1976

33 South Street Needham, MA 02192

Here's hoping everyone has found some way to beat the doldrums of winter by now. The New England winter has seemed interminable, and I'm hoping the groundhog experts were right when they said the beast saw no shadow. In the meantime my bit of sunshine will come from leafing through the travel section of the paper, I'm afraid.

Other communiques from those close to the sun includes the happy news that Adrienne (Alexander) and Tom Ruegger, who live outside of Los Angeles, are expecting child number three! They now have two boys, Nathan and Luke, and Adrienne says she is "dreaming in pink." We will look forward to the news. (As some of you are learning, you can't write or talk to me these days without the fear that you'll be seeing your words in print. When you're desperate for news . . .)

Dallas is the new home for John Gleason, so I'm told. My source (a former hockey player and class secretary—I don't want to mention any names) says that John is working for Hitachi, covering marketing for the Southeast. The source also noted that as John's territory has grown so has "his ego!" Could this be true?

From the colder front comes news that Dan Porter has started his own video company in Portland, Maine, appropriately called "Polar Bear Productions."

Emily Geohegan is starting her sixth year as the minister of the First Congregational Church in Dunbarton, N.H. She is also the proud mother of Sarah Alexandra, her second child.

Also in New Hampshire, Rick Berryman is living in West Lebanon. He was recently promoted to vice president of CDF Northeast, a building supply wholesaler in White River Junction.

I've received news of two of our classmates who are physicians in Boston hospitals. (I imagine there are several others!) David Urion is a staff neurologist at Children's Hospital and the director of the learning disabilities and behavioral neurology program at the Harvard Medical School, where he is an assistant professor of neurology. Mary Anna Sullivan is also teaching at the Harvard Medical School. (Do you two ever run into each other?) She is also director of consultation psychiatry at the Lahey Clinic. Recently, Mary Anna was elected to the Lowell School Committee on a somewhat unpopular pro-segregation platform. She is the mother of two children, ages two and five. Her husband, Joel, is a rheumatologist in Lowell Mass.

Gary Slack is senior vice president and general manager of Doremus, the country's leading financial and business-to-business communications agency. It is part of the Omnicom group, which includes BBDO and DDB-Needham, two large consumer ad agencies. Gary's wife, Kelley Fead '78, is a free-lance writer and editor working out of their home. They have an almost four-yearold son, Alex, who is anxiously awaiting the April arrival of a new sibling.

Congratulations to Rich Auletta, who did a remarkable job as the president of the Club Officers Association. His term ended this past fall, and word has it that he did a fabulous job as president and especially in running the events of the Club Officers Weekend. Thanks for a job well done, Rich.

"An educational enterprise at its best is always in the process of becoming, rather than a finished thing ready for its official portrait."—John Sloan Dickey