Class of 1964 Bios and Updates

Johns Hopkins University, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professorial Lecturer

Geographic Areas, Latin America | Central America and the Caribbean

Issues, Economics | Energy Issues | Environmental Issues | NAFTA

Background and Education

SAIS associate dean since 2002; developed interactive DVD-based courses on pre-calculus and basic calculus mathematics; has taught at SAIS as a professional lecturer in the International Economics Program for the past 27 years, including throughout a 20-year government career at the U.S. Department of State, where he directed economics education for foreign affairs professionals at the Foreign Service Institute; later directed the Office of Regional Economic Policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs; continued to address economic policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean through association with Caribbean/Latin American Action, the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce and the Greater American Business Coalition; during the 2001-02 academic year, held a joint appointment as senior fellow a the Institute for Policy Studies at The Johns Hopkins University and interim associate dean for Academic Affairs of SAIS; Ph.D., economics, Georgetown University.

Set forth below is a brief bullet point summary of what I have been doing in the past 40 years:

Ø I only rowed under Don Cadle in my Freshman year at Georgetown University (1960-1961). It was definitely one of the best decisions and experiences I had during my college career.

Ø While studying at the University of Paris- Sorbonne during the 1962-1963 school year, I rowed (on the Seine) with the crew of the Faculté des Lettres, a college at the University.

Ø Coach Phil Negus gave me the “privilege” of driving his launch from which he coached the GU Heavy Weight Freshmen crews during a portion of my time at the GU Law Center (1964-1967) from which I received a Juris Doctor degree in 1967.

Ø During 1967/1968 while on a Fellowship from the German Government in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, I rowed on the Main River with the Frankfurt-based Rudergesellschaft “Germania”. While in Frankfurt, I was an Assistant to Professor Heinrich Kronstein, a renowned expert in international trade law and cartel law.

Ø I spent 40 years in private law practice, specializing in the representation of international enterprises (the majority of which are based in Germany) doing business in the USA. Most of that time as spent as a partner at Foley & Lardner, a US national law firm. In 2009, I retired from Foley & Lardner, only to immediately take a position as General Counsel for IDT Biologika GmbH, a contract manufacturer of drugs and vaccines based in Dessau, Germany. I divide my time between my USA office and an office at IDT’s headquarters in Germany.

Ø My primary current athletic activities are long-distance running, sailing and windsurfing. My more cerebral interests include German literature and playing the piano.

Ø I have been married happily to Mary Lynn for 44 years and have two wonderful daughters, Colette Marie (married with 4 children) and Bridget Marie (who will be married in August 2013).

After graduating Georgetown CLA in 1964, I attended NYU law school as a Root Tilden Scholar, Class of ’67. In 1966 I married Linda Lovas (Trinity and Barnard College ’66) whom I met at her freshman mixer. After we completed grad school we worked in Chicago as Vista Volunteers during the turbulent ’67-’68 years of the Martin Luther King riots and Democratic National Convention festivities. I defended several Convention rioters successfully, besides stamping out injustice (slum landlords and the Chicago Housing Authority) with my bare feet.

Linda and I chose to move to Minnesota to a place: where we could afford to live in the city, expect clean politics (Chicago will do that to you) and enjoy good arts. We never looked back. Here we’ve raised our 2 children, Kristen and Fritz, and continue to be involved in the lives of our grandsons who live just a mile away. My career as a real estate/financing lawyer is winding down, but I’m not in retirement since Linda believes “for better, for worse, but not for lunch.”Since she was drafted as the Cadle Era crew den mother, I need to keep humoring her.

I’ve served on many arts, theater and museum boards and am currently a devoted World Press Institute trustee: www.worldpressinstitute.org. Linda and I have also enjoyed commissioning artists and craftsmen as much as we could: furniture builders, painters, choreographers, musicians, focusing particularly on composers. We’ve commissioned over 100 music works—some of the best (and worst) music you’ll ever hear. About 22 years ago, I started a Commissioning Club on the model of an investment club, in which we join with 4 or 5 other couples to commission a new work annually. This club has become something of a model for collegial arts support.

