1977

By the time you read this, we should be almost ready for the thaw that brings on the maple sugaring season, but as I write in mid-January, it is -24 degrees on our front porch.

Remember those cold mornings crossing the Green to Thayer, as the moisture in your nostrils froze, your breath caught in your throat, and the steam plumed thick and white from the smokestack behind New Hamp?

We had a lot of third-hand news this month. Apple Computer sent word that Mike Mosher has joined their interactive education department of customer publications and computer-based training as senior graphic designer. Mike majored in art with the visual studies program at Dartmouth. He has been doing computer graphics for three years now, including some children's educational software. He and his wife, Chrysande, recently moved from San Francisco to Mountain View. Mike also reported that he had dinner with his "old Foley House buddy, the slim and elegant Stuart Kurland," when Stuart was in San Francisco for the MLA convention in December.

According to an October story in the Connecticut Middletoivn Press, Dr. Carolyn Salafia, the consultant pathologist in fetal, placental, and neonatal pathology to Yale University School of Medicine, is doing groundbreaking work on the etiology of physical and mental defects of babies at birth.

Carolyn went to med school at Duke, did residencies at Yale and Danbury, is a former NIH developmental science research fellow, and is an associate research scientist at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

The South Carolina Florence Morning News reported that Dr. Stephen Rappaport, director of geriatric medicine at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, gave a talk on the general aging process, dividing the aged into three groups: the young old (65-74), the old (75-84), the old old (over 85), and described aging as "inevitable, irreversible, and variable."

Steve went to med school at Indiana University, then did his internship and residency in internal medicine at U. Of Cincinnati, before doing a fellowship in geriatric medicine at Harvard. He reported he now has two children, ages one and four. He says he doesn't see '77s around Indy very often, though occasionally he see Tom Eggleston '74. He would like to hear news of classmates Jim Danaher, John Tarantino, and Elizabeth Roberts.

The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts has awarded the chartered financial analyst designation to James E. Guth. He's been working in Chicago for Miami Corporation, a private investment company, for the last six years as chief financial analyst, and finished an M.B.A. from Northwestern U. in 1983. Jim said he thought JimLloyd had recently moved from Kansas City to another state (Iowa?) to take on the challenge, as chief financial officer, of turning around the ailing fortunes of a small railroad.

Jim Guth also reported that GeorgeShackelford is still a curator at the Houston Museum of Art, and Brad Brinegar recently was promoted at Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago, where he has worked since completing his M.B.A. at Columbia a number of years ago.

Evan Haley's brother Mark '74 wrote of Evan's doings since graduation. With a master's and Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia, where he was a president's fellow, Evan studied in Madrid on a Fulbright scholarship, and is currently teaching Greek history and western civilization at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Last August he married Sabine Noack of Hamburg, West Germany, whom he had met in Madrid.

Jeff Lyon wrote in mid-December to say, "It's a boy! Jason Edwin."

And in November, Evy Chan let us know that she had joined the Lake Forest College faculty as teaching associate in voice and accompanist for choir.

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