1959

We have taken many different roads through life. One of the more unusual is that of Clifford Lamberg-Karlovsky, whom you may remember from canoeing, skiing, UGC & Palaeopitus. A premed up to senior year, when anthropology began to interest him, Clifford went from Hanover to University of Pennsylvania for his Ph.D. and then a life that included 10 years of digs in Iran, three years in Saudi Arabia, more digging in Oman, Uzbekistan, Siberia, Turkmenistan and Syria as well as teaching at and chairing Harvard's anthropology department.

One of the youngest members of our class, he is still at it, traveling to the Middle East, digging and discovering. Clifford says that his most important archeological work was done in Iran, where he and his team "established a lot about the origins of writing and how it evolved into importance in the world." He and wife Martha live in Melrose, Massachusetts.

Another classmate in Boston academia, Scott Palmer, just published his latest book, U.S.Relations with Latin America during the Clinton Years:Opportunities Lost or Opportunities Squandered. It's well worth reading for a better understanding of how our Washington government really works. Scotty shows how policy set by our president and other elected officials is very dependant for execution on mid-level government workers, good timing and even serendipity, and how policies can be lost in the bureaucracy or derailed at lower levels, both deliberately and unintentionally. Fascinating!

Jay Butter field, who opted for a military career, took a more direct route than most. An ROTC cadet in Hanover, Jay left at the end of sophomore year, attended Officer Candidate School and was commanding troops in Germany while the rest of us were still undergraduates. In 1962 he went through the Army's flight training school, graduated a pilot and flew Army aircraft in Vietnam, often ferrying VIPs such as Generals Westmoreland and Taylor and President Nixon. After advanced officers' training at Fort Sill, says Jay, it was back to Vietnam, where he took command of an air cavalry unit. Later he taught at the Command and General Staff College before retiring in 1989. "I got a lot out of my military service," says Jay. "Maybe it is not for ail of us but to this day I feel strongly that everyone should do some sort of government service to pay back this great country."

After military sales with Control Data at Yorktown, Virginia, for 12 years Jay entered the consultant world while also becoming director of student services at Troy State University, Norfolk Virginia. He is now "fully retired," as Jayputs it, living in Indialantic, Florida.

Another Floridian, John Towle of Miami Beach, recently retired after carrying the load of president at Towmar Publications for more than 30 years with offices there and in Mexico. Now he plays tennis and golf, works daily with his two dogs and enjoys cooking and traveling. Their favorite travel destination is Hendersonville, North Carolina, where he and Carol have their second home.

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