1979

"It is, as I have said, a small college, but it's only 35 miles east of Los Angeles. Go nuts." So began Curtiss Rooks's speech for the newest freshmen at Pomona College. Curtiss was recently promoted to the post of assistant dean of residential life after having been at the college for the last three years. This means that he will be in charge of freshman orientation (i.e., hikes to Venice Beach), the coordination of campus activities ("Bonfires in California?" you ask), and the overall control over the residential life staff. Curtiss has other fairly choice responsibilities, including advising the intrafraternity council.

We're all getting so responsible these days, even if some of us still remain outspoken. Peter Roby was recently picked as Harvard's head basketball coach. He had been the assistant coach there for the last three seasons, during which time Dartmouth's head coaching position opened up and Peter was asked to apply. Apparently, Dartmouth did not follow its initial invitation with an interview, and Peter, as indicated by a quotation in TheBoston Globe and as we all know, has a long memory.

I suppose class secretaries can be accused, as Rudyard Kipling once put it, of stories half heard and very badly told. I know that Steve Jonas was married in October, but I wasn't informed in the anonymous letter as to whom. Let's talk about the guests, shall we? Esquires, and I do mean lawyers all, Scott Blackmun,Tom Ryan, and jim Bassett '78 were present, as well as Dr. Atul Hulyalkar. Both Steve and Atul are in Boston, Scott's in Colorado Springs, T.R. in St. Louis, and Jim has recently moved to Vermont. Hold the phone here, the new Mrs. Jonas, at least according to the D.C. hotline, was the former Holly Clark (not the Dartmouth one). Do you like the way that turned out?!

Atul was just graduated from UVM's medical school and was awarded a brand new skidoo in honor of his academic achievement. Actually, Atul really did win an award in said department.

One other wedding attracted numerous Dartmouth types. Sue Goodman attended Sova Pheng's wedding to Allen Fisher (Swarthmore '78, Manufacturers Hanover ever since) in May. Sova covers the tennis trade for Sportstyle magazine in New York. Also at the wedding and enjoying themselves enormously at the reception were Karen Katsoulis, Skip Gill, MaryAnn Yanulis, and Dick O'Brien. Sue started Columbia B-School this fall, but she hadn't started as of the wedding, so she wasted a lot of good dancing time talking to Dick about his experiences at Columbia. (This column is sort of a twisted time warp.) The last news that I heard of Dick concerned his position as marketing manager for General Electric in Maryland. As I recall, he was hired to determine how to eliminate 400 positions at his workplace, including his own if need be. Kind of puts your own job gripes in perspective.

Before he gets any older, Ted Winterer should be commended for setting a new sixth-year-out fund-raising record, beating the class of '77. Sounds like the Old West with there always being a newer, faster, richer class just around the corner.

Fawn Wilderson finally, finally wrote in. Fawn, it's too late. I would have loved to put you in back when you were working as an LSA assistant in Blois, France, or when you were working as an actress and dancer and teaching both in Minneapolis. But now, being just another second-year law student at Georgetown is not enough. Still, any public service deserves some brownie points, and you did work for the University of Minnesota student legal service last summer. Awright, here we go, Fawn Wilderson would love to hear from anyone near or in D.C., n'est-ce pas?

Very cool, very cool. Steve Morrison claims that flying the device behind him is a real "kick in the pants." And just when I was getting used to desk life. Also in the picture accompanying the column is John David '83, whom Steve was teaching to fly. The photo was taken at the Meridian Air Base in Mississippi where Steve was a navy flight instructor. Since then, he has gone on to do pizza deliveries with his F-14 Tomcat in Virginia Beach. John must be getting out of his student status just about now.

As I was finishing this, I received a note that John Bunch died of lung cancer in November 1984. Please look to an upcoming issue for something on John. I would like to convey our class's sympathies to John's wife, Aleta, and his family.

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