1970

The address which I so painstakingly called to your attention at the top of the November column is in fact wrong. This one should work a little better.

Two weeks ago I was standing with a group of friends around the Yale bonfire in Hanover when a nondescript student handed me a sheet of paper. It read: "And still the war drags on—if this were napalm, you'd be dead." I had to struggle, I mean really struggle, to overcome a certain sense of indignation at the piety of this no-fun. Didn't he know that scene had already been done? Probably just a freshman. No doubt there is something amusing about the naivete of such an act, and I even felt a twinge of embarrassment when I reviewed our "last spring" from this sudden, classic perspective of lost innocence. Interesting.

Having skewered the above onion, now let me whip up a little yuletide kabob with some tastier morsels.

A few marriages, some of them quite well done by this time:

Edward Luck and Dana Dee Zaret (Vassar '71) were married in Scarsdale, N. Y., early last summer. Among the ushers were Richard Bambino, Fletcher Lokey and Jonathan Powell. . . . William H.Hunt married Shelley B. Saxer (Bethany College) in Taylor, Pa., June 5. He graduated from Tuck a week later and accepted a position with Chase Manhattan. . . . Also last June Christine Ann McCarter (Regis College '71) and David Burbank were wed in New London, Conn.... Steve Dagirmanjian and Cleve Penberthy served as Ushers. Tack is now at Harvard Law.

Three more, medium rare: Mike Smith writes that he was married August 29 to the former Janice Littleton (Dartmouth coed '69-'70). Both are in the University of Colorado Medical School in Denver.... Richard E. Shepherd and Pamela Coulouras were married in October in Ipswich, Mass.

Dave Wadleigh sends the following news: "Susan Kabler (Mt. Holyoke '70) and I were married August 28 in a very small ceremony in a meadow overlooking Quabbin Reservoir (where 'dat?). ... Lived in Somerville, Mass., from September to June last year. Worked for the Census Bureau on an employment survey concentrating on the Roxbury core area; on a volunteer basis did a little transportation planning for the new U. Mass. Boston campus, and pumped gas for a couple of months before fleeing the city. Grew vegetables on a two-acre organic plot this summer near Amherst. We're now living in Yellow Springs, Ohio, while my wife gets a master's in elementary education at Antioch. My, own immediate employment plans are pretty unclear."

A pretty big mouthful, that, so try these tidbits: John F. Berger has been awarded a James B. Reynolds Scholarship by Dartmouth for study abroad. He will study art history at the University of Edinburgh.... Robert A. Clark is on a two-year tour of duty in Algeria with International Voluntary Services, a private, non-profit organization which provides small-scale technical assistance to peoples in developing countries. Bob will be a teacher.... FrankPuccio is attending Suffolk University Law School in Boston.

That's it. A little lean perhaps, but after all those Christmas cards you will send me, next month should be full-course. (Awful! If you can't stand the heat, get out of the metaphor!)

Secretary, 3105 W. Queen Lane Philadelphia, Pa. 19129

Treasurer, Oakwood at Park, Bryan, Ohio 43506