1982
My dear '82s, in my last and final column as guest writer for the world traveling '82 secretaries, I would like to take a few moments to mention some of our fellow classmates. Is that all right? I sincerely hope that using this column for such an exercise will not conflict with your idea of the real purpose of the Alumni Magazine class notes.
As usual, marriages abound. DavidNoonan will wed in June. His fiance, Susan Abert, is a Holyoke grad. Dave is a third-year-law-type at NYU. Oh goody. More about new lawyers in future columns. Davin Mackenzie married Leslie Hui-Yun Chu, a native of Taiwan, in Taiwan in January. (Gee, how many times can I use Taiwan and in one sentence?) Davin is working for Bank of Boston in Taipei.
Now this is an interesting item. NathanLongan is living in New York. Yes, folks, that's about the extent of his news. He did mention that the poem "The Night Before Christmas" was written in his
apartment. Heavy, profound, intense question of the paragraph - was the poem really written on the night before Christmas? Hmm. Another marriage in the offing. Pretend this is in the previous paragraph. Meg Bailey will marry Dan Malloy '81 in September. Meg is teaching English at Princeton Day School.
This item also is part of paragraph two. Steve Levitan sent a picture which would not reproduce well in the magazine. It showed Rick Bercuvitz, Adam Spindell, and David Wagner 'Bl and Steve himself at Daniel Gilman's wedding. Dan married Molly Tamarkin, Chicago '86, and I have no idea what any of them are doing to pay the rent. Assuming they do pay rent.
Jane Brass is back from Thailand and the fish project and is writing up the experience for a master's thesis. She plans to get a Ph.D. after working for a CARElike group in China. Good luck, Jane. I'm sure your thesis will be highly troutedoops, touted.
Peter Johnson has completed his first solo flight for the navy. Peter is in Milton, Fla., and is training to become a naval orange. Excuse me, that's naval aviator. I never was good with vowels. On other fronts, Steve Hathcock is in med school at the U. of Arkansas after completing his divinity degree at Yale. He is now divine, I guess. Steve says anyone passing through Little Rock should give him a holler. Dear Steve, you're opening the floodgates to hordes of guests.
Get this one. Chris is doing marketing/management consulting at Yankee Research in Boston. Yup, no last name. There is an address and phone number. I'll call it right now - Chris is Chris Reynolds, and the lady on the phone said he no longer works there. You think I'm nuts. I did just call ... I am not losing it . . .
Wes Sheridan and his wife, Sandra, and son Jonathan met up with Tom Cross and wife Kelly on Prince Edward Island to hit the hot spots. Hmm. Must be a mineral spring or geyser there. Wes is processing seafood (lobster) on PEI. MarySarazan is on the other side of the continent in San Francisco working as an insulting psychologist with the SF school district. Hmm. Something's not right. Sorry, that's consulting psychologist. She mentioned that Dan Kamin married someone named Sue last August and that Hal Billings, Chuck, Thor, Sue and others were there. Please send last names and more details because I don't want to assume that those are '82s whom I know by those names. Libel, slander, evil rumors. You know, I could make enemies.
Bill Pahl moved from Hanover to West Leb and is completing engineering training at Split Ballbearing, where he'll end up as a marketing assistant. Bill, why do they split the ballbearings? Why not make half ballbearings in the first place? Bill says Andy Fredbeck is working for a church in Paris; Doug Tengdin spent several months in Tunesia with his wife, Pam, and is back at Trinity Evangelical School; and John Coleman and wife Marie just had a baby boy named Joshua.
And now the time has come to say goodbye. I realize that I made some promises that I neglected to keep. More on those in a minute. First, remember Tom Burack's Moosilauke hike on August 8, 9, 10. Schedule now and call Moosilauke Ravine Lodge to reserve your bed. Now, the promises - I promised a wordless column and a singing column, and neither came to pass. Wrong. I have a limited supply of cassette tapes: one is May's column set to music and the other is April's column with no words. Neither will annoy your neighbors. Send me a self-addressed, stamped envelope and $40. Au revoir and happy summer.
Named as Class of the Year for classes less than 25 years out was the class of 1985. Pictured,left to right, are Gayle Gilman, Mimi Reilly, Sue Finegan, Director for Class Affairs JimTonkovich '68, Sally Crane, Mark Engel, and Lucy Harvey.
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