1979

It's been said that doctors make wonderful dinner guests, what with their immense knowledge and unusual experiences. There is, however, a darker side. Dr. Doug "Dark Side" Canning, urologist par excellence, is reputed to have horrified more than one gracious host by describing his specialty's more common surgical operations at the dinner table. Doug is doing a fellowship in pediatric urology at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, and his wife, Annabelle '81, when not apologizing for Doug's table manners, somehow finds time to complete her assignments as a first-year associate at the law firm of Venable, Baetjer and Howard. AndyCole is also doing a fellowship at Johns Hopkins.

Other docs known for their questionable taste would have to include John Orloff, who is just finishing as chief medical resident at the U. of Pitt. He should be just starting his fellowship in endocrinology at Yale. Gwen Bogacki (John's wife) is starting her fellowship at Yale in genetics while their two-month-old daughter, Jacklyn Alice, is, of course, starting on the fellowship of life. John mentioned that Mike Fine was also finishing his residency at Pitt this year.

Now back to "Days of Our Normal Lives." Tom Brennan was just elected a vice president in the banking division of the Shaw-mut Bank of Boston. He's been working there at a feverish pace since receiving his M.B.A. from Duke in 1981.

I mean, how hectic can a cucumber harvest be? Steve Williams claims to be in the middle of one. That and his 50-year-old Georgian house keep Steve, Ann, and two-year-old Annlouise occupied. Steve noted that Don and Joanna Hofmann got married last May in Minneapolis.

I mean, how criminal can Alaska's criminal element be?! Karen Loeffler would know and she's definitely telling. No one is safe while Karen's assistant district attorney hat is on. She does claim to be an avid sea kayaker, which should give the judicial system some rest.

Now for those faint of heart, listen to Carol Kurtz Bates's plans for the next year with her husband, Dave: first stop Australia, next Asia, then six months at a hospital in Kenya. They plan to return to Boston which, when you think of it, is a lot stranger a place than the rest of the world.

Listen everybody, the powers that be reduced the size of these columns but in Return allowed for larger treatment of an interesting individual story elsewhere in the magazine. Please make sure that '79s get their fair share of ink. Send me a three-or four-paragraph write-up of a '79 who's doing interesting things. Of course, if things are just generally boring, don't worry about it.

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