1979

4625 Windom Place NW Washington, DC 20016

Still no '79s in the SEC weekly highlights. I know that you're out there. Look, I'm sure that Ted Winterer's advice would be to give it to Dartmouth before you have to give it to someone else. Heh, heh.

Well, I suppose it's back to the usual, in this case the fall wedding of HelenDavis to Oliver Picher. The '79s present and their activities were ably reported by Mark Raabe and Joe Neuhaus, and I will let their words stand by themselves. "Charlie Rowe has just opened his second smoke shop in the Chicago area. During a brief power failure at the reception, he handed out lighters imprinted with 'Charlie's Pipe and Pouch.' CindyLoomis has been taking breaks from her cell biology lab work at NYU to train for a cross-English Channel swim in late June. She reports the Hudson River is 'yuckier than I ever could have imagined.' As for us, Joe Neuhaus recently graduated from People Express Flight Attendants' School. He finds his new 'temporary' career a refreshing break from the law, and is now a crew chief on the D.C.-Miami corridor. Nice tan to boot. True to form, MarkRaabe barely made it to the wedding on time when his plane from Kathmandu, where he had been sent on a World Bank assignment, was delayed for two days. To supplement his meager consulting income he has been moonlighting as a hand model in ads for the D.C. lottery. He even has a hand agent! Of course, the reason for all of this commotion, Wonderful Wonderful Helen herself, looked radiant in her mother's wedding gown. She and 'Ver' left for a honeymoon on the shores of the Hudson Bay, where they tracked musk ox for his doctoral thesis in zoology. They have now settled in Philly, where Helen is a theater and restaurant critic for a community weekly and Ver is a part-time manager of a motocross supply store." (sounds to me like your basic eclectic group. Burr.)

Joe and Mark also mentioned a few non-'79s present. Tom Mayer '77 is a Manhattan bankruptcy lawyer but plays an occasional Thursday night gig on his saxophone at Augie's Place on the Upper West Side. Ed and Carla Boehm Sloan (both '80s) are preparing for a three-year stint with a UNICEF medical project in Ethiopia. Also in attendance were Carol Burns Duke '80, a performance artist in SoHo, and her husband, Tom '81, a. mechanical drawing instructor at a junior high school in Verona, N.J.

Justin Aro was a little concerned that we had neglected the senior citizens of our class (those who turned 30 in '86) in our infamous birthday list. All I can say it that you people should be out in front here counseling your fellow '79s through these trying times.

And they are trying. Greg Goulette writes that his work with IBM is incompatable with his lifestyle and that he plans to bolt from Connecticut back to the woods of Maine. You wonder what happens once he gets there? Well, since, as Greg put it, he has already "survived six years of rock and roll and numerous cerebral vistas," I would expect more of the same.

The other backwoods persons amongst us include Martha Jean Erickson Eger who, with husband George '77 and Caitlin '03 (2000, that is), lives southwest of Denver. George exchanges the mountains for the high tech of Martin Marietta on a regular basis, while Martha, in addition to keeping the world safe from Caitlin and her early entry into the "Terrible Two's," is a part-time geological consultant while finishing a masters in education at Colorado U.

Dennis and Linda Ferguson McCann also opted for a more rural lifestyle and moved to Winslow, Maine, after having their daughter, Molly Catherine, last August. Should be a good honest place to raise a child (unless that cerebral vista Greg Goulette is wandering around somewhere.) Dennis will open a medical practice at the Mid-Maine Medical Center in Waterville.

Mike Feldman's mother should be happy; the guy is finally getting married, and what's more, to a lovely USC graduate, Susan Niemi. I've said this before but it's important: girls, get those promises in writing.

And still more kids. Well, someone has to support us when we're old and broke. Dave and Ann Wolf were expecting in March and had names for both sexes ready depending, as Dave put it, "on which position worked." Huh? Hold it. Can I read about this somewhere? Anyway, the two are still in Allentown, Pa., probably occupying positions similar to those that they were in the last time that we checked,

And still more marriages. I have a serious backup here so bear with me. HankYoung was married in January 1986 to Ann Boulton, an objects conservator with the Smithsonian Institution. Hank is with the law firm of Hogun and Hartson in D.C. The two were expecting in March, and I'm not talking about tax refunds. Dr. Tim Higgins married Nancy Reichley last October in Rhode Island, much to the dismay of the bride's family. Apparently, Tim's background check was done in a rather hasty fashion and only after it was too late were his numerous collegiate activities revealed. Tim's colleagues at Children's Hospital in D.C. were also shocked. Looks like Nancy will have to redeem the couple with her work as a legislative aid to Senator Lowell Weicker. Nancy is a graduate of Bowdoin College and the U. of R.I. School of Oceanography.

Now just stay in your seats a little longer. Ames Abbot was married last fall to Joan Meyer in an outdoor ceremony in Duxbury, Mass. Joan graduated from Carleton and is currently enrolled at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Ames meanwhile is cranking out computer sales with Gold Hill Computer in Cambridge. And last but not least, Karen Follansbee finally gave into the desperate pleadings of Doug Verge and married him last October. Karen graduated from B.C. but had also attended college in the U.S.S.R. She is now a software engineer with Wang Labs. Doug, meanwhile, has regained his composure and is back at work practicing law with Sheehan, Phinney, Bass and Green in Manchester, N.H. John Westwood was one of the group helping with the marriage ceremony logistics, a.k.a. ushers.