1977

As this is the final column for the year, I'll do my best to assimilate all the odds and ends from the year. While some of the news may be a bit dated, if viewed with the proper historical perspective, it can still prove interesting.

Glenn Mercer writes that there is "hard work and enough play at the Tuck School." MaryEllen Collins will be a June graduate of the Harvard Business School and will be marrying Michael Zak (Cornell). She indicated that Andrea Kormann is finishing up her first year at Stanford Business School, where she no doubt runs into Helena Sias, also at Stanford. NoraOdendahl is in her third year in the English graduate program at Princeton, where she is teaching public speaking and precepting for a course in the history of the silent film. Also working on an M.A. in English is GeorgeBarnes, who is at the University of Virginia.

Jim Darnell has graduated from the Southern Methodist University Law School and is now with the firm of Gambling, Mounce, Sims, Galcitzan, & Harris in El Paso. Liz Epstein will be finishing up soon at Columbia Business School. She spent last summer working in the strategic planning and new business development area at International Paper Company. Peter White, who called me while he was killing time at the airport in Atlanta on his way to Memphis, will be graduating in June from the Wharton School and has accepted a position with the First National Bank of Boston.

Hebe Quinton wrote to ask how many classmates might know the very singular fact that one can't have alcohol in buildings at state universities. She unearthed this bit of absurdity while pursuing a master's degree in environmental engineering at the University of New Hampshire. After spending the 1979-80 academic year studying architecture at Cambridge University, England, Dave Torrey is now back in Boston designing real towers rather than ivory ones. He'll complete his master's at Harvard this month.

A recent newspaper clipping told of the January wedding of Ned Winsor and Judith Serken. The bride is a graduate of Williams and both she and Ned received M.B.A. degrees in 1979 from Cornell. Ned is currently a financial analyst with the General Foods Corporation in White Plains, N.Y. Michael Denton wrote that he has married Mary Ann Bruce (Smith '76) and is now employed with the commercial litigation branch of the civil division in the Department of Justice. Andrew "Chauncey" Loomis made his rendezvous with destiny on St. Valentine's Day by tying the nuptial knot with Toni Malone of Tacoma, Wash., his hometown-honey-of-nine-years. Chauncey has completed his studies at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle and will soon be fulfilling his residency requirements somewhere in the western half of the United States. Lastly, the New York Times announced in February that Gretchen Heller will be the June bride of Philip Farmer. Gretchen is a sales representative with the DeVoe Realty Company in New Milford and Kent, Conn. Her finance is branch manager and banking officer for the Colonial Bank in Kent.

Gary Mayo joined the insurance agency of Munsey & Brazil, Inc. in Laconia, N.H., in June of 1980; he specializes in industrial property and casualty accounts. Mike Hanson joined the same company in October as a life and health specialist.

Barry Harwick received a master's in education at Pitt, last year and has been working as the head track and cross-country coach at Bentley College in Boston. And a stray note . . .

Alexander Colvin sipped wine atop Pyramid Peak in Colorado with Scott Engles and SteveHallagan last July. Let's hope they haven't been sipping all this time, waiting for their names to appear in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

The Harris Bank of Chicago announced that our classmate Andrew Baker has been electee to the position of systems officer. He joined the bank's training program after graduation in 1977 and is currently a member of the bank's trust systems division, responsible for personal trust business systems. Andy also has an M.B.A. degree in finance from the University of Chicago.

Still another classmate has "done his college proud" by becoming the recipient of the annual Rome Prize Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology. Roger Ulrich, who is a teaching fellow at Yale, will work in Rome on a dissertation study of the topographical, historical, architectural, and sculptural aspects of the Forum of Julius Caesar. In 1980, he received a travel fellowship from the Committee on Archaeology at Yale.

In closing, I would like to remind one and all to give generously to the Campaign for Dartmouth and to point out that one year from this very month, we will all be convening in Hanover for our first reunion. Remember Freshman Week, when that day seemed forever in the future? Be sure to get in touch with RichieBane if you would like to help with the plans. Have a wonderful summer and don't forget to write.

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