1977

My apologies to Steve Solomon who mailed me this picture in December. The three Tri-Kap brothers, Steve, Nick Lowery '78, and Frank Long, met up in my hometown, Kansas City, after Nick's debut as the Chiefs' place-kicker. Frank is presently a financial analyst for the Council of Energy Resource Tribes in Denver and Steve is still pursuing his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in California.

The class treasury is finally getting around to cashing those class-dues checks we sent months ago and, consequently, I have begun to receive some of the scrawls on the back of those dues notices. Alan Folz, for example, has joined E. F. Hutton in Dallas as a stockbroker after three years with an investment counseling firm doing financial analysis and portfolio management. At E. F. Hutton, Alan is specializing in growth stocks, stock options, and tax shelters. Charlie Queenan will finally end a long academic career this spring with his graduation from CarnegieMellon University's business school. He hopes to find a job in management consulting.

The many lawyers in- the class found time to send news of themselves. Jackie Ackerman graduated from Harvard Law School in June 1980 and joined the law firm of Agnew, Miller, and Carlson in Los Angeles. She is practicing in the areas of labor law (management side) and litigation. Eric Stem is now a first-year law student at Harvard. Having graduated from Washington & Lee Law School in May 1980, Mark Stanton passed the West Virginia bar exam and is now an associate with the Charleston firm of Spilman, Thomas, Battle, and Klostermeyer. J ana Singer will graduate from Yale Law School in May and will spend 1981-82 clerking for Judge Richard D. Cudahy of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Al Rost reports that he, Penny Kurr,Harry Wilson, and Andy Sacks all graduated from the law school at the University of Virginia. Al is now working for the District Attorney in Brooklyn along with Dartmouth classmate Jim Kreindler. After working for three years in energy-policy analysis in Washington, Bob Lawrence is now a first-year law student at Georgetown University Law Center. Bob also reports that Helen Conroy is a first-year law student at the University of Virginia and that Ken Frankel is clerking for a Washington law firm after completing his first year at Northeastern Law School.

There are other alternatives to the law school grind. For example, Winston Ritchie returned at Christmas after a two-year stint in the Peace Corps. He was in Kikambala via Mombasa in Kenya. "Q" Belk will be with the National Outdoor Leadership School in Naro Moru, Kenya, until the spring of 1982.

Rick Rose dropped me a line to say that he recently completed his masters degree (M.S. in accounting) at Northeastern University Graduate School of Professional Accounting. He is now working for Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company in Boston. Mike Brigham also graduated in the same class and is now working for Touche Ross in Boston.

Janice Lee Swain has completed her studies at Tufts Dental School and her husband Jay is working on his Ph.D. in musicology at Harvard. He is also teaching music history part-time at Phillips Andover Academy. Jeff Gimble is a student in New Haven (at Yale, I assume, but he provided no details). Linda Peppard, after graduating from the sunny University of Flordia with a master's in applied anthropology and special education, has ended up back in snowy New Hampshire, teaching middle school in Laconia. I guess she traded her waterskis for the snowshoes.

In September, Mike Carter found himself in Chicago on company business with Bell Labs. While there he spent some time with Steve White who had just jetted in from a vacation in Paris after spending a summer at Chase Manhattan in N.Y.C. Steve is in his final year at Northwestern B-school. Mike also wrotethat Gus Davis is taking graduate courses at Columbia and Larry Hendrix is now in N.Y.C. working for General Electric. The three of them took in a Yankees game last summer.

Finally, I note that it's mothers like these who make my job easier: Deborah Schantz's mom wrote to say that "Schantzy" is busy with her master's in regional planning at Penn State. She spent seven weeks in Africa and Brazil last summer. Jon Oxman's mother wrote to let the class know that after doing a wood sculpture in Yugoslavia two summers ago, Jon returned to New Hampshire and did some construction work until a bad fall sent him packing back to Denver. He entered a bronze sculpture in an exhibition there, taking first place in the competition. Jon is mending nicely, is doing some solarenergy surveying in Colorado, and has an offer to teach drawing and sculpture. There are also plans to apply to architecture school.

Three TriKap brothers - (from left) Steve Solomon '77, Nick Lowery '78,and FrankLong '77-took in some sun and football in Kansas City where Lowery made hisdebut as the K.C. Chiefs place-kicker.

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