1966

The title for this month's column should be "moving right along ..." For the drift of cards received here in the last month or so shows without a doubt that '66s don't stand still!

Take Parker Smith. If you looked him up in the class directory, you would think you could find him in Baltimore practicing law. Wrong. He has taken up the mast again (he sailed for Dartmouth for four years) and currently resides on his 36-foot cutter, the Courier, in Panama! He and his wife, Sarah Goodnight, are on the first leg of a three-year around-the-world cruise. From Panama they will sail west to New Zealand (where they will be next Christmas), then to Australia. They hope to return in the spring of 1986 (it looks like they will miss our 20th reunion), to Boothbay Harbor where they "still have a small house." I am sure it will seem like a castle after three years on a boat! For those trying to reach Parker in the interim (like PaulBabcock), he lists his phone number as "none," and did not mention a forwarding address. We'll see him in 1986!

Jamie Stewart moved, too, but somewhat more routinely. He has moved back to Beantown from New York, where he was president of Bank of Boston International. His new position at the bank involves setting up a corporate finance group and doing private placements, mergers, and acquisitions. His one comment was that he is having "lots of fun and work." Time flies when you're having fun.

I also received non-informative cards (i.e., containing no news) from Dave Dunlap, who has moved from Mobile to Montrose, Ala., and from Tom Rodman, who wrote to say his address really is still the same in Cochituate, Mass. Hey, fellas, a little embellishment never hurts!

Finally, in the run-down of "rolling stones," I can report that Barry Machado has made a temporary change of address, from Lexington to McLean, Va. He has spent the last 13 years in the history department at Washington and Lee University. But this year he is on sabbatical and is booking it at the Library of Congress. Of course in order to conduct his research, he needs to be close to "the libes," so to speak, and he has taken an apartment in McLean while Anice teaches fifth grade back in Lexington. Now that's what I call an understanding wife! Barry further writes that Ethan, ten, and Amanda, seven, are doing fine, while he is trying to strike a balance between "drift and mastery" (?). He also mentioned that he sees Ted "Theory" Friel '65 from time to time, and he sends the following cryptic message: "No, Tony, Ted hasn't changed."

Speaking of cryptic messages, I'll be glad to receive any letter, card, or communication you want to send. You don't even have to decode it (I'll take care of that!). Just send them in. And we'll just keep moving right along . . .

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