1978

Greetings from Atlanta! During the long summer hiatus some of you decided to help reduce my phone bill by sending news. Thanks a lot! Among those hardy souls who wrote me was Don Hunton, who sent a two page letter written by word processor. Don spent five and a half years after graduation getting a Ph.D. in chemical physics. He started his work in Boulder, Colo., and then moved (along with his thesis advisor) to Penn State. Last summer he accepted a job in the Air Force Geophysics Lab at Hanscom AFB near Boston. His work involves sending instruments into the atmosphere on balloons, rockets (including the shuttle), and satellites. Unfortunately, Don's job does not involve any personal flying, so there are no shuttle flights in his immediate future. But hopefully we will see a '78 aboard the shuttle soon.

Rick Spier's mother wrote me to tell me that he is living right here in Atlanta and has not bothered to call or write. She also gave me an address so I can track him down if he does not call before my next column. Rick, pick up that phone! Continuing in the trend of family communications, Judy Ornstein '79 sends news of her brother, Steve Ornstein, who married Emily Tatum of Toccoa, Ga., on May 12. Steve and Emily met at Duke med school and the Doctors Tatum and Ornstein have returned from their honeymoon in the Bahamas to pursue careers in family medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Best man at Steve's wedding was James Byers, now also part of a twodoctor marriage. Jamie was married in October 1982 to Dr. Stephanie Chuipek of Wantaugh, N.Y. Jamie and Stephanie met at Dartmouth Medical School, and both are now in residency programs at Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia (he is in ob/gyn, she is in pediatrics). Other '78s at Steve's wedding included Bruce Maslak (a recent graduate of UVM med school).

Steve Ceurvorst wrote that he is still in international trade finance at Manufacturers Hanover in New York. He sends news that Tim Harrison is taking a leave of absence from Cravath Swaine and Moore (a New York law firm) to take part in his mother's senatorial campaign in Virginia. He has also seen Jim Lattin, who picked up a Ph.D. with honors from the Sloan School at MIT and who also garnered two teaching awards after his first year on the faculty of Stanford Business School. (One award was from the students in recognition of effective teaching. Perhaps he teaches on the beach?)

Other '78s sent back green cards to Anne Barschall, so I will also pass along their news. Peter Kelemen just returned from mountaineering in Pakistan with Josh Lieberman. They climbed Gasherbrun IV (located on the Chinese border) to an altitude of 24,000 feet. Peter is still at the University of Washington in geology, where he will finish in two years if he stops going on foreign expeditions. Along the way they collected rock samples for Peter Zeitler, who is working on a postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian National University. Peter (Kelemen) also reports that Taco Raynolds married Sam Dushevsky in Conway, Mass., last fall. They are now living in Fairbanks (Alaska?) where Taco is an environmental planning consultant.

Weare Zwemer and his wife, Pam '80, are the proud parents of a new baby boy. Weare is in his last year of a clinical psychology Ph.D., finished just in time to deal with parenthood. Ted Kinsman is marrying Leilani Crane in the fall, and they plan to pursue careers in international business. Mark Blatter is a planning and construction manager in an organization offering home improvement loans to low-income families in New Orleans. Rob Gilbert and his wife Barbara Corrigan are both teaching at the Selwyn school in Denton, Tex. All the news in the preceding two paragraphs was printed by Peter Kelemen on one little green postcard. And you thought he could only climb mountains!

Ann Ditondo Mayerson writes that she and her husband Robert are moving to Antwerp, Belgium, where he has won a position with the opera orchestra. Dr. Robert W. Battle reports that he is a first-year resident in internal medicine at University of Vermont Medical School in Burlington. Ed Dohring is interning in surgery at the infamous Parkland Hospital in Dallas. He notes that it is a bit different from New Haven. Kathleen Robinson Swann's mother reports that Kathleen now has two redheaded sons, Adam (seven months) and Stokes (three years), and is liv- ing in Lookout Mountain, Tenn. Rusty Sal-lee, (who was on my freshman trip) writes that he was graduated from the University of Missouri Law School in May 1984. He will be joining Thompson and Mitchell in St. Louis in the fall.

Well, that's the news from Atlanta. Keep those cards and letters coming!

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