1969

Anglophile Doran Doeh writes from London that he completed an Oxford degree in 1970, then ran luxury tours for a Diners' Club subsidiary in Morocco. Doran later returned to England where he was "called to" the Bar of England and Wales in 1973. He followed that up with a year's apprenticeship; now he goes into chambers in Lincoln's Inn, London. Doran encountered Bill Beers at a party. Bill studies Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. According to Doran, Bill previously spent four years on the isles of Hawaii.

Skip Kessler's wife Diane informs that Skip is a pediatrics intern at the Premature Nursery, University of Washington (as in Seattle). Daughter Briarly Jane was born last June 22. Prior to heading west, Skip and Diane spent six years at Duke where Skip brushed up on enzymes and completed Med School - earning both an M.D. and a Ph.D.

Bob Ajello picked up on M.S. in physiology at Penn State in March. Maynard Miller has joined the law firm of Reid and Riege in Hartford, Conn. Maynard's law degree came from Georgetown University after which he served as a law clerk to United States District Court Judge George H. Barlow in Trenton, N.J. SteveLarson has joined Cook Industries, Inc., where he will indulge in export wheat merchandising in the Grain Division. Steve had previously been with the Louis Dreyfus Corporation, in both New York and Portland, and General Mills in Minneapolis.

Moving right along, Al Denison ("Oregon" or "Orgs") prospers in Port Townsend (Washington) from where he writes:

I have attempted to muster a certain obligatory diligence in writing to you in order to shore up your column with profuse information about various alums. I sat in our view bathtub for quite a while this morning, and I've decided that I really have nothing to say ... I have spent the last coupla years developing a more optimistic frame of mind and working on restoring a Victorian house. Everwho visits is supposed to tell me what a neat place it is, because I've worked my buns off on it. People ask me, When will it all end?" and I respond that I see this restoration stuff in terms of half lives. I think that we are close to the first half-hie, so I'm working half as hard. With the other half of my time, I'm repairing cameras, although with little intensity at this point because I'm busy enough in other ways, and doing photographic stuff. This mainly gets concentrated at doing some brochures and things and mostly working on a book which is an architectural and historical survey of the various Victorian houses and buildings in PT, of which there are lots. There are a variety of reasons for doing this: 1) There is a need for this book which seems to me to be incredibly obvious, and which cries out to be satisfied (vox clams) 2) Some sort of survey will have to be done for the benefit of the National Register of Historic Buildings, and/or districts, or whatever, since I would like to see some sort of official historic status laid upon this town before the Money Machine and the people with vestigal ethics try to make this another Seattle and screw up the place, 3) ego trip, 4) money and 5) to add a certain legitimacy to my existence for the benefit of all those people who sit around worrying for me saying, "But my boy, my boy, when are you going to do something? What of your potential?"

Roy Hitchings pens a few words. Roy married Debbi Hamlin of Holcomb, N.Y., last June. Paul Tuhus, Fred Putnam, Nick North and Al Petersen attended. After camping cross-country (no, he did not hitchhike), Roy landed a job in San Fernando as an administrator for a six-doctor clinic.

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