1984

1 Cindy Court Melville, NY 11747

Well, you've done it to me again. I'm sick and tired of being "scooped" by the New York Times. Once again, the wedding announcements of the NYT carries the news of the nuptials of several of our classmates. Maryellen Anderson got married to William Gordon Prescott. (He was my UGA, for all you trivia buffs out there. I'm sure that the next edition of "Trivial Pursuit" will contain a category entitled "Eric Grubman" and I'm giving you a little headstart here.) Anyway, back to the news at hand. The newspaper contained some interesting news of other '84s. Did you know that Linda Cronin is working, as a maid? That's right, and it says that she was the "maid of honor" at the wedding. I wonder how many maids were at the affair, anyway? Funny, people don't announce that someone at the wedding is the "plumber of honor" and you don't often read about a "lawyer of honor." I think maids out there are getting a bigger piece of the pie than the rest of us, and I won't stand for it. The next time I go to a wedding, I plan to be listed as the "Secretary of Honor."

Once the pain of the above announcement wore off, I was horrified to read, the very next week, that C.C. Hauge was married to Bill Crenshaw '82 (now don't fall for the trick, Bill was NOT my UGA). C.C. is working at J. Walter Thompson USA. I like that. From now on, you can change my address to read: "Eric Grubman, USA" so that I may be safely distinguished from all of my foreign competitors. Anyway, C.C. made no mention of any servants of honor. And now, on to the non-nuptial section of our column.

I was back in Hanover for Harvard weekend. For those of you who haven't . been back to Dartmouth for a while, let me tell you, things have changed. In an effort to make Dartmouth the place it used to be, maid service was reinstated. And, you guessed it, Linda Cronin was hired as the maid of honor (you could probably see that bad pun coming several paragraphs away). But seriously, things were vaugely familiar. It was the people I had a hard time with. You people have changes. I mean really changed, like new haircuts, different clothes, the whole nine yards. I was terrified that I would see someone I thought looked familiar and jump into her arms yelling, "Penelope ... Is it really you?" only to later realize that I have never met anyone named Penelope. Well, my first test came at a tailgate before the game. I correctly identified Karen Francis. Karen is still working for Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati. She laments the fact that there are few Dartmouth people in Cincinnati. Boy, did that come as a surprise to me! I would think that people would be climbing all over each other in hopes of being able to live in Cincinnati. It just goes to show you. I also saw Phil Ferneau. Phil is engaged to a fellow law student at the University of Virginia, Lisa Lelli. They will both finish law school in early May and plan to be married a few weeks later at the chapel of UVa. I was told not to mention the wedding date of May 22 because they didn't want the entire class to invade their day and I agreed to their request. Enough said.

At a party I ran into Liam Shannon, who finished up his schooling at Boston University. Liam has since joined the army and is doing something like "airborne assault." The thought of Liam jumping out of anything more than three feet above the ground terrified me, and I respect your feelings, so I won't tell you any more about it.

Larry Kaplan has reentered the world of academics. Larry is currently getting a Ph.D. in Computer Science at NYU. I hardly had the heart to tell Larry that I got one of those degrees by mail a few years back.

Can we be serious for a minute? A better way to phrase that would be: can I be serious for a minute? Yes, I can. The following story is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Although I have been known to exaggerate slightly in the past, this next item is true. Even I couldn't make up something like this. It concerns classmate Ted Dardani. Ted left the secure world of investment banking some time ago. He said he needed a change. The "change" was spending some time in Africa. I don't know, Ted, couldn't you have been more original? Anyway, the latest postcard from Ted, which was written while he was "getting supplies:" (Don't you love that expression? When someone says "getting supplies", I automatically think of machetes being sharpened, elephants being loaded with packs, at cetera. What Ted probably meant was "buying an extra package of Cap'n Crunch, and two cans of Raid".) Anyway, Ted needed the "provisions" because he was going to work on the Kenya-Uganda-Rwanda border,, studying mountain gorillas. You see, I told you I couldn't make up something this good. Ted reports that the nightlife in this area isn't so good. Ted, you're just hanging out with the wrong crowd. Anyway, as always, any member of the class of 1984 (or any member of the species Gorilla gorilla) finding themselves in the area should stop by for a visit.

Well that about does it for this month: Keep those postcards coming. I've lost track of when these columns come out, since I write them several months in advance. But I think it's time to say Happy Holidays. See you next month.

The wedding of Mark '83 and Rachel Hausmann in Alexandria, La., June 22 was by manyDartmouth friends. Pictured here are, front row, left to right, Alan Eagle 83, Mike Golub 83, MarkHoward-Johnson '83, Howard Brick '83, Mac Gardner '83, Bob Goldman '83, and Peter Cholnoky'83; back row, left to right, Dan Albright '83, Karen (soon to be Albright) Hannaway '86, MarcEriksen '83, Maité Bonis '84, Bill Robbins '83, Greg Curhan '83, the bride, the groom, John Leonard'83, D. Valentine '86, Kevin Sankey '86, Ken Johnson '83, and Joey Gallinghouse.