1976

Just when I thought there was absolutely no more news about our distinguished classmates, the Alumni Magazine gave its secretaries two months off. Whew. What a gift! And now I am ready to tackle the column again, as I have heard several interesting tidbits.

By now George Smith has returned to Boston, having spent the past two years as a translator at Seiko Epson Corporation's headquarters in Nagano, Japan's mountainous region. Did you ever run into CherylNewman, George? She and her husband, Charlie Wise '77, are in Tokyo. Any other '76 classmates in Japan?

Joel Goldfield and his new wife, Iris Ulrike Bork, have also returned to the U.S. from abroad. Joel brought a bit of Germany with him, however, when he married Iris, who is from Hamburg. She is a doctoral candidate at Munich University, while also teaching at Plymouth State College and Dartmouth! That is an impressive commute! Joel is an assistant professor of French at Plymouth State and a consultant in foreign language teaching methodology and computer-assisted language instruction at good ol' "Dart Coll"! What language is spoken in the Goldfield-Bork household?

The übiquitous Boston connections include news of the marriage of David Urion and Deborah Choate. David is an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a staff neurologist at Children's Hospital and director of the learning disabilities and behavioral neurology program. Deborah is a resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Boston's "hi-tech" focus has kept BillSchillhammer on the computer scene. After ten years at Intel he has become the vice president for sales at Number Nine Computers, a manufacturer of "high-performance/high-quality graphics boards for personal computers." He hopes that any classmates in need of "a graphics board for CAD, publishing, or presentation/imagery/art graphics" will give him a call. Bill reported that Hilary Chan lives in Brook line and has supplemented his career as an artist by working as a software programmer with Number Nine Computers.

In Boston one can also find DavidSchmahmann. Besides the distinction of having lived next-door to me in our sophomore year in Middle Mass, David also has distinguished himself by becoming a partner in the law firm of Nutter, McClennen and Fish. He is a member of the litigation department specializing in drug product liability. After Dartmouth, David attended Cornell Law School.

As David was becoming a partner in Boston, David Slade was becoming a law partner in the New York law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy. David in the firm's London office, where he has been for five years.

Finally, I received word that WilliamBrigden has been named director, competition information services (sounds like spy work to me) within NCR Corporation's product marketing and strategic planning division, in Dayton.

I have a rare opportunity to leave news for the next issue. Please continue to send any news or gossip, and keep an eye out for the next issue in which you will learn: Which of our classmates is a big wheel with the State of Oregon? Which two men have lived in Virginia one as a pastor and one putting legs in plaster? Which classmate named his business after Maxfield Parrish?

"INFANT MORALITY (sic) UP IN VERMONT" said the headline in the River Valley Herald. But will this continue through the college years?

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