1987

7048 South Cook Court Littleton, CO 80122

The Dartmouth Alumni Club party gets a little out of hand. Amidst the dancing and carousing, a copy of the Alumni Magazine slips out the third-floor window and flutters to the street below. A married couple, down on their luck and still reeling from the stock market crash, stumbles upon the magazine. Flipping through the class notes, they ask that eternal question, "What can the class of 1987 do for us?" Well, let me tell you:

First of all, we've got to get your finances in order. Dan Keane can give you some advice at Bankers Trust in Hoboken, N.J., or Drew Desky could lend a hand from Irving Trust in New York. Allison Bleyler works for Chemical Bank in New York, and she's back from her Austrian ski trip, so I know you can reach her.

Next, let's deal with your family's legal problems. Uncle Elmer is in jail on charges of narcotics possession. Apparently, he was posing as a physician in New Hampshire, where incidentally, Colleen Sullivan sells pharmaceuticals for Merck. Call Laura Gasser at the law offices of Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York, and she might be able to help out old Elmer. If it turns into a federal case, Mark Brzezinski of the law firm Akin, Gump & Strauss in Washington, D.C., might have to become involved.

Now, about your kids. Let's hope you'll never have to call on them professionally, but Christin Webster works at a center for emotionally and mentally handicapped children in Boston, and Melissa Duarte can be of similar help in Rhode Island. In the fall, you can send your kids to Karen Wicke at Tarry town, (N.Y.) Middle School for science classes. If they want a computer, David Foster and John Hwang of DISC in Plainville, Conn., will be happy to sell you all the software you want. To fulfill their humanities distributive, Carla Burton could tutor the little darlings in Spanish in New York or Virginia Lawreck could do the same at Deerfield Academy. Note that Virginia was married in December to Victor Muzquiz in Morelia, Mexico, and Shana Hopperstead was present at the ceremony.

Speaking of weddings, Tammy Grady married Chuck Fagan in November, and Hope Castiglione served as maid of honor. You sent a gift, didn't you?

Anyway, things are looking up for you now. If you play your cards right, you might be able to have Paul Casella bring his film, What We Have In Common, over to your house for a private showing. He made the film at Dartmouth in coordination with his creative writing thesis, and he was awarded third prize for it at the Twelfth Poetry Film Festival in San Francisco.

Naturally, your thoughts turn to travel. Dan Wolfe is studying in Moscow, and I know he'd love to see you. He left America with only five gallons of his favorite peanut butter (Skippy Super-Chunk), so you might throw a jar or two into your suitcase for him.

If a Rockies ski trip is more appealing, be sure to say hi to Dominique Cone in Golden, Colo. She works for Amax Mineral Resources in Golden, and is helping the company spin off a microelectronics subsidary.

What's that you ask? You want to go to the Summer Olympics, but you need a guide? Funny you should mention that. Colette Bourquin served as one of only 20 American guides for the Sports Illustrated advertisers at the Winter Games in Calgary. No, I don't know if she got to meet Kathy Lee Gifford.

Well, it looks like your lives are back to normal. Feel free to check back with us anytime.