1972

Happy October! Moving on five months now at Amazon.com, resuming my global treks (Tokyo, Dublin, London, Amsterdam, with a stopover in N.Y.C.) and building customer service (we call it "customer XTC," or ecstasy) all over the place. Been loads of fan!

From Rome writes Bob Petroni that Baron's Who's Who in Global Banking &Finance has selected him for inclusion in their latest edition. Bob's card notes that he's with BNL, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, in its international division as pro manager, special legal affairs.

For this month's book author corner, David Kreps co-wrote Strategic HumanResources: Framework for General Managers with James Baron. Rave reviews, with a fresh, analytical approach to the most important resource we can deploy—our staff and management. David's the Paul E. Holden Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (my alma mater, 20th reunion next month), and is also a senior professor by special appointment at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University.

Dick Krant reports that Michelle Rosen, currently interning in New York at the juvenile rights division of the Legal Aid Society, underwritten by our class sponsorship, is doing well and writes, "Thank you so much again for allowing me this incredible opportunity!" Michelle will soon share her experience with us, and Dick and I will share with you. We're exploring whether to support another intern, too.

From our experience 30 years ago, the fall of 1969: pledge starts October 1, soccer loss 3-1 to Amherst; 38-6 over Holy Cross in football on the 4th with Monterey Pop flick that night at Spaulding Auditorium; Orioles won the AL pennant (but alas for us Baltimoreans, bad news later in the fall!); Frank Borman and other astronauts on campus for National Academy of Sciences Manned vs. Unmanned Space Flights seminar on the 14th; the first (of many) moratorium days to protest the Vietnam War on the 15 th, eliminating most classes that day; our first snow on the 22nd; and another football win over Harvard on the 25th, 24- 10, ruining their marching band's 50th anniversary halftime show.

That wraps it up for this month. Keep those e-mails and letters coming!

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Bob Averill '72'sMoosilauke obsession, p. 30