1979

Well, it's been a helluva column, just one helluva column. I was going to end the column like this, but I couldn't think of a way to begin, so here we are.

What sort of beastie could possibly be 50 years old, have 64 appendages, and cover 251 towns in the great state of Vermont? Ask Morris Block, who manages the oldest statesupported symphony orchestra in these United States, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. A typical utterance from Morris these days probably goes something like, "Wal, we got a quintet in Brattleboro, a string trio in Danby, a woodwind trio in Williamstown, and a fellow with a horn up there in Buel's Gore." (Buel's Gore? What the . . .?) Morris and others have engineered the scheme and logistics of celebrating the 50th birthday of the symphony by sending various VSO ensembles to hundreds of Vermont towns over the next two years. The cost and logistics of a tour by the full orchestra would have been prohibitive although state support has grown considerably from the $1,000 appropriated by Vermont back in 1939. Morris will tell you proudly that the VSO played at the World's Fair that year.

More people are married.

Our newest '79 has gotten her name in this column twice in just a few short months. What can you say except that Ann Craig is definitely moving fast for being the new kid on the block. She and John are out in West Lake, Calif., involved with recalcitrant students once again: John as an administrator at USC and Ann as one of the aforementioned. She did say that she was starting a doctoral program at UCLA. Ann wanted to convey her thanks and appreciation to the class and clearly hasn't felt the accompanying side effects of being adopted as a '79. Ted Winterer (class treasurer) will no doubt be getting in touch.

Still more people are married. Some people are engaged.

Jon Peabody's name keeps popping up, and there is nothing that I can do about it. He's not a friend of mine, honest. Jon has just been elected an assistant vice president at Harris Bank in Chicago. His travels through Harris included two years as a foreign exchange dealer and several years as an international financial advisor prior to becoming an investment officer. Congratulations, Jon. Ted Winterer will be in touch.

Jeff Cross is engaged to that woman that he was always chasing around on the bike, Greta Mesics '82. Jeff is at Brown Med. PamJoyner was married to Gary Love in Chicago. Couple of M.B.A.'s there. Ernie Parizeau braved the shingles of Nantucket to marry Kim Collins the weekend after Labor Day. Timing is everything with that ferry service. The two headed off to brave the winters, as well as the chagrin, of Minnesota, home of vice presidents and presidential contenders. Tim Tausig married Liz Arnot. Missy Pemberton married a Britisher, Roy Devlon. Kevin Sullivan was married October 6. And of course, Henry Klinges married the lovely Dana Burroughs. No surprise there.

Finally, Carol Anderson had a baby girl, and Bill Mitchell is now a father. Oh yes, rumor has it (and I mean totally unsubstan- tiated) that Leslie Mandel is moving to that City by the Bay.

It's been a helluva column, just one helluva column.

Mark Murphy '80, left, a photographer for the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, won first prize in the 1984 Keystone Press journalism competition for Ins photographof PPG Place under construction, right. The picture was taken with Murphy standing on top of a Gothic spire some 42 stories high and tied to a steel beam.

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