1977

This secretary has recently been encouraged by unnamed souls to devote a column to tales of classmates that border on the absurd. It would be a journey into the darker recesses of the mind, producing reports unsubstantiated, bizarre, and partially plausible. To date such a temptation has been resisted because: (1) rookies should not make waves, (2) classmates's news this past year has been better than any product of the imagination and arrives regularly in prodigious amounts, (3) the five-year at-tempt by Jeff Immelt '78 at just such an endeavor (ghostwritten by Jack Kiernan '78?) speaks for itself, and (4) the fate of Paul Gigot hovers above this writing desk as a constat reminder of the power of critics. For whatever reason, fact will suppress fiction and "honest" journalism will reign supreme for at least one more issue.

The Proud Parent Team continues to grow From Exeter, N.H., Jeff and Jennifer Lyon write that they were overjoyed at the arrival of an eight-pound girl, Katherine Hope, last March.

An exuberant Penny Kurr Rashkin extols the virtues of marriage in a note from Houston. Tex. She and her husband Dan have purchased a home and are battling "debt city." Penny also recently took the Texas bar exam.

The class head honcho, Rich Bane, called this month to ask whether the roof of the new economy indoor stadium here in Minneapolis had collapsed recently. Rich also had a few quips to pass on. Mike Choukas is engaged in his first year at the Harvard Business School and plans to work as an intern at Bain Consultants this summer. Mark Seigel and Holly Halper are planning to tie the knot this June. According to Rich, Holly was invited to, and subsequently survived, the fifth-year reunion in spite of having known Mark only two weeks. One wonders whether he was giving Holly credit for surviving the class tent or as Mark's date. Betsy Cox Stebbins is working very hard as the executive director of our Dick's House Committee. Betsy works in conjunction with the class of 1927 as our class prepares to accept from them more of the responsibilities for Dick's House.

Word arrived in a roundabout fashion of the presence of Frank Ittner, Bill Hixon, Bill Gentes, and Ted Lapres at the wedding of Susan Busby and David Daniels '79. Purportedly a good time was had by all. Also spotted on the wedding circuit was Wythe Braden. With a host of other alums, she attended the wedding of Thorton May '79 in Cleveland last November.

Eric Stern, among others, is finishing up his last year at the Harvard Law School, where he is an editor of the law review. Next year he will be in Washington, D.C., clerking forjudge Patricia Wald of the D.C. Circuit. Terrie Alafat is in her final year of a Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago. Terrie has spent the last three years teaching and studying in the Middle East and she and her husband hope to return there to live in the near future.

Being dismally short of your news is the current state of affairs here. Any form of com munication would be appreciated. Have pleasant spring.

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