1978

This is the first column from your new team of co-secretaries, Catherine Cates and Anne Barschall. We will be alternating months in writing the column. Send news to either of us and we will shuttle information between ourselves to get it published as soon as possible. Keep those cards and letters coming!

First we want to thank Jeff Immelt for his five-year solo effort as secretary, doing a great job keeping up with our rapidly-moving class. Thanks for all your hard work. And now for the news ...

Burke Whitman has taken a leave of absence from a construction company in Atlanta to go to Harvard Business School. He finished his first year in June and spent the summer working for Goldman Sachs Real Estate in New York. Burke is also trying to educate Harvard students by organizing Green Machine parties on campus. Charles Allison will also be going back for his second year at Harvard after a summer job with Merrill Lynch.

Kay McKusick is back in the Boston area working, for Stone and Webster on coal-fired power plants. Francine Foss. is also in Boston, doing her medical residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Jim Lattin has finished a five-year Ph.D. program in management science at MIT. He and his wife Marilyn are headed to California, where Jim will teach first-year students at Stanford Business School. Lauren Tanney will be in her second year at Stanford this fall and can probably advise Jim on how to handle upstart first-years.

Geoff Crew and Harriet Schwartz Crew get the award for staying married for two years while earning Ph.D.'s from schools 1,500 miles apart. Harriet and Geoff are living in Somerville, MA, while Geoff takes a post-doctoral year in physics at MIT. Harriet is doing research in Boston to complete her dissertation for a Ph.D. in classical archeology from Michigan. Federal Express must be getting rich.

Ellen Meyer has spent the last six months touring Micronesia, Bangladesh, India, and the Sudan, after working for two years as a health and nutrition counselor in Honduras. This fall Ellen goes back to graduate school.

Nate Hine is living in Norwich, doing energy-conserving house improvements for Collective Retrofit Associates, following two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa. Ephraim Radner is still in Africa, teaching in an Episcopal seminary in Burundi.

Sarah Pendleton is living in Jackson, NH, after spending two years studying nature life education in Norway. Sarah enjoys life on her farm and her work as a free-lance teacher of nature lore and survival skills.

Bill Petit is interning at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY. Bill runs into Tayloe Holton, Dad Taylor, John Glaser, and Sandy Emery, who are all doing internships at the hospital.

Betsy Fairbanks enjoys life in Santa Cruz, CA, where she works for the Resource Center for Nonviolence. Betsy was married last year and her husband Phil is a commercial fisherman.

Craig Douglass is living in Chicago and working on acquisition strategy for Bell and Howell Inc. Craig spends his free time canoeing in Canada and crewing in major sailboat races in the Chicago area.

Amy Kolan completed her Ph.D. in solid state physics at Duke this spring. Amy and her husband, Craig Feathers '77, are living in the solid state of Minnesota, where Amy is teaching at St. Olaf College.

Claudia Lee is living in Stamford, CT, and managing a nonprofit theater company in New York City. This fall she plans to switch careers, aiming to do Peace Corps-like work in the U.S.

A number of classmates are pursuing math or computing careers. Randy Schwartz is teaching math in Michigan following a summer trip to Yosemite National Park. Dave Wright is completing his Ph.D. in math at Cornell and then plans to go with Prime Computer in Framingham. Susan Assman recently earned a Ph.D. in math from MIT. Nat Goodspeed is a computer programmer in Washington, DC, while wife Renee Laurion attends dental school. Florence Delbridge is a computer programmer in North Miami, FL, while Howard Clark is programming away in Houston.

Our classmates show they continue to believe in marriage, as wedding announcements pour in. Heather Mayfield married Harvard BSchool classmate Fran Kelly in June. After a honeymoon which included a stop at our fifth reunion, they settled in Boston where Heather will be a consultant and Fran will be in advertising. John Macomber also included a reunion stop on his honeymoon. Wilson Neely and Vickie Sturgis '80 plan to marry in December and then live in New York, where Wilson is an associate with the law firm of Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett. Jane Frederick plans to marry Remy Rodas in October, and both will be lawyers in the New York area. Jane, will practice in Stamford, CT, and Remy will be with Merrill Lynch in New York.

Your faithful writer has just graduated from Harvard Business School and in the past week has moved to Atlanta and started a job with McKinsey and Company. I apologize for any errors or omissions, but I am still negotiating around the moving boxes. I am saving space to keep all your cards and letters, so please send news.

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