I also give a fine tour of the Twin Cities, covering the geologic, geographic, historical, economic, ecclesiastical and architectural history, which I happily offer to any of you who would visit us in flyover land. Linda’s a great cook and the beds are firm for those who would like to stay with us since we are less than 10 minutes from the airport.

Life for me simmers down to significant relationships, unstructured wandering, structured wandering and almost thirty years of disciplined service. Sally and I met during the structured wandering, which ended when she and others, including me, became fed up with it. Much earlier, I had loved being part of athletic teams, football and crew especially, and eventually I formed a team of my own, a business that has been challenging, satisfying, ever-changing and enriching for me and others.

The significant others include several usual suspects including Don and Inge, Father Sellinger, and, of course, you as classmates and crew mates. My first friends as a freshman, John and Mike, introduced me to crew and then kept in touch and disappeared, respectively. Mike gave me many years of fantasizing about what happened to him, while the reality that he is living in Vancouver is both predictable and more interesting than anything I had imagined. Jane and Mark extended themselves beyond graciousness at their homes in DC, an early “home away from home” that still gives hospitality a special meaning for me. Peter McGrath and I have shared our lives over the years beginning with an extraordinary year as roommates in graduate school, later in his campaign for Congress, and, finally, as a fan of his adventures in large scale project management and sales. Linda and Jack have been a presence throughout the years, from early Rhodes and Rotary applications, some adventurous travelling through southern Europe, walks together on the beaches of New York City and hospitality in St. Paul and many special events in D.C.

Unstructured wandering consumed more than a year each in Africa (mostly the eastern half), Mexico (add in Peru and Colorado), and Cambridge, MA. These were rich years. With hair below the shoulders and a beard that earned the moniker “Rabbi O’Brien,” it almost seemed natural that I wore a Mexican serape to a job interview with the Dean of Harvard Business School who, in a fit of late-sixties desperation, hired me as a research associate to later become a Lecturer and member of the faculty.

Structured wandering began as a student in business school, continued through some exciting years at Lehman Brothers in New York, the years researching and teaching at Harvard and, eventually, a long period of graduate study and teaching in political-economy at MIT. Of course, few challenges were more mystifying and joyful than trying to be a father to two very young daughters. Unprompted, Sally, Marni and Stephanie offered up their own structures. At the youthful age of 44, I started a business. My father and father-in-law didn’t know what to make of it.

Leading a business has brought me some of my most satisfying experiences. As many of you have done, I created a team! Georgetown? Cadle? You, Georgetown and the Cadles have been important contributors to what today is O’Brien Management LLC , an eleven-person wealth management (investment and financial planning) firm, in Cambridge, MA. This structured firm, one that currently works with three hundred families, is of course a blend of Georgetown, Harvard, MIT and all those unstructured wanderings. Happily, Sally and I remain close to our two daughters and their significant others of whom we are very proud, and we are working together on our thirty-seventh year of marriage. We are very, very thankful. It will be great to see so many of you in April!

Mark Pisano is a Senior Fellow in the School of Policy Planning and development. He is a faculty member in the Bedrosian Center for Governance, teaching a course on Megaregions and conducting research on infrastructure financing. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure. He is Co-chairman of America 2050 a national organization dedicated to developing the third century growth strategy for America. He is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration and is co-chair of the Federal Systems Panel of NAPA.

Mark Pisano directed the activities of the Southern California Association of Governments from 1976 to 2008, the nation’s largest regional planning agency. The counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura, and cities within these counties are members of the Association. The purpose of this voluntary association of local governments is to provide an open forum where region-wide problems can be explored and comprehensive plans dealing with air and water quality, transportation, regional growth and development, housing, and other areas critical to the region can be developed.

Prior to joining SCAG in November 1976, Mr. Pisano was director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Quality Planning Division. For several years, Mr. Pisano was responsible for developing policy on implementation of the nation’s water quality management process, including basin and facility planning and wastewater management programs. He previously served as an economist with the Environmental Protection Agency.

