1976

This segment is starting on December 25, Christmas Day. After many years of trying to keep myself occupied on this day, now I am.

First of all, a round of applause must go to Jay Josselyn who did a fantastic job on the class newsletter. Josh, undoubtedly, spent many hours compiling such informative reading. Josh, by the way, is now working somewhere in California.

The most seasonal class member was MarkRingo (you try the last name) who sent a Christmas card with a robust monk listening to a transistor radio through an ear plug in a very spatial setting. Ringo, interestingly enough, is still working in the swine flu business in New Hampshire. He will be working until February - this month or last month, maybe? I wonder how business is?

If I was a little quicker, I would have printed some holiday greetings in the December issue. But, what do you expect? For the most part I boycotted the festive season this year.

Julie Miller thought she "would report on the activities of the '76ers in the Chicago area." Harvard weekend Julie had a party at her home in Glencoe, Ill. Jack Wehner '74 arranged to have a telephone hookup with WDCR so "we could broadcast the game live amplified by the phone." Ma Bell does some amazing things, unlike the U.S. mail, and we who are keeping the U.S. mail in business. From this perspective, if it can be used as a gauge, the U.S. mail must not do a booming business.

Back to Julie Miller's party: There were about 25 Dartmouth people there. Fellow classmates included "myself. [very good, Julie] Tom Miller (Northwestern Law), Mark Weisband (N.W. law), Julie Schvetz (U. Chicago Bus.), Bob Pease (U.C. Bus.), Bob Lee (U.C. Bus.), [sounds like a seminar] Bob Mortimer (working in Chicago) and Jim Hayssen (U.C. Bus.)." I can imagine what the topics of conversations were. Julie is working at the Art Institute of Chicago, and enjoying it. Sounds like a good time.

Kathy "Squeak" Van Weelden writes that she and Norm Saunders were married in the summer of '76. Lynne Brooks, Eric Smith, Tom Cogbill '74, Ann Page, Ernie Page '74, and Norman Saunders '48 were in the wedding party. BruceYork, Judy Zimicki and Kevin Rist '74 headed the Dartmouth group at the party in the Adirondacks. Nice partying climate. Kathy and Norm live in Newton Upper Falls, Mass. "I am attending Boston College grad school and Norm is at Harvard, also doing work in Geology, along with Charlie Visser." Who wins the arguments?

Cliff Krauss "met a number of classmates when Mike Strout married Linda White (U.N.H. '76) in Portsmouth, N.H., October 23. The well-oiled group treated the dinner crowd to verse upon verse of favorite Big Green tunes [Boom-chug-a-lug?] Present (but not necessarily coherent) were Chris Sega (who will be attending U. of Chicago Business School), [here we go again] Paul Seel (Dartmouth Med.), JoeMuffione (Thayer School), John Pancoast (working at U.S. Trust Co. of N.Y.), TedHemphill (working at N.E. Deaconness Hospital in Boston) [where are all the loafers, bartenders, porno stars, gofers, pleasure seekers and on and on?] Rob Saltzman (Harvard Law), Rich San Sonde (Wharton Bus.), Jerry Daly (playing the golf circuit), Dana Levenson (Portsmouth, N.H.), Ron Logdah (flying on and off aircraft carriers for the Navy), and CliffKrauss (trying to account for myself with Rice Waterhouse & Co. in N.Y.)." Thanks for writing, Cliff, but you make the rest of us feel ill-fated. You and Julie ought to get together.

Cliff also heard from Jeff Long who is at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin and DareSchribman on a Reynolds Scholarship, studying history at Cambridge. Thank you, Cliff. As

Mark Brann who has been working as a research assistant in community and family medicine at U. Mass. reports that Dartmouth Medical School "let me in for next August. Somehow, I just can't object to three more years in Hanover." Mark continues, "Bob Piela is a first-yearer here at U. Mass. Medical. I've seen Betsy (Rumely) and Charlie Visser in Cambridge, Mass. Charlie is well into his rocks at Harvard and Betsy is still ploughing through B.U. Law. Mark Davis is still teaching school in the backwoods of New Hampshire."

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