1977

As usual, spring brought weddings, graduations, babies, and job changes, so we have a full kettle of tidbits to serve up, but "keep 'em coming...

We had the pleasure of attending the wedding of Jon Bagger and Deborah Dunham in mid-June. They were married in West Arlington, Vt., on a picture-perfect summer's day, in a venerable, small white church beside the Battenkill River, complete with a red covered bridge and inner tubers floating downstream. Jon is an associate professor of physics at Harvard and Debbie is a physical therapist and artist. We met some '77s we hadn't known before as well as catching up with a few old acquaintances. Evy Chan, Vinny and Kathy Laudone, Doug Morgan and his fiancee, and Treff and Melinda LaFleche had all made the trip. The minister was none other than the Reverend William Pender '78, up from Florida for the occasion. Doug Morgan was scheduled to be married a week later; he and his wife are both in medical school at Case Western.

Boston medics now include Lea Sewell, who has left New York to become an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School where she will continue in gerontology, and Kathy Phillips, who is beginning a residency in psychiatry.

Actress and singer Jennifer Warren was on Charles Kuralt's "Sunday Morning" TV program in mid-June. She starred on Broadway in "Big River," and accompanied the cast to Japan, playing in Japanese.

Secondhand sources offered news of Scott Andrews his documentary "And Then Came John" won a prize at the San Francisco Film Festival and was aired on public television in March. The film chronicles the life of John McGough, from his birth with Down's syndrome 30 years ago, through societal rejection and prejudice in urban America, to his rebirth as an artist, musician, and much-loved personality in the warm and accepting cocoon of a small northern California community. Scott plans to use the film as a central part of his doctoral dissertation at Stanford's School of Education.

Mackenzie Joy was welcomed to the world on June 5 by her parents John '75 and Pam Rowland Bartlett, along with brother Nicholas, almost 4, and sister Chelsea, 2.

Short takes from the "newsclip" files: Another New England physician, William D. Rogers, an orthopedic surgeon, has joined the staff at Kennebec Valley Medical Center in Augusta, Maine, specializing in traumatic disorders of the hand and wrist. William Hixon received his Ph.D. this spring in zoology from U. Mass. Since this item was referred to us from The Andover Townsman, we're unable to report what he'll be up to next. (It seems as if the class of '77 has a large number of "Phuddy-duddies" might be worth some research.) Steven Solomon, now a clinical psychologist in San Diego specializing in adult and family therapy, led a workshop on "The Jewish Family: Changing Values in Changing Times" at an April conference. One Richard Stillman performed in March as "The Irish Minstrel" in South Brunswick, N.J. Rick has received a "Meet the Composer" grant for his work on the Lincoln Center production of "A Whitman Sampler." Gary Komarow has been promoted to senior staff counseldirector of litigation and legal services at the National Association of Home Builders in Washington, D.C.

Lansford Perry was in the process in April of asking the town of Canton, Conn., for permission to install a 50-foot observation tower on 1,170-foot Mount Ratlum. The tower, modeled on wooden fire towers from the Pacific Northwest, would command a view from Hartford to the Catskill Mountains. Mount Ratlum sits amid nearly 1,000 acres the Perry family has purchased in the hope of preserving an island of wilderness within a rapidly growing town. Lans and his brother Scott run one of the last dairy farms in Canton, along with Perry Technology Corp., which manufactures precision engineering parts.

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