A Ph.D. candidate at Georgetown University, Mr. Pisano was a lecturer there during the summers of 1970 and 1971. He is also the author of several papers on economics and water resources. Mr. Pisano is also a member of various organizations: Corporate Fund for Housing, Regional Institute of Southern California, California Transportation Directions, Growth Management and Environmental Committees, Rose Bowl Aquatic Center, BCI Geonetics, National Association of Regional Councils, ICMA, Urban Land Institute, Commission on the Future of Loyola Marymount University, Archdiocese Los Angeles Communications Board, Provost Council for California School of Professional Psychology, Advisory Committee of National Civic League, Department of Transportation Privatization Council and Center for California Studies.

From 1965 to 1966, Mr. Pisano was vice president and general manager of Frank Pisano and Associates, an engineering firm in San Jose, California.

Mr. Pisano was born in 1942 in Santa Clara, California and resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

SINCE GEORGETOWN… ( 50 years is a long time…)

To: fellow oarsmen, in particular Dad Vail ’64 crew

Trying to bring each other up to date is a challenge, and a lot has happened to us all. Here’s my brief summary, in three parts: the current situation, what happened after Georgetown, and what mattered in between…

First: Clayoquot Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, has been home since 1974. Tofino is a small town of about 1500, but is adjacent to Long Beach and Pacific Rim National Park and is a major tourism destination. Most of my time here has been on the water, raising a family of four on float houses, fishboats and dive boats, but I now have a house at the very end of the town, 60m from the water. I spent many years underwater commercial diving, mostly digging geoduck clams, and years of offshore salmon trolling and commercial fishing. In and around the fishing and diving there was opportunity build up an oyster farm. We have had a deep water longline oyster farm going in Lemmens Inlet since 1979.

Oyster growing is one of the best possible forms of sustainable husbandry, producing the best possible food with essentially no environmental impact. It is fun and fulfilling work, and in a way “the kindergarten of all fisheries” This has sustained our family. Up until the last couple of years I was out on the water harvesting oysters all thru the winter, sometimes in some pretty crappy conditions, often and for years working alone. I have been trying to phase out of the oyster farm but have not found a satisfactory exit. Oysters are great food and great fun; one of the premier events in the Tofino year is the fall Oyster Festival, which I have been a part of organizing since helping to start it 16 years ago. It is a gala two day event of costume ball, music and dance, oysters and wine. (cf oystergala.ca)

Most my time is now dedicated to Mermaid Tales Bookshop (mermaidbooks.ca) It is a very small store, but in a good location, and we can stock an eclectic selection since we get customers from all over the world. We feature quality paperbacks, children’s early learning materials, Frisbees, tops and toys and so on. One of my passions is kiteflying, and we also carry high performance kites, as well as basic kites and wind toys. We have lots of fun, and are seven years in current location.

Just got back today from a trip to the Hot Springs – I still drive whale watch, eco tours, and so on, my favorite the pelagic bird trips when we go 40 miles offshore, to the edge of the continental shelf, in an open 28’boat. This fall I had the opportunity to sail with a friend from Tofino to San Francisco, on a double ended ketch very similar to the boat I arrived on in 1972. We sailed 800miles, one week, 125m off the Oregon coast. Fantastic trip, gave me a chance to refresh my celestial navigation. A few days after getting home, by sheer chance there was opportunity to do it again -- on a boat I’d had never seen with three people I’d never met. One week, 125 miles off the Oregon Coast – fantastic. Both trips had some great runs with double reef and 30knots of wind.

I am also still very active with our local environmental organization, the Friends of Clayoquot Sound. We organized the largest civil disobedience action in Canada, with almost 900 arrests, in 93, as part of the long struggle to protect our old growth forests from logging. In close conjunction with the Clayoquot natives in 1984-85 we were the first to actually stop a logging crew, on Meares Island. Currently we are faced with the threat of an open pit copper mine, as well as ongoing logging and fish farming.

Second: after Georgetown I spent two years at the University of Chicago, (MA ‘66) then went to Chile with the Peace Corps. The area was rebuilding after the ’64 tsunami, and we were assisting in organizing a fishing cooperative in Talcahuano. Our boats fished offshore longline gear, taking me on one trip down to Isla Mocha for example. During this time I did a lot of climbing in the Andes, with 8 ascents over 20,000’ inc. Acongagua. After leaving the Peace Corps I spent another two years in Chile, on the island of Chiloe, helping another volunteer finish a sailboat he had under construction. We were diving sea urchins to finance things, and making leather boots and bags.

