1981

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Don't you just hate it when other people burden you with their problems? Like, when they tell you that they've got a deadline coming up in three minutes and a machine-gun-toting editor salivating over them, and they still have 13,000 pages of reading left to do? And then, they tell you they haven't done their laundry in four months, and their tax returns are still, well, mostly theoretical. Plus, they've got to write this # @ % * Class Notes column?

Yeah, I hate it, too.

There still is a thick sheaf of wedding announcements clogging up the Class Notes File. It's one of those things: You keep hoping they'll go away if you ignore them long enough, and they never do (sort of like class secretaries). The first such announcement concerns one George McLaughlin who, according to the report, wed a certain Charlene E. Grom last November in Chatham, Mass. He is an attorney. She is a teacher in Cambridge. The couple will live in Cambridge after a trip to Bermuda. The Globe failed to note the several hundred Dartmouth classmates who probably witnessed the nuptials, but they know who they are.

Then there's Bill Proom. I have been ignoring a letter from Bill's new wife, Mary Allen '83, since early December, and for that 1 apologize. Anyway, Mary and Bill were married last June 20 in Newton, Mass. Mary enclosed a photograph from the reception at the sumptuous Harvard Club. This magazine may be able to fit in the photo but in case it can't let me tell you it is a picture of lots of people I do not recognize. She writes: "We had quite a few Dartmouth grads in attendance, over 35 in all, with a strong contingent from Theta Delta Chi. The club remained unscathed."

Bill Barker also sent a picture of himself getting married, and this time I recognized more than two people. Bill was married last May to Leslie Murphy, who herself looks vaguely familiar. She works in Chicago at an unspecified job. Bill is, in his own words, "a finance geek for Quaker Oats." Lots of '81 heavies were at this one: Brian Hitchcock, Bill Burgess, Kirk Wilson, KevinCarpenter, Mike Steinharter, and John Casaudoumecq.

Joan Danziger made The New York Times in an article describing her Nobel prize-winning biochemistry research. Oops, no, that was someone else. Joan was there, yes, because she's going to be married. This month, in fact, to a "physician," as the Times so artfully puts it. His name is Daniel Herz Hechtman. Joan is assistant executive director of the South Norfolk County Association for Retarded Citizens in Medford, Mass. Al Greenstein informs me he has not been invited to attend this wedding, and he is deeply hurt by it.

And one last tidbit—thank goodness, not a wedding: Heather Blair has started at Northeastern University's law school. The press release doesn't say much about Heather, except that she "will undertake four legal internships in addition to her trad itional law school studies." And that sounds fine.

Right. Now for those tax returns .