1983

Welcome to the only magazine without a story about Michael Jackson. (Alums, do you feel dated? Tapping your toe to Dorsey and Miller while your neighborhood breakdances?) Don't despair; available for just a short time longer (yay!) - while I am still an undergraduate - is a course in current fads and wild styles. I'll attire you in Japanese fashions and narrow all your stodgy ties for a small fee. Call now.

Hot news from Hanover in Mud Season: The College had proposed (but has rescinded)" a rule requiring students to live on campus for the summer ... a sorority will be moving onto the Row. . . . and eight Dartmouth Olympians participated in the Winter games ... all exciting things.

Carey Wilson played for the Canadian hockey team in Sarajevo. Carey is now playing for the Calgary Flames and scored his first NHL goal on March 1. The Flames had picked up his option from the Blackhawks, who had drafted him out of high school. Carey played two seasons for the Green - amassing 60 points.

I heard it through the grapevine that JoeKirby recently finished basic training at Forter Leonard Wood in Missouri. I'm not sure where he will be stationed. Alan Eagle is leading a different sort of life back at home in California. (Ah, the diversity of Alpha Chi.) Alan is working as a sales support engineer at Fujitsu in Santa Clara in the personal computer division. Alan gloated, "I went skiirig last weekend and am going to the beach this weekend," so I'm not sure how much working is accomplished. He's recovering from an excursion with Mark Howard-Johnson (who was not arrested) and Neil Donnenfeld (of Winter Carnival Queen fame) to Mardi Gras '84. They visited the natives (read Dan Albright and Mark Hausman) at LSU Med School. "A fine cross between Beach Party, 'cutters, and basement living," shrieked the boys.

Bringing back Dartmouth memories brings a serious moment. Please remember Dartmouth and such things as scholarships, renovations, and maintenance as the Alumni Fund drive draws, near. As the youngest alumni, we can still do a part, so I hope you'll do more than just wear green. Thanks.

Nancy Langston was recently named a Marshall Scholar for the coming academic year and will be studying.at Oxford. An English major, Nancy was also a Tucker intern and worked with the Academic Support program.

Grace Jepson is in the process of getting her master's in marriage and family counseling at Assumption. "Not teaching people to make families, but seeing how families make their kids, schizophrenic" is how the ex-Miss Caribou decribes her studies, as well as ta'ing in the psychology department there. She sent news of Jim Nadeau, who is studying for the priesthood in Rome. Alan Eagle cannot decide if he should call Jim "Father Mother." Such diversity.

Another apology is in order, and this time it is not my fault. (Again?) The person who switches the NYU and Columbia graduate student rosters is not thanked. (Cut it out!) Amir Rosenthal sent me a short note and assured me he is at NYU Law and living in the Village he's not at Columbia. He's happily distracted and happily challenged by school at NYU. I apologize for sending your friends down the pavement path, Amir.

Graduate schools beckon for many '83s, but I haven't heard definite plans from many folks. Nancy Trout will be at UConn Med in the fall, CeCe Premer in medical school somewhere, Laura Stein in law school but no details on any as of yet. Please write before the academic year is out and fill me in on your plans, even for just one more year down the road. Bob Duncanson begins the corporate life after finishing in Hanover after winter term, and Dee Willis will be in architecture school come fall.

Nadia Dombrowski strikes again. Nadia will be in France next year on a teaching Fulbright Scholarship. Fred Ansell recently had his senior thesis published, and Andy Hoye stil misses his Celtics. Barb Thistle will be graduating in June from Tuck, and Liz Cahill will be working after her graduation from Thayer School. Jim Otto is at Ohio State Law and planning to be married in June to BarbThistle so the grapevine goes.

Rumors are running thin, so please send news. To quote Bob Teeter, "This year has had its ups and downs, but so far the ups have it, so hope all of you feel the same." The egg-timer pings, the toast pops, the checks come in. Is this it? Is this the great American dream?

Wilbert Anderson will have the pleasure of penning this column for the June issue; and I'll be writing to you again next October. Till then.

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