1976

Greetings. This month's ramblings bring news of Robert "Skip" Cummins's promotion to vice president of Continental Illinois's venture capital subsidiary, Continental Illinois Venture Corporation.

The news wires also remind us that Dartmouth sent eight competitors to the winter Olympics in Yugoslavia. The contingent was chaired by 14-year U.S. ski te*am veteran TimCaldwell, who appeared in his fourth consecutive Olympic games. Doug Peterson also made the trip as coach of the U.S. Nordic combined team.

Also on the sports scene, as the baseball season gets underway at presstime, classmate Jim Beattie has started strong with the Seattle Mariners. Jim recently pitched a complete game shutout in Milwaukee and is frequently referred to as the dean of the Mariners staff.

Shifting gears into the literary world, Louise Erdich recently had a short story, "Saint Marie," published in the Atlantic Monthly. She also recently published a book of poems, Jacklight, and expects that Holt, Rinehart, and Winston will publish her first novel in the fall of 1984. Louise, who earned an M.A. in creative writing from Johns Hopkins in 1979, previously won notoriety in these pages-as well as in those of the lesser-known NewYork Times and Chicago magazine for winning Chicago magazine's Nelson Algren Award in 1982 for her short story "The World's Greatest Fisherman." She is married to Professor Michael Dorris, chairman of the College's Native American Studies Program; they make their home in Cornish, N.H., with their four children. We extend our best wishes for continued success to Louise.

Young Dawkins '72 has relayed word that a daughter, Christian Joan Frances, was born to his brother Peter Dawkins and wife Anne on May 15. Peter is working as an underwriter with Merrill Lynch in Toronto.

That's about it for this installment of tepid tidbits. Please take a minute from your summer activities to drop me a line. Your classmates would enjoy hearing from you.

A few years ago Paul Lazarus '76 produced a radio documentary about composer StephenSondheim. When Sondheim was asked last year to participate in the Whitney Museum'sComposers Showcase series, he invited Lazarus to help select the songs for the event and todirect it. Here, celebrating the huge success of the program, are, left to right, Lazarus, singerNancy Opel, and Sondheim. The music was recorded for a two-record album, released on RCARed Seal (CBL2-4745), entitled "A Stephen Sondheim Evening." It features such major performers as Angela Lansbury and George Hearn and offers 21 Sondheim songs, six of whichwere recorded for the first time.

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