After graduation Hal went to Harvard Business School, earning his M.B.A. in 1970. Today he is a consultant in the trade publishing industry. Previously he was president of VNU Trade Dimensions, a $22-million syndicated market research company, and before that he was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Maclean Hunter Media Inc.

His wife of 32 years, Alison, is, in Hal's description, both a spectacular mom and a redhead. The “mom” part applies to Elizabeth Bradford (Libby) Clark, 26, a Delaware grad, who’s the manager of all women’s departments at Ralph Lauren flagship store in New York City, and Harold III (Ted), who graduated last spring from W&L and now works in operations at a Greenwich, Conn., hedge fund called Tudor Investments.

Alison is a special-ed teacher who, alas, won’t be able to join Hal at our reunion because of school commitments. But the Clarks invite everyone to meet her at their home in Wilton, Conn., or their summer home in Sorrento, Maine, near Acadia National Park.

On top of his own business, Hal helps handle the people’s business as a member of the Board of Selectmen in tony Wilton, Conn. He’s also a member of the Republican Town Committee there and is even a justice of the peace and a constable.

Hal’s hobbies are history, gardening, exercise and, not surprisingly, politics and local government. “Family, good books and winning campaigns” make him happiest; too much money in politics and media sensationalism make him the opposite.

W&L’s legacy in his life, he writes, is a “lifelong commitment to honor and integrity.”