1971

The fall is upon us. The air is filled with the fresh; pungent aroma of burning leaves and a chill wind is blowing from the north. Bea and I are settled in our new home in Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y., and are preparing for a new arrival in March.

Among this month's news is word of Jonathan Wolston's marriage to Nancy Jean Laser of Crown Point, Ind. Nancy received her associate degree in nursing from Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind., and is working towards a bachelor degree at the University of Illinois medical center. She is a registered nurse at Dialysis Centers Ltd. in Chicago. Jon, a graduate of Northwestern Medical School in Evanston, Ill., is a resident in psychiatry at Northwestern Medical Center.

Chris Coakley wed Molly Lynch on May 6 in Milton, Mass. Molly is a graduate of Laboure School of Nursing and St. Joseph's College, North Windham, Maine. Chris graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1975 and finished his residency in internal medicine at Carney Hospital in Boston last June. He began a two-year fellowship in endocrinology at University Hospital in Boston in July. He and Molly are living in Canton, Mass.

Dave Hill wrote to report that "one of the last bastions of male chauvinism, MichaelKevin Furey, met his just reward in matrimony with Nancy Hornberger in Montclair, N.J., on May 13. Alias the 'Booker,' Michael took time from his Newark law practice to attend the ceremony, resplendent in his tails, and then was whisked off by his new bride for two weeks in France." Some of the '71s in attendance at the wedding included 'Bruce Frankel, who took time from his law practice in Fort Myers, Fla., to attend; Bob Osborne, who journeyed from his Connecticut farm; and Pete and BeckyRuegger, who managed to persuade the partners of his large New York law firm that he had satisfied his quota of billable hours for the week.

Dave also wrote that they have started a Dartmouth Club of Western Canada with headquarters in Winnipeg. The club "presently consists of eight members, the quality of whom is undisputed." Dave is continuing in the practice of law with the firm of Aikins, MacAulay & Thorwaldson in Winnipeg while wife Kathy (affectionately known as "Doctor K") continues in the second year of her residency program in anesthesia at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg.

Jeff McElnea became a father on August 1 to a 9 lb. 2 oz. son, William Kent McElnea. Jeff became president of Einson Freeman Inc., a Fairlawn, N.J., sales promotion and merchandising agency, on July 26. Sandi and SimonPotter became the proud parents of Brian James on June 23. Young Brian has doubled his weight (his father's son) and is clearly exceptional in every way. Simon is still busy suing widows and orphans during working hours and is enjoying Montreal more than ever. And DanTaggart reports that son Daniel Lee Sebastian Taggart, born January 5, is doing well, as is young Daniel's mother, Ginette.

Frank Lord was elected an assistant secretary of Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company and Hartford Life Insurance Company in Hartford, Conn. He is responsible for the company's group pension proposal and actuarial valuation systems, employee benefit statements, and the actuarial valuation of the company's retirement plan as well as other large retirement plans. He had been an actuarial analyst in the company's pension department and was named assistant director, pension actuarial services, in 1977.

Charlie Silcox was promoted to the position of senior accountant by Price Waterhouse & Co., a leading international accounting firm, on May 26. As a senior accountant, his responsibilities include the planning, administration, and execution of audit examinations for the firm's clients. Charlie and his wife live in Riverton, Pa.

John Pfeifle was a candidate last March for the office of town selectman in Bradford, N.H. A plant superintendent with Universal Packaging in Bow, John is also president of the Bradford-Newbury Parent-Teacher Club.

Mark Bardo was awarded a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine last June and has begun his residency in family medicine in Pueblo, Colo. He. spent two years in South Korea as a Peace Corps worker in a leprosy and tuberculosis health center.

Peter Walkley has joined the staff of the Laconia Clinic in Laconia, N.H., specializing in internal medicine. Peter spent two years as a research associate at the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York after completing a fellowship in anesthesiology in Stamford, Conn.

Steve Brockway, who graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1975, is participating in postgraduate training at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover.

Peter Maeck returned to Hanover this summer to supervise the production by the Dartmouth Players Repertory Company of his play, The Bone Garden, under the direction of Daniel Chodos '72 at Hopkin's Center. A total of seven performances of the production were scheduled during the months of July and August. The play was first presented several years ago by the Green Mountain Guild, one of Vermont's best known summer theater com- panies.

Peter's playwriting career began in the spring of his senior year when he won first prize for his full-length play, A Little Rain, in the Eleanor Frost Play Competition. Within several weeks of graduation, he had sold this first dramatic effort for off-Broadway production.

His most recent production, described as an absurd comedy about an aged athlete preparing for a match, featured incidental music realized on the synclavier by Dartmouth music professor John Appleton.

See you next month.

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