1983

Good news travels fast.

Well, that homily is not a great beginning for this new version of the 'B3 class notes. We are the last of the columns, and the one closest to the source, in more ways than one. (Yup, I'm graduating soon; honest, Mom and Dad.) I have much news, all of it happy and exciting and fun.

From New York, perhaps not as fun. Randy Burd would like to announce that he is enrolled at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons; he sent me a signed section count to prove it. Apparently some of his erstwhile buddies have reported him at NYU and Rochester, and he is insulted. Please do not send me nasty notes, including paid political advertisements, to comment on this. I vote from what I learn in Woman's Day, and Good Housekeeping. And I giggle . , . and report falsehoods, according to Randy. This is a public apology, and we all wish Randy much luck on his way to wealth and public service in the physician and surgeoning business.

From Baltimore comes hot news on the marriage scene. Cheryl Gross, with a new job and prestige at Woodward and Lothrop, is engaged to Ricky Sunderland '82, Tuck '84; they are to be married on September 15. The shopping and the speculations are on, as their many friends press tuxes and get the bean dip ready. Beth Runkle and BenMackey, also of the Baltimore/Washington set, have also announced their engagement. No date yet, but maybe the dip will keep. Melanie Law stunned CES by showing me her diamond from Rob Stein and telling me they will be married when he graduates from Oxford. Local devotees of job-searching assumed that I was kissing her ring in order to procure employment with Lehman Brothers, but no go, folks. (I'm going to teach small fry to tie shoes.) I have heard through the grapevine that Loren Bachelder and Jimmy Mitchell are also engaged, and that Jack Sinclair will wed Joanna Kirschner '84 soon. PeterHam and Roger Morrison will grace the wedding party. I have no immediate details on these events, but congratulations just the same to all of you or felicitations, or best wishes, or whatever Miss Manners says is appropriate. (Good luck?)

Still single and living the wild life in D.C. are roommates Bill Burke, Gordon Macdonald, and Peter Kidder, reported Sarah Reynolds. Sarah will soon return to California to take pre-med courses. "I remembered there were some courses I forgot to take at Dartmouth," she said in a short note. Bill Cossaboom is enrolled at the University of Georgia for graduate work.

Still single and living life in the library in Hanover is Rich O'Connell, the thesis-ful one, busy consoling those undergraduates who believe life ends at 22. (Didn't I tell you that this column was close to the source of your youth? Didn't you believe that was true? Be honest. Let's talk.)

I saw Tony Kowal, Scott Kinney, and JohnHavard hanging around my domicile, commenting on how Dartmouth life has changed since their tenure. Eight sororities, shrieked the boys heartily. Party registration and reading periods were new and now all this change! They're handling their respective corporate successes quite well though, however shocking Dartmouth may appear. John commutes to Hanover for weekends of skiing and leisure from his engineering job in White Plains, while Tony and Scott are working in. Boston. Also in Boston, beginning her behind-the-scenes political career, is KathyHoes, who works for the city government in Government Square as a human resource specialist.

Dealing in a different type of human resource is Jeanne Balcom, who works for the Close-Up Foundation in Washington, D.C. Her job involves working with young visiting students in political and governmental issues when they visit the city. Bill Balcke is paralegal-ing and living in Arlington and from some of the letters I have glanced at, it sounds like there are many other '83s hanging about the area as well. Be sure to get together at the local Dartmouth club functions, wherever you are. It's a great way to keep in touch with the College, and with some friends you haven't met yet in the Dartmouth family. (Just don't visit me for Carnival I'm taking a personal day or two.)

I don't have any more apologies to issue in this column, although I have received steaming epistles from misquoted and maligned classmates who have never even met me. Always nice to lie about folks you don't know, I say. I'll again plead for news of your activities! The little green cards that appear in our class newsletter often don't end up my way, so do drop a card to me while I'm still in Hanover being studious. If you need an address of a classmate, I'll search it out in the Alumni Records Office. (An added hint to all of you who have not changed your mailing addresses and depend on Mom and Pop to send on your magazines.)

I'll close this column with news of Merrill Lynch in N.Y.C. Sue Thornton is rumored to be interviewing for them in Hanover (news that will earn me pretty pennies on the job mart here), while Wiley Collins is in the brokerage department and Mac Gardner in the corporate finance section. Also, Gordon Dyal recently began working there, so the area is rather '83 Green.

Happy March to all and don't be strangers. Ta ta.

Hinman Box 211 Hanover, NH 03755