1973
Steve Kessner, our harddriving and tireless head agent, is looking for a few good '73s to form a major gifts committee that will help round up a million dollars (from the rest of us) for our 25th class Reunion alumni fund campaign ending in June 1998. Steve has already started and has made great progress getting pledges.
Two years is not a long time for this kind of project. Please call (business: 212289-9200) or write Steve (16 Paddington Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583) to offer your help on the committee.
A hearty "bravo" to Steve and our unsung regional class agents who ran last year's class alumni fund and made our class the Green Derby winner in the multi-class cluster in which we compete annually for best performance and participation rate. Let's keep up the good work during the 1996-97 campaign.
UVA School of Architecture dean and professor Bill McDonough has moved his NYC firm to Charlottesville and stays busy working on projects that include designs for the city of Hannover (Germany) World's Fair in 2000, a Gap corporate campus in California, a daylit factory for Merman Miller in Zeeland, Mich., and a "zero-emissions" zoning concept for Chattanooga, Tenn.
Bill received the Presidential Award in Sustainable Development at a White House ceremony last March which cited him as "one of the world's leading architects and the mastermind of sustainable design."
On the home front Bill and wife Michelle Wipfler have a baby boy, Drew, and live on "The Lawn" in Pavilion IX on the UVA Grounds, designed by another Charlottesville architect named Thomas Jefferson.
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Co. sales and merchandising president RickRouthier and wife Sarah Kahn, a New Canaan, Conn., physician, were spotlighted in the Wall Street Journal along with other college-educated older couples with more than two children who continue "midlife brooding" into their 40s. Sarah had her first at 34 and her fourth at 42.
The McGraw-Hill Cos. appointed BillNisen president of its newest division, McGraw-Hill Home Interactive. The division will publish original consumer multimedia titles that equally emphasize education and entertainment in core subject areas such as science, math, social studies, and language arts for children 8 to 14.
Bill has 18 years of experience in the consumer software and the interactive media industries as a senior executive and a consultant. Bill got a master's degree at McGill University prior to embarking on a management career at Lotus Development Corp., at Harvard's Computer Graphics Laboratory, and more recently as CEO of OWL International and his own Nisen Consulting Ltd.
The trustees of the Riverside (Calif.) Art Museum elected Gregg Brown for a second one-year term as president of the board of trustees. Gregg is a general contractor and developer as well as the owner of CAMASHCO Inc., one of the largest builders in Imperial County.
Gregg's other volunteer activities include chairman of the board of the Inland Counties' Chapter of the March of Dimes and membership on building industry association boards.
New York Times theater critic Vincent Canby gave executive producer BarryGrove's By the Sea, by the Sea, by theBeautiful Sea, a good review. The production, three one-act plays by as many playwrights, ran last May at City Center in N.Y.C. The plays, titled "Dawn," "Day," and "Dusk," are set in the Hamptons on Long Island, N.Y.
Hope you and your loved one(s) got a vacation during the summer. Send me 25 words about it. Next time: tales of XVacations (X for extreme).
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