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Fond and Not-So-Fond Memories
February, 2003 THE 25TH AND 50TH reunions prompt people to share the best stories of their post-GSB lives with classmates, but many also write down precious tidbits of School history. Here are two such highlights from last year’s reunion classes of ’52 and ’77: When Pauline Hart arrived on campus in the early fifties, she was surprised to find herself registered as “Paul Hart.” She also discovered that she was one of three women in her class. “I learned that heretofore two had been the quota, since ‘women’s lib’ had not made much impact yet.” The Des Moines, Wash., resident has thought many times about the mistake in her name. “They didn’t send me home,” she says, “but to this day, I still wonder who was the ‘mistake,’ as another girl in my class was Bobby Bennion.” Hart became the first member of the American Dietetic Association with an MBA degree. She used her skills to develop the concept of contract management for hospital food services and says she “scored many firsts” before retiring from a career in hospital management. Everyone has been intimidated by a decorous, well-respected teacher, but Bob Homans of Norden Capital in Los Angeles has a particularly frightening tale. It occurred in the class of the late Leland Bach, a GSB professor known as a masterful teacher. Homans, MBA ’77, says he received a call one day from Professor Bach’s secretary “informing me that the Great Man could not read my handwriting, and would I possibly be able to go up to his house and read to him the contents of my final exam bluebook in macroeconomics.” Homans had no choice but to comply. “It is one thing to write garbage in a bluebook, hand it in, and wait for the results,” he says. “It is quite another to have to verbally present that same garbage to Professor Bach himself, realizing all the time that both of us are probably trying desperately to hold back laughter.” |
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