1971

This month's mailbag brought more than Valentine's Day greetings. Among other tidings was word of Paul Waldman's wedding last October 9 to Mary Money. She's an internist and he's a dermatologist. If you're suffering from stomach acne in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, you'll know who to call. Jeff Wulfson and RobSprinkle attended the wedding festivities.

On the subject of weddings, David Krakoff was married last August to Patricia Eanet, a lawyer with the National Labor Relations Board. Bob Cushman and Craig Sullivan were on hand for the big event. David is an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.

Rick Taff is in his second year at University of Connecticut School of Law. Dave Reingold received his Ph.D. in chemistry and is pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship in chemistry at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. And speaking of didactic pursuits, Jeff Rogers is chief pan washer at Penn. State's local bakery in State College, Pa.

Rob and Emily Lavenda have returned from Guider, Northern Cameroons, where Emily pursued her field work study of ethnic interaction among the Fulbe (Fulani) while Rob completed his dissertation for Indiana University, an ethnohistorical study of Caracas during the period 1870-1908.

Russ Mittermeier has been traveling to Brazil, Panama, Mexico and, most recently, to Surinam, where he has been conducting an anthropology project involving the "censusing of primates in a variety of localities ... collecting data on hunting of primates and other game species and initiation of a long-term project on the synecology of Suriname monkeys," while picking up both Dutch and taki-taki, the bush language of Surinam.

Scott Wiley was appointed to the position of assistant vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York last December. Scott, who joined Morgan Guaranty in 1973, is assigned to the bank's investment research department. He previously received a master of business administration degree from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Scott lives in Oradell, N.J., and is active in the Dartmouth alumni club of Bergen County.

After working for five years for abuilding contractor in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Bruce Adams is "peddling happiness and self-expression" in house design and remodeling in the Hanover area, using only word-of-mouth advertising. He especially likes to do barns. Bruce lives in Thetford, Vt.

Chuck Diters is in his second year in the Ph.D. program in anthropology at Brown University working on what he describes as a "library cum archives cum museum project on Eskimo spear-throwers" that should bring him his M.A. on schedule next spring. In his spare time, Chuck is working in the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown.

Jeff Kosak is in his third year as assistant hockey coach at Dartmouth. Wife Bev has quit teaching for the present and helped Jeff with the apple harvest last fall, while Jeff has kept up with his long-distance running to stay trim. They live in Lyme, N.H.

Bob Peckham is in his first year at the School of Architecture of the University of New Mexico. His wife, Susan Marks-Peckham 'S (Mt. Holyoke '71), spent last year as a volunteer aide with the college museum in Hanover researching and cataloguing special parts of the collections while Bob worked on his own contracting business.

Greg Young is a regional planner for the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. His wife, Holly PeacockYoung 'S (Connecticut College '71), is working for the Environmental Protection Agency in Dallas, in charge of monitoring waste treatment plants to make certain that they are environmentally sound. Holly received her M.A. in anthropology from the University of Texas in Austin.

Kathy McDonald 'S (Smith '71) is the director of a YWCA center in suburban Baltimore, doing consciousness-raising with middle-class housewives and recruiting and training volunteers. The center has 800 members, nursery and pre-school programs and physical fitness classes. Kathy spent last summer traveling in Switzerland.

Finally, Bill Riley, an accomplished harpsichord builder, wife Donna and young Patrick are living in Lebanon, N.H. Donna is a medical secretary at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover.

Your cards and letters are always welcome. See you next month!

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