1980
Like a breath of salty spring air, the card arrived as the sleet and snow piled up at my window. The photographs of Malibu Beach were typically Hollywood no southern California sky is ever that blue. Nevertheless Bill Finnegan took advantage of graduate school's bacchanalian vacation schedule to visit David O'Connor for a few weeks last March. Finny returns to Hanover for one last spring term at Tuck, where seldom is heard a constructive word and the second year students punt all day. Finny has accepted a job offer with Drexel, Burnham Lambert in New York. A ferocious bull market will greet him.
David O'Connor is now working with a talent scout firm which represents, among others, the likes of Robert Redford. Doc thoroughly enjoys life in Los Angeles. He is eating whole-grain foods, thinking positive thoughts only, and playing congas in a beach band at night. To ease the anticipated housing crunch during the Olympics, Doc is going to open a motel in his driveway.
Don't stand in front of the doors in June as many of the nation's graduate schools are releasing a thundering herd of '80s. Scott Slater writes from Sea Island, Ga. (Hedonism II), that he is Minneapolis-bound this fall and has accepted an offer from General Mills in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Look out, Cocoa Puffs!
H-A-R, H-A-R, H-A-R with a V: Roommates Bill Helman and Brad Koenig are headed separate ways after graduation in June from Harvard Business School. Buffalo will stay in the Boston area with Greylock Venture Capital. Brad returns to New York where he has accepted an offer with Goldman Sachs. Beth Cogan, who also graduates from Harvard, will join Brad at Goldman. Incidentally, Brad was quick to quash the Wall Street rumor that Salomon Brothers, in an attempt to gain on competitor Goldman, had contemplated a name change to Smith Brothers.
From the city which brought us The Exorcist Watergate, and some of the best men money can buy, comes yet another famous personality. Paul Elmlinger, who holds the endurance record for most consecutive days without leaving the Sigma Nu basement, has been studying the bottoms of more cups at Georgetown Law School the past three years. Paul, whose antics during the NCAA Champion Hoyas basketball games have been well documented by ABC Sports, will join Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett, the formerly prestigious New York law firm. Note to all members of the Barry Ryan Fan Club: Your membership dues should be forwarded to me at the above address. Barry is taking a few years off from professional hockey to study at Georgetown Law.
"Calling Dr. Lynchberry..." Soon to take the Hippocratic oath, medical students nonpareil Mike Lynch and Dan Berry will continue their careers in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. Lynchmob, who has roomed with Vic since his arrival in Hanover eight years ago, will graduate from Dartmouth Medical School in June. "Dingle," author of "The Bacilli Biospheres of Phi Delta Alpha," graduates from Harvard Medical School. Both Mike and Dan look forward to the filming of "Coma II."
"It's going to be a GREAT day . . . ," hums the photographer, busily snapping pictures of Boston's newest super model. Chuck Bryson, an adopted 'BO who terrorized Hanover as a transfer during the summer of '78, is now supplementing his career in advertising with one in modeling. Chuck's Kirk Douglas chin will help sell a brand of champagne in the pages of Gentlemen's Quarterly, Vogue,Vanity Fair, Popular Mechanics, etc.
David Kollmorgen is finishing his second year at the business school of the University of South Carolina. Koll, whose fantastic dashes across Dartmouth football and rugby fields earned him the appellation "Crazy Legs," succeeds George Rogers as the state's fastest gamecock. David plans to work in New York this fall.
As-the-Brides-go-Tearing-By: Andy McCulloch, holder of more degrees than a thermometer, is planning to marry Ann Elizabeth Wilbur this summer. Alternately and affectionately known as "Homelite," "Husqvarna," and "The Invisible Man," Andy is now attending Columbia Business School. Next on the list include degrees in journalism, public health, and engineering, and a special program in the School of International Affairs. Miss Wilbur works for Telepictures Corporation in New York and has generously offered to help frame and hang Andy's various sheepskins.
Brides, continued: Dick Smith married the former Sherill Sanderson last April. They are living in Manhattan, where Smitty is a bond trader with Kidder Peabody. Sherill, a former NCAA skiing champion and nuclear activist at Middlebury, is now a New York traffic cop. Partial Scores Department: Curt Flight, June 30 in Princeton, N.J. Rick Gemberling to marry Jenny Jenny.
Congratulations to Charlie Clement, who joined the Dartmouth Alumni Fund as an assistant director in April. Charlie and his wife Kris return to Hanover from the Groton School in Massachusetts, where Charlie had worked in the development and alumni affairs office.
Which leads me to remind you that the 1984 Alumni Fund needs our help! Please think to make a contribution now. The class of 1980 has now been out in the wide, wide world for four years. It should not take much to consider how fortunate we are to have spent most of the previous four years at Dartmouth. Let us all help to repay the kindness. Say, "Yes, I'll contribute!" Thank you. We will all profit by that.
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