1961

Bowman Gray School of Medicine 300 S. Hawthorne Road Winston-Salem, NC 27103

Last month, I was talking about how we still haven't finished growing up. Here's more evidence:

At a time when so many classmates are in the throes of college admissions and college tuition payments, it's nice to know the baby derby is still on!

Latest entry: Kathryn Burrell Shearer, "already known as Katie," the daughter of Peggy-Ann and Bob Shearer. "She's a preemie, but doing very well/' says Bob, who wrote in mid-February. Bob and Peggy-Ann also represent the most recent marriage in the class—l think.

Marriages are a bit harder than babies to keep track of, because some classmates have now married several times, and I suspect we'll continue to report new brides and bridegrooms right up until 2019 or 2020, when the last of us dies off. But we're facing a physiological deadline in the baby derby. I'll leave it to our class Ob-Gyns like ShellyBaroff to tell me when that's likely to occur, based on percentages and age. I've no intention of sending out a class menopause/vasectomy survey.

Meanwhile, more classmates have kids in the college application pool, and a growing percentage are beyond college. By the time you read this, the class of 1992 will have been picked, but I write in early March. Many '61 scions already are there:

Sons and daughters in the class of 1991 include Sarah Barton, Elisabeth Bates, Peter Chapman, Christina Goodridge, Catherine Huse, Katherine Jozus, Allison Lynn, Josephine Sandler, Sara Jane Steinberg, Jacob Tapper, Robert Vale, Robert Vincent, and Lisa Walker.

The class of 1990 includes Kenneth Baker, Scott Facher, Christopher Farrens, Wendy Heisterkamp, Adam Kaplan, Andrew Latimer, Christopher Schmidt, and James Wilhelm.

The juniors are Jennifer Beck, Martha Boss, Theodore Bush, Heidi Eberhardt, Alison Foster, and Anne Gazzaniga.

And the soon-to-be-graduates are Suzanne Ames, Barclay Corbus, Pamela Crisafulli, Brent Forester, John Henry, Sheldon Kendall, Lisa Lodmill, Margo Peterson, James Roussel, and Adam Steinberg.

We're moving closer to a second class project—this one in admissions. Class president Vic Rich writes, "Heretofore, apparently only clubs have been involved in the area of admissions and enrollment, so this appears to be the first time that a class will be involved on a consistent basis."

As you recall, the executive committee proposes the class make an annual contribution of about $1,000 to a specific admissions project. Holly Sateia, senior associate director of admissions, has suggested six alternatives.

Vic said he was polling executive committee members and getting varied responses. However, he said he wouldn't have the opportunity to compile them until tax season ends. We'll probably make a final decision this spring. (By the way, if you are interested in serving on the executive committee, just ask Vic.)

Addendum: In our report of those who attended Dartmouth Night festivities, we missed Moe Banks and his wife Ellen. He writes, "It was wonderful being back at Dartmouth with all those '6ls whom you did mention in the Alumni Magazine article."