1972

As I sit here in early March, writing April's column, which comes out closer to May 1 than April 1, I realize that I should explain the time lag, to set some of your minds at ease. The information that I have here on March 1 will not appear until about April 23, so please be patient if your items don't appear for a couple of months after you mail them.

The time lag also means I should make my plea for the Class of 1972 Alumni Fund Drive. Most of you will have received by now a letter from your class agent (six if you lucky devils will have one from me!) asking you for your donation. Please consider this request carefully, Dartmouth College is a private institution, and with costs for a year now well over $6,000, it js important that all the alumni lend support, since the alternatives are the loss of the private status or the inability for all but the wealthy to attend Dartmouth. The size of the contribution is much less important than the act of giving because the more who contribute, the more it shows that Dartmouth "products" appreciate what the College did for them - it emphasizes that we, as a body, want that "experience" to continue. So before you toss that envelope into the circular file, think about it. More than enough said!

One other piece of class business - reunions. Our fifth will be in June, 1977, and anyone who wishes to help or offer suggestions, please contact Bub Lynch, M.D., Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, N.Y. 13326. We also plan a mini-reunion in the fall, and as soon as I get the date, I'll pass it along.

Gary Moucha has received a General Telephone and Electronics Fellowship for his studies at Tuck. It is rumored that he left Ma Bell with a smile on her face. The smile on GlennHarder's face will be more pronounced after he finishes his six-year surgical training program. He will graduate from Yale Med School in May, and that same month (22nd) will enter wedded bliss with Mary Hazeltine (Mt. Holyoke '76) at Mount Holyoke. Glenn will un- doubtedly be one of the few '72s still in school in 1982!

Marc Josephson is working for a computer firm in NYC while wife Lyn is interning. The information I got was that she was on call three nights a week (I assume at the hospital). ChuckLear is involved with MPIRG, and is considering law school next year (Mary is looking over old Corvairs). Dan Hergott just took the Minnesota Bar Exam, and is probably just getting the results now. Kirk Andrus will graduate from Cal Davis Med this spring, and is presently on sabbatical in Ireland. Max McGee is a married man (Julia Clemmer), and as could be expected, a rowdy crew, complete with Mouse, attended (Mouse, give me a call!). Tom Chin took time out from grad school in International Relations (my mind always questions that designation) at Denver to pop in on the festivities, as did new bridegroom Jim Tilden, who's teaching high school in Chicago. TobyChoate is running Massachusetts, while BobDoerr just runs, stopping only long enough to sell chemicals for a Minneapolis firm. All the above info was courtesy of Jim "Little Ger"King, who wants all to know that he got a concussion last summer.

Elsewhere in this issue is a picture of an exemplary group of bozos gathered to lend merriment to the nuptials of Dick Curran and Nancy Bokron in Weston,' Mass., on August 16. After graduating from Tuck, Dick tackled Harvard Law School, from which he hopes to graduate in June, 1977. Don Holland is working as a customs inspector on the Canada-Minnesota border. He apparently inspected one little French-Canadian girl quite closely, since she is now his wife. Bob Nycz and wife Helen are the proud parents of a baby boy (Robert Edward), who tipped the scales at a trim 91bs, 11 oz.! Bob has just about finished up his Masters in French and is working for MONY in California. Charlie Shockey has taken a position as an attorney with the Federal Energy Commission (FEA to all you alphabetizers out there) and Bill Kirby is a teaching fellow in history at Harvard.

Ghort is a little mad at the Alumni Mag people this month. Bob Morison sent a wedding picture along of several '72 bozos (including him) and his blushing bride. I forwarded it to the Mag, and received it back with a note that the picture could not be printed because his wife was in it! (Wedding pictures must be of Dartmouth pads only - no wives - or presumably husbands of female graduates). Ghort thought this absurb, and sympathized with Bob, as did I, especially since in the mail on the return trip, the picture was demolished. Those contemplating forwarding wedding pics be forewarned. Ghort was so upset that he ate the February issue, and is threatening to eat the March issue, which I haven't received yet, even though this is the April column (I think, check the cover to be sure) which you are now reading. . . .

Secretary, Box 372 Castleton, Vt. 05735

Class Agent, 105 Kentucky Ave. Washington, D.C. 20003