1973

I would like to begin this column with an apology. Several months ago there was a misprint of John Floberg's name when I was writing about his new endeavors as an entrepreneur in the plumbing business in LaCrosse, Wise. Sorry about that, John. Frankly, I'm sure that there have been other mistakes in other columns, as well. If you notice a misspelled name or some other misprint , please let me know. It's difficult enough for us all to keep up with our classmates, but if their respective names are misspelled in the class column that just makes things all the more difficult. Usually these mistakes are my fault, but sometimes they are the result of almost illegible notes that I receive or misinformation that the alumni office inadvertently passes on to me.

Well, enough of that. I do have news that Doug Ostrander and his wife Gail are living in Rhode Island, where Doug is working as a jewelry designer. On August 3, 1978, Gail gave birth to their first son, Thomas Rogers Ostrander.

Lew Carter, after a year studying anthropology at the University of Texas, is now working hard at the University of Oklahoma Law School.

John Hedberg is finishing his study of internal medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has also earned a master's in medical anthropology from the same school. John just recently completed a medical service program in Uppsala, Sweden, where he gained some experience working in their system.

John Weatherley has completed his preliminary exams for his Ph.D. in anthropology at Princeton and is off to Afghanistan on a Fulbright-Hays research grant to get data for his dissertation.

David Weinstein is working on a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratories and has been using his anthropological background in the construction and experimentation connected with a computer model of the energy balance of the Quechua Indians of the High Andes, Peru.

I have just received word that John Richardson, now living in Laconia, N.H., contributed a significant piece of work to a paper and graphic display produced by the Dartmouth Geography Department and entitled "The Instructional Capability of the Dartmouth Geography Department Mapping System."

Mike Root is teaching religion at Davidson College in North Carolina while he is trying to finish off his Ph.D. dissertation for Yale. Mike reports that Phil Nelson is working for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington.

Deborah Roney and her husband Jim have just returned from behind the Iron Curtain: They were in Poland on IREX fellowships working on their Ph.D. dissertations for their respective programs at Ohio State.

Finally, Dave Welcker sends word that all goes well with him and his wife Vicki. They are expecting their second child in the summer of 1979. Their first, Jason, was born in June 1978 and Dave notes that he "appears to have granite in (at least) his muscles." Dave is presently a controller for A. P. Whitaker & Sons Inc., general contractors and engineers, in West Bridgewater, Mass.

That's it for this month. If you have a spare moment, please pass on some news about yourself or other '73s.

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