1980
Tales from the Crypt, volume 2, chapter 1: Greetings from your euryphagous ambassador of pen-and-ink goodwill. So begins correspondence in year number two. And be forewarned, the Chinese are calling it the Year of the Mudslinger. Well, by now, most of you Muffys and Chips are winding up the summer season on pink-and-green Nantucket and are just aching for a glimpse of the good old life as we knew it in Hanover. If that's the case, pick up a copy of Esquire, April 1979. If not, then follow the yellow brick road . . .
Old adage: A fool and his money are soon parted. "The class of 'BO continues to amaze everyone!" So reads class agent bulletin #8, and rarely hath truer word been writ. The '80 segment of the Alumni Fund definitely had both oars in the water as we set first-year-out records galore. A total of 71.1 per cent of the gang contributed $15,377 which should just about cover Meg and Bart's winter in the Bahamas. Congratulations, and here's to even better production next year.
Pity poor California. It has so many earthquakes the state song should be "I'm All Shook Up." San Francisco is also home for some raging Dartmouth 'Bos. On an extended business trip this summer, I ran into Bobby Brown backstroking down a Union Street gutter. Dashing Denis Roy has his hands full as the new manager of Henry Africa's House of Singles, while Dana Abraham and Bruce Collins pour and serve midnight punch at the Dartmouth Social Club (nice place everyone imitates Brooks Brothers mannequins).
Upon my return from California, I found my mail sack bulging at the seams; the only remedy is to share some news with you. From the land of the 80-cent dollar, Canada, comes word from Jay Hodgdon. Jay is an endogenous opioid specialist (aren't we all?) who gets around more than the Mediterranean fruit fly. He's delivered lectures on his research in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Havana, and Los Angeles. Whew! And when he recovers from his jet lag, Hodgy will start his second year at McGill Med School.
And Carol Burns wrote to say that she and Ellen Groetch are happily ensconced at Notre Dame Law School. I always thought "South Bend" was some sort of muscular disorder. Carol adds that she's not sure she'll make the football team again this fall. Well, the world needs lawyers, too.
The best letter of the summer arrived mysteriously one morning. I found it impaled on a blow dart stuck into my front door, and it brought news from Kingston, Jamaica, of Johnny Ulrich. Poor John thought the application "read Marine Corps not Peace Corps. At least he gets to keep his hair even if it's in dreadlocks. I hear Buddy Ide is also working for the Peace Corps; his two-year stint is in Nepal.
"I do, I do" seems to be the password these days as everybody gets into the legitimate LTR scene. On May 30, Laura Woodberry and Alistair Jessiman '79 were married on Nantucket Island. Tiny Trina Olin and Andy Sheehan were both in the wedding party and held aloft a green-and-white crew oar so everyone would feel at home. Following their honeymoon at Niagara Falls, the bride and groom resumed their jobs as guardian angels in NYC. Congratulations also to Christine McDade, who married Scott Boyce on June 27. Chris told me she always wanted to be one of the Boyce,
Take a deep breath and .. . Dave McQueeney and Amy Hume were married in July, and Dick Smith writes that he married his Crawfordsville, Ind., sweetheart on August 8, with Dwayrie Gould as best man. Dick says he's known his wife since she was five. Last spring, I wrote of Dan Freihoffer's running a marathon after just two weeks of training. Well, the crazy guy hitched on for another long run with Penny Breed '79 on August 15 in Hanover. According to Dan, she wore white and carried a small bouquet while he wore grey and portaged Ledyard's war canoe.
Anne Daigneault and Grant MacEwan were scheduled to become man and wife (what was he before?) in September. And raise a glass to Alec Kloman and Danielle Dyer '81, who have announced their engagement; they are planning to marry next summer in Canada. Alec works for Amnesty International. Andy and Trina will probably carry oars at this one, too. Danny, do you know what you're getting into?
Last-but-not-least-department: Congratulations to brave Debra Livingston, who will have married Sammy Walker on October 10. The third deadliest force to hail from Kentucky (behind strip mining and Colonel Sanders' original recipe), Sammy is working for Bethlehem Steel and has been stationed most recently in Grand Rapids.
Alumni Records Department: I am pleased to announce the newest member of our class is Christopher P. Gorton. Congratulations. Chris graduated in 1980 and prefers to be affiliated with this class. I think that's splendid. But one thing worries me everybody wants to be affiliated with our class. This week, I got three letters from '7Bs and last night some '77s wanted to know if they could be 'Bos too, and . . .
Ann Donovan participated in the Japan Summer Seminar at Harvard last July. Ann, who teaches social studies at Wilmington Friends School in Delaware, was selected as one of just 15 teachers from the entire country. The purpose of the seminar is to enlarge American understanding about Japan introducing participants to Japanese civilization past and present so they can teach more knowledgeably about the country and know what they're getting when they order in the restaurants. Ann's headmaster is pleased and trusts Ann but nevertheless has asked her to check her samurai sword at the office.
Message from the; president: Speedo has asked me to announce an 'BO mini-reunion on October 24 following the Cornell game. Details as to time and place will be announced at the game, but there will probably be a tent to shield us' from the elements and plenty of liquor to shield «us from each other. The word from the oval office in Ann Arbor is, "Be there. Aloha." Get psyched gang, it'll be Woodstock 11. Speedo also says Janine Fate is just starting her first year at Michigan Law School and has already supplanted Billy Sims as the state's most precious resource.
Men und vimen of Dartmouth ... I close with a welcoming wish of good luck to President McGlaughlin. May he keep the College the fantastic place we finished making it a year, ago. And a bon voyage salute to John G. Kemeny. At graduation he said, "Use your very considerable talents to make this a better world for all of us." That sounds like good advice.
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