1970

P.O. Box 3934 Modesto, CA 95352-3934

Hey, everybody, remember back in our senior year when a real live Playboy bunny ran as a contestant in the Winter Carnival Queen of the Snows pageant? Well, rest easy, because the Dartmouth-Playboy connection lives on. It seems that while not engaged assaulting limo drivers for calling her "dear," feminist Shere Hite has been busy defending the integrity of her recent study Women and Love: A Cultural Revolutionin Progress from the likes of our own Robert Graves. Bob, now a sociology professor at the University of Michigan, described the tome as "the functional equivalent of malpractice for surveys" in the January 11 issue of Newsweek. And the Playboy connection? Just check out this year's February edition for photo reportage of Hite taken for Playboy years ago. Let's all rest considerably easier knowing that one of our classmates serves in the national vanguard protecting us from pollsters everywhere.

Serving on the local vanguard at Westwood (Mass.) High School and charged with that never-ending task of keeping as much distance as possible between Playboy magazine and his students is Peter Geary. Peter will attempt distracting his students therefrom with lectures on marine science, the fundamentals of biology, and the natural history of Massachusetts. Peter moves up from the junior high school level and also coaches the high school's basketball team. An alumnus of the Peace Corps, Peter fills his spare time with carpentry and photography. We've had several reports recently in this column concerning classmates with careers in secondary education, a development which seems particularly noteworthy and commendable considering the events of our undergraduate era.

Be that as it may, Larry Gotlieb has found a solid niche in one of the more traditional professions for Ivy graduates. First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles reports that Larry has recently been appointed vice president in their general counsel's office. Larry received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and then worked as a legislative deputy with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors; an associate with the firm of Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin; an assistant U.S. attorney; and assistant general counsel with the Distilled Spirits Council. A native Angeleno, Larry is comfortably at home these days in the San Fernando Valley.

And so, dear classmates, after some two years of crying in the wilderness Modestostyle, most of you no doubt thrilled with your class secretary to see us finally get our due in a lengthy article in a recent issue of News week. After the obligatory but nevertheless uncalled for cheap shot describing the area to be "as interesting and diverse as an empty parking lot," the authors thankfully recovered their senses and went on to report to the rest of America what I've been trying to tell you right here all along. As earlier reported in this column, the article confirmed that "(1) the Central Valley really is like American Graffiti, and (2) pickup trucks, backyard barbeques, and neighbors who say hello aren't all that bad." So we'll be on the lookout for all you trendy bicoastal types. As soon as the impact of the pollution, congestion, crime, and slime of life in megalopolis dawns upon you, just pack up the kids in the Country Squire and come home to Modesto. You won't regret it.