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Recent appearances in The New YorkTimes marriage-o-rama section included Don McNaughton and Dan Malloy. Don will be doing the wedding thing in September with Kathleen Mealey. She graduated from Holyoke, they both ride the adexec rollercoaster in New York, and a major motion picture is forthcoming. For his part, Dan will also wait until September, at which time he plans to marry Margaret Bailey '82. She's teaching English at Princeton Day School, and Dan is brokering reinsurance in Philadelphia. A legible liability policy is hoped for within the year.

One other extremely belated wedding announcement: Jody Shuman was married in Boston last year. I've received no details, unfortunately, other than a brief report that the couple honeymooned in Istanbul.

One announcement that I do have more to report on, being as I am the godfather in question, is the birth of Thom andTheresa Smith's first. Her name is Courtney, and she arrived just in time to see daddy take a new job as communications czar at a fast-growing outfit called Pittsburgh Software. Smith in computers? Duck.

Anyhoot, enough of all this pivotalthreshold-of-life type stuff. Let's go to school.That's what Bill Lenderking is doing at University of Connecticut, where the psychology department offered a stipend and lecture circuit. Soon, Bill will be able to tell us how rats drool to make humans give them food.

Also back in the hallowed halls is BillBrown, pursuing his doctorate in comparative literature at the University of Chicago and spending his summers in Hanover with the MALS program. Some folks never learn.

Amanda Pierson is likewise playing the academic card, writing creatively at the University of Virginia, while Marty Cetron is interning medical-style at the same locale. That last bit of tid comes from Doug Schwarz, who finishes up his stint at Harvard Law School this year. Doug says he'll be clerking for a federal judge in Rutland.

Likewise staying in the frozen north are Diane Campbell and Mona Watson Chafee. Diane is in Augusta as a first-year resident with something called the Maine-Dartmouth Family Practice. Don't ask me -I just make 'em up; I don't report 'em. Mona, meanwhile, is in West Leb with husband Mark. She is teaching biology at Lebanon Public High School.

Now I'm running out time, and so will conclude with two briefs from some of our less conventional classmates. WendyBrooks is based in San Francisco, working as an assistant stage manager for that legend of rock promotion, Bill Graham. (Non-Dead Heads may remember Graham as former proprietor of the Fillmore West and the M.C. for Francis Coppola's USO go-go in Apocalypse Now.) Wendy reports that plans are in the offing for her to help produce Journey's next tour, which would normally prompt a snide one-liner from someone like me, if it weren't for the fact that I recently had to report on a roast for Jesse Helms.

Finally, I will leave you with the words of Tim Guiles, who should be brained for sending any office-bound individual a note such as this: "Some of my friends may be interested to know," he wrote, "that I am living on a 30-foot sailboat in hopes of a round-the-world expedition in 1987."

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