1986

Before too long many '86s will be loading up the station wagon to take the kids on the historical trip of America, the sort of trip where you check out the Liberty Bell, Mount Vernon, and lots of McDonald'ses. Now that Anne Grimes is the curator of the USS Constitution Museum you have lots of good reasons to make sure that you take the youngsters to Boston. In addition to swabbing the poop-deck and keeping the ship in tip-top fighting condition, Anne's responsibilities include exhibit design and installation, library supervision, and collection management. Anne is also offering special midnight joy rides to classmates.

With all the sophisticated equipment on board ships nowadays, engineers must occupy a significant number of berths. ByungYe is one such engineer. After receiving his master's in engineering from Stanford, Byung got a crew cut, decided he liked it, and joined the navy. The nature of his mission is top secret, but we do know that, at least offically, he is stationed in Florida.

As you may recall, Hans Stander made two lengthy forays into Venezuala during his undergraduate years. His award-winning thesis, "Transnational Corporate Behavior and Host Country Development: The Venezualan Wheat Industry," indicates that Hans did more than suntan while south of the equator. Recently our friend was in Hanover polishing up his thesis for publication. In case you are not super-interested in purchasing a book about South American agriculture, Hans is working on another book. It's about his experiences at Dartmouth and will explore why "Dartmouth deals with some kinds of change so painfully." No word yet on whether he intends to change the names of his classmates to protect the innocent. Currently Hans is in New York on a public policy internship.

It could be that soon there will be two 'B6s with books on the best-seller list. TonyFenwick has returned to Palo Alto to pursue his interest in creative writing.

Please take a moment and give Ken Rutherford a phone call. Ken is leading a happy but boring life in Boston and was stumped by the question, "What interesting or exciting things have you done recently?" The most newsworthy thing Ken has done recently is revamp his tie collection. When pressed to think of something more interesting, he remembered that he was living in an apartment with no heat. Have a heart. Think of something wild to do with Ken.

Praise be to Brooke Bensen for sending word of herself and her pals. Brooke is at Columbia getting a master's in applied physiology; on the side she is trying to initiate some research into the neurochemistry of diabetes. Maryly "Mars" Culfey is tooting away at the Yale School of Music, but she intends to ship herself and her flute off to California to work on her Ph.D. ClaudineBelsky has been promoted to assistant buyer at G. Fox in Hartford. Beth Kostman is applying to architectural schools but is still thinking up slogans in her NYC advertising job.

More wedding news: Terry Galvin recently married John Anderson '85. While honeymooning in France they ran into JimO'Shaughnessy, who is now stationed in SmithKline Beckman's Paris office. SamKinney became engaged to Patricia Portage over Christmas.

One of my New Year's resolutions was to include news of a wider group of '86s in this column. You can help by doing two things: 1) sending me a quick note about your recent activities, 2) not hanging up the phone if you get a call from some weirdo named Howie. It will probably be me.

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