The boat was a Colin Archer 33’ double ended ketch, La Pincoya. Four of us left Chile in 1971, sailed to Peru and then Galapagos. We spent the next year there, exploring, diving, reading Darwin. Incredible time. From there my lady and I continued to Hawaii, then I took the boat solo to B.C. Here it took a couple of years to end up in Tofino, after sailing around the island, seine fishing out of Alert Bay, herring packing up to Prince Rupert, refitting the boat in Victoria.

Having a boat to live on made survival here possible, and led to finding “God’s Pocket” and starting the oyster farm. On the last serious attempt to leave we left for Mexico in Oct 77, and got dismasted 115m out. Limped back to Winter Harbour, cut a tree, made a mast, re-rigged enough to sail back to Tofino. Great winter cruise, but not Mexico. Spent the next several years shipwrighting, running a marine ways, with caulking and plankfitting specialties

Third: of course the important part is having had the opportunity to raise four wonderful kids here on the coast. It was a privilege to live as we did, at each step despite the difficult times.

My oldest boy at 34 still lives here, runs a big commercial fish-farm support boat. He was dive tending me at 7, alone in the boat with me underwater, and open water diving himself at 14. His sister teaches high school in Vancouver, drives whale watch on the West Coast in the summer. She still coaches and refs rugby, after playing national level varsity rugby at UBC and national level wrestling in high school. My other daughter is a massage therapist at a heli-ski lodge in the BC interior, after extensive overseas studies. She has always been an avid snow-boarder and dancer. The youngest boy is currently in college in Victoria. He has always been an adventurous international surfer and commercial fisherman (had his 15^th birthday 80 miles off Oregon on a tuna troller) and now at 24 is on a herring packer as I write.

Having the children changed my life, got me committed to environmentalism, forced me to take good care of myself. Taking high risk, working underwater with little kids waiting at home, makes a person very careful. Among everything else crew taught the value of self-care, discipline around staying healthy, about getting up early, about maintaining an age appropriate training regime. In this life now for me that is mainly yoga, (that I was introduced to by Gus, the “King of the Galapagos”, in 1971!). Rowing gives us permission to do the same thing over and over, seeking perfection, an important lesson in life. Yoga teaches that every breath, every minute, is of value, like every stroke, to be savored.

It is a privilege to live on the west coast, with morning stretch on the beach in secluded rock caves to start the day, looking out to horizon.

I was born in Minneapolis Minnesota on May 9, 1942 and grew up in Chicago - right on Lake Michigan. So, even though I had no prior experience with crew, the attraction of water-borne activity made me give rowing a second look when I entered Georgetown in 1960.

I was a member of the rowing team all of my four years at Georgetown – being coached directly by the legendary Don Cadle for the first three of them. Those years included rowing in the first freshman heavy-weight boat and “making” the finals in the 1961 Dad Vail regatta, and winning the Dad Vail’s Callow Cup in the junior varsity heavy-weight eight in both my sophomore and junior years. Also, I received a trophy for “devotion and outstanding leadership” in the varsity rowing program that seemed to have special significance for Mr. Cadle in awarding it – and has meant a great deal to me.

At Georgetown, I was in the liberal arts college originally aiming at being a history major – but after completing the freshman-year requirement in Geography – decided to make that field my major. It seemed that I could cover basically the same ground of surveying the human condition in either field, but, Geography appeared to have a number of things history did not. One was a window on physical science, often referred to as “earth science” – and reflected across the social sciences in more recent times as “ecology.” Another was a dialogue with practical application under the label of “planning.” Finally, Geography forced a “global” view - that is now seen as mandatory for all social sciences.

