1977

Much of this news will have been traded over cold beers in the class tent, but in case you missed some of the items, here's my last effort to fill you in on what's gone on. Two weddings, in particular, require special mention, since great effort was made to assure that I would include them in the column. Anne Bagamery '78 wrote me on Forbes stationery (most impressive!) to tell me about Scott Thayer's recent wedding. He was married on February 5 to Maria Elena Gonzales-Varels, a native of Mexico. The ceremony took Place in Guadalajara, Mexico, where Scott has been a visa officer in the American consulate a March. Making the trek to what was a beautiful wedding were Tom Mayer, Richard Mark,Maura Harway, and Anne. Scott and Maria

Elena plan to stay in Mexico at least a year until Scott is reassigned. The other wedding that needs to be noted that of Dan Lucey and Randi Isaacs. I receivword of the event from both Evy Chan (who lives around the corner) and Dave Pierce (who lives several thousand miles away). Dan and Randi spent some time in London with Dave before heading to France, where Dan planned to introduce his bride to his L.S.A. family m Blois. The final destination for the couple will be South Africa, where, as Dartmouth Media School graduates, their help will be most welcome at the only hospital in Soweto. They'll be working there for five weeks and then plan to go to San Francisco, where they've both gotten internship programs arranged.

. Meanwhile, Dave Pierce has been in London. for a year and a half. After finishing at Harvard. he took the Oregon bar exam and then cam', to London to do an LL.M. at the London School of Economics. He was offered a job with an Anglo-American law firm and decided to stay on for a while. In October, he'll be moving to Singapore to take up a position on the faculty of law of the national university there. Visitors in London or Asia are always welcome!

Other weddings among classmates include that of Jeff Reynolds to Beth-Ann Quinn in February. JefF finished his M.S. in geology at Cornell in March. Also, Randy Davis married Karen Crumlish it) a lovely ceremony on Apr 24. Attending the festivities in Philadelphia were Garth and I, Jono and Jenny Shuster, Tom Pell, and Rich Yokum '7B. Randy and Karen are living in Washington, D.C.

Doug Morgan has arrived home from Peace Corps assignment in Honduras. He survived an Ohio winter and has been doing some job and school interviews since.

Janice Lee Swain accompanied her husband, Jay Swain, to Italy with the Phillips Academy cantata choir and orchestra. jay teaches music history, plays in the orchestra, and sometimes conducts at Andover.

Guy Mathews writes "that he is well and working as a programmer analyst Hewlett Packard. He is also busy raising year-old hellion, Winslow "Skye." He received a master's in a year at a local pizza parlor before into fetherhood and his current job. He £2d inco Jim Danaheur on the street not Wu So Fai also pays an occasional ; fTom the University of Utah, where she is on a C.S. degree. Gene Stroup Cartwright 76 and Mary Ann McLure Cartwright have left the West Coast and headed Ltwith Gene Jr., all of one and a half, according to Guy.

Tom Beach is living in Berkeley, Calif., in what a dozen years ago would have been called a commune." Now it's called a group situation S x people are sharing a beautifully renovated Victorian that at one time was occupied by several members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Those ghosts have faded, and the current residents' energies are absorbed in gardening. fine vegetarian cuisine, installing a solar heating system, fighting the Peripheral Canal, and following what appears to be a resurgent ban-the-bomb" movement. The six of them >unt something like 14 degrees at various levels, with a few more in the works. But enough of them are out working so that a balance is maintained between the Ivory Tower and the Real World. Since October, Tom has been w rking in the alternative energy group at the California Public Utilities Commission, trying to encourage the development of wind, solar, small hydro, and other energy plans.

Lastly, a newspaper clipping brought to my attention the promotion of Ellen Close. She his been named assistant auditor and compliance officer of the National Bank of Lebanon. She has been working at the bank since 1981 and prior to entering its management training program was employed as manager of Peter < hnstian's Tavern in Hanover and the Su Casa restaurant in Sun Valley, Idaho.

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Lindsay Larrabee Greimann '77 was named "Class Secretary of the Year" for 1982 at Class Officers' Weekend in May. The first woman graduate to hold the office of class secretary, she was honored for "the obvious fact that a wide range of '77s feel comfortable writing" to her for her well-written column, and for her "observance of deadlines . . . rare among the recently graduated classes."