1971

Beware the ides of March, green beer and a bulging mailbag. Among this month's tidings is news of John Colangelo's engagement to Denise Linen. A student at Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., Denise attended Cornell University. John, who taught American history at Port Chester High School in Port Chester. N.Y., for five years after graduation from the College, is currently a student at Albany Law School.

Scott Spangenberg wed Caroline Wilson (Wellesley '73 and Harvard Law '76) in Atlanta. Ga., on August 22, 1976. In attendance were Malcolm "Jerry" Jones, Joe Cecere, Mike Fay, lack Curley '72 and wife Ann, Creighton "Bud" Fricek '70, and Don Hess '70 and wife Kathy. The couple is living in "terminal bliss" in Northampton, Mass., where Caroline is putting Scott through the remainder of his graduate psychology program at the University of Massachusetts.

Gunnar Klintberg and wife Jamie spent a six-week honeymoon in the Soviet Union following their wedding last June. Gunnar and Jamie are living in Sweden where Gunnar works for a trading house doing business with Soviets. They're considering a move to Moscow for two years.

Following a three-year stint in the Air Force and after having received his master's degree in elementary education, Scott Johnson wed Charlotte Ross, an elementary school teacher, on June 20, 1976 on Chebeague Island, Maine. Marsh Gavre, Jim Zimpritch '70 and Roger Burrill '31 were in attendance. Scott is currently teaching English at Falmouth (Maine) High School and enjoying the cold and snow of northern New England.

Dave Bartkowski began his judicial clerkship in Cook County, Ill., last January. Bruce"Lovely" Tepper received his J.D. and M.A. last May from St. Louis University, passed the Misssouri bar examination and now works for the St. Louis Redevelopment Authority. In keeping with his new job, Bruce and wife Belinda live in a rehabilitated apartment in the "fashionable West End." So far, Belinda writes, "the pipes have frozen four times and the waterbed upstairs has broken once. Lovely calls it picturesque."

John Schoell is finishing his internal medicine residency at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and contemplating a pulmonary medicine fellowship. His second son, Adam, was born on July 30, 1976.

Buck Twyner graduated from the University of lowa Medical School in 1975 and is presently a second-year family practice resident, living with his wife Mary and two sons in Davenport, lowa. And Ivan Suzman is well along on the last leg of his M.D.-Ph.D. program at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Jim Behrens received his M.A. from Cornell University in counseling and student personnel administration in higher education (a two-year program, the first year of which is devoted to memorizing the program's title) and began work last August as a resident adviser at Grinnell College in lowa.

Dave Merritt received a master's degree in geology from the College last June and together with his wife and son left Hanover for Vicksburg, Miss., an historic part of the old South, where Dave is working for the Army Corps of Engineers evaluating the effects of reservoirs on water quality.

Jeff McElnea has been appointed acting general manager and chief operating officer of Einson Freeman Co., a leading sales promotion and merchandising firm located in Fair Lawn,

Willis Newton graduated from Stanford Business School last June. After a trip to Europe, Willis returned to the San Francisco Bay Area to work in the San Francisco office of "eat Marwick Mitchell.

Paul Hemmerich is working for an architectural firm in Cambridge while completing his Portfolio and awaiting his master's in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis.

David Brooks is continuing work on his waster's in special education after leaving the Navy a year ago. He is finishing up as director of a youth service program and keeping busy, along with his family, in a new house.

Bob Mustard left the Air Force to begin a sales training program with Proctor & Gamble and take on the territory of southeastern New Hampshire. Bob writes that he, Jan and Heather are pleased to have returned to New England.

Lew Harriman also left the Air Force last September, after five years of making the world safe for bureaucracy, to begin work as a customer service manager for an engineering company in Amesbury, Mass. Lew, wife Cindy and one-year-old daughter Libby, have moved into an old house in the historic area of Portsmouth, N.H., to get another dose of the granite of New Hampshire in their muscles and their brains.

And finally, Tom Seidman, ,a fledgling film maker, was the first person to offer his famous dad, L. William Seidman, chief economic assistant to former President Gerald R. Ford, a job when the election results were in, inviting him to play a Mexican soldier in a low-budget Western. But the elder Seidman apparently wasn't destined for stardom. A rare snowstorm in Alamogordo stalled production and by the time the cameras were rolling again, Tom's father was unable to free himself from work.

Tom, who most recently was an "extra's captain" (the person who finds and coordinates bit actors), has had some successes, including a job on a six-million-dollar Columbia motion picture entitled "Casey's Shadow," starring Walter Matthau. In "Casey's Shadow," a film about horseracing, Tom was in charge of finding extras to play stable hands, jockeys and racing fans and ended up corralling most of the middle aged and older set in Ruidoso, N.M., population 806, where the film was shot.

Following his wedding to Nancy Darooge of Ada, Mich., Tom has returned to California to look for more film jobs while Nancy finishes school at Michigan State University. His low-budget Western, a movie about the gold-rush era entitled "Santa Fe: 1836," will be released in the spring.

John E. Allen '71 and friend attended theDartmouth Club of Southern California'sDecember party for the Arthur Mayers.

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