1970

This should arrive in your mailboxes just about the middle of the holiday season. I hope that it will be a good one for all and I wish each of you the very best in the coming new year. How about sharing some of that good cheer with your classmates and dropping me a note as to what you are doing. I think I know of a few people who would be interested. The items below mark the end of the notes which were entered in my notebook on the final day of reunion at the Sunday brunch. I really could use some additional news if we are all to keep in touch with one another.

Readings come from Jack and DiannePansegrau who live in West Hartford, Conn. Jack is into real estate investments. As an aside, some of you may remember Shalla, Jack's faithful dog, who is now 14 years old. How time has passed. Jack and Dianne were sorry that they were not able to bring Shalla to the reunion so that his friends could see him again and check whether he remembered the games that were played a decade ago.

Rie and Lucy Shepherd are now living in Lynnfield, Mass., where Ric works as a controller of RESCO, an alternate energy company which burns refuse and sells the steam. Lucy works as an occupational therapist in Lawrence, Mass. Their household presently includes both a cat named Jennie and a Scotch terrier named Mac. Ric noted that he was disappointed not to have seen Steve Barrett, among others, at the reunion.

Eric Martinez has had an interesting few years since graduation. He is now in San Francisco living in the North Beach area near Washington Square, having opened his own private investigation agency this year. He calls the agency Venture Investigations. He had previously worked with some of the well-known investigators, such as Hal Lipset ("The Conversation") and Jack Palladino. Eric also studied law and graduated from Boalt Hall (Berkeley) in 1978. In addition, he managed to find time to assist his father, a bio-medical engineer, in the development of an implantable medical device, a total knee endoprosthesis. That, in turn, gave him experience in dealing with venture capitalists on the West Coast, negotiating their investment in connection with the device.

Gene and Sandy Nelson are busy parents raising young Luke. In the meantime, they also find themselves occupied with basic home-owner tasks, not to mention Gene's appointment at the Dartmouth Medical School, where he teaches community health.

Bruce Blumberg and Carol Murphy were able to join us at the reunion, and I know they were delighted that they had made the trip all the way from California. Bruce at that time had just finished training in medical genetics in Los Angeles and had accepted a position in San Francisco beginning this fall. Carol, for her part, had been on the nursing faculty at California State in Long Beach, but as one of them so aptly put it, she is now busy having a baby.

Jeff and Maria Dahlman have settled in Short Hills, N.J. By the time this column appears in print, they should be proud parents. They loved the reunion and I noted that Jeff has not lost his sense of humor. He insisted that it was just like old times and that he "recognized some of the fruit flies."

Extra! Extra! H. Dixon Turner is practicing pediatric medicine in Portsmouth, N.H.

Bob Bergesch, I think, summed up many of our thoughts in noting that the reunion brought back memories of breaking pipes over the Old Pine, and thoughts of our four years at Dartmouth when we wondered what the future would bring. Eleven years later Bob has found himself at Chase Manhattan, where he spends a good part of each day, and can trace his route from four years of ski bumming, to business school, through marriage, and on to the money center, dwelling only briefly on the New York City sardine-can subway.

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