1970
Football games provide a great opportunity for good fellowship and for the exchange of news. So, I went to several of the games in the last month armed with a trusty legal pad. The pad made its way from one eager hand to the next picking up quite an assortment of news along the way. Periodically, one would hear hysterical laughter as yet another '70 came across the entry which read, "I'm working as a hog farmer in Idaho, but my wife can't stand it. We're thinking of moving to Newark in the near future (depending of course on the market for pork bellies). Our six kids are doing fine, but we keep 'em workin'." Sound familiar? I guess life is about the same for everyone five years out. In addition, the pad turned up the following:
John and Nonni Merriam have been married for over four years. Nonni is a '73 graduate of Smith and John graduated from Andover-Newton Theological Seminary last May with an M. Div. degree. He hopes to be ordained in the next few months as a minister in the United Church of Christ and will be seeking a pastorate. Duncan and Sally Wood are also in the process of figuring where they will be in January. Duncan plans to finish studies at M.I.T. in December and will be job hunting with an M.S. in Civil Engineering in hand. Duncan and Sally hope to be able to find something in the Northeast. Seated with Duncan were Daveand Trish (Tufts Engineering '70) Deese. Dave received an M.A. from the Fletcher School at Tufts in '75 and expects another degree in '76. In addition, he has been serving as a part-time investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Trish meanwhile has been studying for her M.S. in civil engineering at M.I.T. which she expects to receive in '76. In the midst of all of these studies Dave and Trish are expecting their first child sometime before the end of the year.
Bill and Wendy Sewall are living in the Boston area with daughter Becky, age 4. Bill is in his second year at Boston College Law School and Wendy is working for the investment banking firm of Drexel Burnham & Co. in the corporate finance department. Also in Boston are Don and Gina Balcom. Don is working for a community planning consulting firm and after working at Harvard for two years, Gina is now job hunting.
Dave and Martha Eldredge report that since their wedding they have moved to North Quincy, Mass. Dave continues his residency at N.E. Deaconess Hospital and Martha has been working as a visiting nurse in Quincy. They expect to move to North Carolina next year so friends in the Boston area should try to contact them now if they wish to get together.
Mike and Sharon (Holyoke '73) Rubens are living in Pleasant Valley, N.Y. (as Mike says, "Pleasure" to the natives) where they have just bought a new home. Mike is still at I.B.M. in Poughkeepsie helping to advise the company on financial matters. Sharon is "banking" at Poughkeepsie Savings and M.B.A.'ing at night.
Fred Severance reports that he is now living in Manchester, N.H., where he just bought a new home. Fred is working at the Nashua Corp. as a manufacturing superintendent. His old roommate, Doug Jones was also at the game with wife Betsy (Colby '66). Doug and Betsy have moved to Hamilton, Mass. Doug's brief report on the Harvard game will give you an idea of the good time which was had by all. As he said, "I'm watching some tremendous action in front of my eyes, and so far the WW row (where a number of '70s were sitting) shows more action than the field."
Congratulations go to Jim and Gigi Zimpritch who had their second child in September. Carrie Anne joins 1½ year-old Abigail. Those of you who are trying to decide where to settle might take Jim's advice. He says he is "pleased with Portland, Maine - happy to live and die there."
Classmates rushing off to Maine are invited to contact Dick Whitney and Jim Chartrand on their way. Dick reports that he finished medical school in St. Louis in May 1974 and has been living in Milton, Mass., for the last year and a half, serving as an intern and now a resident in internal medicine at University Hospital and Boston City Hospital. Dick's wife Karen is also busy as a consulting dietician. Dick and Karen would enjoy hearing from anyone visiting Boston or living there. Jim and Carol Chartrand extend a similar invite to any and all fellow '70s. They have just bought a one hundred year old home in Newburyport, Mass., which they are restoring room by room. When not working on the house Jim is busy working as a plant engineer for Container Corp. of America (CCA) in Wakefield, Mass., and playing with his two sons. Andrew, the eldest, who is 3½ was at the game sitting behind me and I'll vouch for the fact that he's an awful lot of fun to horse around with. Somehow Jim gets Thursday night off and invites all '70s who can walk and are interested in exercise to give him a ring and ask about joining the group of guys who get together at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Salvation Army for two hours of basketball. Jim also indicates that prospective participants can expect to drink a few beers afterward. If interested, call Jim at his home in Newburyport.
Tim and Cindy Schad also made it to the Harvard game. Tim reports that he'll be in the Boston area for two years attending Harvard Business School which he says he's enjoying. Fellow '70s who have become successful entrepreneurs over the last five years or know a moghul or two might contact Tim about any leads they have on summer jobs.
For those who are still free to dream about picking up and moving to paradise I report that Geoffrey Scott has been in Auckland, New Zealand, for nearly two years. After brief tours of duty in London and in the States he went to Auckland as director of corporate finance for Chase BNA New Zealand Group, Ltd. There he has had the opportunity to indulge his athletic interests by skiing, swimming (in his own pool), sailing; playing tennis, rugby, and baseball; and for good measure, flying. Somehow he has managed to find time to play with the New Zealand international bridge team. Those who want to find out how they, too, can lead this kind of an existence might write Geoff care of the Chase bank as listed above, Box 3975 Auckland 1, New Zealand.
Chuck Thegze has come East after a stint on the West Coast as a reporter and critic for Variety, the trade paper for the motion picture industry. He and his wife Diane are to be found in Old Greenwich, Conn. Chuck has adopted the life of a commuter, making the daily run back and forth to New York to his job as an associate editor with the Book of the Month Club where he helps to determine which books are to be published. The job gives him a glimpse of the way in which large publishing houses work and a cross section of the whole publishing process. Chuck describes the job as a sort of "masters" in publishing and recommends this sort of job to anyone with interests in journalism and related fields.
Finally, I had a fine note from Tom Tiemann in answer to my request for news. After three years in Tennessee studying economics at Vanderbilt University, Tom taught at Marquette University in Milwaukee while completing his dissertation. He received his Ph.D. in August and has become one of the first of our Class to become an assistant professor. Classmates in the vicinity of Potsdam, N.Y., should contact Tom at Clarkson College of Technology.
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