1972

Greetings. By the time you read these gripping words, I hope the Big D will have managed to cover itself with the glory that has eluded it thus far this fall. Fabian Ropogol wrote this month, having nothing better to do, since the N.F.L. strike has put a big dent in the beer commercial business. After the usual opening nonsense, such as this, he expressed the hope that it is indeed scheduling wizardry which places the non-Ivy League games early in the season. Fabian wasn't sure whether we lose the first few games of the season to lull the real opponents into that classical false sense of complacency, or whether the real strategy is to start slowly in order to work up into that irresistible gridiron juggernaut of yore. Anyway, fortunately Fabian's letter had a few companions in the mailbox this month.

It has been noted in several quarters that our class has been just roaring-down the venerable aisle. For those sceptics who said it would never happen, this column has the pleasure of scooping the world and announcing that even DannyMoors, that paragon of moderation, wit, and clean living, has taken the fateful stroll. He married Margot Kimball in August on Hickory Island in the St. Lawrence River. Jim White and Greg Yadley were there, and Greg said it was quite a blast. Also biting the matrimonial dust were JefF Gilman and Carol Reiff, who were married this last May in San Francisco, and Richard Larson and Jane N. Winter, wed in June. Richard is a senior fellow in hematology at the University of Chicago, and Jane is an assistant professor of medical oncology at Northwestern University Med School. In order to spare you the trip to your dictionary, mine says that oncology is the part of medical science that deals with tumors.

In addition to taking fateful walks down the aisle, our class is also finally doing something else normal. Many of us have found, some of us no doubt to our surprise, that it works. Babies are popping up everywhere. Herewith follows a partial and, given the rate at which the class is procreating, a no doubt incomplete list. JohnBurke is putting his practice on Ghort to good use as the father of Sean Kenneth. Andy andAdrienne Harrison had their first, Mark Samuel. Bill Enos reports number two, son Clinton born in August. Daughter Emily is now two. Finally, Chris Cain and Pamela have a daughter, Emily. They are living in Walnut Creek, Calif., where Chris says that he occupies, with all the dignity that the post warrants, the Dartmouth Chair at James Montgomery Engineering.

That's it for this month. Keep those cards and letters pouring in, and next month the news of our fall reunion will appear in this very space.

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