1982

Well, the Pony Express has reached my outpost again so here's the news. Please excuse my lack of imagination in this column but I'm on my way to watch the Big Green in the NCAA hoop tournament and I've gotta run.

Wedding announcements continue to fill this scribe's mailbox and no letter has ever been more packed with details of marital bliss than that received from Brooke Tolley Confort. Brooke herself was married last Memorial Day weekend to Michael Confort and is currently a sales supervisor for Renault USA in New York while her husband owns his own printing company in that same city.

Competing for "Best Bridesmaid" at the Tolley-Confort festivities were Sherri Carroll Oberg, Sharon Flynn, and Corinne Heyes. No details as to the final judging. There must have been quite a battle for Brooke's bouquet as at least four of the guests-Paula Vaune Dugan, Lillian Cousins, Karen Masterson, and Gail Koziara have since announced their engagements. The cream of the crop is going and me still without a ring.

Paula is living in Boston and commuting to her real estate development job in New Hampshire. Lillian is a bit further south, a law school grad clerking for a judge in Atlanta. Karen is also in the law game, serving as an associate for a huge firm in Philadelphia, and Gail is pursuing an M.B.A. at Columbia.

Susan Burkhardt didn't take long to follow in Brooke's footsteps as she became Susan Burkhardt Mcllhenny in August. Among the other revelers at the Confort wedding were Crashy Zacher, who has her own jewelry business in New York City. A couple of Arthur Anderson employees made the trip to Long Island as well, Gina Kunz from the Chicago office and Laura Murray from the Frankfurt office. Kim Bolger was up from her bank job in Richmond, Va., while Ann MacAffer made the trip down from Albany.

The Dartmouth men were not left out completely as Ronnie Lohner was on hand to sample the improved ratio. Ronnie is now Dr. Ronnie in Hartford.

Elsewhere, and more recently, George Kachavos and Daphne Kenyon tied the knot in January. George is a senior resident in internal medicine at Boston's Faulkner Hospital while Daphne, a graduate of Michigan State and the University of Michigan, is employed as a fellow by the Lincoln Insitute of Land Policy. The couple is settled in Cambridge, Mass.

That's it for the wedding news that people have admitted to. I did receive a slightly tardy Christmas card from Kathy Briscoe. Kathy Sue has moved her roots to the left coast "where the sun shines, the earth quakes, and they always put three shots of vodka in a bloody mary." Of course, when Kathy hit California, Eric and Sue Cristensen headed for France and Kent and Sheila Cooper headed for Florida. No offense, Kath.

Chip Hankins checked in from San Francisco while swilling a couple of marbinis. What's a marbini? A little Stoli or Finlandia vodka with ice, give a nod to the vermouth bottle, and drop in a Blue Lake Spice Bean two if you want it strong. You learn it all here.

Chip also let me in on the news that Randy Gordon is in South America. My notes are a little sketchy on this next point but it appears .that Randy is teaching the natives an alternative to growing coca leaves. Bravo.

That's it, that's all. I can't read any more of my notes. See you next month on "This Month in the Eighty-Twos."

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