1969

Doug Nichols married Judith Hill of North Miami. Fla., last August. Doug and Judy live in Chapel Hill, N.C., while doing graduate work at Duke and UNC respectively. Doane Grinnell represented our class at the ceremony. John Hamer wants to know who represented our class at... My thanks to Doug's father for his informative letter.

Bill Lind informs that he finished his doctoral work at Princeton last June, but has not yet completed his dissertation. Last summer Bill landed a job on the staff of Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio) as a legislative aide responsible for transportation, military affairs, and foreign policy. Bill relates that Steve Entin is working on a Ph.D. in economics at Chicago, where he has become a Friedman fanatic; John Patrick teaches Spanish in Milford, Mass., where he contemplates graduate school in Hispanic Studies; Gary Stewart is out of the Army and into law school; and Anton Beliajeff is finishing his Ph.D. dissertation on 19th Century Old Believer merchant families in Moscow, while residing in Washington, D.C.

Bill Shade writthat he spent two years in the Army after graduation, some of them in Turkey. Since his discharge, Bill has returned home (Decatur, Ill.), where he joined his father's and uncle's insurance agency. Last August Bill married Susan Hoppe of Champaign, Ill. Bill and Sue expect their first child in July. KenLockhart claims that he may never leave San Francisco, where he wallows in "my love affair with being alive." Jim Ruddock finished graduate school in architecture at Penn and works in Philadelphia. Jack French, Rudds reports, married Linda Neshamkin, a Penn classmate, at Columbia. Rudds attended the wedding with Pat Docherty, Chuck Oarley,Greg Hemberger, Terry Jacobs, and Bob Ajello.

George Ross tells us that he teaches international relations, political thought, and Asian politics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., George's wife Ann produced twins last June (Katie and Trey [George, III]). George participated in the delivery and "found it to be the most fantastic experience of my life." Jim Kasameyer has joined a new three-man law firm in Portland, Ore., where he specializes in labor law, union side. BrookeJackson, Jim relates, "is still in Denver with Holland & Hart, just bought a house, and Lizzie is pregnant."

Carl Moulton works as a sales rep for Allegheny Ludlum Steel in Houston. Carl and his wife Nancy expect their first child in the spring. Ben and Jodie Benner recently celebrated their first anniversary, also in Houston. Ben, a surgical intern, will start a residency in neurosurgery in July. Neither Ben nor Jodie has seen Steve Buxbaum. Lyle Nyberg managed to join Bob Shellard, Arthur (he could not have been friendlier) Ferguson, and Rich Oliver at Jeff Kelley's wedding in D.C. last summer. Friendly is a law clerk to Chief Justice Burger. Rich labors for the Federal Power Commission after graduating last June from Boston College Law School. Rich's wife Mary was a classmate at BC Law.

Dave Strife leads the science department at Paterson (N.J.) Catholic High School. The Dave Elgethuns live in Milwaukee where Dave is working on his specialization, periodontics, at Children's Hospital. The Elgethuns spent part of last year with the Public Health Service, where Dave worked at the Dental Clinic at the Indian Medical Center. Skip Kessler has completed his Ph.D. in biochemistry at Duke and will soon complete medical school there in the combined M.D.-Ph.D. program. Skip and his wife Dianne claim as progeny a crazy golden retriever Heidi and Sam, "a friendly Siamese beast." Don Sawyer is immersed in a Ph.D. program in Sociology at Harvard, where he is planning research for his thesis on frontier settlement in the Amazon region of Brazil. Mike Simon has taken a leave of absence from his doctoral studies in education at Harvard and now lives in Warner, N.H., teaching 4th and sth grades in nearby Bradford. Norm Ellman writes from Brighton, Mass., that he is "teaching francais in Weston and promulgating Russian ideology." Bill Greenwood received an M.A. in industrial psychology at Michigan State in December. Dr. Jonas Johnson is a Surgical Resident at the Medical College of Virginia. Jonas reports that Deke Olmstead is working for the juvenile court system in Portland, Ore. Bob Ajello attends grad school at Penn State; and Craig Miller is a surgical resident at Stanford.

My thanks to Dave Cook for his additions to the column.

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