1981

I want to apologize at the start for being a little testy last month. Mom was in the hospital again, and the kids were a royal pain, plus The Editor was on my case about certain factual "irregularities." But I shouldn't have let all that tarnish the sort of professionalism you've come to expect in this space. Ha ha, just joking, of course: Mom is fine, and I have no children. The Editor really is a nice guy. I can't even blame Harold Williams. (Well, okay, I probably could . . .) I was just in a bad mood.

Which brings me to let's see here . .. ah, yes—Chuck Battev. Chuck, via TedHibb en, sends word of his flight from Minneapolis and brand management at General Mills to, yes, the Philippines. He instructs Ted, "Have him [i.e., me] print a pithy update (address, two-year volunteer for nonprofit business development organization) and encourage people to visit." Okay. Chuck's address is c/o Maranatha Trust, P.O. Box 49, Greenhills, Metro Manila 3113. Visit him.

Jerry James has gone into his family business, building shopping centers and stuff. This according to an incredibly favorable profile in the Wilmette, III., weekly paper. Jerry got his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, then slugged it out at Continental Bank's real estate lending department. Now he works for Dad, with a younger brother and two cousins. JoanDanziger Hechtman thinks that just because she sends me a legible, pleasant note on pink paper that I will tell you she was mother June 30 to Rachel Faye. She's now a full-time mom. Dan, the father in question, is a resident in surgery, and they both live in Brookline, Mass. Searl Vetter, who apparently believes that I am secretary for her business school class (Note: I'm not), says she and husband Jules Kortenhorst have moved to Hong Kong from Belgium. Both are on international assignment, she with Procter & Gamble, he with Shell. Write them at P&G, 6th floor, JDH Center, Wan Hoi Street, Hunghom, Kowloon. Searl also claims that Jeanne Boutelle finally finished her M.B.A. at NYU last spring, taking time along the way to study in Japan and train for triathlons. Jeanne spent the summer trotting hither and yon through Europe, and is supposed to be starting an unimaginably lucrative career on Wall Street. At Smith Barney, Searl thinks.

David Crane, I see, has been elected a trustee of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass. He's also on the board of the Berkshire Country Day School. And he has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. And he works for Crane & Cos. And he has a wife, Ruth Blodgett, who works at Berkshire Medical Center. And Rich Page, it turns out, is in Boston. On stately Beacon Hill, no less. Rich, as far as I can tell, wears his Dartmouth baseball cap everywhere. He went to law school, and admits to working now at Choate Hall & Stewart. Plus, he's getting married this month, to Maura Murphy. She's a lawyer, too.

One more reminder. Mini-reunion. October 14, 9:30 p.m., more or less. DOC House. Come and have fun, or risk the wrath of Pat Berry.

529 Columbus Avenue #16, Boston, MA 02118