October 23, 1996
by Peter O. Safir
Our annual class cocktail party and reception will be held following the Harvard game on Oct. 26 at Carrie and Frank Strasburger’s on University Pl. Please stop by and join your classmates, friends, and family for what should be a great kickoff to our 30th reunion year. We can even talk about our 25th/30th reunion book.
Alan Blinder may have left his position as vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, but he remains active in public policy issues. In a recent university forum on state education, Alan expressed his views that states should compete with each other for better education rather than entering interstate battles to attract businesses. Alan was recently quoted in the Trenton Times as saying “the quality of education a state offers – especially at the primary and secondary levels – plays a major role in improving its work force because most high school educated people in this country live and work in the state they grew up in.”
In other business news, Ted Weiss has recently joined the Houston law firm of Clements, O’Neil, Pierce & Nickens, practicing in business and anti-trust areas.
Since the old mail bag is rather thin this week (contrary to the popular adage, for class secretaries, no news is extremely bad news), I thought I would use the space to update my classmates on my own activities. I am in my 22nd year practicing food and drug law with KKB in Washington, D.C., representing pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and beginning my sixth year as professorial lecturer of food and drug law at George Washington U. Law School. My wife, Ellen, is managing director of investments at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Bethesda, Md. Eldest son Archie (25) is an advertising executive in NYC; Roland (22) is finishing a five-year program at Tufts U. and the Boston Museum School; Jesse (12) is a seventh grader at Maret school in DC.
© 1996 Peter O. Safir and The Princeton Alumni Weekly. Used by permission.
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