1970

Late August is the time of year when most class secretaries pull themselves together, shuffle through the assortment of airograms, post cards, clippings, and news releases, and dig way down for yet another tone, style, or flippant metaphor which will sustain yet another volume of society page leftovers. Not your class secretary! He waits until late September. I report this small faiblesse of character with that special pain reserved for the self-aware, but also with no small degree of resignation, as it seems to be the vogue these days.

"Just a short note" from Terry Shumaker "to announce the arrival of Nathan Devers Shumaker on 9 March 1974. Polly and I are now settled in Annandale, Va., after my graduation from B.U. Law School and passing of the New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bars. I am now working in the Defense Appellate Division of the US Army JAG Corps arguing servicemen's cases in front of the court of military review - we wear civilian clothes and basically give the Army a lot of aggravation. We often see Jeff and Bo Demerath. Jeff is working in the Appellate Division of the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia."

Chip Cody chimes in with some news from what he terms "a relatively silent segment of the Class." Relative to which, for Lord's sake? Anyway, seems that on May 4 Chip married Susan Craig (Princeton '70) and on May 15 they both graduated from Columbia Medical School, as did Jeff Blomstedt and Rich Mattern. Chip and Susan will be interning at Roosevelt Hospital in NYC, Jeff and Rich in Medicine at Presbyterian, Also NYC. Ancil Jones will intern at Yale-New Haven after graduating from same. Barry Hart graduated from George Washington Law School last year and is "doing" tax law for Obermayer, Rebmann, et al., a Philadelphia firm (apologies to all affected parties in event of misspellings). Jim Gass, also from GW Law, works in Boston and is married to the former Betty Gelburd (seems to be the way it's spelled here) (Skidmore '70), whose sister Jeff Nordgren married two years ago. Jeff is teaching in Ossining, N. Y. Bob Whitcomb, after a degree from Columbia Journalism School, is an editor for the The Wall StreetJournal. That's about it from Chip. I guess we won't hear anything from that segment again for awhile.

In the spirit of President Kemeny's now traditional commencement address closing, a note to the class treasurer: "Am paying these dues for my brother George who is presently in Germany. Thanks, John Sheldon. Thank you, John.

Case Western Reserve Medical School reports the sheep-skinning of Gordy Hughes, now a surgical intern at that University's Affiliated Hospitals, and Robert Kiefaber, evacuated to the Maine Medical Center to intern in Medicine. David Gilmour joins Gordy in Cleveland to intern in pediatrics following graduation from Penn State Medical School.

No inaugural column would be complete without the English Report, in which at the outset young Tom avers, "With no intention of monopolizing your column, I still feel some obligation to convey the results of a recent fiveweek vacation, much of which was spent visiting fellow '70s." As this information is of about six-month vintage, through no fault of the reporter, we shall render it in the past tense where called for.

Richard and Yvonne Porter were and perhaps still are in Washington, D.C., where Richard was and may still be on the legal staff of John Doar, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee. Ron McCallister, to hear Tom tell it, is expanding the frontiers of science at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Tom and Sue Ostermueller have been joined by Lisa Ruth, now 17 months old. Tom is now an assistant brand manager with Proctor & Gamble. John Caldwell married Karen Weisberger almost a year ago. They will be moving (read "have moved") to Seattle where John is an intern at Virginia Mason Hospital.

Anthropology department rumor has it that Paul Inashima is in a graduate program in anthropology at American University.

John Chittick turns up at the University of Idaho College of Law, and spent the summer as an intern in the Idaho state government. John seems to have left his political career in Fitchburg, Mass., behind him. We would venture that he is the only University of Idaho law student to have once been a candidate for Mayor in Fitchburg.

Class of '70 recipients of Reynolds Scholarships currently studying abroad are Ronald Hadley, concentrating on Buddhist studies at the University of British Columbia, and Donald Corner, involved in an architectural project in conjunction with courses at the Technical University of Helsinki.

Gonna save all these one-liners from the class dues slips for a rainy day. Got a lot of 'em here in Walloonia.

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

Treasurer, Spanish Quarters 3675 Gaslight Curve Montgomery, Ala. 36111