1982

Hi, everybody!! Welcome to another year of newsworthy items about our classmates. This year is going to be a bit different from the past three years (yes, three, can you believe that we have been out that long?) yours truly will be writing every month instead of every other month. Kinger has taken a sabbatical from the Alumni Magazine column-writing; he will be spending the coming year living, teaching, and learning in China. John and his bride, Rachel Kenzie '81, will be teaching basic business courses and English at Xibei University in Xian, China. John asked that I print their address in China to invite and encourage people to write and, even more importantly in this itinerant world, to visit!! If you cannot yet fluently script Chinese characters, you can address your letters (with dates of arrival enclosed) to: John King, c/o Foreign Office, Xibei University, Xian, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China. One bit of advice should you decide to put pen to paper to write to Kinger: splurge and send it air mail because that takes only two weeks as opposed to two and a half months by surface!

Speaking of an itinerant world, I just received a letter from one of our classmates who definitely should receive an award for constant motion. Kevin Peterson writes that he "spent a wonderful winter in Jackson, N.H., working for the Jackson Ski Touring Foundation. ... in mid-April I packed my Subaru and headed west, first to Colorado and a week of skiing at Arapahoe Basin and Keystone." (While out there he visited with Dave Conrad in Boulder, where he was finishing up year two of law school, and Brain McDonough, who is traveling between Colorado and Italy these days.) Anyway, Kevin went on to say that his next stops were "Utah and California, visiting friends and acquaintances along the way . . . .back through Boulder and returning home to Michigan where I spent the remainder of the spring working for my dad's construction company." Kevin then headed back out west to lead several two-week projects for the Appalachian Mountain Club, and on to Jackson Hole, Wyo., to lead another project. He hiked and canoed along parts of the Snake River and then headed back to Michigan. Future plans for our award-winning itinerant include: a trip to Tucson, Ariz., for a fifth reunion of his cast of "Up With People," a trip to Germany, and back to Colorado to take a job with the Keystone Ski Patrol. And, beyond that, just to further exhaust all of us, Kevin's plans beyond next spring include such possibilities as, "going to Australia or New Zealand and trying to become a Smoke Jumper." Can't you fit something else in, Kevin? Seriously, so many thanks for all the news, and have a great time, wherever you may roam!

Yet another of our classmates is going to be living a truly itinerant life. SteveMcCarthy will be living in Baltimore during the week and in New York City on weekends. Why, we ask? Because of happy tidings: Steve will be marrying Sissel Winestad '84 in November. Steve is currently working in two businesses in Baltimore a real estate development firm and a liquor distributorship, while Sissel is a Japanese yen trader for Banker's Trust in New York. Not only do they have all the markets cornered, but, as Steve so aptly wrote, "Amtrak's stock jumped five points on the news!" Best wishes and much happiness to both of you.

Mark Keffer is spending his moving moments underwater. Actually, they are moving months. Mark is a lieutenant, junior grade, with the U.S. Navy and is stationed in New London. His assignment is on board a nuclear submarine that spends months of each year "sailing the ocean blue!"

Andy Ferretti is also spending his time on the water, though in a somewhat different capacity than Mark. Andy has been working on board the Delta Queen steamboat, traveling between New Orleans and St. Paul, Minn.

Back on solid ground: as I wrote in my June column, this year is the year that many of our classmates earned their law degrees. John Funk graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Law and has taken the New York bar. He will start work for the law firm of Brown, Wood, Ivy, Mitchel, and Petty in New York City after a brief post-bar trip to Cozumel. Nicole Stent graduated from Harvard Law School and also took the New York bar. She sent news of Stephen Dweck, who is at Connecticut Law, Bridget Gauntlett, who is at Columbia Law, and Joyce Seko, who is in Boston working for Boston City urban planning and has opened her own business. Ana C. Moreira (we knew her as Ana Martinez) sends news of her graduation from Boston College Law School She took the New York and New Jersey bar exams. We all have our fingers crossed for all of you bar-takers!

You know that time is passing by and that we really are getting older when the birth announcements start rolling in at a steady pace. Rachel Froman-Bettencourt and her husband, Chip Bettencourt '81, announced the birth of their daughter, Jeanne Marie, on May 24 of this year. Both Rachel and Chip are working for Westing house at the Defense and Electronics Center in Baltimore. We need to catch up on Ingrid Gustavson Hill's birth announcements. Ingrid married David Hill '79 in 1981 and has since given birth to David William (three years) and Jonathan James (one and a half years) and yet another is on the way!

I guess I had better sign off now but I do want to thank all of you who wrote with news. Don't worry, it will all be included as soon as possible. I love hearing from you, so keep the news coming and keep the world hopping! Em.

Twenty-six Dartmouth students and alumni were among the guests at the wedding of LeslieJean Drescher '84 to Eric Britton '83 in Ventura, Calif., in June. Pictured, left to right,are Jeffrey Richardson 67, Andrew Cattano '57, Ann Craig Hanson '79, Marjorie Mac Lean'82, Cliff Gronseth '83, John Hanson '59, Susan Smith '84, Maureen Ragan '86, JimCrawford '5B, Betsy Crawford '86, John Drescher '89, Phil Drescher '58, Brian Hoffman'83, Leslie Drescher Britton, Eric Britton, C.C. Hauge '84, James Scarrow '83, MariaHekker '84, Paul Marcoux '83, Adam Stanford '83, Bob Hughes '84, Tom Kong '54,Michael Drescher '87, Tom Kong '85, Emily Britton '88, and Ted Kleiman '67.

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