1980

Welcome back to "The Making of a Monster, Volume IV. When last you heard, your faithful scribe witnessed the ice going out on the Connecticut River in time to bid adieu for the summer recess. Now, 38 beach parties and three quarts of Solarcaine later, I am back in the saddle again wielding my trusted Colt, the pen which won the West.

In an update to his autobiography, "Catch Me If You Can," Bill Semmes is somewhere between Puget Sound and Point Barrow. When he is not mastering his thesis on "Coastal and Marine Parks Planning Management" at the University of Washington, Wilbur is taking business administration courses there. Somewhere along the way, he managed to sneak in a month-long kayak trip in Price William Sound, AK. Grandpa reports that after he finishes his master's of marine affairs degree this fall, he will go north to Alaska for permanent work. Bill also points out that grey hair is very distinguishing in Alaska. With all the respect he is likely to receive, he just might run for governor.

Rob Schpoont (that is not simply phonetic spelling) has covered every square inch of the cutting-room floor while studying film at New York University. Rob spent part of the summer in nearby Huntington, NY," single-handedly attempting to move Miller Beer from number two to number one on the sales chart.

Please forward the mail from Norwich to Norway for Don Skantze and his wife, Kjersti Aksnes '82. For the past year, Kjersti studied at Dartmouth Medical School while Don worked in Lyme for a small computer company which specialized in geographic information systems. Come July, they shipped on to Oslo, where she will finish medical shcool and he will study at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Don kindly welcomes all classmates traveling in Norway (Eikstubben 5, 1900 Fetsund, Norway). Very nice - any pjort in a stjorm.

Keep-those-cards-and-letters-coming department: Thanks to all you generous folks, the mailbag is absolutely overflowing now. I may even have enough material on hand to complete my five-year stint as secretary. Advance printings are now available c/o Jeanne Dixon at the above address.

Regina Rehkamp, who has graced the ice rinks of Austin, TX, for a year, is now back in the Big Apple. As a figure skating pro, Regina enjoyed escorting her students to competitions, but is now cheerily studying law (or lack thereof) in New York at Fordham University. "All of that skating ought to give her an edge in the courtroom."

"Hey, you're a funny guy you should be on the stage."

"Do you really think so?"

"Yes, there's one leaving in an hour ..."

Just as Regina enters the hallowed halls of law study, some others are scooting out the exit. According to the press release, approximately five percent of our class just graduated from the University of Virginia Law School. Congratulate every twentieth person you see at reunions.

The likes of this legal combination we have not seen since Perry Mason and Delia Street drove off in Paul Drake's convertible.-In June, Kris and Nancy (Jepson) Treu were graduated together From the Ohio State University College of Law. Congratulations! And just in time for Jackson Browne's hit single,' "Lawyers in Love."

Three cheers for Larry Norton, who is charging back after a kidney operation this summer.

As the brides go tearing by: Each month I have to start this part of the column earlier and earlier in the article to accommodate all of the participants. What with marriage such a popular sport during the fair weather season, this issue reads somewhat like the table of contents from Bride magazine.

Congratulations to Eric Pfeiffer, who married Eileen Finnigan April 28 in Essex, CT. Eric's father kindly sent a photograph which indicated John Havasy and Barry Krumm attended the festivities. An obscure Ivy-Soviet pact prohibits the publication of wedding photographs, but in this case the picture is worth fifty words.

Greg Hogan married Bonnie Hunt in Middlebury, VT, on May 28. The Hogans are now singing "Gone Wisconsin!" as Greg finished his master's studies at the university there this summer. They were slated to move to New Orleans, where Greg joins the Shell Oil Company, doubling as a geophysicist and as the Shell Answer Man.

David Wald, who headed off to the Wharton School for an M.B.A. and returned with a marriage license, married classmate Sue Ann Dubin on March 27. They live in New York, where Waldo is an options trader with Drexel, Burnham, Lambert Inc. And Chuck Blades married Lynne Grant '81 this summer.

Tom "Tobo" Boltja's mother wrote that her son, who dazzled lacrosse opponents with more than just white shoes, is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. Tobo is the top American student in his navigator training class, which is dandy. But the best news is that he married Susan Anderson in East Northport, NY, on September 17. They live in Sacramento, CA, where Tom is stationed at Mather Air Force Base.

Alexander Frank, who earned his M.B.A. at the University of Michigan, married Jane Sandler in Boston on July 30. I think the Red Sox were only four games out of first then. Not far away in Burlington, MA, are Laura Prescott and her husband Paul Duffy. They are loan officers at the Bay Bank Trust Company and were married in September.

As you can understand, many things have changed over the summer. Not the least of which is the comforting fact that yet another class notes column (this time the '83 version) will serve as a buffer between Carothers and the obituaries. I end the novelette with one hand on the word processor and one hand on the plane ticket. In five hours I fly to Jackson Hole, WY, for at least two reasons. First, we should make sure that Kim McConaughy's wedding proceeds as smoothly as advertised. I would also like to see if the sheriff still intends to hang John Cholnoky. Details at 11:00.

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