River Campus Undergraduate: Slater Society—1950s

1946

Leonard Sayles writes that his biography will appear in Who’s Who in America 2008. After graduating, he went to MIT for his doctorate and “wrote many fieldwork-based monographs on the managerial challenges of dispersed high technology organizations.” Although an economist, he was elected a fellow of the American Anthropological Association. He advised NASA in its formative years, as well as Chief Justice Warren on improving the management of the federal courts. A professor emeritus at Columbia University, he lives with his wife in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y, and Naples, Fla.

1950

Guido Marinetti ’53M (PhD) is the author of I Beat Heart Disease, So Can You (iUniverse, 2006), a book based on his “personal experience with open heart bypass surgery and from my credentials of being professor emeritus of biochemistry.”

1951

Stuart Daniels writes that he gave a piano recital in New York in February. The program included Schubert’s posthumous B-Flat Sonata and Liszt’s Funerailles. . . . Leo Rockas ’52 (MA) has published Mice Make War (Publish America, 2006). He writes, “It looks like an innocent child’s book, but it is really a ferocious attack on the Bush administration.”

1959

Wilma Pinkerton Steele and Don (Herb) Steele hosted a reunion in their Raleigh, N.C., home for 11 fellow members of the Class of ’59. Those who came for the long weekend of “relaxation, non-stop talk, eating, and having fun” were Barbara Thomas Geyer W, Abby Barnes Anderson, and Nancy Wink ’60N; Marcia Sheehe Zornow ’65W (Mas), Liz Allan Symonds, Wilma, and Stu Symonds; and Herb, Bob Geyer, Ted Zornow, and John Wermecke.