1979

So why should Mike Carothers '80 have all of the good lines? Langston Hughes once wrote: Folks, I'm telling you Birthing is hard And dying is mean So get yourself a little loving in between.

People seem to be doing just that. Robin Smoller's dad informed the Dartmouth powers that be that his daughter, an '81, married a fortner member of the Zeta Psi brain trust, Mark Sullivan, last October. I had heard that Robin was not too keen on Dartmouth guys. My mistake, apparently, or was it just that Mark showed far more sophistication and intuition than your average Big Greener? This bit of news from Robin's dad would have ordinarily been sufficient for any one family, but he. didn't stop there. Apparently BruceSmoller, Robin's much esteemed older brother, is married to Joyce Ackman '81. Now we are all confused. Actually, my only comment is that having a sibling of similar age and of the opposite sex seems to have distinct social advantages. I was always afraid to in- troduce my sisters to my friends. Know what I mean?

A bit of honest mail came out of the West the other day from Carol Frost. She was writing in her official capacity as an assistant professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Wyoming. Laramie is a far cry from her days at the University of Cambridge, England, where she received her Ph.D. in 1983, Not a whole lot of crumpets in the West. Carol is married to Eric Nye and, in the quaint way that academics have of speaking, referred to the great fortune that allowed Eric to get an assistant professorship in the University's English department. Good fortune; I should say so. It would have been a long commute to anywhere from Laramie. Those of you interested in interpreting anything as an invitation should note that Carol specifically solicited Dartmouth types, at least as grad students. In other words, come on down, at least if you can afford the tuition.

"So get yourself a little loving in between." Neal Luppescu and Virginia Langner decided to follow Hughes's advice and decided on a July wedding. Neal is your basic, run-of-the-mill, summa cum laude graduate from Dartmouth, turned doctor with an M.D. from Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. I think it is safe to say that Miss Langner has the obvious style in the pair. Some flair must be required as the fashion editor of Skiing magazine. Virginia received her master's degree in journalism from Boston University.

One last wedding, and then everyone is free to go. Dr. Charley Carr and Carol LaCasse were planning a May wedding out in California.

New England managed to keep BuddyTeevens within its clutches for a while longer as Maine named him their head football coach. That selection was made out of a list of 54 applicants, so congratulations are definitely in order. Buddy had been offensive coordinator at Boston University.

It just goes to show that you don't always know what's going on in your own backyard. (All of the New Yorkers are shaking their heads, saying, "What's a backyard?") It took John Parkhurst's grandfather, Richard Parkhurst '16, to let me know that John was in town, stationed at the Coast Guard headquarters. I thought that I had noticed a bit more chaos out in the rugby fields. John should be next in line for my job since he currently edits the bi-monthly Coast Guard paper.

And so in closing, I would like to leave you with one last message: Scott and Laurie(Laidlaw) Roulston had a baby boy.

Could I say just one more thing? This is it, I promise. We weren't the ones who trekked to Hanover this June, but I had to leave you with a little something, accompanying this column, to jog those old collegiate memories.

Sunshine and the fifth-year reunion of their class brought more than 300 members of the class of 1980back to Hanover in June.

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