1977

Some college vernacular lives on, transcending student generations, and occasionally we're reminded of it: Kaethe, our five-year-old, with delight upon being shown how to open a box, recently exclaimed "awesome!" a word we'd left behind many years ago, but which she picked up from the work-study students at the Dartmouth Child Care Center.

Rick Angulo's mother called several weeks ago to make sure readers of the Alumni Magazine would be aware of the memorial fund established in Rick's memory, which will offer a scholarship to a student attending an off-campus program. She mentioned she had spoken recently with Betsy Roberts Gile, who was enjoying her newly-arrived second daughter.

On a trip to California this winter, I saw Rika Pierson Clement, her husband Bill (not Waldo these days!) '79, and their two daughters, Lauren and Emma. I spoke on the phone with Edy Ullman but wasn't able to see her in person.

Speaking of California (and believe me, snow in mid-April makes you think of California!), just after the column for the last issue was submitted we received a card from Carol and Mike Zischke joyfully announcing the birth of Julia Carol on February 12.

We saw Bambi and Sandy Wood out at the Skiway, tikes in tow, at Easter. Actually, Brooke and Todd will soon be skiing rings around even their ski-aficionado parents, with the early exposure they've gotten to the sport. A May news release announced that Sandy is the top-ranked portfolio manager at Advest, Inc., the Hartford-based securities firm.

It was good to see John Hart again at an April gathering of Dartmouth engineering alumni in Chicago. John lives in Winnetka and still works for Baxter Healthcare, where he started in 1977. Are there others of us with 12 years of longevity with one employer?

John 'BO and Amy Cammann Cholnoky joined us as the sole reps of' 77 at the May Class Officers Weekend. Unfortunately (from our perspective, but probably not from theirs), they left J. 8., nearing 4, and Kari, 1, at home in Darien.

Via a circuitous grapevine came word that Roger Ulrich will be joining the Hanover ranks as assistant professor of classics at Dartmouth this fall. Welcome and congratulations, Roger. In other academic news, Mark Desnoyers has been elected to fellowship in the American College of Cardiology. He is currently affiliated with Tufts University New England Medical Center Hospital in Boston.

As for us, another New England fall isn't far off (and, no, we don't get the summer "off"!). We're hoping for a season of renewal, peace, and sanity, but amid the chaos of two more-than-full-time jobs, kindergarten, child care, chauffeuring from one to the other, bills—you get the picture we're glad just to have unconditional love and support. Robert Frost notwithstanding, it's friends and family that have made all the difference.

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