1966

George Emlen is back in music after a series of career detours, but the road was not easy.

A music major at Dartmouth, George went on to study Chinese language and literature and became a Navy translator, then blacksmithed in New Mexico, signed on as a reporter with the Philadelphia Bulletin, and finally settled with his wife and two children in Maine as a freelance journalist.

"I was determined to survive through music," said Emlen, and he went back to school, earning a master of music degree in choral conducting from the New England Conservatory in 1979. And now George is the music director and conductor of the Oratorio Chorale in Brunswick, Maine, a music teacher in the Brooklin, Maine, public schools, and a private singing instructor. The Oratorio Chorale performs throughout southern Maine, performing an ambitious program of classic choral works.

On December 5, the New York Times wrote that "the shape of the securities market will be determined in part by a 35-year-old lawyer named Douglas S. Scarff." That's because Doug has been named director of market regulation at the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of its most influential posts. Doug has been with the S.E.C. since 1976, after six years with Shearman and Sterling, a Wall Street law firm. Doug's new responsibilities include policy-setting on the options market, the national market system, and underwriting practices.

Two recent classmate marriages: On December 8, Bob Cowden and Martha McCahill were married in Albany. Martha, a Wellesley graduate, is director of revenue with the Massachusetts Department of Human Resources in Boston. Bob's a law partner with Chaplin, Casner and Edwards, also in Boston. And in October, Jack Aley and Lorel Devine Wilkinson were married in Bowdoinham, Maine, where they're currently residing.

At last report, Ed Grew was back (for the fifth time) in Enderby Land in Antarctica with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition, measuring the age of rock formations, collecting botanical samples, and doing geologic mapping. His photographs of Mount Charles made the cover of Science magazine, and now there's a Grew Peak named for him. Ed will prove the theory that the Antarctic was once part of India with research on the sub-continent later this year. Meanwhile, in California, Priscilla is director of the Department of Conservation and a close adviser to Governor Brown on soil conservation problems.

There's plenty to remember this month. Remember to sign up for the great reunion weekend Terry Lowd and his team are putting together for June 13, 14, and 15 . . . remember the Alumni Fund . . . and remember, in your thoughts and prayers, Bill Fryberger, who perished in a mountain-climbing accident in early October. An obituary will appear in this or the next issue. Peace.

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