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Among this month's news items is word that Mike and Chris Fay are the parents of a baby boy, Matthew Joseph, born March 9. Young Matthew weighed in at seven pounds, six ounces. On a similar note, Jim Wallace writes: "Debbie and I are proud to announce that our third girl (what did I do to deserve all this attention?), Sarah Emily, eight pounds and 21 inches, joined us on January 31. Her two sisters, Jenni (age eight) and Robin (age five), are a big help."
From Mark Greisberger: "I am alive and well and practicing law in Rochester, N.Y. After working as an associate in one of the city's larger firms, a group of us started our own firm in July 1979- From four lawyers at that time we have grown to ten. I took time to get married in May 1981 to Carol Hoefen and I could not be happier. On February 27, 1983, our daughter Katherine Louise was born and now I'm learning to be a father."
Jerry O'Brien has left Citibank, N.A., and moved from New York to Los Angeles to join Solomon Brothers Inc., the investment banking firm. And since May 1982, Dirck lacobelli has been a vice president in Del E. Webb's Realty Management Company, which, accord ing to his wife Peggy, meant moving "home" to Scottsdale, Ariz., in time for Thanksgiving and living out of suitcases ever since.
Jim Knox writes: "For those of our classmates who may have lost track of Robert LeoKelcourse, he is hiding in Clearwater, Fla., and holding himself out to be a business broker. 'The Leo,' with missus and three offspring, claims to be doing fine. My wife Adra and I remain childless, having been told by Dick Corelitz what causes children."
We received word from Hans-WolfgangPfahler that he has decided to build a house. "People in our area are specialists in 'black labor,' so consequently there are no houses on the market. The coming year will be a nightmare because we will have to chase the journeymen around the construction site. Our new Helmut, successor to old Helmut Schmidt, ignorant of English, has just passed a few tax breaks for homeowners-to-be. So this is our one and only chance. As much as I like Schmidt, I am hoping for a stable, conservative majority not so much because I am getting older but because the S.P.D. is worn out after 13 years in government. While democracy lives from change, it just shouldn't happen every four years."
Finally, a touching note from Mike Hilleary's widow Sandy, who was kind enough to share her thoughts with his classmates:
"Michael Hilleary died in San Francisco on August 27, 1982, after a vigorous and determined struggle against cancer. He was 33 years old. His unfailing optimism and courage were apparent and highly inspirational to everyone he came into contact with during the last months of his life. Fellow Dartmouth graduates David Howell and Dr. Al Mulley were with his family at the time of his death.
"Mike was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a recipient of the Haseltine ChemistryPhysics Prize. David Howell tells me, however, that Mike may have been equally pround of his role on the freshman baseball team and as a member of the 1970-71 intramural championship basketball team. Many of Mike's proudest achievements and fondest recollections were of life in Hanover, and accompanying him to the tenth reunion was a high point of our short time together.
"Michael was employed by International Engineering Company, San Francisco, where he managed the information systems division. He was the youngest division head in a company of nearly a thousand employees.
"His greatest loves, besides life itself, were skiing, running, blues guitar, his home in Sau- salito, his work, his family, and his dog Toklas, whom he proudly called 'a remnant of the six- ties.' I suspect I figured in that order, but he kept the exact position a secret.
"In my mind, Mike would like to be remembered for his intense ambition, his introspective intelligence, and his 'take it to the limit' attitude toward life. His personal integrity prevented him from compromising on any issue he felt strongly about. Those closest to him will also fondly recall his unaffected personal magnetism which arose from an unusual blend of enthusiasm, wit, and verbal gymnastics.
"Mike had that rare ability to energize a roomful of people just by entering it. As the Reverend Frank Greer said at his memorial in Sanford Chapel, 'lt took a special person to fill Michael's place in our world. He had that spirit, we call it charisma. By that word, I don't mean just an attractive personality. I mean attractiveness backed by substance, by intelligence and depth of character.'
"Michael lived life with such intensity that, in spite of its tragic brevity, I believe he felt a limited sense of completeness. I hope so. Those who knew him, however, will miss him immeasurably and my private grief recognizes the unfulfilled accomplishments, absent joys, and lost companionship inherent in his death.
"Mike is survived by his wife Sandy, his mother Margaret Hilleary, sisters Sterling Kehrli and Kathy Thompson, his brother Tim, and seven adoring nieces and nephews (children being among his greatest fans)."
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