1980

I hardly know how to respond to Cathy's libel in her last column about my choice to live in Savannah. What do you say to a person living in a city (San Francisco) and state inhabited by persons who collectively have all the moral principles of a bowl of bean sprouts? The rest of us can say and do nothing but wait expectantly for the day when California slides like so much tofu into the Pacific Ocean.

Of course, I may be accused of libel against California. Truth, however, is an absolute defense. Anyway, stereotypic slurs about the South make me mad. Mad enough to soil my white linen suit. Forgive my lapse of manners. It's been a long hot summer, and I'm as testy as a cat on a hot tin roof. Meanwhile, Susan and I are happy with life here in the "rest stop between South of the Border and Fort Lauderdale." We are making a fortune selling fireworks, peaches, and baby alligators to tourists traveling out on 1-95. With the proceeds, we hope to revive the now defunct GAD (Georgians at Dartmouth).

Seriously, the mail has been a bit scarce. Weddings provide most of the news. Paula Ness and Mark Speers jumped over the broom back in May. No wonder they were so snuggly at the reunion in June! They are still 'shmen in the school of married life. At some point, however, the two have done more than snuggle. Paula has an M.B.A. from Columbia, and Mark has an M.B.A. from Stanford.

Ursula Mathers recently married Chadwick Charles Nehrt at her parents' home in Locust Valley, Long Island. Good o1' Chadwick is a University of Pennsylvania grad.

David Osborn tied the knot with Diane Werner. David had been working as a senior analyst for McKinsey and Company in New York but was to begin at Harvard Business School this fall.

This special bulletin just in from our Washington correspondent: Scott Herman is to be married in December to Kimberly Jane Markel. Scott is a software engineer at the Comsat General Corporation in Washington. More on this story as it develops.

Classmates are doing more than marching down the wedding aisle. Pamela Robinson marched down the aisle at the Harvard Graduate School of Design to receive her master of architecture degree.

Theodore Blaisdell marched down the aisle for an M.D. from the Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He was also awarded the Hahnemann Hospital Association Award for overall academic excellence and academic distinction in medicine and surgery. Dr. Blaisdell, like all good Dartmouth grads, will remain at the cutting edge of society as he continues his training back at Mary Hitchcock where he will complete a surgery residency.

Joe Hunter remains in law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill. Joe's life,, however, has been more exciting than that of a typical law school grind. Just recently, he has studied in Leningrad, Warsaw, and Paris after spending time with the Russian fishing fleet off of Alaska. I always knew Joe was up to more than his Andy-of-Mayberry grin indicated.

Dan Drais '83 came to see Susan and me one weekend in August, and we visited him and his family who were vacationing on nearby Fripp Island. Dan, after a year in France with a supposed movie and television production company, is a paralegal for some large fancy-pants Wall Street law firm, Dan left for New York with stars in his eyes, but now he knows that all that glitters is not gold. Nevertheless, except for its crime, high cost, decay, and brutality, Dan likes New York fine.

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