1981

Good morning, '81. The man you read before you is Dirk Olin. He is a dangerous fugitive from the National Home for the Incurably Bewildered. Approach with extreme caution.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to infiltrate his nationwide information apparatus and replace his continuing fabrications and personal propaganda with actual news about people who really exist. If you should fail, the nation will continue to be subjected to the kind of palaver that follows:

Hi, boys and girls! Yup, hard to believe, but this is our fourth year together! What fun. I'll bet you couldn't wait to rip open this issue of the Alumni Magazine just to see what Ol' Dirk had to say. 'Course.

Well, before I begin to tell you the God'shonest-truth about all your former friends, Pat Berry has made the specific request that I inform you of an impending fandango in Hanover. On October 20 that's Harvard weekend a whole slew of idiots, probably including myself, will head up to school, then out to Moosilauke. We can only guess what the result will be, but be assured that there is some measure of officialdom being accorded the whole event, for whatever that's worth. As for news, there's a bunch, with the late great state of Taxach usetts leading the pack.

Peter Duprey sends word that three years with Data Resources have been enough; he'll head over to MlT's Sloan School of Management this fall. And don't bother calling him; he'll have your number soon enough. KevinCarpenter is also heading for Bostonian business books. Kevin will room with Randy Bodner and Sean Rye '82 as he tries to determine why he ever chose Harvard as a locus of study. Not only wrong, but silly too.

Pilar Esperon, meanwhile, has received word from San Francisco that her former boss, Gary Hart, will not be needing her campaign-coordinating services this fall. Pilar had been working the Massachusetts trail for Dr. Yuppy during the primaries, but his political demise has hardly caused her star to fade. She'll be heading to Yale's School of Business and Popular Manipulation this fall. (The same is true of Bob Dewey, who will head for New Haven as soon as he can complete a diplomatic tiptoe from Reagan's international trade administration. Dewey has been deluding the poor Washington bureaucrats for the summer, leading on the apparatchiks with promises of heavy lifting and window washing. Little did they know.)

Anyway, that about wraps up the Massachusetts scenes, except for Diane Grieman, who just left the Kennedy principality for the California shores. Since graduation, Diane has been teaching Spanish and French at Lawrence Academy. Now, she'll head for a counseling master's degree at UCLA after a summer driving "an alternative cross-country bus" for San Francisco's Green Tortoise Company. Please, don't ask. I haven't a clue.

While the California caucus continues to be the prodigious one you've read about in the past, Washington State has been quietly swelling its own mafia. Byron Boston was recently persuaded to leave Wilmington, Del., and head west, after the Consortium of Graduate Study in Management handed him an M.B.A. fellowship for the University of Washington. Dick Crowley is already out thereabouts, getting a history degree, scaping some land, and writing some songs. Nice job, if you can get it.

In Seattle, Josh Mackoff is preparing for a fall wedding. Jeff Tepper just departed that city for the summer, switching from his geology degree work to some hole digging in Geigersville, Calif.

Al Greenstein is already at the Golden Gate, on his way from gas and electric work to a mechanical engineering degree at Stanford. Before making good his escape to academia, however, A 1 will join Chris Blaski for a jaunt through western Europe. They'll meet up with Keith Hammonds, who has been taking over The New York Times business pages before making that same Harvardian business boo-boo that I already mentioned. Ah, well what's a mother to do?

Back from European expatriation is GregJaeger. Greg is in Boulder, Clo., now, playing the financial services gig with an insurance company and slowly working his way through your personal fiscal records.

I suppose before departing for this month, I should give you the usual nuptials update. Tina Jones married Bob Silberman 'BO at the beginning of the summer, though the wheres and wherefores have not been forwarded.

Mark Davis exchanged vows in Blairs-atown, N.J., this July, wedding a woman of the Colby-Sawyer persuasion by the name of Bqweridget Gallagher. Mark's brother, Russ'80, was best man for the ceremonies, and I imagine the boys let out with some impressive crooning the night before.

Finally, I'm told that Cathy Costello will get together with Ed Snook '78 in Maine this October, so that they can gain membership in the marriage club, too. More al tared states to come next month.

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