1980

Battle of the Cities, recap, round one: McGrath comes out swiftly, with a quick left jab ("Savannah? Is that a brand name for canned vegetables?") Herring comes back with a bevy of blows ("Tofu! Hippies! Earthquakes! EST!") McGrath, pouting, retreats to her corner. Herring, like a true gentleman, changes the subject.

But now, refreshed, McGrath prepares for another onslaught from the jolly Georgian. San Francisco IS different, Wade. And for some of us, different is better (at least that's what my mother told me when, in sixth grade, I yelled at her for giving me red hair and freckles instead of all-American blonde hair and blue eyes). As Phil Odence '79 wrote in the '79 newsletter, "It's important to understand San Francisco. At the risk of angering all you Big Appiers and my fellow Bostonians, San Francisco is the best city there is. It's fun, it's beautiful, the weather is great, but if you are sitting at a desk all day, it looks just like anywhere else."

So we play. "Most engage in heathful pursuits - Boylan ('79) pursues bobcats through the hills of Marin, yes, usually naked." And we imbibe, often at places with Dartmouth alums behind the bar. "It is a bar-oriented town. Having a few or pouring a few at the local pub is respectable .. . and from behind the bar, you can keep tabs on the pulse of the city." And yes, we gloat. Forgive me.

On with the gossip. Congratulations to Peter Maginot, who married Cathy Hagan on April 19 in Crystal City, Miss., population 7,500. (Is that near Savannah?) Six Mid-Mass friends

made it to the wedding: Chuck Muenzen,John Wilen, Phil Gibbs '81, Cam Schaeffer '84, and Don Austen '79. In fine Maginot fashion, the bride and groom left the reception in separate cars (who drove the Hyundai?). They joined the Mass-Debaters afterwards at the local watering hole for rounds (many) of bumper pool and long-neck Buschs. After honeymooning in Ixtapa, Mexico (which is NOT near Savannah), Peter joined the law firm of Nixon, Nixon, and Breeze, in Hillsboro, Mo.

Meg Blakey is getting married on July 26 to Glenn Pagan. After Harvard B, Meg took a job in the project finance group with Eastdil Realty in New York; Glenn is a regional corporate sales manager for Micropro International.

Carter Harsh is getting married too- to whom, I don't know, when, I don't know, where, I don't know. (Am I being too honest? I was going to lie but couldn't come up with an outrageous but believable story. I mean, after all, Madonna is already married.)

Earlier this year, Jeff Citrin left the world of legal pads and fat briefcases to enter the world of mortgage-backed securities the "securitization" of investment-grade real estate, and as Jeff puts it, "other fun stuff associated with real estate investment banking." Anyone interested in refinancing property appraisable at $100 million plus should give Jeff a call at the Chemical Realty Corporation. Like a trooper, he'll consider members of classes with odd numbers as clients.

As with Jeff, Dave Bumsted was dissatisfied with being both a lawyer and an attorney. No, Dave wanted to be a barrister also. As a result, his firm, White and Case, has sent him off to London for two years.

Have you been following the chaos in the airline industry? Tumultuous takeovers, monolithic mergers, stiffened security, falling fares somewhere, in the middle of it all (hint: below the Frank Lorenzo/Carl Icahn level, but above flight attendants and "Airfone" salesmen) are Bart Littlefield, with what was Republic in Minneapolis, and Rich von Riesen, with United in Chicago.

Have a safe and sunny summer.

Tuck student and 1980 graduate of Dartmouth Andreas Graham received the Dartmouth Savings Bank Scholarship thisspring. Pictured are, left to right, ColinBlaydon, dean of the Tuck School, Graham,and fames E. Lambert, president of Dartmouth Savings Bank.

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