Mar/Apr 2008
Spring is in the air, and missives appear from everywhere: Bill Krochalis (bill.krochalis@zcsterling.com) e-writes: “Still aspiring to genteel obscurity while residing in Atlanta; very happily remarried and have two in college: one playing hockey for the University of Alabama (really) and one working with autistic and at-risk middle-schoolers while finishing her senior year at Colorado College. A third is employed (proving that there is a merciful deity) in the medical products industry. I’m still having fun running a financial services outsourcing company a bunch of us started in my kitchen (a big step up from those declasse garage start-up companies). Just ran into Rick Fortier at the Yale/Harvard game.” (Your scribe wishes he could forget that one.)
Dave Howorth (howorthd@bellsouth.net) has checked in: “In December, Julie Derbes organized a surprise 60th birthday party for her husband Max Derbes at Antoine’s in New Orleans. Max, father of three and grandfather of two, is a cancer survivor who continues to run Max J. Derbes, Inc., a commercial and industrial real estate firm serving greater New Orleans. Bruce Volpe and I were lucky enough to be among the scores who raised a glass or three with Max and Julie. Bruce is a med school professor at Cornell in NYC. I’m retired, and, after decades away from Oxford, Mississippi, have moved back there and dived back into Greek and Latin.”
Richard Seltzer (seltzer@samizdat.com) e-writes: “A few months ago, the New York Times ran a profile of my little business, publishing book collections on CD and DVD. You can see the story at www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/09conn.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin.” I read this entertaining piece, and Richard’s collections are a bibliophile’s dream or nightmare, depending on the size of your book backlog.
News from dues: Richard Butcher (rbutcher@dotterer.net) writes: “We’re enjoying two grandchildren, Sophia (2) and Hannah (7 months). My wife, Chris Dotterer, and I are thinking about cutting back our practices ‘one of these days.’ Hers is solo family practice; I’m a cardiologist at Geisinger Med Center in central Pennsylvania.” James Seymour (jdseymour@hotmail.com) writes, “After 13 years at Commonfund Capital managing international and emerging markets private equity fund of funds, I joined EMP Global in Washington, DC, to head a new emerging markets private equity fund of funds, capitalizing on 30 years of experience in the emerging markets. EMP Global manages or advises $7 billion in emerging markets private equity through ten funds in Asia, Latin America, Central Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Sharon and I will divide our time between our home in Westport, Connecticut, a rented home in Georgetown, and traveling together to the far corners of the world. I have been on the board of the Westport Public Library for the last 12 years—most recently as president. Sharon is focusing now on building our new house in Westport. My older son, Stephen, finished Columbia Law School last year and joined Terra Firma, a private equity firm in London. Prior to law school, Stephen had worked for three years at EMP Global in London on their Central European private equity fund. My younger son, Jeffrey, is now getting his master’s of education in New Haven, having taught for two years at a parochial school in Middletown, Connecticut.”
More missing (55 total) classmates: Niccolo Rieti, M. Jonathan Rubin, Shreve Schofield, Duane Selander. Any information is welcome.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”—The Tempest.