Sent: 11/04/1997
From: Bro. Robert N. Rose, Al-'70 (102nd Line)
To: Al Chap, DPE Web Site

Dear Brothers:

Bro. Charlie Skuba called to tell me that he submitted a picture of me with Vice-President Gore taken in Westport, CT. Although the majority of my time is taken with my wife and three children (ages 6, 8, 10) and as a Managing Director of Bear Stearns in New York, I have maintained an active involvement in National Democratic politics. In December 1991, I hosted candidate Clinton's first fund raising event in Connecticut. During the President's first term, I served as a Presidential Appointment to the J. William Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarship. With best wishes to the fraternity and especially Bro. Boyle for his longstanding dedication to the fraternity.

I am currently Vice-President - International of the Protein Specialties Division of the Archer Daniels Midland Corporation of Decatur, Illinois, and would like to hear from and about the Brothers of my era at Alpha. My home telephone number is 217-429-0727.

Last month I was quite near to the USA while spending 3 weeks in Mexico. Next year I'm going to do another internship outside Europe. Perhaps I'll have the opportunity to come back to the USA. If so, I'm going to visit Delta Phi Epsilon in Georgetown. Special greetings to all my Brothers of Al '96. Hope to hear from you. My address at school is: P. Meinecke, Neptunstrasse 1, CH-9000, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

I've just reviewed the home page for the very first time. This is a great vehicle for communicating with and between old and new brothers. The fact that there are 93 year old brothers not traveling much any more, except to Europe now and then and to Australia all the time! - means that we have some pretty dynamic people on this page. Let's do all we can to encourage it!

All the best, and may the sun never set....

Dick Backus alpha, '53

rbackus1@airmail.net

Dear Brothers:

Please post both my snail- and e-mail addresses:

Franklin L. Lavin
Vice President
Global Relationship Banking
Citibank, Hong Kong

franklin.lavin@citicorp.com

Any brothers out this way should give me a call.

Dear Brothers:

Still hanging on. Not many of us Alpha alumni are left to remember the good times at the Chapter House when it was on 16th Street, NW. Those were the days!

Dear Brothers:

I'm now 87 years old and have been married for 57 wonderful years to the former Joy White. I was president of Alpha Chapter in 1933-34. Good luck to you all, especially Bill Sandridge.

Dear Brothers:

In October 1996 I was elected (by my peers) to the American College of Trial Attorneys.

Dear Brothers:

I'm a trial attorney with a firm in Cleveland, practicing labor and employment law. I also coach crew at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland.

Dear Brothers:

I am currently Director of Architectural and Yacht Paints Division of Courtaulds International in Sâo Paolo, Brazil. Courtaulds is a multinational paint company, with headquarters in London, England.

I have been retired from the National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD, since October 1987. I remember many of the 1940s and 1950s brothers from my days as G.U. Registrar and being the Fraternity's National Vice-President for Alpha. Best wishes to all.

Living happily in Honolulu, HI. Being nearly 93 years old, I do not travel much. I do, though, go to Europe for a few months each year and in the fall still go to Australia and New Zealand. This year will be my 40th consecutive Melbourne Cup.

Dear Brothers:

My wife Andrea and I are proud to announce the birth of our third child, Hannah Marie, on 12 Feb 97. She joins her brothers Jake and Paul.

Dear Brothers:

I have retired from the Air Force and am now a financial consultant with Merrill Lynch in Phoenix, AZ.

Dear Brothers:

I am now a broker in Kore Beach, North Carolina, and Shelburne, New Hampshire.

Dear Brothers:

I have recently joined The Fonda Group, Inc., in Valhalla, NY, as Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer. Formerly, I was for 21 years at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City in a variety of corporate finance positions. My wife and I will continue residing in Chatham, NJ.

Dear Brothers:

It was special to receive the latest edition of The SUN. Please find enclosed a $100 check to cover a Life Membership.

It is always sad to hear about the passing of brothers, especially Bros. Jules Davids and Joseph Grieboski.

