1977

P.O. Box 861 Norwich, VT 05055

In a way, it seems funny to be writing a happy holidays column when colored leaves still cling to the trees, yet in another way the weather has invoked the spirit— early snow fell in the Upper Valley on October 4, and then, just to let. us know it wasn't an anomaly, it fell again a week later. Those of you who live, or have lived, in the Golden State will appreciate that we'll be "California Dreamin' " this winter, even as we are enjoying (we hope!) cross-country skiing out our back door and other wintry joys of life in the North Country. So, happy holidays, and may 1988 bring joy and happiness to all of you, wherever 'round the girdled earth you roam!

The second weekend in our Norwich house brought visits from Dr. Lea Sewell, who's in her second year of a fellowship in rheumatology in New York; and DrewKintzinger, his wife, Meghan, and daughter Grace, born last February. Drew is practicing law (when will he do it for real?) in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, where Meghan is also an attorney, and Gracie cavorts with the family's older "children" two golden retrievers (at last we have discovered the secret of having clean floors and and a food-flinging tot—the dogs clean up). As our new class president (or maybe our former head agent), Drew accepted an award for our class this past September. We were given the Roger Wilde 1921 Reunion Award for "extraordinary achievement in setting a new reunion record for the 1987 Alumni Fund." Now you can't say you've never won anything.

We ran into classmate Stewart Chapin at the Dartmouth Child Care Center recently. He works in Hanover for True Basic, a Kemeny-founded organization. Another friendly familiar face was spotted earlier this fall at the "Courtyard Cafe" (formerly the Hopkins Center Snack Bar)—Tim Michalak was in town for the Princeton game with his wife and three children. Tim is a banker in Portland, Maine. Still another New Englander, Jeff Lyon, continues his entrepreneurial bent as owner and operator of the 17th franchise of Business Digest, a monthly journal. (We recall how Jeff once "owned" Al on the squash courts, and infer his winning ways there have transfered rewardingly to the franchise!) Jeff's publication serves southeastern Massachusetts; the original Business Digest was started ten years ago in Portland, Maine, and has been a great success.

Tom Specht's dad, Frank '35, wrote to let us know of the birth of his first grandchild (Frank's that is, not Tom's). Tom and his wife, Kathy, greeted 9 lb.-3 oz. Christopher Thomas on August 12. In the "still in the oven" category are the soon-to-be offspring of John 'BO and Amy Cammann Cholnoky, our class newsletter editor (too shy to report it herself, but gave us permission), expecting her second in April, and John '75 and Pam Rowland Bartlett, going for number three early next summer. Amy is co-teaching fifth grade at New Canaan Country School.

Janet Kluczynski sent news of AndreaKorman's 'wedding to Stephen Lowe in London last April. Besides Janet, "Dee DeeGranzow Simpson and Pam Schlobohm '75 made the trip for the great event. Andrea has been working in London since 1984 for G. T. Management, an international investment management firm. She met her husband at the wedding of Dee Dee and David Simpson, who previously had been introduced by Betsy Fauver Steuber and her husband Fred—now that's networking!"

Os Skinner '28, a collegial class secretary, passed along The Neiv York Tunes notice of Geoffrey Russell Borthwick's July wedding to Cressida Sarent McKean of Rumson, N.J. Russell is acting manager of the service industry section of Cap Gemini America, a national management consulting group in Vienna, Va., and has a master's degree in public administration from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and an M.B.A. from Harvard. Cressida is a development economist and an independent consultant, with degrees from Stanford and the London School of Economics, and another expected from the University of Sussex in England.

The Farmer's Almanac says it will be an early and heavy winter, so please write. By the time you read this we'll be snowed in and under, needing that figurative breath of fresh air!