1980

"He can throw with either hand he's an amphibian . . ." Dizzy Dean

Amphibians, like beach days, Red Sox games, and overheated cars, are pretty rare this time of year. As merrily I type along, the thermometer shows a big fat zero it's a good day to stay inside and watch the Celtics take on the 76ers and Marino and Montana square off . . . It seems to me we had a warmer than average autumn, and then the bottom fell out of Mother Nature's game plan. Now, to heat this house, we burn more oil in a day than my old Jeep does in a year.

There's one place amphibians don't have to crawl under rocks too often, and that's in the land of Dixie. Lucky David May is nice and cozy in medical school in North Carolina. David, does it ever get cold in Chapel Hill? "Well, on a really cold day," he says, "you might find skim ice on the water hazards. But it shouldn't affect your game ..." Following graduation, Dr. David taught high school in Vermont before deciding to study medicine. He returned to Dartmouth for two terms to take his pre-med courses.

Last August, David married Julie Alden (Middlebury '84) in her hometown, Burlington, Vt. I guess six New England winters didn't affect his game . . . John Havasy was best man (none finer! M.C.), and SteveMurphy, Geoff George, Mike Roy, and Chris Parkin all danced with the bride. Murph is prospecting for gold in Silicon Valley, Geoff is living near Boston (silicon, too), Mike is finishing BC Law School (Law Review, etc. Delia Street would be proud), and Chris P. and John H. have set up camp in Washington, D.C., home of some of the best men money can buy. Chris works with computers in the Pentagon and is putting the finishing touches on the script for "War Games II," while John is an ambassador of goodwill at the State Department. All this reminds me of a bumper sticker I've seen, which reads, "WARNING: I Don't Brake for Bureaucrats!"

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Wood, who graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School last spring. The good doctor specialized in frontier medicine and exposure.

Capewell Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Conn., announces the appointment of Eric Pfeiffer as marketing/sales administrator. He is responsible for market/sales forecasts and analysis, marketing service, and sales support activities. Eric previously worked as a plant supervisor of Windsor Nuclear, and as assistant supervisor at Whelan Engineering in Deep River, Conn. He and his wife and two children and a station wagon and a golden retriever all live in suburban Middletown, Conn.

Capewell, established in 1881, is a world marketer of industrial and contractor saw blades, including band saws, hack saws, hole saws, hole saw kits, and arbors, and reciprocating/sabre saw blades. Capewell is the exclusive supplier of the Zodiac Killer, the Mansons, and Sweeney Todd.

As the Brides go Tearing By: Like the sweet scent of budding narcissus, this overpowering sensation is sweeping the countryside and hinting of spring. As Ella Fitzgerald would say, "Birds do it, bees do it even EIGHT-TEES do it . . ." Stacy Phillips is the latest to book passage on the Love Boat. Stacy and Craig Bloomgarden plan to be married come April, in what might be the grandest merger in the history of corporate law. Stacy, who graduated from Columbia Law School, met Craig while they were clerks to federal district court judges in Los Angeles. Stacy is an associate with the Los Angeles firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman, Kachell, and Silbert. Really. Craig, who graduated from the University of Virginia and Harvard Law School, is an associate of Sidney and Austin Carr in Los Angeles. Hamilton Berger would be proud . . .

In what wis a valiant effort to conceive "The Last Remake of Animal House," a few dozen of Scott Bechler's most sordid friends threw a bachelor's party nonpareil. It featured some of the hardest hitting this side of the AA and NFL highlights films. "Eyewitness News" was there but lost the "ActionCam" sometime during the evening. Scott, complete with black eye and body bruises, gallantly marched down the aisle with his bride, Susan Sturgess, two days later. Jeff Bechler 'B2 Was best man, and Chris Bensley was an usher; Messrs. Streeten, Finnegan,Garry, Brooks, Slater, Noyes, Shulman,Zenkel, Kessler, Murray, Sawch, at al., provided the fireworks. I watched. Sam Peckinpaugh couldn't have assembled a motlier crew.

Thank you, Paine Webber; news of the merger spread like wildfire. In New York, trading on Wall Street temporarily came to a halt as the investment world learned of the marriage of Hans Morris and Katherine Anne Mclnerney last November. Hans is a second vice president in public finance at Smith Barney, while his bride (Mount Holyoke '82) is an assistant vice president in money market finance at you guessed it Paine Webber.

Elsewhere in sports: Dan Fitzpatrick is engaged to marry Helen Ix. Dan, who graduated from law school at Vanderbilt University, is an associate in the New York law firm of Davis, Polk, Rinds, and Wardell. Miss IX graduated from Vanderbilt and is an assistant account executive for Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn, the New York advertising agency.

Dealing a deathblow to the time-honored notion that behind every great woman stands a great man, Darcy Sears will marry AndySheehan next summer in Laguna Beach, Calif. Classmates at Wharton Business School, Darcy and Andy plan a B.Y.O.s. (bring your own surfboard) reception, and the couple will make its getaway in "his and her" Ultralights.

Repeat after me: "I'll be there, I'll be there, I will be there . . ." Come June 14-16, we all make the pilgrimage back to the Hanover Plain. Clad in green, with our billfolds open, we will have just a few days to relive what for some of us may be a lifetime of splendid memories. Let's all give it the extra effort to make our fifth reunion the best that has ever been.

Also, please take a moment to consider your donation to the Alumni Fund. In this our first reunion year, let's give it all we've got. It doesn't matter what previous classes have given during their fifth year we'll blow their collective doors off. The 'BO mystique is alive and well and legend around the globe keep the fires burning . . .

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