1977
Hello, springtime. Take note, 1985 is sliding by us.
From Washington comes word that Jana Singer has been selected as a fellow of the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship program at Georgetown University Law Center. Jana has her J.D. from Yale Law School. She previously worked as the assistant program officer, coordinating environmental management activities for the United Nations Environment Program.
There is a very brief note here describing the pursuits of Edith L. Ullman. Edy is currently Sitting on her law degree as she continues to drive those shiny red fire engines for the California Department of Forestry. Edy lives in Sebastopol, Calif. Also out in that neck of the woods, Kevin and ClaudineLally, of San Francisco, are the proud parents of Jonathan Christopher, who is almost one year old.
The Winter 1985 issue of The Quarterly, a magazine presented by the Friends of Hopkins Center/Hood Museum, describes a recent work by Jay MacNamee. Jay's new play, The Break, recently ran for four weeks at the Little Theatre at the Piano Factory in Boston.
Allan Root writes that after working with the Brooklyn Attorney's office for the last four years, he has pulled up stakes and moved to Asheville, N.C. Before leaving town, Al married a fellow assistant district attorney, Louise Critz.
Things are busy for Amy Cammann Cholnoky and John in Chicago. Amy is at the North Shore Country Day school, teaching the sixth grade as well as teaching French to kindergartners. She is also in charge of public relations for the school and is finishing her master's degree at Northwestern. Amy, is all of this activity cutting into your hockey time?
Roberto Anderson recently wrote and called from Philadelphia. After five years, Roberto is still working for Merck, Sharp, and Dohme, a pharmaceutical firm. He is currently at the home office in the medical education division. Roberto notes that GuyBeckles was married last year in Trinidad, and David Reese, who occasionally visits from New York City, is trying to decide if he would be happier married or single. Lastly, Roberto is trying to track down Taweh Beysolow, Mike Carter, and Dorian Wilson, for unknown reasons.
Thaddeus Seymour Jr., who was well known to a few of us in the old days as a boiler repair man, has recently moved with his wife, Katie, to the hub of the Midwest Naperville, 111. Katie graduated from Northwestern Business School last June, and Thad is close to finishing his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Wisconsin. Thad currently teaches history at North Central College, a small liberal arts school. For entertainment they swim competitively and send postcards.
There is a note here from Lindsay LarrabeeGreimann, who, as you know, endured the authorship of this monthly blurb for five years. Lindsay and Garth have left South Korea for Taiwan. They are also the beaming parents of nine-month-old Mallory Smart. Last fall the three of them managed to sneak back to the states for a respite, including the consumption of pizza and some shopping mall wandering.
Good "old" Chip Debelius, newsletter editor of the not-so-young-any-longer class of 1979, has forwarded his regards and a few tidbits. "Stork," Eric Donnenfield, is in Philadelphia doing an ophthalmology fellowship. Kim Carr has returned to the realm of academics at Stanford University, where she is taking pre-med and sports medicine classes. Well, Kim, 30 years old isn't a bad time to go to medical school, but . . .
Often, due to the very nature of this column, short shrift is given to the many notes from classmates who, as ebullient new parents, write of the birth and subsequent changes which these new souls bring into their lives. So, to speak for a great number of you, here is a note from Mary Walter-Feltner: "My husband, Roland, and I have some neat news for an upcoming 1977 class notes piece the arrival of a baby son on December 23, 1984. His name is Nathaniel, and we are awed, excited, and exhausted by this little guy. It never ceases to amaze us how much of a miracle this little fellow is and how great a gift and challenge we've been given!"
Mary goes on to say that she serves as the director of a nonprofit service in Cincinnati that seeks to resolve serious disputes, very often domestic, through mediation, conciliation, and arbitration. Roland is in his first year of a family practice residency.
A very uplifting note arrived the other day from Orrington, Maine. Stacy Miller Morin has succumbed, as a number of us have, to what she calls this "thirty-ish-year-old syndrome," which results in some definite changes in our lives. Personally, Stacy has given up her corporate job to "goof off hiking, skiing, visiting, etc. until further notice." Sometime in the future Stacy will begin her own business, involving forestry, consulting, and real estate. No more sneaking out of work to go fishing! Keep us posted, Stacy.
Where are my skates; enough studying. That is it from Rochester, second hub of the Midwest.
5551/2 4th Street N.W. Rochester, MN 55901
