1982

Since this is the last time I will be writing to you until the autumn leaves and harvest moon appear, I will spare you my soliloquy and proceed to dump as many tidbits upon you as I possibly can. Then I can spend the summer conjuring up fresh facts for your reading enjoyment.

Winky Stearns is teaching third grade in Rye, N.H., and is living in Portsmouth. She writes that she is enjoying the challenge of it all. Meanwhile, Christine Makell has found a new home as a sales representative with I.B.M. in Burlington, Vt. Eric Miller has also heard the calling to sales and can be reached care of Procter and Gamble, Tide, Toothpaste, and Tissue Paper Division, Hartford, Conn. Speaking of wonderful cities, Cindy Hall has chosen an all-time favorite of mine, New Haven, to pursue her education at Yale Medical School.

George Thompson is at least in the right state, as he finds himself in Springfield, Mass. George is preparing to become the next Vince Lombardi at the American International College. If his efforts as an assistant football coach don't work out, George will fall back on his interest in criminal law and utilize the master's degree he is currently pursuing.

But let us move to the place where you would all like to be, that cultural mecca of the 21st century known as Boston. This is the city where excitement is associated with names such as Sandy Kelsey, Jody Palermo, John Donahoe, Dan Geschwind, and Kelly Dixon. With a cast like that, who needs Broadway? (Who needs Marvel comics and Saturday cartoons either?) Sandy is working at the Gabler Children's Psychiatric Hospital and applying to med schools. Jody is at the Boston University School of Communications. Donahoe and Geschwind are practicing the noble, modern art of corporate strategy insulting at the rival firms of Bain and Company and the Boston Consulting Group, respectively. I myself am learning the tools of consulting with Mr. Donahoe at Bain and Company. John, Sandy, and I are also living together on Commonwealth Avenue. Thanks so much for sending all those class dues to our humble abode. I want to assure you we've put them to good use at Club Med.

Kelly Dixon is settling in at Blyth, Eastman, Paine, Weber while her Beacon housemate, Allison Schmultz, helps manage the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard. Apparently the Harvard administration needed someone with a refined cultural background, so they hired a Dartmouth grad.

West of downtown, in the plush suburb of Chestnut Hill, one can find the likes of Amy Warner, Jenny Chandler, and Steve Avruch at the Boston College Law School. What a coup to already be settled into suburbia at the age of 22! It is certainly something we can all look to and admire.

On the other hand, there are those crazy people in New York. How could so many of our classmates have wandered so far from goodness and light? Bill Lipfert reportedly is finally working with his beloved trains with the Mass Transit Planning Commission. Elaine Fussel has already been promoted to an assistant buyer's position at Bloomingdale's.

And then there are our New York bankers. It seems everyone is a banker. Every time I need more information about the class I call the New York Bankers' Association and ask which 'B2s have taken up banking this month. Jon Hedley, Sherri Carroll, Curtis Reed, and Steve Schuh are all at Banker's Trust; Len Jones is at Chase Manhattan; Von Chaney is at Morgan Guaranty; Lisa Harrison is at Irving Trust; Joe Fernandez is at Chemical Bank; Adrienne "T" Lotson is at Manufacturers Hanover ("T" also is said to have functioned as the St. John's Redmen basketball booster of the year); and Danny Black is at the Bank of— you guessed it New York. I just don't understand what is so appealing about watching money, let alone other people's money.

At least some people such as Monty Ivey and Mike Rafter are doing something different. Monty is living the life of the struggling playwright and is entering competitions all over N.Y.C. and the country. Mike is going to be assistant musical director for a new Broadway play by Michael Bennett of Dreamgirls fame. The play will be opening soon, so you New Yorkers are expected to show up in force.

In the much more civilized environs of Philadelphia, Kim Bolger is doing something very different banking! Kim is working in the marketing department of First Pennsylvania Bank and writes, "I love my work, and get to conference frequently with Tug McGraw that should ring a bell if you're a baseball fan our celebrity spokesman." Baseball players selling for banks. I can picture the ads: "At First, we won't throw you any curves, strictly fast balls." What will they think of next?

Charles Williams may also be in Philly playing for the "Stars" of the new U.S.F.L. so read your local sports pages.

You might want to pick up a copy of the May issue of Environment magazine and look for a story by Rob Eshman. A good source confides that Rob has sold his first story for that issue.

Here's to summer skies, sands, seas, and sunsets.

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