As of November 1993, my wife Claire and I became Regional Managers for Holiday Retirement Corp., the world's largest operator of independent retirement facilities. Our geographic area includes Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, as well as southern Nevada and El Paso, Texas. This gives me 12 facilities to manage.

We are currently building a home in Surprise, AZ, and after June 1, 1997, our address will be:

16117 West Starlight Drive
Surprise, AZ 85374

Our telephone number for now is (602) 876-8404.

The welcome mat is always out for visiting brothers and we look forward to hearing news and re-living pleasant memories.

Dear Brothers:

I retired from the C.I.A. in 1983 and am now a licensed real estate and business broker in Florida. I am also active in Rotary International (was Governor for southeast Florida in 1994-95). In the last few years I've traveled various times internationally for Rotary. My wife Cynthia and I have 3 adult children.

Hello Brothers:

After having been graduated from Yale College in 1992 and working awhile in the Clinton Administration, I'm now the Director of Publishing for Sino-American Investment Consulting, Inc., 1800 K Street, NW, Suite 201; Washington, DC 20006. My e-mail address is:

brison@concentric.net

Our web site's URL is:

http://www.sinonews.com

I just received the January 1997 issue of The SUN. I was pleased to see the news about three old (emphasis on the word old) buddies: Don Guerette, Ted Rees and Jack Herrity. It is great to see that some of the fellows turned out O.K. On a sadder note, I had already learned of the passing of Jules Davids. But what a life he had! And what a positive contribution he gave to all the spheres of influence he touched!

I have just semi-retired after running for the last six years a small bank in New York City. We are back in Dallas, where my wife Mimi and I have two daughters, two grandsons and one granddaughter. We also have a son practicing law in Austin, Texas. Number One daughter is a bi-lingual (Spanish/English) teacher and the mother of the three grand kids. The lawyer son is also married. Our other daughter is a manager at Fidelity, the mutual fund company. All this comes after 40 years of marriage, to be celebrated next month. We have lived around the world; and I have worked in about all the markets possible, with the exception of Europe, with Citibank and the old Republic Bank of Dallas. So we've really had a tremendously interesting existence since leaving Georgetown in 1956 and getting out of the Marine Corps in 1960. Enough on that, though I'll be pleased to talk or correspond at length on the details with anyone who would like to do so.

Feel free to put my address (street and e-mail) and telephone number in front of anyone who might ask for it. I'd love to hear from my Alpha contemporaries, especially the three mentioned in the first paragraph.

Richard P. Backus
5200 Keller Springs Road, #226
Dallas, TX 75248

Telephone: (972) 726-0091

E-mail: rbackus1@airmail.net

Dear Brothers:

Continuing to toil away on the Army staff in the Pentagon. Also, our new address, effective immediately, is:

J. Clarke Bursley, Alpha 108th Line
6720 Holford Lane
Springfield, VA 22152-2910

Dear Brothers:

After being graduated from Georgetown in '47, I spent some 20 years as a foreign service officer. Then I joined the International Executive Service Corps (the businessman's Peace Corps). I retired in 1991.

Dear Brothers:

I am living in New York City and am an associate director for Bear Stearns in the Fixed Income Capital Markets Group.

Dear Terry and Brothers:

Greetings from San Salvador! An expatriate lifestyle has a lot of complications that someone living stateside wouldn't likely think about. Nonetheless, I love it down here. It was hell during the war, but it's like paradise now: 85 degrees Fahrenheit weather 365 days a year, friendly, honest people, a dynamic, growing society just coming into its own, beautiful beaches, lakes, hills, and a remarkably inexpensive cost of living.

What happened to me is simple enough. I left Delta Phi Epsilon and G.U. in 1965 and joined the Marine Corps and never went home again, except for short visits. There first was graduate school in Australia, followed by years of working for Catholic Relief Services in Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt and El Salvador. The last few years I've worked in the Kurdish refugee camps of northern Iraq. Now I am on my own, a consultant for relief organizations, working out of magnificent San Salvador.

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