September 13, 2000
by Dick Prentke
Richard Erdman has moved back to DC after two years as US special envoy and chair of the Israel Lebanon Monitoring Group – a group whose mission was to help defuse tension and prevent an escalation of fighting in southern Lebanon. In July, he became director of Syrian, Jordanian, and Lebanese affairs in the Near Eastern Bureau of the State Department.
Dick Cirre has a quick update from Kentucky so that the old Ballantine-and-Viagra crew from Gauss and Elm will know he hasn’t fallen off the face of the earth (yet). His disposable income is finally – and gratefully – rising due to (1) the last of three daughters (Katie) being halfway through Miami of Ohio, (2) wife Faith back in the workforce, (3) a great equities market, and (4) an ability to draw on retirement later this year and change careers. Daughter Heather is in Chicago with Walsh construction; Erin works in Jacksonville with Salomon Smith Barney; and Katie heads for Luxembourg next spring, where her parents can visit and remember their youth. Dick realized a personal goal last year by climbing the last of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks and thus becoming the 4,579th member of the Adirondack 46ers (www.adk46r.org). He’s old but still good.
John Huyler is enjoying a year’s sabbatical from his normal work as a mediator of public policy disputes. He hasn’t stopped working but is exploring new avenues such as work in Morocco, studying Spanish with his daughter, skiing a lot (23 days this winter) and generally slowing down.
35 Years Ago: We were juniors! No Commons! Departments! Some had actually realized that a junior paper was somewhere in the foggy but not too distant future. Lebanon was the Paris of the Middle East, offspring were to be avoided, and slowing down was not on the screen.
© 2000 Dick Prentke and The Princeton Alumni Weekly. Used by permission.
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