1959

In early January those watching ABC Nightly News would have seen George Lefcoe interviewed on the subject of real estate issues in Southern California after the great floods—and would have been surprised at how young our classmate still appears. The youthful appearance is due to two things, George opines: "A gym workout every day and having a tenured professorship." Besides teaching at the University of Southern California and authoring the definitive text, Real Estate Transactions, George spent "a total of at least 10 years" on various city and county land use and real estate planning committees.

Howard Green is another recent ABC television "talking head," in his case seen on the evening news in February discussing college entry strategies. Howard is also the author of several books on this subject.

Richard Scherff, who is retired from the Columbia University administration, where he also did some writing, moved to Pinehurst last year, just in time for the 2005 U.S. Open. Richard says he "will never fully retire." Whitney Evans enjoys retirement in Sonoma, although they migrate to Mesa, Arizona, in the winter. He and wife Jeanette hosted Dave and Donna Richards over New Years. Dave is retired and, according to Richard, spends a lot of time with his horses, dogs and golf clubs.

John Wardrup, who says we are all "too damn old," taught secondary school teaching and coaching immediately after graduation but later went to work for a belting company in Grand Rapids. In a 34-year career, John became president and then retired. He stays active with an organization that puts together small developmental peer groups of 12 to 14 busines-sowners and presidents and is also a Goodwill volunteer and ardent golfer.

Professor David Marr has written about Vietnam for at least four decades (see Amazon.com for Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power). He expects to publish another book late this year, this one covering the years 1945 to 1950 with the theme state, war and revolution. Dave moved to Canberra in 1975, when, as he writes, Americans wanted to forget Vietnam and "no American university would hire a Vietnam historian." Retired from the Australian National University, Dave continues as a visiting fellow and early morning tennis player three days a week with a strong serve but "an unforced error problem."

At our mini-reunion in Hanover last fall Rennie Drew mentioned that Owen Fiss recently authored another interesting book. Anyone checking Amazon.com can find about 10 books by Owen available, two of the more popular being The Irony of Free Speech and The Law as it CouldBe, both of which look awfully interesting. (If all classmates' names were run through Ama- zon.com, I wonder how many authors we would find listed. That might be interesting, too.)

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