1979

So I lied.

When I called Burr Gray, our new class secretary, to tell him that I would send him my notes so he could prepare this, month's column, his roommate told me that he is sailing in the Virgin Islands for two months with Jane and Mike Jackson. So I will not promise you again that this is my last column, but I sure hope it is.

Louisa Guthrie, our chief reunion coordinator for next June's bash (the 15th to 17th, in case you have your calendars handy), should consider a discount rate for families. Lo and behold, Custis Spencer Glover and John '76 will be joining us with their wee one. Custis was probably the only '79 who drove a station wagon while we were still on campus, so I guess she is finally working on her 2.3 children. Is your lab golden or black? The next in the. Pampers parade will be Julie Sudikoff, Who is expecting in January. I ran into Julie's proud parents in Hanover this fall and I later saw them talking with Al Quirk about the class of 2005. Gordie Daisley will supposedly be a papa before either woman is a mama, but Bruce McElhinney and his wife Rachel might beat Gordie.

Maybe Janet and Mike Kelley can drive us all around in their new baby the first Mercedes in our class perhaps? Actually, Janet and Mike will have to find a babysitter (I volunteer) because they were just assigned to Hong Kong for the next three years. As of January 1, Mike will be establishing an audit department for the Bank of Boston's Asia/Pacific network. Janet will be going to grad school and I am going to start taking Chinese lessons next week. Mike left me several pages of notes about his cronies, but made me promise not to print any of it until he leaves the country. No need to worry, Mike, if I mix it all in no one will know you are my source.

My engagement report is extensive but sketchy I have to. rely on fifth-hand sources. If Michelle Kane had not met him first I would have wanted him for my own. Tim O'Donnell, a UVA J.D.-M.B.A., will be "joining the Dartmouth family" (not to mention marrying Michelle) just in time to come to our fifth. Lucky you, Tim! Jim Wasz will also be booking for two at reunion. My only clue as to with whom is that her name is Joy. Margo Squire and Ross Wilson will be combining diplomatic ties and will undoubtedly be in the international jet-set in no time. Engagements could be marriages by now for Andy Heller and Bob Gruendel (sorry for all the mystery spouses). Tony Jones wrote in so this one is fact: Tony married Sheila Butter (Wellesley '80) last June. Sheila is in her first year at Howard Med School and Tony is in his first year of the M.S.E.E. program at Johns Hopkins on a GEM fellowship. His special interest is aids for the handicapped. Ben Riley graduated from Boalt Hall Law School in Berkeley last June and will be marrying Janet McCormick in September of 1984. ChrisO'Brien reports that Ben has been traveling through Asia and will begin real life as a lawyer when he returns this October.

Members of the class continue to populate grad schools around the country. Gail Dearden is now at the Tuck School and is commuting on weekends to Montreal, where her husband Jack is an economics professor at McGill. Laura Robertson left the streets of NYC for the hills of Vermont and is enjoying rural life while her friend Dave plans his next exotic trip around the world. Lee Rogge was awarded a Weyerhaeuser Foundation fellowship at Duke Forestry School, where she is a candidate for concurrent master's degrees in environmental management and business administration.

Eleanor Shannon Salem and her husband David spent the summer in Atlanta and now even David talks about "Y'all coming over for a beer." He was such a nice Yankee, too. David finished his J.D.-M.B.A. at Harvard last June and is now consulting in Boston while Eleanor completes her second year at Harvard B School. Paul Centenari is also finishing his M.B.A. at Harvard after working for General Foods in White Plains for the surinmer. Michelle Barber will graduate soon with her master's in geology from the University of Houston while she simultaneously works for Amoco in the oil and gas exploration division. Dick O'Brien is putting the final touches on his M.B.A. from Columbia, after a couple of years as. a coffee broker on Wall Street.

Dave Van Wie kissed Hanover (as well as a few of the natives) goodbye as he left Thayer School; he is now working as a wood energy director for Maine Audubon near Portland. Hal Frazier cannot wait till June when he too can move on to less green pastures. Hal will be starting his internship in surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital come July. While Hal was interviewing for various programs, he tried to locate Hollis and Bill Potter, but he says they must have been missing in action because they were nowhere to be found. Hollis nd Bill are both doing third-year clerkships at New York Med School. Tom Crepps is also currently saving lives as a blade-man in his third year as a resident in Hartford. Hal also told me over dinner (some '79s will do anything to get in the column) that SteveGordon will be receiving his master's in fine arts soon and that Karen Brownsberger Gordon is teaching elementary school in lowa City.

When Carol Anderson Shaw is not lost at sea with her dear one, Will, on their more than-a-dingy and less-than-a-yacht, she is madly investing my money at TIAA/CREF (which manages Dartmouth's pension plans), with her specialty being the airlines and the aerospace industry. Will, a Colgate grad, is an options strategist at Shearson American Express and is doing his best to save our Statue of Liberty. CA buzzed that Beth Blatt is working, modeling, and auditioning in a "whirlwind of star-studded activity" after playing the lead in four shows in Potsdam, N.Y., this past summer. VictoriaThys is also in the Apple and received her master s in English from Columbia last year. She was instantly courted by Personnel Pool of America and is now a service manager, placing word processors.

ML Heslin has been working on board MysMaltseva and spending many months at sea 'eating endless bowls of hash, staring at thousands of tons of fish, and wondering what in the hell I'm doing out here." ML just switched gears and headed for Bologna (via Hanover) through SAIS and expects to remain an impoverished student (you have lots of company!) until 1985.

Rick Leonardi can still be found hanging out at the local newsstands, but he is probably just checking out sales while his thousands of fans admire his comics. Rick is living near Hanover and drawing for Marvel Comics in New York. "Spiderman" and "Thor" are a couple of his regulars. Dartmouth is in good hands with its students, but it sure is great to have folks like Rick around town. There are some exciting things going on up here come visit! See you in June.

Libby Roberts '79

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