1985

2835 North Racine Chicago, IL 60657

Date: June 12, 2010 Time: 4:00 p.m., Baker's bells are ringing. Place: Hanover Inn Terrace Mood: Nostalgic

Mimi Reilly and Chris Hessler bring you a special commentary from the future.

M Boy, Chris, I'm so pleased to hear that Dartmouth bought out Harvard. Just the other day, Kris and Katie Robbins were telling me that their fifth daughter had an interest in doing FSP Boston.

C Yeah, and with 98 percent of '85s now contributing to the Alumni Fund, we're so rich we were able to take over the Crimson with minimal participation from Goldman Sachs and greenmail Yale at the same time!

M It's just amazing how things have changed in 25 years.

C Did you get a chance to talk to Brian Barnes at reunion? He's written this new computer language that makes BASIC look like the Stone Age. And he's built it right into his pocket P.C.

M That's quite impressive, but it's that Lucy Harvey who blew me away. She and Rob Raskin just finished rewriting the Constitution of the United States. See what a law degree can do for you?

C I got a kick out of talking to Laura Ingraham. She's now editor of the World Review, a weekly which examines key issues in 162 countries in 58 languages. I guess

those Review connections extend everywhere. world. Just yesterday I turned on the TV to see my old friend Annie Hartwell anchoring the Today show. And you know who she was interviewing? Classmate Birgit Koehler, who just won the Nobel prize in math, physics and chemistry ... all in the same year! The last time one of our classmates got a hat trick was when Bill Worden held three different jobs... in one month.

C Speaking of jobs, I envy Pete Jordan and Tom Theriault in their careers. They're pilots on the daily shuttle between La Guardia and the moon.

M Is Pete the guy you used to call "Air" Jordan? C Yeah. And on their last voyage, they swore they saw John Wack out their window floating through space. Guess he still hasn't settled down, huh?

M Speaking of settling down, Sue "Stella" Finegan reported at reunion that Prince Mahmoud Ali-Fahd, Ayatollah Khomeni's oldest son, has become her new husband. She might even become president of Iran soon. It would make sense, seeing as she was president of everything while we were here at Dartmouth.

C Talk about interesting lives, I must have spent an hour with Chris Roche. Since we lived together in Butterfield, he's gone to law school, started a rock band, worked as an investment banker, gone to med school, become an Olympic rowing coach and uh ....

M In just 25 years, Chris?

C No, that was just the first five. Do you want to hear some more?

M No. I want to tell you about the amazing discovery of Lynda McLaughry. Back in '87 she started work as a horticulturist and you'll never believe what she developed with a few cross-hybrid experiments.

C Yeah? What's that?

M She discovered the first 'shmen-eating plant that was recently tested on the Green.

C What happened?

M No more clueless 'shmen, just like that! Amazing, isn't it?

C I can top that story, Mimi. Remember that girl, Peggy Engelhart, you lived with in Cincinnati? She and Mike Lehman became famous back in 1996 when they teamed up as consultants to the class of 2000 to resolve the burning issue of how to build a zero-tier bonfire.

M How did they resolve it?

C — You don't want to know.

M — What I do want to know is what JanWatkins has been doing since she won that Olympic Gold Medal in women's diving?

C Wasn't that her face I saw on the Wheaties box this morning?

M No way! You mean they replaced Jim Sapienza's picture after he ran around the world?

C Well, not everyone stays a hero forever. Some of us never become heroes in the first place. I assume you've heard the Admissions Office Scandal by now. You know, the Dartmouth College Case.

M You mean Daniel Webster?

C No. Stephanie Mac Donald. She's been indicted for accepting bribes from classmates to admit their children into the College.

M — Has she been sentenced?

C — Yeah. She asked for the death penalty, but the College felt it would be more punitive to send her to Princeton for a year to serve as an admissions officer there.

M Boy, buying, I mean bribing sure has become a way of life for some of our classmates. Take those classmates who began work for the same ad agency when we graduated. You know, Sally Crane, Gayle Gilman, Brian Goldner, Rich Stoddard, and Tom Cutler. Back when I was their client, Celtics tickets were the small favors they passed along to maintain good business relations. Now it's a year's tuition for your child at Dartmouth.

C What's tuition run here these days anyway?

M — Last I heard, it's $125,000.

C — Per year?

M — No, per quarter.

C — Boy, things sure have changed since our days at the Big Green.

M — Ayuh.

Gathered for the wedding of C.C Hauge '84 and Bill Crenshaw '82 at the Snake River Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyo., were, left to right, back row, Jamie Resor '84, Mary Thompson '82, and Elizabeth Hauge Sword '79; and front row, Jenny Chandler Hauge '82, John Hauge '73, Gray Reisfield '82, Holly Becker '81, Bill Crenshaw 82, C.C. Hauge Crenshaw, Sissel Wivestad '84, John Kaplan '82, Steve McCarthy '82, John Colon '82, Woody Kingman '82, Karin Finkelston '84, Martha Leggett '84, Jack Crenshaw, Jenny Beatty '84, Chris Caravette '82, and Rosi Dupre '82.