1970

News Glut! ... on the backs of all those little white class dues slips ... dozens of them - more vitae, verbiage, and vitriol than possibly can be digested at one sitting. But we shall endeavor to transmit faithfully both the substance and flavor of these squibs over the next few issues. (We shall also refrain from editorial asides - except where irresistable.)

"For what it's worth," writes Richard David "(since the last bulletin I sent you guys never got printed) I note the following: I am finishing med school in March and hope to begin a pediatric internship in Boston next July. Accompanying me is Chris Stahl, the girl I met at Bennington sophomore year. Next month I will go to San Diego to deliver a paper on certain abstruse aspects of the neurophysiology of an obscure sea creature. That's called "Science in Action.' "

Thomas Tiemann: "I was married November 1972 to Eileen McGrath here in Nashville (Tenn.). I'd really appreciate it if you could get this into the Magazine so the many friends I've lost track of will know. I wrote the class secretary about it almost a year ago. I'm a grad student in economics at Vanderbilt."

Peter Geary: "About all I can offer right now is that John Larson married June Harding in Pittsfield, Maine, on October 13. I finished my 'jaunt' in the Peace Corps (The Gambia, West Africa) just in time to serve as chief volunteer supporter (i.e. best man) for the kid. Other than that my contact with '7os has been pretty limited, having spent the last three years in Africa. John Wolf, according to what I've heard, is serving with the foreign service in Danang; Jeff Dow is teaching at the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich."

Stan Graves: "News: am a foreman for Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y."

John M. Lewis: "I am presently in graduate school at Boston College, where I will get an MA in mathematics this June. I plan to get into a Ph.D. program next year. My ambition is to teach at the college level. I try not to think too much about the fact that I'm going to have a tough time getting a job. I'm just very glad to have a sense of direction."

Philip Anderson: "Graduated, University of Conn. School of Law, Honors, 6/73. Admitted to Conn. Bar 9/73. Associate, Gordon, Muir & Fitzgerald, Hartford, Conn."

Eric L. Derrickson: "The only news fit to print: Congratulations to Baby Belle Harvey, a second generation '69, for her grand entry into Mike and Jeannie's world, October 22, 1973."

Richard Sammis: "Have not graduated from anyplace, nor am I married, but now in second year at B.U. Law School after two years in Corporate Banking at First National City Bank, N.Y. Should have stayed at the bank as there are no jobs for lawyers, but school is a pleasant haven from responsibilities of real life."

Robert Lovewell: "I've moved to Brighton, Mass., and am working in a lab for Massachusetts Public Health producing tetanus toxoid. I'm engaged to Elizabeth Collins, who graduated from Rollins College, Virginia, in 1972."

Julie Hall: "Ray is working for E.D.S., presently in New York City with DuPont-Waston, soon to be in Dallas for three months of company training in computer technology. We love the city and the change of pace from a farm house outside of Hanover; a totally different environment! Our little daughter Julia keeps me challenged and interested - we expect another child in early April."

George Kain: "Promoted to full lieutenant (USN) September, '73. In October completed one year tour of duty wintering over in Antarctica with Naval Support Force Antarctica, which assists the National Science Foundation efforts in highest, coldest, and driest continent. Traveled around the world coming home on leave and am now headed for duty at Naval Academy Preparatory School, Bainbridge, Md."

Thomas Reddy: "Out of law school (Berkeley), passed the bar (Calif.), main contact with reality has been from the top of Squaw Valley, with institutional lenders a close second."

Jim Decker: "I'm still at Syracuse Law School and going through the motions ... A few '70s have meandered to Syracuse this year. I live with Bill "Star" Johnson, formerly a footloose itinerant (must have been slow going - ed.), now an aspiring corporate magnate. He's selling steel buildings to businesses. PeterDonovan is in graduate school in Architecture here. Lynn Breedlove is setting up another business selling stereo equipment - I think he has a store in Boston as well. Billy Byrne is back from Nepal and milking cows 20 hours a day for his father's dairy business ..."

From Chuck Thegze in Santa Monica: "I just wanted to write and give you a little news from out here. I got married last October to Diane Moreau, a nurse at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA. Diane is French-Canadienne and was born in Maine: and it seemed really funny to me that I should travel over 3,000 miles from Hanover only to marry a girl from the North Woods. Diane graduated from Mount St. Mary's College here in '73 where I met her while I was searching, like Curt in 'American Graffiti' for the 'dazzling beauty of my life.'

"I am still working at the Los Angeles Times, doing writing about books and film. I recently caught the TV news show on channel 9 out here to see none other than Steve Fox narrating one of his regular news reports. It was rather a humorous piece about the upsurge in ballroom dancing, and although Steve did OK, he's not exactly the Jay Gatsby of the Class of 1970. I understand that his wife Mary is an excellent dancer and actress. Perhaps, Mary, you could give Steve a few lessons?

"I played a little one-on-one basketball against Larry Gotlieb at Santa Monica High, but Larry, overwhelmed by my Bill Walton moves, finally succumbed in the end. Larry is working for the law firm of Kaplan, Livingston et al in Beverly Hills. Rumor has it that Larry has beaten a good path between here and Berkeley with his Fiat over some Smithie. Larry, you can never show your face at Wellesley again. Cheers, Chuck"

Now, for those of you who have had the audacity to ask why you must pay $8 in class dues (some more tactfully than others). Direct Quote from recent correspondence between the class treasurer and the class secretary: "... tell 'em to send $s so that they can continue to receive your words of wit." QED, friends; you get what you pay for.

Secretary, rue Stanley 65 B 1180 Brussels Belgium

Class Agent, Box 341 Hanover, N.H. 03755