1979

I, too, subscribe to the credo of publishing all the news that's fit to print, but Rupert Murdoch's version of what is fit to print certainly has its appeal at times. Dave Reed sent in a newspaper clipping with the following story. It seems that Scott Stoleson was visiting a friend in upstate New York and went out to the local wildlife preserve to bird-watch and collect some mushrooms. The next thing you know, old Scott stumbles across a two- or three-year-old skeleton, human, that is. And I thought that the mushroom part of the story was odd. Actually, both Scott and his mother, who was quoted in the newspaper article, are members of the Connecticut Valley Mycological (study of fungi) Society. Mrs. Stoleson mentioned that Scott has been to Costa Rica recently and the Galapagos Islands in 1982 for biological studies, but that his recent find topped anything that he had ever brought home before. Scott, you're definitely moving up in this world.

I know that you are all wondering where this leaves Dave Reed. Well, Dave's been cleared of any charges, and actually, Dave's only connection was reading about the incident in the local Manlius, N.Y., paper. While other '79s were turning up corpses (I know that I'm stretching the facts, but this is what sells alumni magazines), Dave was studying for the New York and Massachusetts bars. Talk about lost opportunities, Dave; the skeleton was practically in your back- yard.

Everything after the Stoleson story is bound to be anti-climactic, but life goes on, and I have many apologies to go before I sleep (apologies to Robert Frost '96). I thought that I had the Martha Pollack story straight, but it turns out that she and Ken Gottschlich were married in July 1984, not 1985. You're all muttering, "I don't remember what you wrote back in March." Well, Martha should be almost finished with her dissertation, and she should now be found in the San Francisco area, working for SRI Artificial Intellegence Center.

A lot of us were skeptical and a bit mystified as to why Charlie Vieth kept running for class treasurer. There certainly were never enough funds to make embezzlement profitable. Apparently we all underestimated the resume value since Charles has recently been elected vice president of T. Rowe Price, a Baltimorebased investment firm. (Yes, it is too late to vote.) The firm supervises investments of more than $17 billion and serves about 800,000 mutual fund investors.

Everyone is getting press releases these days. Robert Mucci was the cause for the latest hot news from the Casualty Actuarial Society. He was sworn in as an associate at their May meeting. The organization is "dedicated to the development of professional actuaries and to the advancement of actuarial science as it pertains to casualty, property, and health insurance in the U.S. and Canada." Of course, that's what both Sphinx and Dragon claimed, so I'm somewhat skeptical of the whole affair. Still, Robert has to pass seven comprehensive mathematical, statistical, and insurance exams sponsored by the society.

The dam opened at Dartmouth Medical School this spring as five '79s received their J.D.'s and, we hope, took the Hippocratic oath. Kathy Fraser wrote in to say that she would be in Providence for a year of medicine followed by a residency in psychiatry. Other beneficiaries of the "$30,000 raise," as Kathy put it, include Joan Crane Barthold, now at University of Vermont in obstetrics/gynecology, and Jim Clement, now at Virgina Mason Hospital in Seattle. Joan, by the way, finished with top honors and various prizes. Lincoln Cleveland and Jeff Cross ended their tuition-paying days in the Brown/Dartmouth program. Line is heading off to family practice at the University of Utah, and Jeff will be in general surgery at Brown.

Eight years in Hanover can make ad- justing to the outside world difficult, but it sounds as though Grace McGorrian's shift from Chinle, Ariz., with its horses and cows, to downtown Pittsburgh will be cause for even greater trauma. (At least Hanover had traffic problems, if only on frat row on Saturday night.) Grace and her husband, Eric Rodriguez, had been working for the Indian Health Service. Grace plans to finish her residency in psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh where, coincidentally, Eric will be teaching.

I haven't gotten too many adverse reactions from my adverse comments on kids in last month's column, but I think that a low profile is in order in light of recent discoveries. Dan and Amy (Cull) Willey have two children, with a third due in December. Dan is'getting his graduate degree in physics at Duke. Best watch out for the "tunneling effect," Dan. If electrons do it, who knows what else will.

Usually I write about great moments or changes in peoples' lives. But there are those who maintain the status quo with such passion and vengeance that I'm given no choice. Tom Ryan indicated recently that he 1) enjoyed Kansas City, 2) was glad to be practicing law in the Midwest, and 3) was pleased with the house that he and his wife, Cynthia (a speech pathologist), recently bought.

When I saw Tam May's name on a recent copy of the "Asian Studies Newsletter, " many thoughts came to mind. Was he still referencing his own past papers in footnotes? Had he finally joined the Professional Death Pong Circuit? Well, no answers this week. The newsletter repeated Tarn's thanks to his former professors and his nostalgia for those allnighters responsible for his prodigious output at Dartmouth written and, I'm sure that the rest of us will agree, verbal as well.

Augustus St. Gaudens was one of many turn-of-the-century artists who lived and worked in the rural solitude of northern New England.Paul G Sanderson III '78 produced, directed, and edited Augustus St. Gaudens: An American Original for Our Town Films, Ltd.,an affiliate of Sandscrivt Productions which is based in Norwich, Vt„ and where his father, Paid G. Sanderson Jr. '52serves as executiveproducer The father/son collaboration depicts the story of St. Gaudens's life and work as it evolved in Cornish, N.H., and was drawnfrom vhotosravhs letters literary documents, and original works of art found throughout the United States. The film was shown in Junein conjunction with the exhibition "A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin," a collection of paintings, prints and sculpturedrawn from the works of several artists. The film's premiere was part of a series of events marking the 100 th anniversary of the arrival ofSt Gaudens in Cornish Above left, Paul Sanderson '78 is shown working on the film, which will be part of a retrospective exhibition ofthe works of St Gaudens at New York's Metropolitan Museum from November 1985 through January 1986 and which will tour fromFebruary through May 1986. At right is an archival photograph, part of a collection donated to Baker Library by St. Gaudens's widow,of St. Gaudens sculpting a bas relief of Mrs. Grover Cleveland.

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