Class Note 1980
Far more of us now hail from the South and West than when we were children. But most of us still live in the densely populated Northeast corridor in cities and towns we assumed were impervious to the natural disasters our migrating classmates in the Sunbelt signed up for. In Philadelphia we have grown to expect the occasional marauding flash mob. But an earthquake and hurricane all in a single week? Remarkably, I was in California when the earthquake hit the Eastern Seaboard and in Florida when the hurricane blew through. How’s that for irony?
George Lester can attest to the twisted genius beneath the nicknames we gave each other. But there’s a good chance he would get a different nickname today. Times have changed. An increased sensitivity to natural disasters might inspire a new wave of nicknames. Ty “Phoon” Anderson, Carter “Hurricane” Harsh, Andy “The Fault” Graham and Colin “Churning Sea” Foam seem like excellent candidates for the Chris Berman treatment.
Let’s work our way up the coast like Irene did. From his home just outside the Beltway in Potomac, Maryland, Paul Jacoby and his wife, Margot, celebrated their 23rd anniversary while preparing for the storm’s arrival. During their 15-plus years in the D.C. area Paul and his wife have raised three daughters: two who are now in college, with a third still in high school. Paul spent several years in various executive positions at MCI before joining the leadership at a small cyber-security company, where he’s working hard but having more fun than ever.
Several weeks before the big storm, Hans Morris and I stood for hours in a downpour that rivaled Irene’s intensity, doing our best to enjoy an outdoor performance by Wilco. We were outside of Mass Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts, where Hans serves as chairman of the museum’s board of trustees. We met the members of the Chicago-based band after the concert and can report that they would have fit in well with the boys at Kappa Sig.
I recently caught up with David Osborn—for those of you without a scorecard, that’s David S. Osborn, not David D. Osborn. Dave and his wife, Debbie, have settled in the Boston area, where Dave now works as COO of a consulting firm in Cambridge that helps companies “go green.” Coincidentally, Dave’s longtime roommate Rob Speidel is also engaged with green technologies, as reported in a previous column. Through the years Dave and his family have lived in a number of interesting places, including Australia. He now has one grown son, three high school teenagers, three cats, two dogs and a python. Good luck with all that, Dave!
—Frank Fesnak, 111 Arbor Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@yahoo.com; Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; (813) 300-7954; robdaisley@me.com
