1972

Spring right around the corner? Finally?!? Here's the update from your monthly scribe. Ralph Child writes that "tuitions loom [so] I am reentering private practice at Mintz, Levin, Cohn Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C. I will continue to focus on regulatory law, including environmental and energy facility permitting, litigation, compliance and due diligence." You might remember Ralph's excitement back at reunion as general counsel of the environmental agency of Massachusetts; Ralph notes that he "led the commonwealth's successful negotiations over cleanup of the PCBs in the Housatonic River and related brown fields redevelopments.

Marty Staff, president and CEO of Hugo Boss USA, has been applying research into men's suit-buying habits (sorry, Marty, but I haven't donned one since joining Amazon.com last May!) to produce "a premium on excitement, on passion and on magnetism," according to an article in a Beverly Hills magazine this past fall. Marty's also been forging strong connections with the Guggenheim Museum, the Sundance Film Festival and Hollywood.

Just missing the last column deadline, Stefan Mattlage e-mailed me with updates from Concord, N.H., where he's working at the Concord Monitor, has three daughters and one son (senior at Brown, freshman at U of Miami, Florida, senior at high school in Farmington, Conn.) and would like to create a newsgroup or forum devoted to the class of '72. Please send your comments and suggestions to Stefan hots@turtledreams.comc

And in the news surrounding the Decatur, III. school standoff between unruly students and the expulsion policies, state school superintendent Max McGee worked out the 10-point proposal with the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Max intervened with support for some of Jackson's proposals, including addressing funding inequities among public schools.

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

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State School superintendent Max McGee worked with the Rev. Jesse Jackson to end the standoff in Decatur, Illinois, over unruly students. BILL PRICE '72