1975
Last month you received your copy of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and hurriedly flipped pages in a frantic search for your favorite feature, the '75 class notes, and, after failing to find it, exclaimed in shock, "What? No class notes! Of course, there must be some mistake. They've sent me a defective copy!" Furious, you called your nearest '75 and found him in a funk, cursing the fastidious editors for forgetting this famous feature. Fortunately, you both eventually cooled off and, after a frank discussion, decided not to accuse the editors, but rather the class secretary. You figured the class secretary had failed to submit a column. Why didn't he submit a column, you wondered.
Well, folks, here is the answer: For the first time in nearly four years, yours truly had no, repeat, no information to fill even a paragraph of pertinent class news. I am reluctant to make up stories for fear of a slander suit, so I refrained.
This month is a different story. There is some news to report, but I can always use more. Anyway, on with the news. Tommy Thomson and his wife Cathy are the proud parents of twins, born on February 27. Tommy is completing his final term at Tuck.
Chris Loftus sent the following report on the status of his career, cuisine, and marriage:
"My wife is off delivering other people's babies and I have just finished tonight's dinner pizza and, since something has finally happened to me, I decided to write this.
"For all those (and there are plenty) who don't yet know, I was married March 3 in a small, family ceremony here in New York. The bride is Sara J. Sirna, who is a third-year medical student here at Downstate Medical Center, hence her current obstetrical bent. I myself will graduate from the same institution in May, and will begin a surgical internship at Columbia Presbyterian in New York this June. This will be followed by a five-year residency in neurological surgery at the New York Neurological Institute to begin in July 1980. For all my old friends who gasp and wonder how I can spend six years studying anything, I agree.
"I talk to Dave Hunt once in awhile and he seems to be working harder than an intern. (And this at a law firm. Imagine that.) We have already made and broken many beer-drinking dates. For cheap entertainment and informal dining I recommend the chicken dinners at the Yale Club, which are invariably accompanied by an ever-changing panorama of people one used to know."
Wanda Cox Irving and her husband Sam '74 are living in Portland, Ore., where Wanda is executive director of marketing and research of Sam'son Productions, her "own travel consultant and music production company." She and Sam have one son, Samuel M. Irving, III, born on February 4, 1977. In addition to news of herself, Wanda included notes of other '75S. "Maudlin Wright and husband Dennis Wright '74 now have a son, Jerome Wright. Dennis is practicing law in Boston and Maud received her master's and is teaching art education in a local Boston high school." Also, "John Posey is a top management executive for Mac Donald's."
Recently an article appeared in the Boston Globe entitled " 'Babies' take over N.H. government." Much of the article centered around New Hampshire Governor Hugh Gallen's choice of Mike Cornelius to put together the state budget. Excerpts of the article follow.
"When New Hampshire Gov. Hugh J. Gallen faced perhaps the toughest task of his term - putting together the state budget - he entrusted the bulk of the job to Michael Cornelius, a 25-year-old aide.
"Cornelius and Love (age 27, new PUC chairman) both occupy extremely sensitive government positions and both, said Gallen, 'have a great deal of talent and energy to offer state government.'
"Cornelius, who came to New Hampshire in 1971 to attend Dartmouth College, served as a state representative 1974-78. He worked closely with Gallen aide Jean Hennessey, 52, in preparing the budget and commented that the project didn't intimidate him.
"'I had worked on Democratic budget proposals in the House,' Cornelius said, 'and I had a familiarity with state government.'
"Cornelius said he has political ambitions and has had them 'ever since I was 6 years old.'
"Cornelius finds it 'interesting that there are a lot of young people around (the administration), but it's not either particularly good or particularly bad,' he said.
"'The bottom line,' Cornelius said, 'is that people should be judged on their ability, and age is not an overriding factor in determining ability.'"
In the wedding news this month, Bill Wolston is engaged to Joyce Luke of Penryn, Cornwall, England. She is a graduate of the University of Leicester and is currently employed as a teacher at the University of Brodeaux, France. Bill received his master's degree in French at the University of California in Santa Barbara and taught last year in Bordeaux. A July wedding in Cornwall is planned. Steve Gaige and Robin Lawler were recently married. Robin is employed as a mortgage processing clerk at the New Hampshire Savings Bank. Steve is a member of the Class of 1979 at Franklin Pierce College Law Center.
Finally, it's that time again for the Alumni Fund. Please contribute whatever you can. I have seen some outstanding contributions in years past, and our class has demonstrated fine performance. Let's keep it up. Even a small contribution is appreciated as a high percentage of participation is important. That's it for now. See you next month.
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