1977

My daughter has a recording by a Canadian fellow named Raffi, that starts: "On a hot, hot day in July . . It proceeds, singing the story of five green and speckled frogs, eating delicious bugs and jumping into the pool, "where it was nice and cool." Aside from prefering brats to bugs, I empathize with those frogs. The summer's been hot and humid beyond all reason or memory, so that even the pools are tepid. It goes beyond the Upper Valley, too: who ever heard of Lake Michigan being 77° F?!

Not all water was so warm. We escaped to Moosilauke one weekend, organized by Jeff Nadherny '78, along with maybe 40 others. Helpful breezes up the ravines chased most of the blackflies. We cajoled our four-year-old daughter up Gorge Brook Trail, and returned from the summit to an icy dip in Baker River. (Ah, wilder bliss.) That night, Everett (yep, same fellow from freshmen trips) called the square dances, and played the Salty Dog Rag at double speed. Ken Rosenfield almost kept up with Lala Carothers '86, fading the last four bars. Lynn and Bob Ceplikas '78, Phil Coffin '79, Al Austin '75, Caroline Coggeshall and Dave Banta ('78s), and Mike Carothers '80 were among the others grateful for mountain air.

John Storella came to the rescue, just as this column was about to disappear down Moosilauke's backside via the Carriage Road. "In May I graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law. I've passed the Patent Bar and a few weeks ago took the New York Bar. (Fingers crossed!) I'm now moving to Brooklyn, N.Y. In September I'll begin work as an associate at Fish & Neave, an intellectual property law firm in the city, where I'll specialize in biotechnology." (Be sure to bring your latest E. coli to John!)

"During my three years in Charlottesville I saw quite a bit of George Barnes. He got a master's degree in English from 'The University' (as UVA is known down here) and is alive and well and currently working as an editor at a local research institute.

"I'd also like to report that Mike Hanson is now senior vice president and counsel for the Ist American Bank in Boston. He and his wife, Jan, live in Randolph, Mass., and have an adorable 19-month-old son, William (Willie).

"We'd like to hear from the other Gile Hall boys, Vin Laudone" (see last month's column), "Dan Mahoney, Terry Marcincin, Peter Mills" (still Pres-iding over his California company, we presume), "KenPhillips and Don Wiviott."

Betsy Bullard Morse and her husband Richard Morse '78 have a daughter named Ainsley in our daughter Kaethe's class at Dartmouth College Child Care Center. Betsy is a nurse practitioner at Alice Peck Day Hospital in Lebanon, while her hus band is doing a residency at Mary Hitchcock. It's fun and amazing to see the various ways we continue to meet and reacquaint ourselves with classmates we didn't know or didn't know well while at Dartmouth.

Caution about cabins, and DOC ones in particular. Two Outing Club cabins have burned during the past year or so: Stoddard in the Grant, and Great Bear near Moosilauke. Chimney fires are blamed; take care for your own!

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