1982
Her mind raced. She had tested herself in so many ways during her short life, and she wanted desperately to again accomplish what an ordinary mortal might only read about in adventure novels. Could she do it? Was it possible? She was risking much, and yet she began. Yes, she began to type without having written a rough draft in longhand. The keys clicked, the clock ticked, and she picked (ah, what poetry flooded her very being) up the first green card.
Well, well. Beaver Shriver is finally living up to his name. No word as to whether he's sprouted a paddle-like tail, but he has been appointed "head gillie and caretaker" of the Cascades Trout Stream. At least that's closer to the beaver's life than trading bonds in New York or something. Mr. Shriver also owns and operates The Outpost, a store catering to gentleman sportsmen.
Let's see: Larry Hui is in his final year at U. of Chicago law school. He recently traveled to Los Angeles and saw RichGoetz, who is a lawyer, and Rich's wife, who is a lawyer, and Karl Thurmond, who is a lawyer pregnant pause it is now time to hear about the non-lawyers of the world.
Yes, yes, there are those who shunned the route to the bar and bench. (That's bar as in legal bar, you lushes!) Lee Sedberry is a commercial real estate broker for Coldwell Banker in "Alb.," which turned out to be Albuquerque. Lee, is there such as thing as false estate or imaginary estate? Anyway, Lee went skiing with Rob "Kodak" Ford in Aspen, and they ran into or probably skied into SteveFaber. Lee also plans to attend Jon Merriman's wedding in the spring of 1986. I hope Jon is getting married. A wedding without a marriage would be a heck of an expensive party for a few free gifts like salad spinner and liqueur glasses.
Eric Cline wrote one of those cards that makes the rest of us look and feel like ugly, untalented neanderthals. Eric, who rooms with Wharton student Phil Weber, is finishing Penn's Ph.D. program in ancient history and has been digging in Egypt, Cyprus, and Jordan. He has also been reading papers to various archaelogical societies. Eric, send news of your car loans, bridge club triumphs, and favorite breakfast foods. That we can deal with.
Toni Cook Monsey is living in Seattle and going for her B.A. in psych at Seattle Pacific University. From there she will take the G.R.E. and apply to various clinical psych grad programs. She must be psyched. Boo. Bad, bad, nasty pun. George Clothier quit his job as a defense department defraud specialist at General Electric in Philadelphia. Oops, I misread that. He was a materials applications engineer, to go to Stanford B -School. Hmm. Load up on those ethics in business courses. Karen Masterson finished Villanova law and is working for a federal judge in New Jersey.
Melissa Cook took trips to New Zealand and Australia and saw alums everywhere. Dear, dear. Get some rest, Melissa. She works for Lepercq Capital Partners, a real estate syndication firm. Debbie "Brie" Dilorio just finished a Peace Corps stint in Ecuador and is somewhere in Massachusetts. Another overseas type, Patricia Kinsman is someplace in Asia. Her mother wrote to keep us informed. Patty visited India, Nepal, China, Tibet, the Philippines oh my, you name it, she was there. Why, why, why am I schlepping around to doctor's offices selling drugs? Writing this column is an exercise in self-flagellation.
We cannot escape them. More lawyers. Tom Burack, Scrib Fauver, DickO'Meara, and Anne Bolen, who was once married to King Henry VIII (Anne, I've wanted to say that since freshman seminar), are all at U. of Virginia law school. Ray Murphy is out of law school and practicing in Boston. Mark Weinhardt is also a real person now, as opposed to a student-slash-non-real person who can blow off classes and play all day, and works at a Chicago law firm.
Bill Ragan is a Wang direct marketing specialist, that is for Wang Laboratories, and is singing and playing drums with two other former Aires, Dana Cetlin 'BO, and Tom Bartlett '80. Jon Thompson wrote something to John Donahoe, who is alive and happy at Stanford with his bouncing baby boy and Muffin Chamberlain Donahoe '8l. At any rate, whatever jon T. wrote made little sense to me, something about Dartmouth JV basketball, and sandwidges and somebody being assistant coach to the Syracuse head coach. Jon, what are you up to out there in Long Beach, Calif.? Please write another card.
Finally, and to close, I promised my friends here in L.A. that I would give them a line or two. Steve Warren is an entertainment lawyer, and he continues his game show exploits. (He helped finance his Harvard law degree by winning big on "Jeopardy" or one of those.) Latest winnings: $34,000 on "Tic Tac Dough." Ken Elias works in real estate consulting. Martha Harvey is getting her master's in engineering, and I think still working at Hughes Aircraft. Corey Filler is jetting all over teaching people how to use computers and does skin-diving on the side, and Dave Parker is working for Bank of Boston and also skin-diving and skiing after hours. Question, why is it called skin-diving and not, say, flesh-diving?
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