With our 50th reunion just over the hill and around the bend (in June 2016) many classmates seem to getting in the spirit with spontaneous mini-class gatherings across the country.


Last September in Austin, Texas, Bob Baird, Peter Cleaves and Greg Eden got together to reminisce and catch up. Lawyer Bob worked at prestigious Vinson and Elkins for 30 years, opened the corporate section of the Austin office and retired six years ago. He and his wife, Ann (married 36 years), have purchased a ranch in nearby Burnet, Texas. 


Greg recalled his experience as head of the Interfraternity Council, which led into a law career specializing in tax-free municipal bonds, the kind that fund new college and public school facilities. Greg has been in Austin nine years, but returned to his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his graduation from Westside High with Dartmouth ’66ers Hodge Jones and Jerman Rose. 


Peter Cleaves explained how his class with Kalman Silvert launched a 40-year career in Latin America. Peter spent 18 years at the Ford Foundation and First Chicago, then managed the AVINA Foundation (Swiss endowed) and headed the Emirates Foundation (Abu Dhabi) before coming to Austin to lead the University of Texas Latin American Institute. He now consults for multilateral organizations, promotes Gulf investments into Latin America, plays tennis with Steve Lanfer whenever he passes through Austin, and has joined with former U.S. ambassadors Jim Cason and Joff Keane to plan a tribute to Professor Silvert, who inspired them all.


Earlier this year Don Glazer, Rick Reiss and Alan Rottenberg got together in Boston and discovered that they have at least two things in common–they all have been and still are imminently successful in their professions and they are all grandfathers. 


Don, a former editor of the Harvard Law Review and partner at Ropes & Gray, is now advisory counsel to the Boston law firm of Goodwin Procter. The author of numerous articles and books on legal opinions, Don is co-chair of the TriBar Opinion Committee and a member of the steering committee of the working group on legal opinions.


Alan, a director at the law firm Goulston & Storss, manages a broad-based real estate, business and philanthropic practice. As an active leader in the Boston area Alan has held a host of important community positions and is currently a director of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston’s Fourth of July Foundation and an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.


Rick, founder and chairman of New York-based Georgica Advisors LLC, manages investments in the hospitality and restaurant business and serves on a number of for-profit and nonprofit boards, including the educational group Prep for Prep and NYU Law School.


After 30 years practicing as an orthopedic surgeon in Roswell, Georgia, Russ Sabin retired about two years ago, although retired is a relative word. He continues to work part-time as a surgical assistant for his partners, helping with about two to three cases a week, mostly total joint replacements. Russ and Carole, his wife of 38 years, have found plenty of time to travel with a goal of visiting as many National Parks as possible. Russ has the reunion in Hanover on his travel path for 2016.


Best wishes for a healthy and happy 2013 to one and all.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com