1982

"Summertime and the livin' is easy..."

As I write this column in mid-July, these words are dancing in my head. I hope you are all getting your share of easy living; by the time you read this, we will be well into fall, and the summer sun will have passed below the horizon for the last time this year.

Anne Remmer and her husband, BillCole, have the right idea. Anne writes, "We're spending the summer in Montana to clean our lungs in the mountains." Bill is in between his first and second years at Columbia Law in New York, and Anne is teaching third grade at a private girls' school.

Marrin Robinson is living the summer many of us only dream about. She is painting landscapes in Portugal, funded by a Fulbright Grant. Marrin writes that she spent last year painting in Greece and that next year she will be at Washington University in St. Louis as a graduate student in their painting program.

Marrin adds that Miriam Stroll and Mary Hart spent a week with her on the southern coast of Portugal this past spring. Mary and Miriam were scheming together about further traveling and hoped to make a trip to the Soviet Union. Miriam is taking the long way to the Stanford Business School where she will be a first-year student in September.

Marrin sent word about Julia Collins also. Julia has been making headway in the world of publishing and was promoted around April to publication editor at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Congratulations, Julia, and thanks for all of the news, Marrin.

Jay Clemens is continuing his pursuit of things Asian. I understand Jay is now at Harvard studying Chinese Law, and I believe he is either currently at Harvard Law or about to begin there.

Tom Letsou spent last summer at the Stanford Institute for Asian studies in Taiwan and now has moved on to Columbia University for further graduate study. People still working and living on the

other side of the Pacific include AndreaPloss, Bill Messing, Alyson Pytte, DavinMacKenzie, and Steve Berger.

Andrea is an assistant treasurer for Banker's Trust in Hong Kong. Bill is leading tours in China and working on Chinese film production. Alyson is in Taipei, Taiwan, working as a consultant for Crossbridge and Davin is in Taipei working for the Bank of Boston. Davin visited me in Boston last year and seemed to be doing very well. He encourages visitors in Taipei to stop by.

Steve Berger is in Singapore with the Hong Kong - Shanghai Bank. After his crew shell sank in the Oxford - Cambridge race in London on national television, the Queen banished the team captain (who happened to be Steve) to the most distant parts of the old empire. That is the last time they will let an American meddle in that affair.

Sandy Crawford has been teaching U.S. and world history in New Hampshire at the Conant School, but she plans to study and travel in Nicaragua this summer. After the summer she will either attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education or remain in Latin America for the year, traveling and working around.

Craig Bradley is into his second year as an assistant dean of the College at Dartmouth. Craig left a job at Procter and Gamble last year to return to Hanover, and I understand he doesn't regret the move one bit.

In the belated but still important category, I have news of Greta Mesics and Ben Wagner. Greta married Jeff Cross '79 last November at Rollins Chapel. Forty or more Dartmouth types whose classes ranged from '46 to '88 attended the grand reception at Pierces' Inn. Greta and Jeff now live in Providence, R.I.

As far as Ben is concerned, I understand he worked last summer defending death-row prisoners in New York City with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Apparently, Ben spent the summer trying to vacate death sentences. Ben will be starting his final year at NYU Law School this September. I do not know what he is doing this summer, but if I know Ben, I am sure it is interesting.

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