December 6, 1995
by Peter O. Safir
John Tait has received the President’s Award from the Canadian Bar Assn. for outstanding contribution to legislation and law reform in Canada as deputy minister of justice of Canada, 1988-94.
Also in the recognition category, this April Robert Orban received the Natl. Assn. of Broadcasters’ Radio Engineering Achievement Award for “over 31 years of dedicated commitment to innovation in broadcast engineering.”
Sometime in 1996, Peter Delacorte will have a novel published by Scribner’s, to be called either The Errand or Time On My Hands.
George Hayum and Rich Hesel had a great time at ex-roommate Jerry Brashear’s 50th birthday party.
Also celebrating an ex-roommate’s 50th were Rick Greenwald and Jim Staker, who hooked up at John Torkelsen’s event in Princeton. Rick reports he is still practicing gastroenterology in Boca Raton and has been appointed to the board of the local hospital “so I have more meetings to cut into quality fishing time.”
On a more somber 50th note, Jim Edmondson writes with bad news/good news: two bouts of cancer, melanoma and prostate, but seems “to have dodged the bullet with each through early detection and timely treatment. I urge all of us 50-year-olds to get PSA.” Jim reports everything else is well in family and business.
After two years under the gun in Bogotá, Colombia, John Pitts is back in Washington, D.C. “Despite narcos, guerrillas, mortal traffic jams, unsafe skies, and criminality, we loved it.” John is now in charge of the State Dept.’s Office of Textile Policy, negotiating textile agreements with U.S. trading partners. “Quite a switch.”
© 1995 Peter O. Safir and The Princeton Alumni Weekly. Used by permission.
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