1982

Time marches on. Another year passes. Lives continually change and move. Always looking forward, but remembering behind. We are a class of individuals to whom the past is a warm memory, the present is an exciting challenge, and the future is an invitation.

Jane Brass has been studying sociological development at Cornell this past year and a half, and she recently has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to perform sociological research in Thailand for ten months of next year. Congrats! Laurels should be extended to Laura Morrell as well. Laura was named Nursing Student of the Year at Creighton School of Nursing in Nebraska. She is now .working in Hartford, Conn. To continue this roll of felicitations, I should mention that EricFielding, who is studying for his Ph.D. in geology at Cornell, published one paper last year and has a second paper soon to be published in the Journal of Geology this spring. Eric spent last fall doing geology field work in Argentina.

Other classmates in scientific disciplines include Guy Lister, who is studying solid-state physics at Brown University, and MarthaHarvey, who is living in California and taking physics classes concurrently with working for Hughes Aircraft.

The future of medicine in the world will undoubtedly be affected by graduates of the class of'B2. Carol Mason is in her second year at Albany Medical School and will be spending the coming summer in Bristol, England, participating in a clinical oncology program. Kurt Hofmann and Mark Williams are both pursuing their M.D.'s at Thomas Jefferson Medical School, while Amy Zins is training for her medical career at New York University and Amy Gonroff is studying the principles and practicalities of this noble profession at Georgetown Medical School. Pacey Pet has finished his second year at Dartmouth Med and will soon move to Providence, R.I., with his wife Sue Ringler. Pacey will finish his M.D. at Brown while Sue returns to school to obtain her master's in education.

Tim May will also return to school to be educated and to educate. Tim's course of study will eventually provide him with a master of arts teaching degree, concentrating in secondary-level social studies. ChristopherWilliams's studies at Texas Christian University are heading him toward his goal of a master of fine arts in sculpture.

What column would be complete these days (and especially this time of year!) if it didn't include news of marriages? John Conley recently wrote to tell of a wedding attended by a contingent of 'B2s. He wrote that at the end of March, J. Neil Smiley wed his southern belle, Judy Clayton, in Dallas, Tex. John was a member of the wedding party along with Mark Bunker and Geoff Wall. (John is a technical consultant, responsible for designing customer telecommunications networks for AT&T Communications in White Plains, N.Y.; Mark is working for Westinghouse in Baltimore; and Geoff recently left ADP Network Services to begin a consulting job with Index Systems in Cambridge, Mass.) Others of our classmates who attended the ceremony were Audrey Freudberg (now teaching at Northfield-Mount Hermon in Mass., Dick Telia (with the National Security Agency in Maryland), and Kurt Heim (in the Georgetown University medical program). August will be the month of RickySunderland's marriage to Cheryl Grant '83. Ricky receives his M.B.A. from Tuck this month. Congrats and best wishes for happy futures.

News of '82s out in the working world: Fred Konopka is working for AT&T Communications in White Plains in the data services organization. Wesley Sheridan is residing in Shediac, New Brunswick, and is working in wholesale brokerage seafood. Dean McCutcheon is in Minneapolis, employed as an arboreal surgeon while selling canoes and camping equipment on the side. Jon Ettinger is an executive vice president of Ettinger Enterprises. His duties include overseeing all aspects of "The Boston Collection" and "The Executive Woman" the company's two women's apparel manufacturing divisions. In Burlington, Vt., Zoe Hart is a manufacturing engineer for Digital Equipment Company.

So with the end of the column comes the end of another year. I hope it has been a good year for all and that the next year will be even better. Do keep in touch write and let us know what you are doing.

Have a wonderful summer! Em.

The class of 1982 received the Class-of-the-Year Award for a class one to 24 years out of college. "Few classes, if any," said the citation, "have shot out of the gate as fast and strong." In its first year out, the class of '82 established an Alumni Fund participation record that still stands — 87 percent or 733 contributors; held three mini-reunion gatherings; enlisted 74 percent of the class as duespayers; and funded Freshman Trips in honor of former dean Ralph Manuel '58. This year has also been a strong one, with 68 percent dues-payers, two Alumni Fund awards, and an increase in Freshman Trip scholarships. "Class of the Year honors have never gone to a class so young," read the citation, "but this energetic group of men and women and their outstanding commitment and loyalty to this College and each other can't be denied."

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