1972
May - and baseball season is in full swing with all systems go. Since my prognostications last year were not exactly perfect, I'll refrain, despite urging from Ghort, from making any this year.
Jim King dropped me a line to let me know he's got a job as a trafficker in international commodities. Since there was no mention of airport searches, etc., I assume the commodities are of legal character. Jim implies that he may not be prepared to face the business world forever, but "it sure is nice to be working." Jim passed on news of Bob "B.D." Doerr who is employed as a sales representative for a chemical company (the relationship between international commodities and chemicals is, I'm sure, coincidental) involved in the electroplating industry. The job leaves B.D. enough free time so that he can continue his hobby; he's a free lance movie critic, an activity he began in his Big Green days at the Valley Cinema.
Dan Hergott continues in law school and will graduate around Christmas time, much to the delight of his wife, I'm sure. It also appears that Columbia Law School will be the destination of Chuck and Mary Leer this fall. Kinger also reports that he has run into Seppo Sormunen who had informed him once again that he had lost weight and had forsaken the bottle. Jim reports that Seppo had indeed lost weight, and one out of two isn't bad. Rumor has it that Seppo is doing a little hockey coaching in his spare time.
Jim Borchert informs me that he's alive and growing illiterate in Cornish, N.H., where he is involved in producing maple syrup. He can be located at the Townhouse Cooperative Sugarhouse and he extends invitations to '72 passing by.
Brad Boynter called to let the Class know that he is located at Harvard Business School. Brad is married to Pam (Herron) and the two live here in Boston with their dog. Brad also had news of other '72s with dogs. Larry Belluzo, from all reports, put on the dog the day he became a daddy, and Joel Johnson is doggedly finishing up his second year at North Dakota Med. Meanwhile, Vance Kinlaw is working like a dog at North Carolina Law. Pace Poag who is at North Carolina B-School, thinks that the business world is for him and is sure that he's not barking up the wrong tree. Carl Moody is working on a cattle ranch. He's happy, but can only describe shovelling cow as doggy.
Jonathan Sa'adah was recently awarded a Reynolds Scholarship which he will use to make a humanistic photographic study in the Middle East. Greg Yadley will graduate from George Washington Law School in May and, after taking the Florida Bar, will begin work with the Security Exchange Commission in the Market Regulation Division.
Joe Davis has finally gotten a job! He's working with the U.S. Geological Survey based in Denver after obtaining his M.S. from S.M.R. (why don't they call it an S.M.?). Joe's roomate, John Jurkovich, armed with an M.B.A. and a Masters in Engineering, is designing air pollution equipment for Union Carbide in Buffalo, N.Y.
A recent Denver party saw Jeff Stimson (mining field geologist) and Mike Meehan (salesman for Bausch and Lomb) team up with Joe for an elbow bending contest. Joe passed out on top of his beer mug (the loser) and now has "Genesee" imprinted backwards on his stomach.
Randy Burnett and Mike Moore were sighted at the Oasis Bar and Grill (Stanford, Calif.) while taking a break from Law School. JeffGilman and Duncan Chisholm were also there, resting from a hard morning of rock-watching at the Stanford Geology Dept. Bob Nyez is being shined on by the California sun as he is enrolled in the French grad program at U. Cal., Santa Barbara. Marc Josephson is selling computers in Manhattan while wife Lynn, attends her second year at Albert Einstein Med.
Ghort has been unmanageable for the past week or two. He came with the apartment and now, as I return to Vermont, he's determined to come with me, even though the Red Sox are only broadcast on radio in the Green Mountain State. When I told him he couldn't go, he proceeded to gnash his teeth and cry. As a student of disposal psychology, I decided to ignore him. The tears rusted his gears and after extensive examination, the repairman told me that Ghort was physically fine, but that he may have lost his will to grind!! What to do? . . .
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