1958

Have you ever been to Tyumen, Russia? Well, Jim Dougherty can now add that feather to his hat. Seems Jim spent a sixweek long volunteer mission in Tyumen exploring the feasibility of opening the first supermarket there. His job was to make recommendations regarding the size, design, and layout of such a market. Having just retired as president of Supermarkets General Corp., Jim clearly was the"man of the hour" for Tyumen.

Having sold his market-research business in Vancouver, 8.C., you can now find Rob Goodell on or around the close by slopes of Whistler Mountain. When not skiing, hiking, cycling, and doing all the assorted things Whistler has to offer the outdoors enthusiast, Rob keeps his hand in the world of business managing 400 local resort condos. Seems to me that that is the sure way to insanity. The next communication from Rob may have the return address of a psychiatric institution.

Heading for Madison, Wise.? Be sure to give John Strayer a call. John has recently been named copywriter in the Creative Department at Stephan & Brady, an advertising and public relations agency located there. I noted in our '58 yearbook that John's major was philosophy. Interesting, isn't it, how our majors at College have led us in ways we could never have contemplated in June of '58.

While many may have thought it to be a good idea, Judge Tom Jackson, thought otherwise. You may have read earlier this year that Tom, a judge in the Federal District Court of Washington, ruled to strike down the law titled the "Line Item Veto Act." He wrote that the act gave the President the unprecedented and "revolutionary" power to repeal a part of a statute, a legislative function that no President can exercise and that the Congress may not delegate. Writing in favor of the plaintiffs, several members of Congress, Tom found they had standing under precedents of the United States Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia circuit that permits members of Congress to file suit to challenge legislation that interferes with the "constitutionally mandated process of enacting law." Lie found that description fit the Line Item Veto Act because "under the act the dynamic of lawmaking is fundamentally altered." In the past, he wrote, "members of Congress voting for an appropriations bill could be certain that if the President chose to sign the bill, the entire bill would have the force of law." But now, "the member's same vote operates only to present the President with a 'menu' of items worthy of his approval, not a legislative fait accompli that he must accept or reject in whole, as in the past." On to the Supreme Court.

Please note my new e-mail address. Look forward to hearing from you.

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Cart McCall '58 eyes New Yorik's gubernatorial race, p. 34

Jim Dougherty spent six weeks in Russia exploring the feasibility of opening the first supermarket in Tyumen. PETE KELSEY '58