bud Selig.

Joe Davis and I spent some time ruminating over the possibilities of e-mail, the Internet, and the class of '72. When I digest my latest move into the late eighties and try for the midnineties, you will be posted—otherwise it may wait for the panel discussion and changing of the guard at the aforementioned gathering.

Baltimore State's Attorney Stu Simms has been named by Maryland Governor Parris Glendening to the cabinet post of secretary of juvenile justice. This agency provides programs, including incarceration, for thousands of delinquent youngsters. It has more than a thousand employees and a budget of more than $l00 million. The appointment was a surprise only in that it was a well-kept secret. Over the past two years, Stu's name has been mentioned for a broad variety of positions, including head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. attorney for Maryland, mayor of Baltimore, and federal judgeships. If the president wants to make an appointment without his usual stumbling and bumbling, he needs to look only slightly to the north.

In other political news, state Sen. JimRubens of Hanover has presented a school choice and charter-schools bill which has been widely acclaimed in the New Hampshire legislature. The bill has avoided problems characteristic of school reforms attempted in other states by requiring schools to be secular, banning charter schools based on home schooling, and other points regarding the contracts of charter schools. The legislation, if enacted in New Hampshire, could provide a proving ground for public education. So much for the criticism of the guy who "spent his way" into his office.

Finally, speaking of spending, Win Neuger was named chief investment officer of American International Group, a large New York based insurance company. Win had been a managing director of Bankers Trust before making the move.

Best of luck to all of the above on the new ventures. And to all with a free afternoon, minor league baseball is "FANtastic."

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