1975

To me, from failing hand, Gib Palmer passed the pen; be mine to hold it high for five long years. Now that I've ruined In Flanders Fields, I want to establish several guidelines during this first regular column: Canadian jokes and references will be kept to a minimum; my closest college friends will not be mentioned more than five or six times per column, even if I have no other news (this advice comes from Gib); information about my personal life will be minimal; and under no circumstances will I promote my book, Walking Tours of NewEngland (Doubleday, $8.95), available at finer bookstores throughout the Northeast. 1 would also like to initiate an occasional special feature -an unprompted call to someone who seems to have slipped the suffocating embrace of Mother Dartmouth. Someone who never writes with class news, someone whom I never knew at Dartmouth, someone who has never received any publicity from the College for any reason whatsoever. In short, someone who may be completely devoid of interest, or a fascinating' closet college classmate. Look for this in the months, nay the years, ahead.

Despite jny rule about personal horn blowing, I feel justified in mentioning that in August I was married to Barbara Peck, formerly of Vancouver and Ottawa, lately of Montreal and the Reader's Digest Book Department. We had a lovely Jacuzzi ceremony at the local Church of Unified Light, followed by a large and disorderly party at the Peck-Dunbar residence. We'll spend the month of September in Lon- don, Greece, and Paris, and get to know each other better, although two years of cohabitation seems to have ironed out most of the wrinkles. Kate Waddell, our newsletter editor, has generously agreed to write the next column while I'm honeymooning, Or whatever it's eailed these days.

Now for some news from the summer. Blair Andrew was in Montreal delivering babies from mid-July to mid-August at the Royal Victoria Hospital. He usually works at Mary Hitchcock in Hanover, but has recently completed a similar informal exchange program with a hospital in his native Columbus, Ohio.

The latest aiumnae newsletter noted that Judy Geer and Charlotte Geer 'BO made the U.S. Olympic team in the double sculls. An outstanding achievement for a very unfortunate Olympiad.

Congratulations, Judy and Charlotte.

Fred Chuang, a lecturer in theater arts at Cal State in San Bernardino since 1978, was honored by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology for his costume designs in a Cal State production of Medea. His entry in the first Biennial Scenography Exposition was selected to be part of a national show. Fred received his M.F.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Tom Streeter was graduated from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University last May and will be a house officer in 1980-81 at the Cleveland Clinic Educational Foundation in Ohio.

This past spring, Navy Lt. Mark Jones completed an eight-week course at the Naval Justice School in Newport, R.I. The program features in-depth study of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and supplements the prior legal training of newly commissioned Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard lawyers. The Navy news bulletin noted that Dartmouth College was in Hardier, N.H., which may be why only a quarter of our class attended reunions. The rest probably went to Hanover and missed the show.

Art news for the month: Doug Wilson presented a one-man show of constructed watercolors at the Janus Gallery in Sante Fe, N.M., last June, Stuart Bratesman was one of six artists selected from more than 300 entrants to display their work in the Regional Exhibitions 1980 show at the Hopkins Center. Stuart's photographs have appeared in virtually every major American publication, including the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, and Rolling Stone. Among eight Bratesman photographs exhibited were "Ozone Park Bikers, Greenwich Village," a study in studded leather and surly expressions, and "Bar in San Francisco," in which a hatted woman, draped in what seems to be a negligee, puffs provocatively on a cigarette.

That's it for this month. Tune in to Kate's November news. Please send information about yourselves and classmates so I don't have to bore anyone with stories about my trip.

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