1976

As spring approaches, the alligator express here in Sparkle City brings news of classmate David "Chipper" Slade, whose intellectual facade thinly veils his true character as a champion burger eater and teller of ribald tales. Dave has surfaced in London, where he's working with the New York-based law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy. Dave's wife Marilyn is doing volunteer work as a speech pathologist at a London Hospital. They have two children three-year-old Tyler, "who is driving the little British girls mad," and ten-month-old Tara, who is characterized as a very happy child (her happiness is doubtlessly related to the fact that she hasn't realized she's related to Dave). Dave reports there's an active Dartmouth club in London with investigative powers sufficient to track Dave down and extract annual dues. He says that any friends or classmates in the London area should feel free to contact him at 103 Hurlingham Road, London, SW6 3NL, England; his phone is 011-411-736-3924 (out of town, call collect).

About ten hours west of London, KenMonteiro reports that he met up with DickMonkman and Mike Chiarella in Anchorage, Alaska, last July. Dick is an assistant attorney general for the state of Alaska. He married Tina Kobayaski, who is also a lawyer. Mike was clerking for a law firm in Anchorage before returning to his third year of law school in New Hampshire. Later last summer, Ken attended the Black Alumni Conference in Hanover and saw a number of friends including Amanda Green, who is with Johnson and Johnson, Debby Humphries and Greg Payne, who is with the Donovan, Leisure law firm in New York. Monica HargroveRoye and husband, Paul Roye '75, were up from their law practices in D.C., and EileenCove came out from her job with United Airlines in Chicago. Since the conference, Ken has also talked to Karen Turner and MikeBrait in Chicago. He received a note that Robin Walker Lightning and her husband, Sam Lightning '73, have recently had their first child, Devon Aris. And finally, Ken saw Steve Rooks perform with the Martha Graham Dance Company also in Chicago. When he's not doing his Gadabout Gaddis imitation, Ken is a visiting research assistant professor at the University of Illinois, where he also holds appointments in the educational psychology and psychology departments. With correspondents like Ken, who needs wedding clippings? Keep the travelogues coming.

Speaking of weddings, three distinguished classmates were recently married. Dan Carragher and Allison Troy were married in December in Newton, Mass. Dan is an attorney with the Widett, Slater firm in Beantown, and Allison is an underwriter with New England Life. Bill Schillhammer was married to Marybeth Lincoln of Montpelier, Vt., in October. Bill, who received an engineering degree from the Thayer School, is employed by Intel Corporation of Chelmsford, Mass., as a field applications engineer, while Marybeth is selfemployed as an interior decorator. The last of our happy trio of bridegrooms (sounds like "The Newlyweds Game") is Eric Copenhaver, who was married to Amy Wellons on October 15, 1983, in Hanover. Eric and Amy are residing in Seattle according to my source, the always-informative Lebanon, N.H., Valley News.

That's it for this month. Next month, watch this slot for the premiere of the new night time soap opera "Slop" it's a hair-raising cross between "All My Children" and "Kojak" and stars John Denver as the guy who came in from the cold. The preview has been well received, although the Soviet judge gave it a 5.5. Until then, be good.

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