1977

P.O. Box 291 Rochester, MN 55903

As this is being written, the not so subtle prewinter winds are blowing across the plains of southern Minnesota. By the time you read this, the snow will be up to our knees and we will be wondering why anyone settled in Minnesota in the first place. Thus the months are slipping by us. That means the tenth reunion looms ever larger on the horizon: June 19-21.

As long as the focus is upon Hanover, it should be noted that Gary Mayo and Norman Fridlund '56 have recently jointly purchased the A.B. Gile agency, the oldest insurance brokerage firm in the Upper Valley. Gary will be serving as treasurer of the firm, and he will be easy to track down next June in the company's new offices on Allen Street.

Leslie Kenney and her husband, Mike Fried '76, bailed out of Minnesota last year and settled in.San Antonio, Texas. Leslie joined an actuarial consulting firm while Mike, with a grant from the National Science Foundation, is doing research and teaching medical and dental students at the U. of Texas Health Science Center. This past summer they returned to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota to join Gregg Kelley '75 on a six-day, 30-lake, 50-mile paddle and portage expedition.

A 'Corporate Change Report' notice on the desk here notes that Hugh McBreen has been named to the board of directors of North American Ventures, Inc., of East Hartford, Conn. Hugh, who will surely reenact his infamous former AXA antics in June, resides in Chicago, where he is a member of Peter J. McBreen and Associates, Inc., a loss adjustment and risk management firm.

There is clearly no hiding from these 'Corporate Change Reports.' Another one came in the mail announcing Paul Gigot's appointment by a presidential commission to be a White House Fellow. Paul will spend the next year serving as a special assistant to the vice president, a member of the cabinet or the president's principal staff. Paul is on a leave of absence from the Asian Wall Street Journal, for which he has been an editor in Hong Kong for the past four years.

Gary Griffin and his wife, Janis, are happily tucked away in Delmar, N.Y. Gary completed a radiology residency in Charlottesville, Va., and is now on staff at a hospital in Albany. They keep in touch with Garth and Lindsay Larrabee Griemann. According to Gary, the Griemanns, who currently live in Taiwan, were just in the States for a brief visit. It is a good bet they will turn up at reunion time so that Lindsay can avoid being nominated again for class secretary. It is interesting to note how folks not present at the reunions end up with some of the most challenging class positions. . . .

That is the sum total of news from this outpost. Keep those cards coming as we wind down to reunion time. Have a happy holiday season.