1971

The sunny days of May have at long last returned, bringing with them a veritable grab bag of notes and news. Dottie and Joe Cecere are the proud parents of a baby boy, Joseph Carl II, born March 8. Weighing in at eight lbs 11 oz, Carl is a "real joy," according to Dottie. Joe, who graduated from dental school last May, has received a one-year hospital residency in the Air Force and will be stationed at Scott Air Force Base in southern Illinois. Also in the new additions department, Abigail Adams Nims was born to Jane and Clarke Nims on January 13.

After building a 15-sided round house in the woods of Meriden, N.H. Bob Peckham is starting architecture school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He's in a three-year master's program designed for nonarchitectural undergrad majors. Bob worked on more than a dozen houses while a carpenter foreman with Weale Associates (Bill Weale '70) and in his own small business; With a concentration on tropical architecture, village planning and alternative energy sources for residential units, his sights are set for settling down in the Carribean or South America. His wife Susan will be doing graduate studies in the public health field. Both are looking forward to a change in climate and culture, with no more New England winters.

Lee Turkevich is struggling with creative low-temperature solid-state physics research and the beginnings of a dissertation at Stanford. His wife Margaret writes that they would welcome visitors from the Class. And while on the subject of low temperatures, Teyck Weed is completing his second year as Nordic program director for the United States Ski Association (Eastern Division) based in Brattleboro, Vt. Teyck writes that things were so busy last winter that he didn't even have time to ski. Plans for this summer call for his completing the house which he began building last summer in Dummerston, Vt.

After two years as commercial officer in the U.S. Embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Steve Muller was recently reassigned as an economic officer in the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil, where he found Marc Nicholson who is attached to the political section of the embassy. Between assignments, Steve spent a month in the States, managing to see Denny Mirus in Chicago, where he is doing well in the options business, and Mark Mitchell who is a lawyer in Washington with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. While in Brazil, Steve hopes to see KimWang who is running several businesses in Sao Paulo.

Jim Wallace is out of the Navy and working for an 'environmental engineering consulting firm dealing in pollution control work in Newton Upper Falls, Mass. Jim and Debbi did their first skiing in four years last winter and are looking forward to more rugby matches through the balance of this spring.

Finally, Dick Wenzel and wife Ruth have left the Army life and moved to Newark, Calif., on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. Dick is employed by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) district as a research analyst, while Ruth is working as a nurse. They spent two months last summer camping and swimming along the beaches of Baja, Mexico, traveling in the Mazatlan through the Durango area of northern Mexico. They spent a week with Janaand Don Knezek in Olney, Tex., where Don is teaching math and Spanish and is head track and junior varsity football coach at the high school and Jana is in charge of the school and town library system. Dick spoke with BruceKnowles in Payson, Ariz., where Bruce was fighting fires while planning to begin graduate work in the Phoenix area. Dick also reports that John Keller plans to marry a beautiful Belgian athlete who speaks seven languages. They hope to return to California this summer.

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