1980

Tales from the Crypt, volume five, part three: And so we begin another chapter in the life of Brian. With Halloween just a few weeks away (yes, we do have a long lead time), I can see that the spirits are restless already. Dartmouth has yet to win a football game this year, but have no fear. We will storm out of the hills in time to discipline the rest of the Ivies and waltz away with the crown as we have so many times in the past. The Dartmouth Spirit is alive and well in the hills and in the hearts of us all. Consider the Dartmouth Outing Club's celebration of its 75th anniversary. DOC members climbed the highest peaks in the White Mountains October 6 and sang "Men of Dartmouth" at high noon. With voices raised atop every mountain, those climbers sang for all of us. What a glorious display.

On with the show ... to the land of the ice and snow and the midnight sun: Jill Fredston, who earned her master's in glaciology and polar studies ("snow and ice," she says) at Cambridge, staged a gold rush of her own back in the summer of 1982. She moved up to Anchorage and signed on with the University of Alaska Arctic Environment Information and Data Center. Jill basically runs the Avalanche Information Center. When she's not predicting whiteouts Jill spends her free time rowing on Prince William Sound.

Three cheers for Joel (as in "Noel") Chansky who is a senior actuarial analyst with American Agricultural Insurance company of Park Ridge, 111. Joel was honored as an associate in the prestigious Casualty Actuarial Society. Following the successful completion of seven comprehensive insurance exams, Joel received a silver star, a key to the city, and a lifetime subscription to Young Actuarial.

"Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard ..." Like peas in the proverbial pod, they spent four years together at Dartmouth Medical School. Following graduation last spring, the winds have scattered these doctors all over the map. Scott Zashin is now studying internal medicine at the University of Texas Affiliated Hospitals in Dallas. Zeke seems to enjoy the area, and his hair loves the climate. And the notorious "Tex-Mex" cuisine provides guinea pigs for his studies in internal medicine. . . . John Ribaudo is also studying internal medicine but he is at the Naval (read: "navel") Hospital in Oakland. To make it a clean sweep for internal medicine, Jackie Brown has chosen the same specialty at the New York Presbyterian (Columbia) Hospital.

A bird's-eye view is precisely what MarkMurphy has in Pittsburg these days. Mark gave Pittsburg Post-Gazette readers a spectacular shot of PPG Place under construction (see photo accompanying this column). His photograph earned first prize in the 1984 Keystone Press Awards, the state's highest journalism competition. Mark also gathered the top prize in a second category to prove that sometimes "what you see is what you get."

Mark joined the Post-Gazette as an intern in the summer of 1980. After the internship and a brief period as a temporary replacement, he was hired full-time during the summer of 1981. In addition to his Keystone Awards (in "news" and "feature" categories), Mark has won various statewide and local awards. He also planned to marry Jane Blotzer in November. Miss Blotzer is the state editor of the PostGazette, which lends credibility to "the family that plays together. . . ." Thank you, Duncan Hughes '64, for sharing with us Mark's good fortunes.

As the Brides go Tearing by: Congratulations to Dr. Rick Salchunas, who married the former Lou Ann Bronson last summer in Sunapee, N.H. The good doctor, who graduated from Dartmouth Medical School last spring, must finally be acclimating to the weather here in God's Country. I remember Rick during his freshman year, fresh from sunny southern California, covered with goose bumps and vowing that no colder place existed on earth. Well, now he is enjoying his residency at the Maine Medical Center in tropical Portland. Mrs. Salchunas, who graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1980, works at Portland Physical Therapy Associates.

Good news, continued: The story reads like some kind of 20th century Gothic novel with a happy ending. Apparently two of our classmates reunited for a casual dinner in New York last fall. And . . . err . . . well. . .

now they are engaged to marry next May. Paula Ness and Mark Speers, enter and sign in, please. . . . Paula returned from three years in Korea (one year with the Peace Corps and two with Atlantic Richfield) to start Columbia Business School last fall. Following graduation, Paula will join Bain and Company as a consultant. Mark graduated from Stanford Business School in 1982 and has been a consultant with Bain since then. Perhaps the lucky couple will be able to accumulate frequent flyer miles together as they jet off into the sunset to help one Fortune 500 company or another . . . Congratulations.

Calendar reminder: June 14-16 marks the second coming of the western world or so it seems. Yes, the romping, stomping class of '80, defenders of justice, and scourges of the northern hemisphere, reconvenes for 48 hours of uninhibited decadence. Be all that you can be. . . . Be there ... or be a "Don't Bee."

And remember that as a fifth year out class, we will break every published record (and a few of our own) on our way to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund Hall of Fame. Please be ready to do your part. Under the guise of responsible alums, we all must participate as best we can. Keep up the spirit.

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