Greetings, baseball fans! Here in Seattle we await the arrival of a baseball championship to equal the Seahawks’ victory, but we might have to wait a while.


Just missed the last deadline for Ed Wisneski’s recent changes: “I’ve spent most of my career in various positions in athletics at colleges (Yale, Dartmouth, SMU) and the NFL (Jets, NFL properties in L.A. and the Eagles). I’ve also done a lot of freelance writing, mostly travel stories and recently interpretive narratives (the prose you read on walls) for museum exhibitions throughout Texas. After 25 years in Dallas, most of them working at SMU, my wife, Susan, and I have built a home in the mountains of central Arizona. Prescott, our new hometown, is 100 miles northwest of Phoenix, 50 miles south of Sedona and 125 miles from Grand Canyon. We’ve got lots of room and 100-mile unobstructed northern views to enjoy.” 


Out of curiosity (and seeking more content) I discovered that more than 110 of our classmates are on Facebook, including Dave Goehring, who provided this sweeping update: “After graduate school (Michigan) I moved to Boston, began a career in book publishing and have been in that business ever since. I spent a few years in Chicago, Seattle and New York before returning to the Boston area again in the early 1980s. I have enjoyed working with smart people and ideas and I have loved the role of publisher and general manager. The business model for books has been turned on its head by the disruptive influence of digital technology, and for those of us who went into the business for its more ‘intellectual’ attraction it is now barely recognizable as the same business. The changes to publishing have been mainly (but not entirely) for the better. Nevertheless, having lived through the most disruptive years of the digital transformation, I am now considering a possible career change to an adjacent field, maybe higher education or consulting. Retirement? I don’t think so.


“My wife, Lori, and I have raised two great kids, Emma and Natty, both of whom are well on their way—Emma as a teacher and Natty as a writer and musician. I beam whenever I think of them. For exercise I’m always happy to be outside. I continue to ride my bike, competitively once in a while, and my kids even allow me to play tennis with them sometimes. And I still manage at least one good hike in the White Mountains every year.


“It was great to see old friends at our 40th reunion, including Charlie Shockey, Frank Sullivan and Charlie Schudson—and of course Bud Lynch, who has managed to carve out a career for himself as an orthopedic surgeon within the sound of Baker’s bells. I also see old roommate and Washington lawyer Bob Rizzi reasonably often, usually on trips to New York.”


Quick sightings: Bob Jeffe is now managing partner and founder at Source Rock Energy Partners, and Chris Brewster is now special counsel at Strook & Stroock & Lavan. Paul Tyson authored the recent U.S. State Department warning for “U.S. citizens to defer all nonessential travel to Ukraine due to the ongoing political unrest and violent clashes between police and protestors.” 


Please continue to send your updates and news.


—Bill Price, 12 Lummi Key, Bellevue WA 98006; bill@drivasolutions.com