1972
February is in the air! I could never figure out what rhetoric like that meant since February air, though colder, still resembles the air of other months which, in Boston, means it's brown and smells like adulterated (still a crime in most states) eggs.
With the accompanying group photo came a letter from Joe Davis who is in the midst of completing his master's degree in geology at S.M.U. He's still making (and, God forbid, eating) chili and is licking multiple wounds as a result of rugby season. Joe's had so many injuries that his physical problems were last diagnosed as terminal body. News of other '72s from the Davis News Service: John Jurkovich has finished his stint at S.M.U. business school and has already started work on his masters in engineering. Danny Holland is working for U.S. Customs at a Canadian border post in northern Michigan. He's playing Don Juan with a lumberjack's daughter - hope he doesn't get the ax. PeteBroberg is hovering around Dallas and is religiously reading the sports section each morning to see if he's been traded. Tom Kavanaugh, alter vacationing in Texas (isn't that like going to Tahiti to work?) has returned to Syracuse and his job with MONY.
Speaking of returns. Jeff Stimson just got back from five months in Africa as a participant in the International Farm Youth Exchange Program. One reward of the trip was the chance to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, which Jeff described in Dartmouthese as "Awesome." Stimmer informed me that Fred Bickford is teaching at North Hampton School and that Steve Rhule is at Tuck making an effort to prove that an Ivy League education is not in vain, it's in New Hampshire! Don Nichol has had several chilling experiences as a refrigerator repairman.
John Collier has become the first recipient of the Henry J. McCarthy Fellowship at Thayer School and our congratulations are extended to him as well as to Dennis Warner who is engaged to Miranda Minott. Dennis is a second year grad student in Econ. at Princeton and will become a husband on June 15, 1974 in Jerseyville, Ill.
Barry Abbot (alias Harold P. Kirshna) is a law student at the University of Florida. ChuckLeer is teaching at the Blake School in Minneapolis and is conducting temperature experiments to determine if Minnesota is really colder than Hanover. Since most of the experiments are at night, his wife. Mary, claims that Minnesota is pretty chilly indeed. Dick Curran is an assistant to the dean of Tuck School.
Law Schoolees and their institutions: Marc Victor (Stanford), Joe Moss (S.M.U.). Pete Heed (Cornell), Dick Arnett (Texas). Steve Hoisington (Harvard) and Gary Null (Harvard).
Med Schoolees: Mark Stitham (Washington U.). Dave Knopman (U. Minnesota), Scott Emery (U. Washington) and Joel Ackerman (Tufts Dental).
Last and least is Dave Engle, my old roomie, who, with his new roomie, Jan Seidler '73, is living in Boston and working as a field representative for Massachusetts Association for Retarded Citizens. I know a little about Eagle's work (no, I'm not a client.) and 1 take my hat off to a '72 who is totally involved and devoted to a group of people who, but for him and people like him, would have no chance to help themselves.
Ghort has been quiet since he caught a cold. The thermostat at 68 degrees did him in. Things were a little hairy for awhile since Chort's function as disposal makes his coughing and sneezing rather unpleasant for us all (my roommate John still has coffee grounds and bits of eggshell down the back of his Osmond Brothers T-shirt). However, he responded well to a nightly shot of brandy, and all cogs are go at this time. Until the Ides of March ...
Secretary, 3A Ridgemont St. Allston, Mass. 02134
Treasurer, 9 Pembroke St. Somerville. Mass. 02143
