1966

Maybe this column will be arriving near the anniversary of the day when you graduated 20 years ago. .What do you remember about graduation? I can't recall much, but I was amazed that everybody got the right diploma - and that I got one at all! Anyway, you're getting close to the time when you will have been out of college longer than it took you to get to the point of graduation.

On to the drivel ... I ran into AlKeiller at a New England Whaler's hockey game in April. Al and Joanne live in Simsbury, Conn. I happened to have been given a pretty good seat. It was right next to the bench. Having watched some hockey games in Hanover 20 years ago, Al wanted to know if I hadn't spent enough time on a bench!

Bill Ramos writes that he is fleeing the lawsuit explosion in his field of obstetrics. He will retrain in pathology. He's been in Reno for a while and is making the move to pathology and will join the "pathology residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center." He'll be living in White Town as of June. Bill says, "Please notify Blunt, and tell Gene Nattle to throw a couple extra six-packs in the cooler with the stiffs!"

Steve Hayes writes to update me on his situation. This procedure is allowed. I might even encourage some others to update. Anyway, Steve says, "Since last September I have been serving as assistant administrator (Public Affairs) for the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington. With recent accidents, terrorism, airport security, Gramm-Rudman, etc., it's been quite a year." Better you than me, Steve. Sounds like fun.

Roger Perry is living in Essex Junction, Vt. (I thought the Bill Duval family was the entire population of Essex Junction). Roger is vice president for academic affairs at Champlain College in Burlington. He has been elected a board member of The National Postsecondary Alliance. It is a consortium of innovative two-year colleges which accent one another by writing joint grant proposals.

I talked with Ted Amaral recently. Very interesting. He gets this month's award for having it all in perspective. Please note: Teddy has an office in Boston, but goes there as little as possible because he and wife Carol live on Cape Cod and like it. He was offered a job in Boston recently (the end link in a chain of beer distribution?) but turned it down to stay near home. Ted "does a lot more athletically now then I did at Dartmouth." Aerobics, tennis, you name it. But the passion is board sailing. Windsurfing is big on Cape Cod, and Ted enters "selected regattas" in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. "I'm not a threat to win," he says, "but I compete pretty well." On May 20, he was scheduled to compete in the Buzzards Bay Crossing, a 16-mile race. He's coached youth hockey, does Dartmouth interviews, runs the local beach committee, loves it, and says so. He recommends a book for all of us: Your Erroneous Zones. Get it and read it. There will be a quiz on it in the August issue.

Think back to 1966. Where did you want to be in 1986? Are you there?

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