1978

Hello! I am the second of your new co-secretaries. Since most of you don't know who I am, I'll begin by telling you a bit about myself. I have just graduated from Columbia Law School in New York City. I took the bar exam in New York this summer. I am now working for David & Finell in New York City, a tiny general practice firm. This is something of a career change. I used to be a computer programmer out in Minnesota.

Since I don't know you, I must take it on faith that you will write me. I have not been having tremendous success at getting information about all of you. PLEASE WRITE!

Graduating with me from Columbia Law were Leonard Weiser-Varon, who distinguished himself on the Columbia Law Review, and Rose Gasner, who was active in the Public Interest Law Foundation. Vicki Camerino graduated from Columbia Medical School at the same time. Joan McGivern graduated from the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs a couple of years before and is now in law school in Washington, D.C. Jennifer Jarvis was at the Columbia Business School around the same time. I kept running into her on the campus. I'm not sure whether she was expecting to finish this year or next. Apparently she had had enough of being an economic adviser to the government of Guyana.

Suzanne Patton writes that she has received her Ph.D. from Duke. The subject of her dissertation was "the effects of two different classes of distal axonopathic agents, represented by TOCP (organophosphate) and 2,5-Hexanedione, on protein phosphorylation in chickens and rats." After a whirlwind trip to Florida's beaches, Disney's Epcot Center, and Charleston, S.C., she moved to Chapel Hill to live with her sister Lauren '80. Suzanne is now a pharmacology research associate at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (part of the NIH). She is starting off by studying the normal cell biology of bronchiolar clara cells, but hopes to eventually examine their role in lung cancer.

Russell Petter finished his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Duke in February. He is now a post-doc at Columbia in New York. He and his wife Lisa (Barnard '78) are now living in Morningside Heights in New York City.

David Goldmeier has finished his M.D. at Washington University in Saint Louis and he is doing a residence in psychiatry. His wife Laura, also a graduate of Washington University, is doing a residence in gynecology. They are both living in Saint Louis, Mo. Says David, "My mother always said to marry a doctor. I never knew she was talking to my sister." David's big bugaboo these days is psychoanalysis. He's into "the medical model."

Mark Graber graduated from Columbia Law School two years back and is currently a Ph.D. student at Yale, studying the philosophy of law. Martin Leamon is now in medical school in Boston. Karen Kluge is a graduate student in geology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Apparently this allows her to do anthropology field work on sites which have interesting minerals. PeterHirshberg has returned to school and is at business school at Wharton, after having worked for four years at the Children's Museum in Washington, D.C. This summer he worked for Atari in New York City.

Terry Adams is working for Knopf publishers in New York City. He is. living in the Gramercy Park area. Peter "PK" Mose is starting a newcareer as a piano teacher in Los Angeles. A. Kelley Fead is prospering as editor of two education newsletters for Capitol Publications in Washington, D.C. She is also an officer in the Dartmouth Club of Washington, of which her husband (Gary Slack '76) is president.

David Corey, Elissa Von Heil, Peter Hirshberg, and Anne Bagamery were part of the seemingly enormous crowd at the September 18 wedding of Richard Mark and Maura Harway (both '77s). Lots of other Dartmouth types were there, including Jordan Roderick and his wife (Joyce Blankenbaker '80). Jordon works for United Telecom in Kansas City, Mo. Another wedding this summer was that of Mark Tomizawa to Linda Button '79, in September in Philadelphia.

Jeff Krolik, a sales representative for HBO, and Steve Adnopoz, a bond lawyer for Hawkins, Delafield & Wood, New York City, ran in the "Corporate Challenge" race in Central Park, New York City, in June. Each claimed he had been drafted at the last minute to fill out his company's team. Each also claimed he finished, although an observer who stayed well after dark never saw them cross the finish line. "Oh well. says Anne Bagamery, who writes of this.

Mary Thron, who works for Hewlett-Packard in Maine, took an advanced course in Italian at Dartmouth this summer. It was a tenday Rassias method deal seven and a half hours of class and drill per day, language tables at Thayer, and no English spoken (at least within earshot of the staff). Anne Bagamery (look, if you others write me a long letter, you might get mentioned three times, too) was an Italian TA at the same program. Anne has now moved back to New York City after two years in Houston for Forbes magazine, where she is still a reporter. She allegedly covers electronics companies, Wall Street, and international money matters, so anyone with story ideas is urged to get in touch (60 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011) Anne suggests that people write her for unexpurgated details of the summer program at Dartmouth as well. Enrique Garcia-Moreno was a special assistant in Spanish for the same program. Enrique has become a kind of permanent fixture up at Hanover. Every time I go up there I ran into him on the campus. He has been pursuing graduate studies.

Christine Hughes is a real estate lawyer for Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar, in Boston. BobGray is still a "hot dog" (Anne Bagamery's words) at Morgan Guaranty in New York City. Between frequent trips to Texas this summer, Bob entertained clients at Newport and drank slammers (champagne and tequila) at his shared summer place in Westhampton. He also spends a lot of time bailing his MG convertible out of various NYC parking tickets, but he's not terribly proud of that.

Just a few final bits of news this month (plus a reminder that we'd like to hear from any '78s not mentioned here): Karen Fagerstrom is lawyering for White & Case in New York City. Dan Galyon is in Syracuse doing a residency in neurosurgery, having completed a year's internship in general surgery at Johns Hopkins. Ben Crocker is living in Framingham, Mass., and working for Computer Vision, which he tends to refer to as "Computer Blindness." Brooks Clark got written up in the September 12 issue of Sports Illustratedpage four. He got a whole page!

Rick Leonardi '79, who is working for MarvelComics, was recently able to coax this one ofhis many well-known working colleaguesinto the regalia of his alma mater.

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