1980

Heat drapes the city like Spanish moss on a live oak tree. Savannah, siren of the south, is now my home. I practice law. One day, I'll get it right. Meanwhile, I keep track of billable hours. I have just completed a judicial clerkship and moved here to join a private firm. Susan, my wife, is also an attorney, but with another firm. Lawyers in love.

Now that you know all about me, in the style of Chris LaBocca, I want to know all about you. Please write or call Cathy McGrath or me. We cannot print your name if we don't hear from your. You have no right to be silent. Anything you say can and will be used. The accuracy of Time, the objectivity of CBS, and the clarity of Faulkner will be my guides.

A final word on reunions. Fun. Any anxieties about not knowing anyone or no one knowing you were unfounded. Better yet, we looked marvelous. The weather was cold big chill and the tent was pink, but we danced 'til dawn and still looked marvelous.

Roy Johnson was looking very blond, tan, totally Californian after a year at Stanford Business School, while LeighLimbach Johnson told us all about fancy fungi. Never eat Velveeta! Bruce Allyn looked Russian with a thick mustache. Todd Pellett looked like a wild and crazy guy, only from lowa. Emily Lisberger looked tony. Stuart Sarnoff looked GQ. Rob Daisley looked like Burt Reynolds. Rob pumps iron and practices law in Tampa. Ellen Remsen looked ribald. Brent Bilger looked like he had never changed sweatpants since graduation. Barbara Briggs looked intense. Everyone told me I looked the same. I was disappointed.

News flash! Mary Ann McDonald and Steve Brooks are engaged. Both leave a long string of broken hearts. They are not marrying each other. Katie Wiley was to be married in June. Dan Fitzpatrick is engaged. Who these people have hornswoggled remains a mystery. Film at 11.

Mike McClintock was in New York City over the summer, working for Pepsi Mike does not say goodby at events like graduation and class reunions. He is rumored to be in love with a woman from Wayland, which may be why he never writes.

Tom Chapin has just finished at Tuck and moved to Philadelphia with his comic wife, Kate. Tom works for Vanguard. Kate does research for Dr. Ruth. Tom's mother told me I had to leave MerleAdelman alone, so I will.

Robin Shrier has left Florida. She did not need it bad and did not think Florida had it good. What do you get when you cross a Florida fan with a pig? Nothin' there are some things a pig just ain't

gonna do. Robin was reportedly headed for Boston.

Don Skantze writes from Norway. He and wife Kjersti Aksnes Skantze '82 have a child, Erik. Don works for Norsk Hydro, Norway's largest private oil company.

News Bulletin: Katie Wiley married Paul Laud in June. They met at Tuck while in school there. Katie finished at Tuck this June, Paul the year before. The Laud family has settled in Chicago.

Eric Ziolkowski, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has recently been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe doctoral dissertation fellowship. Eric is one of only 48 fellows selected this year from across the nation. Newcombe Fellowships provide financial support for a full year of uninterrupted research and writing for students whose doctoral dissertations concern some aspect of ethical or religious values.

More marital merriment: Carol Burns married Tom Duke '81 on July 20 in the state of Bruce Springsteen. Grant Mac-Ewan and Anne Daigneault MacEwan attended the festivities. We talked about everything from dogs to bowling balls. Grant was recovering well from broken elbows. Carla Boehm Sloan (wife of EdSloan) and I did an interpretive dance of the wedding band's version of the song "Careless Whispers" by Wham. We lost all semblance of dignity. We got no respect. Helen Davis '79 took time off from saving Philadelphia on behalf of the William Penn Foundation. A lot of people from the class of 1981 were there, but I can't remember all of them. I do recall that both Gail Chen '81 and Lucy Irwin '81 looked marvelous. You '81 guys can read about yourselves in your own class column unless I have nothing to write about for December.

So ends my first column. Art Buchwald, move over. The rest of you, take care.

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