1981

Hallidie Grant wrote recently, cruelly encouraging me, among other things, to publicly taunt Al Greenstein and his new lycra biking shorts.No,I said, Al has paid his dues, and so has won lifetime protection from embarrassment in this space. Never again shall I ridicule Al before 1,000 vulturous renders.

Yeah, right. Hallidie sent me a picture. The shorts are, in a word, breathtaking. Schwarzenegger, Stallone come to mind.

Ms. Grant herself now flaunts the impressive-sounding title "Director of Financial Services" at GATX, responsible for literally a lot of dollars in debt and equity placements. She is very busy much of the time. Fortunately, however, she occasionally is overcome with guilt for not lavishing constant attention on your class secretary, and so inundates me with tons of neat things—typically, things about some of Ma Fayer's most illustrious alums.

Alums like, oh, Greg Jaeger. Greg last year finished law school, secured employment with a fancy law firm, then secured employment again—this time as clerk for the chief justice of Denver's federal district. And there's Dave Plough (I know—Dave Plough, again?! I'm sorry.) who's still consulting for Beta Group in S.F., apparently studying a truck drivers' school this week.

Meanwhile, according to Hallidie—who jetted off to steamy New Zealand last spring with a certain, unnamed '80 male—Beth Harris has joined the Department of Education in Washington as associate counsel—extending the tradition, as Hallidie poignandy observes, "of going from great job to great job every 18 months or so." Kevin Lewis is newly employed, too, with a cable brokerage firm called Daniels & Associates. He's bought a house in Denver, but complains about having always and forever to criss-cross the nation for work. And Dawn Decker, with whom Hallidie cavorted at John Gilroy's wedding, has converged on Big Blue-Manhattan, moving from IBM's Atlanta office.

Annabelle Brainard Canning and husband Doug '79 moved to San Diego, according to "H," who vigorously denies ogling the construction workers outside her hip, today, newly rehabbed, S.F. townhouse. Annabelle is a tax lawyer, with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison; Doug is a pediatric doctor with the U.S. Navy.

Incredibly, there was more. Hallidie didn't know that Alan Johnson had been made senior appraiser with Northern Appraisal Associates in Manchester, N.H. I found that out by myself, sort of. She did know some stuff I didn't, however. She knew that Bob Spears had been married, to Christine Pellet, over Labor Day weekend in Atlantic, lowa. Bob works for American First Bank in the City by the Bay. And Su-Moon Paik wed Bob Brown '80 at Loon Mountain last August. Predictably, they too live in San Francisco.

Hallidie (is she embarrassed yet?) somehow neglected to mention Harold Williams. So I will, and remember: send announcements now for this year's special July Brides column.

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