1977
When the dogwoods, quince, and forsythia bloom with such color, the winter winds seem a little less frigid in my mind and almost worthwhile. Spring in Atlanta is beautiful, and for any of you with springtime wanderlust, south is the direction in which to head. Our door is open and Florida is not too far away.
Several snowbirds from the muddy Northeast have come our way recently. LarryAppel stopped in for some home-cooked Chinese food and a tour of Atlanta on March 1. He was here as a representative from N.Y.U. to attend a convention of medical school students. Also in town for a day were four members of the Class of 1979. Jon Zehner, Dave Lurie, F. X. Matt, and Bert Edwards were passing through on their way to sunny Florida, bringing with them great expectations of warm weather and good times on the beach. They brought news of Hanover and current events on campus.
A lengthy letter arrived in March from PeterHazlewood. He spent the last six months in Europe, studying and taking in the sights. For five months Paris was his home and he studied at the International Research Center on Environment and Development (a private research center affiliated with the University of Paris). He also took a French course at the Sorbonne which he said was great fun. The 13:1 ratio in his favor may have been a decisive factor! Peter traveled for five weeks and reports that Europe still swarms with Dartmouth undergraduates. His only frightening experience seemed to be awakening from an overnight train ride to discover that he was in East instead of West Berlin.
David Torrey is studying at the Harvard Architecture School and Mark Madsen is buried in books as he works his way through a government Ph.D. program at Harvard. Hopefully both of them will find some time to enjoy springtime in Boston - perhaps some rowing on the Charles? Dave Kassel is enjoying the medical school program at the University of Rochester and John Pellicone assures me that there is never a dull moment at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Jeffrey Cutts is working at Kimball Union Academy as a mathematics teacher, and coaches football, hockey, and baseball along with Gordon Nye '76. Ben Craver is an eighthgrade history teacher in Dudley, Mass., which he enjoys, and David Long passed on this information about his teaching experiences: "I am currently teaching English at Gunnery, a prep school in western Connecticut. I am therefore preoccupied with paperwork, past participles, and post-pubescent pranks of the third kind."
Derika Hermann has been taking a year off from school to work in the pathology department of the medical school in Hanover. She mentioned thoughts of pursuing studies in physical therapy come 1979. Richard Barton spent his winter as a waiter in a ski resort and used his spare time to fill out applications for graduate school and law school. Stevenson Upton wrote to say that he is enjoying his VISTA work as a housing specialist on the Omaha and Winnebago Indian reservations in Nebraska, and Jeff Lyon remained in Hanover to sell advertising. He says he plays squash with Al Henning and has a few drinks with lan Frank and Eric Donnenfeld.
Ken Glickman is presently working in Franklin Lakes, N.J., as a computer programmer for IBM. Though work is enjoyable, he confesses that his mind occasionally wanders back to where it all began - playing ***SPACEWAR at Kiewit. Also working in the computer industry is Eric Smith. He is a software specialist for Northern Computer Systems in Portland, Maine. Don Wiviott has been living in a log cabin on a lake about 15 miles out of Bangor, Maine. He says the setting is beautiful and that both he and his dog Freya enjoy life in the woods. Heat was provided by a Franklin stove, but he also had the added luxury of oil and a gas heater. The skiing was great this past winter, especially with Sugarloaf only two hours away. Don is also working for IBM and his territory (over 1,000 miles in area) borders Canada, east and west, and includes the coast down to Belfast. He works hard to find it, but says the business is there.
Two '77s are pursuing careers in journalism. Mary Spruill Amundsen was married to Robert '76 in August 1977 and has settled in Austin, Tex. She is working on an M.A. in journalism from the University of Texas, and Bob is getting his M.B.A. from the same institution. Mary is also working for a market research company in Austin. Liz Cronin is a reporterresearcher for Forbes Magazine in Manhattan. When she wrote a few months ago, she had just completed research for a cover story and sounded thrilled with her job.
Lucy Karl is at work in Hartford, Conn., for a New York law firm. They are busy with an anti-trust case between Xerox and SCM and she confesses she is learning much.
And so ends another column. Next month is the last chance you will have to see your name in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, as summer vacation ceases publication until the fall. Hurry and send me any and all news. (It always looks impressive to leave the column with your name in it lying face up on the coffee table in your living room.) Hello to all.
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