1972

By the time your eyes focus on these words, the spring season will have arrived. Those of us who live in northern New England realize that March 21 might signal the equinox, but it will be some time before one dares convert his snowblower back to a lawn mower.

Now that you have that conversion in mind, I will proceed to strip Neal Traven of the M.D. degree I so generously bestowed upon him in the January column and replace it with an almost (pending a thesis) M.S. in public health. It's amazing how the pen can give and then take away! Walter Paydon is (and I've got this one straight) clerking for the New Hampshire Superior Court. He reports that Ted Brown picked up an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Chicago after returning from a Peace Corps stint in Ecuador. Ted is currently working on his Ph.D. at the University of Texas in Austin. Rick Wackernagel is doing good work in agricultural economics at Cornell and complains daily about the complexity of American society. Bruce Routman, as previously reported, is watching weight for Weight Watchers International as a director for that concern in the Far East and currently is locked in a bitter struggle with an oriental Big Mac Attack.

Ed "Wizzer" Wisneski is about to leave his sports info position in Hanover and take a bite of the Big Apple as assistant director of public relations with the New York Jets. As long as they've got Joe Willie, the "public relations" aspect could draw you 5-10 with time off for good behavior. Seriously, the Class wishes Wizzer its best.

Another "hats off" goes to Lawrie Lieberman, who was recently appointed director of admissions at Stanford Business School. That fact alone may be enough to drastically increase the number of Big Greeners applying to business school at Stanford.

Eric Evans sent copies of Down River magazine, which is filled with pictures of Eric canoeing and kayaking. All those pictures come as no surprise, since he's the editor of the mag! A couple of Psi U's suggested that he should have called the mag Down the Chute. In addition, Eric's an assistant editor of Nordic World, a ski-touring magazine. In between all the editorializing, Eric is working out in anticipation of the World Kayak Championships in Austria in July. I'd like to thank him for the copy of Nordic World he passed along to me - 1 enjoyed it.

Dave Boyce is still in the Navy and is situated around New London, Conn. Dave mentions that he has a C.B. radio, and uses the handle Warlord. If you're in the vicinity, give him a shout on channel 19 like this: "Breaker one-nine, how about ya Warlord, you got your ears on? How 'bout that Warlord one time on this here one-nine, you got a grip?" And if he doesn't answer, then just yell, "Ten double seven on that Warlord, we give you the good numbers and thank you for the break. You got one Big Greener clear and on the side of this here one-nine channel." That conversation is generally more effective if you have access to a radio at the time you're shouting it. It will increase the range of your natural voice substantially, and using the radio will eliminate the possibility that anyone will see you talking like that!

Jim "Little Trick" Conway and Pete Dinan have joined forces in a business venture, which has blossomed into a going concern, designed to sell copying machines in southern and central New Hampshire. Paul Douglas is still teaching and coaching (his freshman footballers were 5-1-2) in Arlington Heights, Ill. His son Paul is now a strapping two-year-old who can't understand how his dad let the freshmen lose that one game. Mark Godfrey is teaching theater and dramatic literature at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. Richard Zuckerman and Linda Yowell were married in the New York area recently where Richard has been associated with a law firm since his graduation from Yale Law School. Linda is an architect.

Bill "BWAT" White is a special education teacher in an Arlington, Va., high school where he coaches the boys' and girls' tennis teams. Skip Hancock is working for his great-great-uncle John (Hancock) in Boston as a systems analyst. Skip's also taking courses toward a M.B.A. at Northeastern. Greg McClelland also inhabits the Boston area. Greg is in his second year of Suffolk Law School (night division) and spends his days as a law book copy editor for a publishing company. His wife Dora is southeastern Massachusetts coordinator for the New England Farm Workers' Council, which provides social services to Spanish-speaking farm workers.

Owen Oksanen is a second-year family practice resident at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, after graduating from Rochester Med in 1975. Owen and his wife Jill would like to move to a small New Hampshire or Vermont town after his residency is over in the summer of 1978. Until then, Owen spends his free time up in the air where he teaches soaring (yes, cynics, he uses a glider) and flies a Cessna. Bruce Schneider doesn't get quite that high, but he will soon graduate from Harvard with a law degree and a master's in public policy. He and his wife Pat will then move on to Minneapolis so that Bruce can put his degrees to work. Skip Staples and his wife Melissa are working around their newly purchased house in Greensboro, N.C., where Skip has taken up golf as a requirement of his job as treasurer of a lumber industries company. Meanwhile, AlanFox and John Vayda toil as attorneys in the Big City. While John's job promises lots of exotic travel, he laments that he hasn't gotten any further than Bayonne, N.J., yet!

Ghort is preoccupied with the new baseball season. He's optimistic about the Red Sox's chances in 1977, and when they got the "Boomer" back he got so excited that he nearly stripped his gears. His only problem at present is the competition he's getting for his job from Frodo, who is a bit of a garbage disposal himself. Ghort points out, though, that you don't have to curb your disposal! Next month, bozos...

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