Nice Message From Paul Kester

Just received this message from Paul Kester. Paul currently lives in a high rise senior community on Wilshire Blvd.  His words are reassuring in these times of uncertainty, particularly for those living in retirement communities.

"I am ok, spending most of my time in my apartment. Meals are brought to me, the dining room is closed. No visitors allowed. Limited activities and contacts with other residents. I still can take walks, and I keep busy reading, watching old and new films on Netflix, cleaning out old files, etc. The phone and e-mail keep me in touch with family and friends. One would like to know for how many more weeks this will continue, but we hope not to get sick, and to resume a more normal life in the not too distant future! My best to you."

End Of An Era--Leventhal/Ross Century City Office Closes

An era has truly ended with the closure of the Ernst & Young sponsored Leventhal/Ross office in Century City which had been established in 2005 when the former EY Kenneth Leventhal Century City was closed.  The Leventhal/Ross office was the last official remnant of Kenneth Leventhal & Company which had been in Century City for over 50 years, and in the West Los Angeles area for 70 years.  However, one last remnant does remain in Century City with the opening of a small Ross Family Office in the 2029 building manned by a couple of KL alums.

Fortunately the Kenneth Leventhal & Company archives have found a home with the Leventhal School of Accounting at the University of Southern California.  Thanks to Mary Jo Leventhal for making the arrangements, and to Leventhal School Dean William Holder for accepting the archives, consisting of firm publications, internal correspondence and memorabilia.  Also thanks to Jack Rodman for taking the gigantic perpetual Leventhal Relays trophy and transporting it to his home in Seattle.  Thanks also to Earl Cheek who prior to the arrangement with USC had offered warehouse space at his Oklahoma City business to house the collection.

Finally, here are a couple of alumni notes.

Dan Tucker has moved cross country to Boston to take the position of Vice President of Taxation at Iron Mountain REIT (NYSE-IRM).  Dan was previously Vice President of Taxation at the Irvine Company.  Dan was one of the featured speakers at the Ernst & Young REIT Roundtable held this past October in San Diego.

David R. Chan was featured as the cover story article of Post Magazine, the weekend magazine of Hong Kong's English language daily newspaper South China Morning Post.  The article does contain a few minor inaccuracies (it's not true that he never visits the same Chinese restaurant twice, that he doesn't particularly like eating, or that his favorite dish is rice with soy sauce), but as the Junior Woodchuck Manual says, there is no such thing as bad publicity.   

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2169154/man-who-has-eaten-more-7300-chinese-restaurants

Interestingly, the same article ran on Inkstone, a sister website to the South China Morning Post, with identical text but different photographs. 

https://www.inkstonenews.com/food/who-american-who-has-eaten-7000-chinese-restaurants/article/2169816