1975

It's not often I get a memorandum from the United States Senate, but when I do, I make it a policy to quote it in its entirety. Paul Winslow writes: "After nearly 12 years of wandering through Dartmouth, the Washington office of U.S. Representative Paul Tsongas '62, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, Ralph Nader's Congress Watch, the U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Defense Production, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, the Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank at H.U.D., and a year of Reagan-inspired bumhood, I have returned to my 'roots' in Kingston, R.I., to manage the congressional campaign of Jim Aukerman'70. If all goes well, I'll find myself back in Washington in November. Otherwise, I'll undoubtedly be back in Washington sooner." Paul ends on an apocryphal note: "Tell 'Gweeds' I was taught how to write but not when." Sounds like a note to a lapsed pen pal.

I received a lovely invitation to the wedding of Kathleen Brennan and Jeff Barndt, held in February at Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. There was even a map to show me how to get from either the Harbor Freeway or the San Diego Freeway to Los Verdes Drive, although there was no mention of how to get from Montreal to San Diego. I'm sure I could have figured it out myself, except it all became academic - to me, not to Jeff and Kathleen - since the Canadian Post Office decided to deliver the letter via Frankfurt and Smuts, Saskatchewan. By the time I received the invitation they were probably already toasting the glowing bride. Sorry for the belated and public R.S.V.P., but my heartiest congratulations to both of you. I'm often asked at times like this to pass on a little advice to the newlyweds, and I'm pleased and honored to do so on this joyous occasion, Jeff and Kathleen. This advice comes from either my grandmother or my mechanic's step-sister: Never disgust your spouse. Or is that "never discuss your spouse"? Anyway, that's it. Now you're on your own.

Jean Passanante, who was the president of the Dartmouth Players while an undergraduate and has since pursued a successful acting career mainly in New York, is currently the administrator of the National Playwrights' Conference, one of the projects of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in New York. Jean is currently coordinating the submission of some 1,300 manuscripts for the 1982 conference, which will be held in July and August.

Finally, Doug Peterson, in his ninth year with the U.S. Ski Team, reports that he was sidelined this winter from competition as a result of a broken neck sustained during training in late November. Doug underwent surgery in December to repair the fracture and fuse his fifth and sixth vertebrae. He will have been in Scandinavia during February and March as an assistant coach for the U.S. team. He says that his recovery is coming along very well and that he plans to continue racing for the national team through the 1984 Olympics in Yugoslavia.

That's all the news for this month, as you can see by the large black numerals "76" immediately below these lines. Please write with news of self or classmates and pay your class dues.

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