1978

Todd Anderson reports that our reunion will be June 19-21, 1987. We will be celebrating our 10th a year early so we can join the '77s and '76s. He has a list of fall activities in the works including a trip to Annapolis for the Navy game on October 4, for which a few rooms have been reserved in Baltimore for '78s. Todd says that details of all of these events will be mailed to you. For further information call Todd during business hours at 609/282- 1006 (Merrill Lynch has moved him to Princeton) or Steve Strauss, 212/222-2796, evenings and weekends.

Todd has been nagging me for a long time to write about Steve Meili's marriage to Leigh Payne in October, 1985 in Princeton, N.J. Leigh has a B.A. and a master's from NYU. Attenders included: Todd, Bill Meili '75, Judy Osher, Don Frankel, Terri Scriven, and Terri's fiance, Frank Governali '77. Steve is working with a New Haven law firm specializing in asbestosis litigation, and Leigh is in the midst of a Yale Ph.D. program in political science.

Thomas Swartwood changed over to investment banking from law last summer.

Last fall the Dartmouth "Anthropology Notes" announced that Melinda Kassen was about to leave for Nepal for three weeks at Thanksgiving to trek up the Kali Ghandaki Gorge for an anthro and mountain lover's sensory orgy. The notes also announced that Karen Kluge moved to Los Angeles after two and a half years of graduate archeology. For nine months Karen worked as a medical editor for a local publishing company. She then became a staff research associate in a neuroscience lab at UCLA. I wonder if other majors put out newsletters like this. My department certainly doesn't. Please feel free to send me your department newsletter so that I can crib from it.

Nine Dartmouth skiers were at the annual Masters' Ski Championships in March 1986 at Jackson Hole, Wyo. The nine included John Macomber and ScottBarthold. John apparently won the giant slalom, was fourth in the downhill, but crashed in the slalom. John is a project manager and is the fourth generation of Macombers in the family construction

business in Boston. Scott finished fifth in Class I in the combined National Championship. Scott now works for Snow Engineeering, Inc., a ski area consulting firm in Lyme, N.H.

Glen Swartout is buying a tavern in the Taconic Mountains area and plans to add cross-country skiing and handmade crafts to the business. He is planning to use it as a base for a "holistic studies institute" in the summer. He will call his enterprise "Blackwood," the English translation of his Frisian last name.

Jim and Betsy Keefauver Lyons have a baby daughter, Caroline Keefauver Lyons. He is finishing his ob/gyn residency in Albany, and Betsy is associate director of the Environmental Planning Lobby, a member-supported environmental advocacy coalition. Renee and Nat Goodspeed also announced a child recently, Melanie Ainsworth, their second. Janet and DavidKalapos had their first, Kimberly Michelle. Janet is the former Janet Ottiano (I hope I have the spelling right David's handwriting is all but illegible). Janet was a '79 at Trenton State and got a master's in 1985 from Glassboro State. They married two years ago and live in Glassboro, N.J. David is a marketing manager at Conrail in Philadelphia. Peggy McGrath Sherman had her second son, William, on September 3, 1985. Jim Lyons assisted. Peggy's oldest son, Nate, is now three and a half. Peggy's husband, John '76, helped in the delivery room as well. Peggy expected to go back to her job with the State Assembly, working on state tax and fiscal issues this past January.

Jeff "Ernie" Verzella left paradise (Hawaii) for paratroops (Fort Bragg, N.C. home of the 82nd airborne). After completing his residency in family practice, he is a staff physician and teaching in the Fort Bragg program. Jeff says Hawaii was nice, but it's great to be back east.

Leonard Weiser-Varon married Amy Woodward in August 1985 in a sunset beachside ceremony attended by Nancyand Bruce Davidson, Phyllis and JeffreyCotton Smith, Donald Hunton and his fiance, Nancy Knoblack, and Scott Cooper '77. Amy and Leonard live in Hingham, Mass., with two cats, Marina and Miranda. They commute by ferry to Boston, where he is an attorney with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glousky, and Popeo and she with Foley, Hoag, and Elliot. (I would like to explain to classmates that it is the prescribed style of the class notes to underline both names of a class couple, when their names are listed together, even though only one of the couple may have attended Dartmouth. I realize in typing this column that the underlining is rather confusing in our class since so many people married classmates,.)

Judy Osher is in her third year of a doctoral program in psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. She has recently seen: AnneGunn, who works at DTSS in Hanover; Celia Chen, who is completing her master's in marine biology; Nancy Mayer, who is working as an architect in Boston; Debby Lipson, who works for a computer company whose name is illegible on Judy's letter; and Steve Bova, who is doing his residence in pathology at Cornell.

Robert Gifford married Claire Sokoloff in D.C. in April. Claire is a graduate of Brown with a doctorate in organizational behavior from the Yale School of Management. Robert works for the Rouse Company in Columbia, in real estate.

Participants in the Masters' Ski Championships in Wyoming last March included, left to right, JimLittle '65, Joan Crane Barthold '79, Scott Barthold '7B, John Macomber '7B, and Eric Kankainen '73.

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