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There was little to suggest a wake last Tuesday as former D’Arcy and Benton & Bowles staffers packed into La Maga nette, an old B&B watering hole on Manhattan’s East Side. The previously scheduled reunion came on the heels of news that Publicis is shuttering the group’s alma mater. Rather than casting a pall over the evening, the recent develop ments served to reaffirm the purpose of the gathering as attendees rallied around former B&B CEO Jack Bowen and kept alive memories of their days at the shop.

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