1981

So here I sit, honoring a July deadline for a column you'll be reading in September. Time's fun when you're swatting flies. So, because of the time lag, by the time you read this, you'll already know which baseball team is close to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory this year, how much the President knew and when he. forgot it, whether North is destined for a vice presidential candidacy or an Oscar nominiation .... Despite your expected autumnal omniscience, however, I'll venture a few things you might not know:

Ben Pierce responded to my desperate solicition for news in the last issue. Said he hadn't written even to his mother since graduation, so I should feel honored. I am. Ben was married last year to Sarah Mansfield, a fashion manager from New York, whom he promptly dragged off to fashionable Montana. Ben is now working to "save the last of the least and the rest of the best" with the Nature Conservancy. Brass tacks: he's raising money. His goal: over $1 million a year. Checks should be made out to TNC, Last Chance Gulch (I kid you not) P.O. Box 258, Helena, MT 59624. Since Ben did me the favor of writing, I'll do him the favor of printing the above.

Eric Beatty is contorting around the world for the next year with Mummenschanz, the Swiss mime-mask theater group. The group finished up a tour on Broadway last fall. Bernard Sheahan received his M.B. A. from Harvard and is now down in Washington with the World Bank. He'll be married this fall to Alison Nevin, a Williams grad. And Joni Nichols, I hear, is doing internal medicine at the University of California Medical Center and will be a chief resident in July 1988.

On the wedding circuit, Dave Plough, will marry Kim Stieve (Middlebury '81) in October. Pam Donovan and Jake Gehret were married in July in Morristown, N.J. Pam is currently the marketing services manager for Roure Bertrand DuPont, a fragrance company based in New Jersey. Jake is in New York with Brown Brothers Harriman. (Jake obviously manages the dollars while Pam sells the scents.) Dr. and ex-Aire Rick Silverman was scheduled to sing at the wedding if he could get away from his residency commitments in Hershey, Pa. Hope he made it. And Scott Halsted was miffed that John Davis ruined his honeymoon by getting married one week after he did. Scott, we can safely assume, had a command performance at the wedding.

Jeff Tepper continues his Ph.D. studies in geology out at the University of Seattle. Bob Crowe is now brewin' at UCLA Business School after a few years with First Capital Corporation, where he had been working on small business and venture capital lending. Chris Hunter is an attorney in California and is an officer in the North California and Nevada Dartmouth Club. Husband Sam Taylor is working with American Presidents Line, a shipping company, one of the few making money on this trade deficit. Chris and Sam are living in Berkeley.

More from the aisle file. Ned Mandel married Betsy Phillips in May in Washington. Ned now has his M.B. A. from Stanford and is an AVP and project manager for Spaulding & Slye, a real estate development firm in McLean, Va. Jennifer Hoadley, an account executive with Grey Advertising, was married last May in New York to Philip Shaw, also in advertising. Hugh Martinez, a law student at Northeastern, married Donna Sanderson in Dedham, Mass., in May. And Dan Wyner married Lorna Stokes, a fine arts photographer, in June in Vermont. Dan is a vice president of Shawmut Hills, a division of R.H. Wyner Associates. They are living in Boston. Get the picture?

Up north, Lynne Gaudet continues on as assistant director of Alumni Affairs and had son Joe in May. And Danielle Dyer, currently an assistant director of Captial Giving in the Development Office, will be starting business school in the fall. Fellow 'Bls have not made her life any easier at the office as we consistently placed last in our peer group in terms of alumni giving. What's the story out there? A little more green support for the Green, please. If you haven't anted up in this year's campaign, make your check out now for next year's.

As the July weather in NYC becomes ever more oppressive (where is that weekend when you need it?) I'll sign off and fantasize about reading this in the cool autumn breeze. I'll see you in September.

Present at the wedding of Marcia McCrea Clinton '81 and Peter Clinton '81 were, left to right, MarkHastert '62, Robert McCorriston '57, Thaxter Sharp '81, Doug Peabody '72, the Clintons, Robin Webb'81, Thomas McCrea '53, Lisa Feinberg '83, John King '82, and Rachel Kenzie King '81.

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