1970

In my last column I promised that I would pass along news of significant achievements of our classmates in the world of communications. As seen below, congratulations are certainly in order to Josh Fitzhugh, Dennis Jolicoeur and Ken Miller. Josh is the editor-in-chief of a new weekly paper, The National Law Journal, with a circulation that has already reached 20,000. Published by those who have long supplied the New York City legal community with a daily newspaper, The New York Law Journal, the new paper is designed to serve as a forum for nationally significant news and commentary affecting lawyers, law students, and businessmen with an interest in legal affairs. The paper carries articles about current judicial decisions and statutes, law firms, and lawyers in the forefront of the news.

Josh has had considerable publishing experience since graduating from Dartmouth. Those living in the Hanover area will know him from the Connecticut Valley Reporter, a weekly with controlled circulation, which had significant editorial content. Josh later came to New York and worked with the Associated Press covering business and financial news while attending law school. He was determined to combine law and journalism in some fashion. Upon graduation he decided to stick with the journalism side and the new national legal paper is the result. Josh is married to Didi Brush and the couple are the proud parents of a new baby boy, one Nicholas Hudson Fitzhugh, born February 17, 1979. Josh's managing editor is Dick Babcock '69, and regular contacts while covering legal affairs include WinRockwell, who is practicing law in Minneapolis, and George Le Maistre, who has been practicing in Washington, D.C.

Dennis Jolicoeur is the principal owner and publisher of a weekly publication in the Manchester, N.H., area called The WednesdayJournal. The paper has proven to be a success. Dennis is now in the process of enlarging his editorial staff and is investing in a variety of new typesetting equipment. It is possible that he may be in a position in future to switch to a daily format which would give the people in the Manchester area an alternative to their current daily. We all look forward to seeing what Dennis's next step will be in improving the quality of reporting the news in his home town.

Ken Miller has been named sports editor of Peninsula Newspapers, Inc. which publishes the Palo Alto Times, the Redwood City Tribune, and The Valley Journal. As sports editor, Ken will direct the combined sports staffs of the papers when they merge to form The Peninsula Times Tribune this spring. Over the last seven years Ken has had a great variety of experience in sports, copy and make-up at the San Francisco Examiner.

Marc Jolicoeur, for his part, has been continuing to score successes as general manager and vice president of Lafayette Beverages Inc. of Manchester, N.H. In addition, he is serving on the board of directors of the Merchants National Bank and the First Bank Mortgage Corporation. His civic activities have covered a broad spectrum of medical and service organizations and just recently Marc was named chairman of the New Hampshire Easter Seal Telethon Committee for 1979.

Recently I joined Bruce Rich for lunch at New York City's new Citicorp Center. Bruce and his wife Melissa have been living in Manhattan since Bruce's graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1973. For the last five and a half years Bruce has been practicing law with Weil, Gotshal and Manges, a leading New York firm. He has been mixing antitrust work with First Amendment and literary property practice. Melissa is a professional speech and language therapist. The couple's daughter Megan is now some 18 months old.

Our own Kevin Cunningham is the president of Computac Inc. of West Lebanon, N.H. Computac was founded in 1962 and provides computer services for businesses, state governments, and institutions across the United States and Canada. Its computers operate 24 hours a day in instantaneous contact with almost 100 affiliates in locations as far away as Fairbanks, Alaska.

Finally, I had a very lovely note from Pamela Renner. Pam and Mike Rentier were married at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church in Maryland in May 1976. Before their marriage, Mike was a prep school teacher serving at several fine schools - Cardigan Mountain, The Oxford Academy, and St. Stephens Episcopal School. While teaching he coached soccer, tennis, sailing, and skiing, and led Outward Bound programs. Mike is now in his second year at the University of Virginia Law School and will be clerking this summer for a Philadelphia firm.

Pam also included information on Jonathanand Sandi Wheeler. Jon is a UVA Law School graduate and is presently head of student legal services and an instructor at the law school. Sandi, for her part, is now in nursing school at UVA.

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