I went on to graduate school in the MBA program in health care administration at the University of Chicago where one of the main faculty interests was area-wide hospital planning including geographic analysis. This perspective was incorporated into federal law in the mid-1960s with Medicaid and Medicare legislation and especially the federal Comprehensive Health Planning Act. After 3 years plus as an Army Medical Service Corps Officer, I returned to school for certification in Comprehensive Health Planning and, eventually, a Ph.D. in medical sociology. This period led me into working on a number of largely federally funded grants and contracts, and teaching a variety of mainly sociology courses at George Washington University, Georgetown, and the University of Virginia. In July of 1985, I transferred this “practice” to a consulting firm where I worked until just prior to my 70^th birthday.

Most important of all, I met the “love of my life,” Stephanie (Farley) at Georgetown in the Fall of 1961 – at the Mask and Bauble Drama Club where we were both non-actor “worker bees.” I was a publicity artist. We were married on April 16, 1966.

Stephanie went to law school and completed a 30 year career as an attorney with the federal government. We have three (now grown) children – boys. They “never rowed,” but were all “extreme athletes” participating in a number of endless races! We have 7 wonderful grandchildren.

Current interests and activities include railroad history and model trains, which I share with all of our grandchildren. Photography and art are continuing interests. Stephanie and I have been (and are) involved in a number of political and social action projects, and we both enjoy reading, travel and dancing together. And, we try to do an aerobic walk, if not jog, as many days as possible.

I finally realized that if I tried to put this in narrative form I’d miss the reunion entirely—so here’s my life in outline form. I’ll leave it to my biographer to fill in the details.

June 1964 Graduated from Foreign Service School

November 1964—started Air Force Pilot Training

March 1965—Married Dorothy Janusko (Just celebrated 48^th anniversary)

After a successful career as as writer and in public relations, Dorothy went back to school for a masters degree in ministry. She is a Certified Pastoral Minister who worked as a spiritual care coordinator with patients and families at Hospice of the Western Reserve where she continues to volunteer after retiring in 2010.

1966—Flew 100 combat missions over North Vietnam in RF-4-C Phantom

Stayed alive; Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross; 11 Air Medals; Still hold unofficial Trans-Viet Nam world Speed Record

1965-1969—Three Children: Lisa, Christopher and Daniel

Son Dan is named after my good friend Dan Ebert, from GU Crew (Actually, Dan Ebert was “Charles Dandridge” but I couldn’t hang that moniker on my son. Now have 7 grandchildren, ages 9-18

1967-73--Instructor Pilot USAF.

After 13 moves in 9 years ended up as Executive officer to commanding general of air Force Pilot Training. After working for a general I decided that was not what I wanted to be when I grew up.

1973-76: Law School

Dorothy and I and the kids moved back to Cleveland, bought a house in Shaker Heights and I went to law school at Case Western Reserve University, graduating in May 1976.

1976-2010: Practicing Law

Took a position as the 12th lawyer in what was then considered to be a mid-sized firm in Cleveland. Stayed with the same firm for 34 years which, through growth and merger, had 400 plus lawyers when I retired. I tried lots of cases involving feuding partners and shareholders, employment issues and construction disputes.

1989-present: Coaching Crew

I was the first crew coach at St. Ignatius High School. Patterned crew on Georgetown/Cadle model. Started as a club with 9 boys, became a varsity sport and has grown to nearly 100 rowers. St. Ignatius has become a Midwest power--won 7 straight Midwest championships. Kids I've coached have rowed at GU, Navy, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Washington. Several have become high school and college coaches. One of my grads rowed for Oxford in the 2010 Boat Race.

Since 2010 I've been coaching Shaker Heights High School Crew, learning new skills coaching a public school team and coaching girls.

2001-2010--Lifetime Achievement

Was Board member and chair of Cleveland Rowing Foundation for nine years, during which time we succeeded in purchasing an 8-acre site on the Cuyahoga River, now known as Rivergate Park, as a permanent home for rowing in Cleveland. Nearly a thousand rowers--4 high schools, 3 colleges and an adult club are based out of our Boathouse.

I still row. Rowed in a 4+ that won our age group (really old!) in the first USRA Masters National Head Race Championship in September 2012.

So that’s it in a nutshell. I’ve led a charmed life, spent with the girl I fell in love with in 1962. I love flying, being a trial lawyer and coaching crew and rowing, and I’m grateful to have spent my life with people I love, doing things I love to do.