1976
Greetings. Thanks to class treasurer Stefanie Valar, the mailbag is full of tidbits from the backs of class due remittances. So, without further ado, here's the latest:
Caroline Ballard, a veterinarian by trade, married another vet, Jerry Smith, on September 8, in Philadelphia. Present were: DaveBanfield and wife Marlene, Bruce Bell and wife Andes, George Federman and wife Carlene Granieri, Alan Bates, and Bob Hynes '75 and wife Sharon Moore. Caroline is practicing with the Wayne Animal Hospital in Wayne, N.J.
Brian Bachelder has his M.D. and has started a family practice in Mt. Gilead, Ohio. According to Brian, he and another doctor have formed the first group practice in town. Personally he has not yet found a partner but welcomes all visitors.
Sue McAllister is up the road in Orlando, working as a consultant on physical therapy for the state of Florida. Sue denies that her patients are mostly at Disney world. She invites all passers-through to give her a call.
Wayne Lindsey also is a practitioner of the healing arts. He's an orthopedic surgeon at Ft. Belvoir, outside D.C., where he lives with his wife.
Mary Kay Walkush Beach is one acorn who didn't fall far from the collegiate tree. She's living on Skiway Road in Lyme, N.H., and juggling responsibilities for her year-old son, Maximillian, and her business, Business Appraisals, Inc.
Julie Nelson Brown sounds (writes?) a bit sad to have left the coast of Maine for Montclair, N.J. However, her two daughters, Julie (three) and Alexandra (one), seem to like the Garden State. Julie asks classmates in the area to check in.
Elizabeth Tobin reports from Dieppe, France (which I am assured is not like New Jersey). She's performing a solo show with puppets and masks for adult audiences, entitled The Night of Sisyphus. Elizabeth went to France in 1981 on a grant from the Institute of International Education and a Dartmouth Fellowship to study puppet theater.
David Spalding is a vice president at First National Bank of Chicago's regional office in the Big Apple. He lives in Bronxville with his wife of two years, Marianne.
Meridien, N.H., and Kimball Union Academy (alma mater of classmate Dave Quimby) is the home port for Jon Davie and his wife, Polly. They've got three children, Tony (four), Jessie (two), and Lincoln (six months). Polly spent the summer of 1984 writing her thesis for the M.A.L.S. program at Dart- mouth while Jon herded the kids to the playground, reigned over afternoon naps, and occasionally communicated with the outside world.
Gordie Nye is in Beantown and offers the following synopsis. New job: product manager on new business for Hyde Athletics Industries in Cambridge, which manufactures Saucony and Spot-bilt shoes. Recently saw: Rick "Seadog" Horan and Rick "Sea Bay"Carroll at the conclusion of the First Annual Big Greener Armada Parade of Sail (from Nantucket to Martha's Vineyard). Report- edly, Captain Carroll won by motoring away from Seadog at a questionable start.
Don "Rocco" Colacchio, M.D., accompanied his usual generous check with the cryptic, "Some of us are still in Hanover Tom Flip Jackson."
J. M. Grant Fullman is esconced near Albany, N.Y., with his wife, Cindy, and daughter Nancy. Grant finished his master's in mechanical engineering at Union College in June of 1984 and has since started an evening M.B.A. program.
By the time you read this (always like to add those professional touches, like "at presstime", "as this issue went to press" Shribman and I know 'em all), Betsy Jewett will have.married David Coombs in Spokane. Fern (Nancy) Bennett Phillips was a matron of honor. Betsy and David will live in Oakland, Calif., where David works for Safeway and Betsy recently completed a preserve management plan for the California Academy of Science.
If any (either?) of my faithful readers are still with me after this ponderous portion of perfidious prattlings, I'd like to make a serious pitch for the Alumni Fund. The cost of a year at Dartmouth is almost $15,000, and with reductions in government aid, there are few families that can afford that steep a tab. Those of us who were lucky enough to go to Dart- mouth and have prospered or at least gotten by because of it need to do whatever we can to help others get through. The alternative may be a student body made up only of the poor (who hopefully will always get aid) and the affluent, who need no financial aid, leaving out the middle class majority. Remember, just sending what you can helps. Don't be embarrassed if it's minuscule I'm not.
'Til next time, be good, or be careful
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