1979

Lots of action up there in Hanover: new president, new football season, probably even some new letters to the D with fresh insight on the Indian symbol issue. Ah, but you know all of this. What's new that you didn't know is that once again Ted-O has done the impossible and has convinced our class to give more money to Dartmouth than any other eight-year-out class has done. What a smoothie. So it's on to fundraising for this year. Nah, what the heck, take a week off.

Well, back to the '79 column where, as with so many institutions on Frat Row, rumor is fact. Rumor had it that Ken Loos came east just long enought to show off his bride-to-be, Jennifer Thies, and then was off to the wild west. Fact is, they met getting their master's degrees in geology from the University of Cincinnati. Fact is, all geologists must pass through Texas at some point in their lives, and these two are doing their time in Houston. Rumor also had it that former Beta broom band man Ed Heilbron and his wife, Deirdre, came to give their blessings. Fact is, Ed is headed off to Wharton B-School this fall.

Rumor had it that Jeff Boylan had returned to Dartmouth as a Montgomery Fellow to teach a course titled "Wimpy Bonfire Builders—The True Tragedy of the Commons." It was just a rumor. My mother and brother returned to the States on a transAtlantic flight once while I was on LSA and spoke of meeting a remarkable Dartmouth student who on this flight had, after dinner, put up a sign saying "Leftovers here." Ring a bell, Jeff?

It is true that Mike McCarthy and his wife, Charlotte, have been busy in Baltimore and had a baby boy with a grown-up name, William Sandford Jordan McCarthy. Clearly destined for greatness, or at least "Sandy" at a minimum.

It is also true that Dave Prince's cost/benefit analysis two years ago convinced his employer, the Iroquois Group, that it was better off contracting out to Dave rather than paying him a full-time salary. This got David going on his own computer business up there in Olean, N.Y. LaurieBranch, oh the other hand, stayed with Iroquois, partly because of the hats but also because the group was started by Laurie's grandfather, made big by her father, and now is terrorized by Laurie, Twig '77, and the rest of their siblings.

It is true that you can call Bob Curry "Doc" now albeit the six-year Ph.D. kind. Bob, Susie and Erin (one and a half years) may still be in Michigan, where Bob finished the biology program unless he's made his promised migration back to the Northeast.

It may be true that we have another budding Broadway star in our midst. Kathy Peden Blaisdell acted last summer in New England with the Opera North in productions of H.M.S. Pinafore, and The Marriageof Figaro. Recently Kathy was chosen to solo with the North Country Chorus. All of this in addition to her work with Dartmouth Admissions. Husband Ted should be in the third year of residency at Mary Hitchcock.

And yes, it is true that there should be help just around the corner for those fraternities still failing minimum standards. Paul Centenari and his brother have started an investment bank in Denver called "Hanover West" which raises money for low to moderate-income housing. Paul wrote of our class's next financial czar, Bob Watterson, and Bob's efforts to start a Boston business specializing in financial services called "Ist Financial."

And finally, the rumor that the length of these columns will be shortened from now on by almost one half of what they used to be is true. Stay tuned for an all new AlumniMagazine. Surf's up.

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