May 11, 1994
by Peter Safir
Gus Escher III continues into his third year as a v.p. at Artemis Capital Group, a municipal-bond investment-banking firm established by six women from Goldman Sachs and Citicorp in 1990. Gus is looking to add more verses to the class song (humorous, please) for our 30th in ’97. Any and all submissions (either in writing or as audiotape auditions) are welcome.
After 20 years in the navy and six years struggling as a self-employed general contractor, John Porter is now with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. as manager of Turkish operations. John is spending several months in 1994 in Ankara and Badrum managing the sale of unmanned air vehicles to the government of Turkey.
Ted Weiss reports that his law firm in Houston has now become Weiss and Associates, specializing in business litigation.
John Weidman took a sabbatical from Pittsburgh and went to Kenya, where he held a UNESCO chair in higher-education research at Maseno Univ. College. Last summer, he concluded seven years as chairman of the department of administrative and policy studies at Pitt, and spent six weeks doing a comprehensive study of the higher-education system in Mongolia for the Asian Development Bank.
On Dec. 30, 1993, Joel Herskowitz married Roya Sayadi of Tehran and East Lansing (Iran and Michigan, respectively).
Jim Hillegass writes that he is still freezing in Minnesota, but that business is great. He went from a one- to a three-company computer software/hardware show. “We now provide UNIX hardware and software and factory automation service and support for the Intel Corp plants that make their CPU’s. It’s exciting work – like being part of the space program.”
© 1994 Peter Safir and The Princeton Alumni Weekly. Used by permission.
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