1972
Boston in the spring-every year it is a pleasant season here in the Hub, signifying the end of a long New England winter. It brings with it crew and sailboat races on the Charles, rainbows of color in the Public Gardens, the Red Sox, less clothing and sheerer stockings on the faces of muggers in the Commons. This year is special, however, since it is the Bicentennial year in Boston and the celebration will have begun by the time you read this. With all the reenactments of events which helped to sever the colonial umbilical cord, it is a good time to visit Boston.
The last column seemed to have had little effect on letter writers yet. I have saved up some info. First, Dick White writes that he is finishing up his third (and last) year of course work toward his Ph.D. in English at Penn. Next year will be set aside for his thesis which will focus on early 20th century English Literature. Expenses at Penn have been eased since Dick took a position as a teaching fellow, instructing freshmen seminars in short fiction and creative writing. Since Dick wants to be a professor (another Jeff Hart), this experience is doubly valuable - along with tuition he gets the chance to sneak preview his chosen profession. Mr. White also informs us that he is engaged to Chantal Defay, a native of Luxembourg (a Luxembourgian?). He met Chantal during his year of study in London ("72-"73) and they are now planning a summer of '76 (new movie) wedding. All this despite the fact that since 1973 they have spent twice as much time apart as together.
Lou Fantin and Dick get together for several Penn-Dartmouth sporting events each year, despite Lou's busy schedule as a first year law student at Columbia. Lou feels his years off have made law school more worthwhile. Rumor has it that his year in the Newark Mayor's office made law school much cheaper too, but that is, as of yet, unconfirmed.
Charlie Janes has managed to complete the two-year Wharton MBA program in 1½ years and is applying to law schools. I certainly wish him luck because he has not exactly chosen an easy road.
Congratulations are in order for Hans Stumm who has become the husband of Priscilla Wohlforth, a Princeton grad. The Class offers the couple its best wishes. No such fate for JohndeBegt. Hans and Priscilla may trade a few shots verbally, but John is a gunnery officer on the U.S.S. Sarsfield (destroyer) and for many months lobbed shells at Viet Cong shore batteries ("America's latest and hopefully last, colonial venture"). After a few months in homeport, near Jacksonville, Fla., John was off to the Mediterranean during the latest Mideast crisis. John did manage to pick up some great snapshots of the Russian fleet!! The next assignment for Siggy will be that of an NROTC instructor on some college campus. He may well be walking into some degree of controversy when he takes on that assignment. John has saved his pennies, bought a 25' sloop and will be sailing to the Bahamas this spring with a small girl (less weight, and he mav have to carry her off).
Paul Ahern disclosed that he is at Georgetown Law School and has been working with the House Judiciary Committee for some time, helping with the Rockefeller confirmation report. Richard Cowan (to Jean-Alice Uehlinger) and Peter Areson (to Cynthia Guy) join the ranks of the marrieds from our class. Richard is director of Mass. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and is editor of Animals magazine. Peter graduated from Thayer School and is employed at the Markem Co. in Keene, N.H.
John Nelson has been quite busy preparing a report for Governor Reuben Askew of Florida. The report, known originally enough as the Nelson Report outlines "the solutions to the basic mental health problems of the citizens of the state." The report was accepted, and it will hp the duty of the State Division of Mental Health to implement the recommendations which John has made.
Ghort is back on his baseball card kick and, as always, it is a trying time for me. I have to keep buying him new cards since none of the kids on the block will swap with him (he chews them up as he looks them over). To compound the headache, he has taken to chewing the gumarghhh-I thought bubblegum in the hair was bad, but scraping bubblegum impregnated (I always thought that word was dirty) with eggshells and other uglies from his teeth is almost too much to bear ...
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