My three best friends inlaw school, who some how ended up in the same group of 5 in the yearbook:
My second and third year I was involved in the Law School show (I wrote the show with some help from Kathy Imholz the 2nd year, and was the stage manager the 3rd year.)
After living in the dorm for the first 2 years I rented an apartment the third year, and had a few parties there.
Michael Hertz was born in 1944 in New York City and graduated from Pomona College in 1967 with a bachelor of arts in economics and from Harvard Law School in 1970 with a Juris Doctor degree. He worked as a law professor at Dalhousie Faculty of Law, University of Oregon School of Law, and University of Maine School of Law, and practiced law at Coudert Freres in Paris, France, and Lang, Richert & Patch in Fresno, California. He retired from law practice in 2010 and presently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Above 3 parties with mostly Law School show people, and my family at the show.
Thanks to the first computer dating services, I dated lots of girls (women?) in law school:
Top left Cindy Lavin, top right Judy Wettenstein. Bottoml left Sany Lichtman?, bottom right Lizette Simon?
My best friend in Law School, Bob Israel also had a lot of dates:
My third year I had my own apartment and gave lots of parties:
Bob and Jane Shore Hurwitz on the right in the 2 bottom photos.
I spent the summer of 1967 working at the Pentagon,
It was a great summer with David Baris, Kathy Imholz and Barbara Heyns.
Clockwise from upper left: Friends from Fairfield, including Jan Claton (Jan Lavery); Dave Baris, my good friend Kathleen Imholz; Harold Krents playing the guitar, my next door neighbor in the dorm 2nd year, the first blind HLS graduate, profiled in the play and movie Butterflies are Free, dude from Georgia whose idols were George Wallace and Robert Kennedy.
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| Upper left Barbara Heyns; Middle right Susan Bloch |
My apartment 3rd year.
Spring vacation 3rd year Dave Baris and I went to Puerto Rico -since our 1 week vacations were out of sync we went for 2 weeks!
Professor Emerita, New York University
About
Currently, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Hope to stay in California and find interesting and relevant work.
Experience
Roslyn Braeman Payne
Roslyn Braeman Payne, American finance company executive. Member of
University Mich's Visiting Committee, Urban Land Institute, Real Estate
Research Council, Women's Forum West (director, treasurer 1981-1983),
Bay Area Mortgage Association (president 1981-1982), Menlo Circus Club,
Lambda Alpha (director).
Background
Payne, Roslyn Braeman was born on April 30, 1946 in Kansas City,
Missouri, United States. Daughter of Aaron and Sophie (Pincus) Braeman.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration, University Michigan. Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
Career
Intern 1st National Bank of Chicago, 1968,
Coopers & Lybrand, New York City, 1969. Vice president, principal
Eastdil Realty, 1970—1981. Group vice president, general manager Genstar
Corporation, San Francisco, 1981—1985.
President Jackson Street Partners, Ltd., San Francisco, since 1988. Board directors Finance Center Bank, San Francisco, First American Finance Corporation.
President Jackson Street Partners, Ltd., San Francisco, since 1988. Board directors Finance Center Bank, San Francisco, First American Finance Corporation.
Achievements
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Roslyn Braeman Payne has been listed as a noteworthy finance company executive by Marquis Who's Who.
Membership
Member of University Mich's Visiting Committee, Urban Land
Institute, Real Estate Research Council, Women's Forum West (director,
treasurer 1981-1983), Bay Area Mortgage Association (president
1981-1982), Menlo Circus Club, Lambda Alpha (director).
Connections
Married Lisle Warren Payne, December 27, 1973. Children: Matthew, Andrew.
- Father:
- Aaron Braeman
- Mother:
- Sophie (Pincus) Braeman
- Spouse:
- Lisle Warren Payne
- child:
- Matthew Payne
- child:
- Andrew Payne
DIANA ALTMAN
Al Altman and Joan Crawford

I
grew up on New Rochelle, New York, in a house on Avon Road that had
black shutters and a roof that hung down over its face like bangs. In
the front yard was an apple tree and all around the house were luxuriant
gardens tended by my mother. I was allowed to pick bouquets of roses to
bring to my grammar school teachers which I did even though I didn’t
like most of them. I spent a lot of time in the hall because I talked
when I was supposed to be quiet. To this day I think being bored and in a
position of no escape is almost unbearable. I have come to believe that
impatience is genetic.The belief that our personality traits are built in comes from years of writing about horses. I was a contributing editor for Northeast Horseman, and a freelance journalist for The Chronicle of the Horse and Saddlebred Report. Horse breeders understand that stubbornness is inherited and so is a quality they describe as “a willingness to please.” And so is “go forward.” In humans we call that ambition. Praise for a horse is, “he has a lot of go forward.”
Strange how you can’t breed for beauty. My father used to say that a beautiful woman is a freak. He meant you seldom see one. He saw a lot of pretty girls in his career as a talent scout for MGM. He discovered Joan Crawford, Ava Gardner, Jimmy Stewart, Celeste Holm, Robert Walker, and dozens of other unknown actors who became stars. He said that Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman he ever saw. I inherited her screen test which I’ve shown when I lecture about the film industry. Ava Gardner, age 17, walks toward the camera, then away, then shows both profiles. Her southern accent was so strong you couldn’t understand a word she said so my father took the sound out of the screen test footage. Louis B. Mayer phoned him to say, “She can’t talk, she can’t act, she’s terrific!”
DIANA ALTMAN
Diana Altman is the author of three
books, several short stories, and many newspaper and magazine articles.
She’d love to hear from you at diana@dianaaltman.com
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