1973

Captain's Log: 7 May 1978, 2100 hours, skies clear, 60°F (14° C), winds S at 5 knots.

A month and a half from this very date I'll probably have one of the largest (if not the largest) hangovers ever with which to contend. Since it looks like a record-breaking crowd plans to be in attendance at the Fifth, I hope that your next scribe will have much to-do about everything. The time is fast approaching when your Captain must step down from the helm and assume a mere "mates" role. Seems as though a severe mutiny on the high seas is about to strike with full force. (Truly, it's been a solid five years.)

But allow me these last few thoughts: Congratulations to John Lambrukos for being appointed assistant resident in orthopedic surgery at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center.... Thanks to Bob Conway for his several on-the-road postcards and bulletin news.... good going Dr. Dave (Wender), I see that you are about to have your first child with wife Marcia.... I'm finally getting back at George Wolohojian and wife Donna (for failing to mention George's name among these sacred logs): Keep up the good work as assistant professor in the Department of Political Science/Public Administration at Northeastern (incidentally, you did a fine job running and coordinating our Alumni Fund telethon in Boston).... Those awards just keep on coming in to Bruce Kimball, now recipient of the 1978 Luce Scholar Prize.... And keep up the good work, MikeKlupchak, as a field examiner for the National Labor Relations Board in Atlanta.

Five years is a long time for the responsibility of these notes. But I've enjoyed every last one of them. The Captain hopes you have, too. For without you, he would probably not exist.

Allow an old salty dog these last words: Keep your ship tight. Never let jt pitch, unduly. And . . . remember the Maine.

6 Glover Square Marblehead, Mass. 01945