1980

515 East 51st Street Savannah, GA 31405

I attempted to write this column in iambic pentameter, but without success. Shakespeare I'm not, and I have no other gimmick this time. Only the facts, ma'am, just give 'em the facts.

Susan and I attended a Dartmouth meeting on Hilton Head on April 1. We were the youngest people there by 24 years. Coach Bob Blackman '37 was in attendance, and I was glad to have the chance to meet him. Mike McGean '49, Secretary of the College, was the featured speaker. He ended his talk by quoting Mike Carothers: "You can go to any other college for four years; you go to Dartmouth for the rest of your life."

More wedding bells. Ellen Vannah has wed Thomas Duesler. Both Ellen and spouse are graduates of Baylor Law School and are lawyers in the Beaumont, Tex., firm of McGinnis and Adams. The two are truly lawfully wed.

Jeff Furber, yet another Harvard M.B. A., is an assistant vice president of Winthrop Financial Associates of Boston, where he is responsible for evaluating, acquiring and structuring residential and commercial real estate investments. He was recently elected to the Board of Directors for A-Q Industries, Inc., a Timmonsville, S.C., textile firm.

Received a very nice note from Kris and Nancy (Jepson) Treu. They are the proud parents of Lukas Eric Treu, born December 5, 1986. Kris and Nancy, both lawyers, stayed busy this winter as district enrollment directors for Dartmouth. Fellow attorneys Chuck Jarrett and Dave Bialosky provided valuable help.

Nancy had lots of news: Jude Recke covers new England for ICD/Hearst Corporation. Ann Donovan is in her second year of law school at Boston College. Rich Bagley is finishing his physics Ph.D. at Los Alamos National Labs.

I also received a nice, newsy letter from Paula Holmes, now Paula Holmes-Eber of Tunis, Tunisia. She married Lorenz Eber, a German civil engineer, about two years ago. Paula is working on her dissertation in anthropology under the support of a Fulbright grant and hopes to one day get her Ph.D. from Northwestern.

Paula was full of academia: Beth Baron has returned from Egypt and is living in the Boston area, writing her dissertation on turn-of-the-century Egyptian feminist writers. Tom Reed (Ph.D. in English from Princeton) is teaching at Tufts. Jon Barasch has been working on both a Ph.D. in biochemistry and an M.D. from the Columbia Medical School.

Karen Abrams, M.D., is in the Big Apple completing her residency. Patty Rea is in her fourth year of medical school in Cincinnati, having recently returned from a pediatrics elective in Nairobi, Kenya.

Thank you, Nancy and Paula. Take care all of you. See you in September.