1981

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Hallidie Grant offered up some fodder for the column in her last letter, with a full report on the Fayerweather crowd.

Before I relay that info, however, I should announce that Hallidie has taken over as '81 head agent and, no doubt, will soon be asking you to ante up whaddaya mean you just gave? Bob Spears, who is now in his second year at Harvard Business, will be spearheading the telethon effort ... so answer yer phone.

Business aside, Ms. Grant reports that a large Fayer contingent missed the fifth to attend Bob Smith's wedding (see previous issue). Dick Crowley, who writes and sings in the Seattle area, is apologetic about missing both events, although, as he put it, no one seemed anxious to

cough up dough for his flight. Mark Lotito, who did manage to get plane fare to the wedding, continues on in the acting biz in New York.

Cindy Greco missed the fifth but did get a law degree from B.U. that weekend. Cindy started a job in September out in San Francisco with McCutchen, Doyle, at al. Joe Gregor continues on in law school out in Chicago, and Mary Favret is nearing the end of her long quest for a Stanford Ph.D. in English lit.

John Gilroy is in San Francisco working as a film editor and has worked on two of Francis Ford Coppola's films, including the box office bonanza Peggy Sue Got Married. Brother Dan Gilroy, is reporting for Variety. Hallidie, by the way, is out in San Francisco working as an associate director for a leasing company. She has also become a bona fide landlord (oxymoron?) in the Bay area, renovating houses and renting them out to the basically naive.

Alex Dmyterko has moved from west to east. He's now in Boston as a VP for sales and marketing with Outline, Inc. And Allison Sirkin has moved from east to west. She graduated from vet school at the University of Florida last June and was married in September to a cattle rancher in Wyoming. Mike Barron, make that Lt. Barron, graduated last June from med school, the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. to be exact. In July he started as an intern in medicine at Balboa Naval Hospital out in San Diego. And Kent van Voorhis left the Sea of Japan after four years "before the mast," as he puts it, and has started med school at Vanderbilt. Says he's already nostalgic about the exotic ports and sunsets on the Pacific. For the next few years, I'd bet, it'll be more sunrises in his repertoire than sunsets. Winni Levy has left the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass. and is back in New York as an associate editor with the US Business Press, Inc. Says she's glad to be home again. Kirk Wilson is also in New York with Morgan Stanley.

Brent West, now up in Maine with the Bath Iron Works, was married in November to Tina Merrill. Kevin Lynch put in a cameo appearance in the aisles as usher. Andy Siedlecki married Rose Marie Trapasso in September in Niagara Falls with Rick Kracoff, Greg Ramm, Dan McGraw and Stuart Weinberg in attendance. JeffMeer married' Stephanie Bradley in Greensboro, N.C., in September. He's now in Washington as an assistant editor for Psychology Today. And on the engagement front, word has it that JonathanHeld has pledged everything he holds to Alyssa Licht '84. They'll be married next summer. Jon earned an M.D. from Dartmouth Med and is a resident in dermatology at Columbia-Presbyterian in NYC.

Jeff Walters is now out in Minneapolis with General Mills, as is Chuck Battey. Seems their fates are tied. Both traveled separately through Asia the summer before starting out in Minneapolis and ran into each other on the streets of Bangkok. Needless to say, both are working on cereal accounts at General Mills.

Dave Focardi at last word, was out in Colorado. He spent last winter as a ski patroller at Key Stone/North Peak and spent the summer white water rafting. Jon Perezous bumped into Dave Pine out in Palo Alto. Said he was glad to see that Dave had a suit on and not the bathrobe he wore to his Math 5 exam freshman fall. Does nothing stay the same? I ask you. Jon and Dave, by the way, are both lawyers out in California.

As for business, item 1) Pat Berry, the '81 Alumni Council rep, is serving on the ad hoc committee on the Status of the Alma Mater. The committee, a McLaughlin initiative, is reviewing "Men of Dartmouth" to ascertain whether additions of verses, word changes, etc., are appropriate to better reflect the current and future composition of the student and alumni bodies. If you have an opinion on the subject or a suggestion, write to Pat Berry at 47 Oakland Ave., Bloomfield, NJ 07003 or call at 201/748-9773.

Item 2) Lets move it on the Fifth ReunionBook. That means especially those of you who couldn't attend. Write in a quick paragraph or two about your thoughts and/or deeds of the past five years (the respectable ones) and send it to Greg Clow at 57 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02116. And do it now! We need many more responses before we can go to print.