1965

For several years now the sight of a red MGTC or TD roadster has given me pause to ask (1) why not find one for myself and (2) whatever happened to Steve Brown? Steve had one that he used to drive around Hanover and back and forth to Virginia before losing his mind (or regaining his senses) and buying a Corvair. After graduation he hopped into said Nader baiter, drove into the sunset, and was never heard from again - until a few weeks ago. Steve happens to be out in Milwaukee with his 10-month-old daughter and wife Anne Marie. During the day he is deputy director at the Wisconsin office of HUD. At night he does inhome product testing for the Joe S. Brew Co.

Another closet alumnus to voluntarily blow his cover is John Thayer. Rather than risk libel charges by relating what I've been told about John, I'll let you read his own words: "Until now I never dared write my alma mater for fear of shocking the old lady with what I was doing at the time, but my present employ is so limpid and legit compared to past machinations that I figured now is the time. God knows how lurid tomorrow might be. Since returning from graduate work at King's College, Cambridge University, I managed to get fired from a tiny public high school in Vermont for telling dirty jokes in French class, and bounced out of a private liberal prep school for being too liberal and not private enough. Since than I taught Russian at the University of Virginia, delivered newspapers, translated endless sagas on spintwist polyester from Russian for a textile institute, surveyed the swamps of Virginia's Northern Neck, hustled in a gay bar, ran a housepainting company, sold Florida real estate, and worked as an underwriter of international political risk insurance on Wall Street. I now play with houses." Anyone care to confirm or cross-examine? The houses are some brownstones in New York that make up part of Dalden Properties, the company John owns and manages from Brooklyn.

With his knowledge of Russian John might have been useful to Edgar Hirst who recently returned from two months in the U.S.S.R. where his employer was filming five "A.M. America" shows. Edgar supervises production of T.V. shows for the American Broadcasting Company. Although he lives in Tenafly, N.J., with Robin and their two sons, he travels up and down the East Coast and to Europe for ABC.

Those of you who followed the saga of Mi. Nixon's trip to Peking on the fourth anniversary of his previous trip to the great stonewall (pun intended) or otherwise have a penchant for trivia should be interested to learn that one of our classmates has a four-year-old daughter born on the day President Nixon first met Chairman Mao! This classmate is now First Secretary at the U. S. Liaison office in Peking after previous posts as Vice Consul in Hong Kong and Indonesia and as Consul in Hong Kong. Jerry Ogden has been in China for a year now with his wife Laura, who comes from Tsingtao, Shantung. I'm curious as to whether their second child expected in March may have come early to commemorate the second meeting with Chairman Mao.

Just recently Richard (Punch) Lochridge informed me that he is making a move that will greatly if not entirely reduce his international travel. With Boston Consulting Group Punch travelled to 41 countries while fast-tracking to a VP slot. Now he's leaving Bean Town, the Bruins, and New England for a longrange planning job in New York with the giant consumer products conglomerate Norton Simon, where he will also be a vice president. Could this have been part of the Brad Park, Jean Ratelle trade?

Greg Telek is living abroad at present although not necessarily on what we call foreign soil. He is in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, waterskiing, scuba diving, and sailing as well as serving as assistant director of Omni-Research. John King - if summer forgets to return to Saint John, hop in your 20' Ensanada and sail to Mayaquez where Greg will be happy to set you up in the resort hotel he is developing in Rincon. In answer to your other questions, Greg, SelHannah is in Springfield, Vt.; Pete Akley may still be in Liverpool, N.Y.; and Birger Benson's strip tease act must still be playing in southern Rhode Island because it has not been recorded in the Boston papers yet.

Since my train of thought this month seems to have taken an international track, let's conclude with a celebration of Charlie Strauss' recent marriage to Maria Anna Catherina de Gier of the Netherlands. Charlie is in London as director of marketing for Playtex Ltd., but the wedding took place in New York on December 27 before a skiing honeymoon in Lyme and Woodstock.

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