1975

Class notes? Already? Another year of my editor, Dana Grossman's, reprimands for missed deadlines, another year of empty mailboxes, another year of wedding announcements? Has the sweet bird of summer flown south so soon? More than halfway to the tenth reunion and still not rich and famous? Am I depressing you? I don't mean to. Actually, I had an excellent summer, but I'll save the details for a slow-news month. October doesn't qualify.

Speaking of weddings, Zenas Hutcheson married Susanne Lilly '77 in St. Paul, Minn., Feburary 20. No wonder it's said that the class secretary is always last to know. At any rate, attending what I assume were joyful mid-winter nuptials were Jack Brennan, Cathy Joyce Brennan, Sarah Hoagland Hunter, and Ted Schere, all of the class of '76; Betsy Fauver and Betsy Roberts of' 77; David Lilly Jr. '72; Win Rockwell '70; Peter Harter '69; and the bride's father, David Lilly '39.

Jeff Barndt and his wife Kathy took an illfated cruise for their honeymoon. Nothing serious, just that Chuck Ervin '38, also on board, noted in a card to the alumni office that the Royal Viking Star's trans-canal cruise limped into Port Everglades a day late on two and a half engines. My travel files show the Star cruised this past summer from New York to Copenhagen, Leningrad, Helsinki, and Stockholm, then back to New York via St. John's, Nfld., and Boston. Jeff, which canal was that?

Doug Floyd, who is starting his second year at Northwestern Law School, married Katherine Irons May 22 in Bond Chapel at the University of Chicago. Robert Russell, professor of Romance Languages at Dartmouth, and his wife June, were present at the ceremony.

Rick Paul writes: "Due to Bob Ehinger's transfer to New York, I have assumed the presidency of the Dartmouth Club of Detroit. Our treasurer is Jon Walton Jr. '78 and we are still looking for a secretary." (Any '75ers in the Detroit area want to volunteer?) "My wife Paula and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary on July 25 the same day that Bob Arndt and his wife Red celebrated their second anniversary. Red is expecting their first child sometime this week." That was back in the summer. Any news, Bob?

We received a happy-second-anniversary card from Dan and Rosey Skorich in Las Animas, Colo. Their daughter Danielle, perhaps best remembered by classmates for her spirited tabletop dancing at the fifth reunion, is now two and a half years old "and acting like it," according to her father. The Skoriches are moving next summer to Milwaukee, where Dan will begin his residency in ophthalmology. "We're excited about the move, but sad to leave our friends in Colorado," writes Dan. "Occasionally, we see classmates in Denver, such as Austin and Joanie Murr, Hal and SandyMcCartney, Dave Farmer, Phil Barber, BobVaeth (haven't seen him in months!). I spoke to Mike Peters several weeks ago. He had just returned from Reno, Nev., where he visited Brad and Debbie Margeson." Dan adds that Eric and Peggy Miller have moved to Pennsylvania. Thanks for the card and the news, Dan.

Peter Hackett, director of the Denver Theatre Center, presented a double-bill at the Hop's Warner Bentley theater in August adaptations with music and dance of Sophocles's comedy The Searching Satyrs and Cervantes's Renaissance farce, The Cave of Salamanca. The local press hailed this unusual pairing as excellent theater.

Here's a Dartmouth wedding close to home. Andrew Smith married Catherine Smith in the St. Denis Church in Hanover on June 26. Andrew works for the federal Department of Labor; Catherine is employed in administration with l.B.M. The couple live in Spokane, Wash. This is one instance where there's no confusion if the bride decides to keep her own name. Hyphenation is not recommended, however.

Barbara and I had a surprising and very pleasant visit in August from Bob Fastiggi, my first roommate at Dartmouth and possessor of one of the world's great Richard Burton imitations. Bob was in town to return a 300-yearold book that he borrowed from a seminary in Montreal two years ago while doing his doctoral research. The dusty tome was written by a 17th-century theologian named Yves de Paris, the subject of Bob's dissertation for Fordham University in New York. Bob has been teaching religion at high schools in the New York area for the last five years. He is presently at St. Joseph-by-the-Sea in Staten Island. Bob wrote a chapter on "Aging, Death and the Afterlife" in an anthology entitled Aging: Spiritual Perspectives, published in connection with the U.N.'s Year of the Aged.

Bob also mentioned that Fernando Felices was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on May 29 in the cathedral of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Fernando studied theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Mass., after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1978. Fernando is now a parish priest in the archdiocese of San Juan. Present at his ordination were Dr. Barry Austin '74, Bob Fastiggi, Sheila Flanagan '78, and Msgr. William Nolan, diector of Aquinas House at Dartmouth. Congratulations, Fernando.

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