1963

If you're patient and trust your instincts, there's a good possibility of landing on your feet in love and life. Bob Goldberg, a Connecticut native, divorced in Chicago and retired in Toledo a few years ago after a long career in educational publishing. Today he's back in his hometown of West Hartford, counseling and placing unemployed people for the Department of Labor, and, best of all, he's remarried Carole, from whom he had split when our story began earlier in Chicago. As Jackie Mason says, "Mister, are you listening?" Carole has been an assistant city editor for the Hartford Courant for 18 years. Son Jeff is also on staff covering sports. Jon is a musician in Boston, a talent he doubtless inherited from Dad, who sang for the Aires, majored in music and conducted the Dartmouth Glee Club a year after graduation.

Richard Douglass is a doctor at lowa Methodist Hospital. But he doesn't practice medicine; he counsels adolescents and adults at the outpatient mental health clinic. And his doctorate is not in psychology; it's in English from Vanderbilt. So how did a nice guy from White Plains, N.Y., wind up in the 1970s in Des Moines, Iowa? My father used to ask me the same question when he came from Connecticut to visit me in Brooklyn. After grad school Richard came out to teach at Central College in Pella, lowa. He went back to school for a master's in social work and is now a clinical social worker. Richard's wife died a year and a half ago and he is engaged to marry Chris Odell, an attorney. Richard has two sons, Luke and Drew.

John Ackley, a self-described inventorentrepreneur, was in the middle of wiring his house in Stonington, Conn., when I got him started on the nation's energy problem. It's not that we don't have any, we have plenty and it's cheap. So what's the problem? We use too much and, as a result, spend too much, says John, $200-billion a year, to put it mildly. John's answer is to use computers to track energy efficiency in buildings. His company, Energy Data Cos., has been doing this research for the government for 10 years. Now they have to sell the concept to us. "A degree-day is to a building what miles per gallon is to a car," says John. "Mister, are you listening?" John's wife, Binti, is a school nurse; son Jeffrey is applying to prep school.

Pete Suttmeier is a visiting professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on leave from the University of Oregon, where he is a professor of political science. Only a year in Congress and Don Sherwood, a Republican from Pennsylvania's 10th District, has introduced and passed his first bill to provide fairness in the legal system for families who lose loved ones in air disasters over oceans, including families in his district affected by the TWA 800 tragedy. He's also sponsored legislation to give the Lackawanna Valley a federal designation as a National Heritage area.

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John Ackley is developing computer programs that track energy efficiency in buildings. HARRY ZLOKOWER '63