1972

Picture a frigid February day in Allston, Mass., the cold wind whipping right through the poor law student's tattered coat and the snow coating his eyebrows and three-day beard. He passes a wino who gives him ten cents for a half cup of coffee and then continues onward to the U.S. Post Office to claim a package. The smiling postman requests an identification which the law student produces in the form of a ragged draft card, burned on the edges. The postman smiles benevolently again as he accepts the wino's dime for postage due and hands over the parcel.

The dime was well spent, however, as the law student rips the plain brown wrapper from the package to discover a manuscript from FabianRopogal. Life has been eventful for Fabian since his marriage to Wilma (Fingerdoo) Ropogal. After a brief period of employment as a yard marker for the Minnesota Vikings, Fabian and Wilma settled in Minneapolis where Fabian has taken the more permanent position of assistant repossession manager in the Buster Chops Collection Agency, owned by fellow '72 BillYolator. With the financial straits ended Fabian and Wilma could start to renew communications with old friends. Former footballer, Rip DeBrahoff, has a lucrative, position as a bouncer in a Boston Combat Zone establishment owned by talent scout Willie Nailer. Rip says that Larry Barr is still working in an admissions capacity at Davidson University and that Larry's old roommate, Nat Churrel, has opened a health foods store in the Raleigh, N.C. area.

Fabian also informed me that law student GilBert, finishing up at Stanford, will take a position with the Justice Dept. Apparently Gil heard through the grapevine that Chuck Leer may also be considering law school. This tidbit was a product of eavesdropping at the nuptial event which united Roger Hurd and the former Agnes McHolstein. Roger is working as a marriage counselor in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Agnes plans to reside in New Orleans.

Another guest at Roger's wedding was JimKing who alternates as a PR man and a hockey puck for the Minnesota Fighting Saints. Jim set the rumor mills grinding when he dropped the bombshell that Phil O'Dendron, all around good guy and boozer, had changed his act and was engaged to former Colby Jr. radical, Ada Cause. Stranger things have happened, and they say that opposites attract. Apparently Phil's best buddy, Van Pyre and his wife Mary (Whanna) Pyre introduced Phil and Ada - a March 30 wedding is planned in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and all 72s are invited.

Former Psi Uer, Jay Lift, is now head ski instructor at Beaver Mountain in North Dakota and writes to Fabian that it's amazing what a pair of skiis and a Dartmouth education can do for you. Living in a commune not far from Jay is Harold P. Krishna who, after receiving his Ph.D. in theology from Harvard, felt that inner peace is best preserved by closed communal living. He is currently in charge of the marketing division of the commune.

Fabian's freaky math major buddy, "Sly"Dhrule has almost completed his doctoral requirements at Cal Tech where he has become involved in a governmental project which is trying to come up with a substitute for the atom. The project is to be employed to make the populations of the oil producing nations turn into Americans in order to ease the energy crisis in the good ol' U.S. of A. Hats off to a patriot. Sly's old roommate, Ferenz Fordor, is still in Hollywood looking for his big break. Ferenz is driving a cab a la Harry Chapin and is waiting for a movie producer, a record company, or a law firm to recognize real talent. Twins Hughand Lars Shardon have hit the big time and are two of the hottest male models in America.

Class trip chairman, Ellis Dee, reports that this year's trip will be a week in East Dorset, Vt., June 3-10. The big event for attending class members will be a gathering around the big maple in the town green where "Men of Dartmouth" will be sung. All of this will be followed by a roast beef dinner and a cash bar. Any interested parties should contact Ellis at 10 Hartwick Terrace, Brighton, Mass., 02135 by May 1.

On a more somber note, Fabian has informed me that Guy Dwyer died last month, electrocuted while on his job with a power company. The family desired a small service and the only '72 attending was Paul Bearer, Guy's lifelong friend. The sympathy of the Class is expressed to Guy's family.

Ghort has been totally uncooperative this month since the Celtics and the Bruins are in the playoffs. Combine this with the start of spring training for the Red Sox, and he refuses to process the garbage unless a hockey puck, a tennis shoe (green), or a Louisville Slugger is included with the trash. He was happy that Fabian wrote (and so was I). I got some much needed info and he got something to get his teeth into - we were both saved . . . (Secretary Burke will beremembered by classmates as one of the FourHorsemen of the Apocryphal. Ed.)

Secretary, 3-A Ridgemont St. Allston, Mass. 02134

Treasurer, 9 Pembroke St., Somerville, Mass. 02143