1976
Brita Sardella will be attending Dartmouth Medical School. She was accepted early decision. Congrats, Doc Sardella.
Scott Hunter won an award for having designed a low-cost, hand-operated barbed wire fence making machine. The award amounted to $100.00 in the undergraduate mechanical division of the 1978 student engineering design competition award program.
John Lord and his bride Debbie spent their honeymoon (married December 9) on a Caribbean cruise. They live in Raynham, Mass., (unfortunately quite different from the Caribbean). Mike Cutler, home from Bolivia where he distributed snow shovels, was an usher. Congratulations, John and Debbie. Cuts is now selling swim gear in Alaska, where he says the market is "better than you think."
Ensign Robert L. Hurst recently returned from an Alaskan fisheries patrol aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bootwell.
Tim Curran writes that "Jay Butler and I still share an apartment on Chicago's South Side but I will be changing this year. During the Christmas holidays Jay became engaged to Peggy Sauter (yes, Gus's sister). A tentative date is set for a late October wedding in Mansfield, Ohio. Jay has been promoted from purchasing agent to materials manager at the Holland Company located in Chicago Heights. As for myself, I'm still plowing through DePaul University for law and M.B.A. degrees. I recently spoke with Mike Arrive who is working on a Ph.D. in classics at the University of Missouri. Mike, Jay, and I wonder what BoboHanley is up to these days? Maybe we'll hear a word."
Mark Stebbins and Sally Ann Nelson are engaged to be married in June. Miss Nelson, a '76 Cornell graduate, and Mark will be married in Point Albino, Ontario.
Rich Nichols is gaining (first year) his law degree at the University of California, Hasting College of Law in San Francisco. Last year Rich was a legislative assistant to California State Senator Nicholas Petris of Oakland. He drafted legislation and "generally became very engrossed with the political process. Yes, I'm still running track. In California am able to train with some of the world's greatest runners and coaches. Hopefully I'll be in the Olympic trials in 1980."
Rich heard from Ken Norman who "just completed his three-year stint in the Marines and is heading to NYC. Ken Monterio is in his third year of a Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford, hoping to get back to the real world and out of the unreal world of academics. Greg Payne graduated at the top of his law class and was a member of the prestigious Stanford Law Review, and is in NYC." Thanks for taking the time, Rich. Rich informs everyone that San Francisco is not as "crazy" as we are led to believe. No comment. They ought to reopen Alcatraz, which would have to be expanded to the size of New Zealand to accommodate the residents.
Speaking of San Francisco, Sandy Helve is the regional director of the Campaign for Dartmouth (a small school in New Hampshire).
Gretchen Kent was promoted to first lieutenant in July and returned from a NATO exercise in Europe. "Not only was it fascinating, but I was able to use the freshman language courses which were forced on us." Gretchen and new husband Albert expect to be in Denver this winter to "check things out."
The remaining information was compiled by Martha Beattie who incidently is still teaching mathematics and is the head crew coach at Andover (Mass.) Academy.
"Brad Agry wrote that after two years at Young and Rubicam in New York he has been accepted at Columbia Business School where he started in January. He also mentioned an informal reunion in NYC in December held at Steffi Valar's apartment. About 25 classmates were there including Julie Schuetz, Kim Cushman, Bill Duke, John Olson, Rick Perell, Carol Vaughan, Sara Hoagland Hunter, Carolyn Kahn, and 'a host of others.'
"Carol Vaughan, after completing the works of art program at Sotheby's in London, recently was hired by Parke Bernet in NYC. She's living with Vicki Austin '77.
"Ann Fritz is engaged to be married to LanceHackett in September. Ann is graduating from Stanford Business School this spring.
"Also graduating from Stanford Business School this spring is Bill Healey. Jim and I saw a lot of him and Rich Hayes and Henry Shanks while in NYC last summer.
"After attending Northeastern Business School this fall, Jim Beattie is now getting ready to head for Fort Lauderdale for spring training. We plan on living in an apartment in Manhattan during the summer. I'm still teaching math, coaching crew, and running a dormitory of 22 girls (with Jim's help).
"I saw Judy Burrows Csatari at an Alumni Club Meeting in Hartford, where Jim spoke, and she is busy raising her daughter Emily and writing her graduate-study thesis.
"Tom Reinhart is working for Dean Witter, Reynolds in Boston as a broker and selling securities to Jim and me! He is living in Brookline, Mass., with Marty Doyle.
"Hope Steven Poor and King Poor are still in Atlanta, Ga., where King is in his last year at Emory Law and Hope is going to Emory Business School."
This was a very active relaying month due to the combined issue so I had to keep the usual comedy to a minimum. We'll probably be back to normal next month.
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