1949

1949

In addition to being ’49ers and overachievers, Slade Gorton and Jay Urstadt have two things in common: They are still working full-time and they are

influential Republicans. Slade has chosen to skip this year’s Cleveland convention and focus on Washington State races and Washington, D.C., lobbying for his law firm. He has always been a strong Seattle Mariners fan and was instrumental in getting Nintendo to buy them 25 years ago. “Slade Gorton Night” at the stadium honored him recently. However, his first pitch lacked the velocity and accuracy of his previous political pitches.

Joel Berson and I had a fun lunch with Jay at his Urstadt-Biddle office in Greenwich, Connecticut. Jay’s son-in-law handles most of the heavy lifting, so Jay can enjoy (?) Republican politics at the highest levels. He plans to be in Cleveland as a New York super-delegate.

Jay and Deke Jackson (San Francisco) first met in Dartmouth’s Spaulding Pool 71 years ago. They were still at it, last spring at Deke’s club in the Bahamas. Jay says, “Old swimmers never drown, they just float away.”

Class president George Hartmann has nothing presidential to report. He and Anne spend eight months in Hanover and four in Bradenton, Florida. His doctors won’t let him have another knee replacement, so no more basketball.

Three non-graduate obituaries to report: Jordan Kurland of Washington, D.C., on January 23; Jack Seiverling of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, on February 9; and Alan Rich of Sun City Center, Florida, on March 14.

—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 637-3227 (fax)