1987

Howdy, campers! This month's chapter of "87s on the Loose" begins in Yosemite, Calif. Our pal John Christiansen is a national park ranger in Yosemite Valley, a job he's had since graduation. John's current responsibility is road patrol, which required his attendance at park service law enforcement school. In addition to general patrol, John conducts search and rescue, emergency medicine, and visitor assistance. In his free time, he has taken advantage of the skiing, hiking, climbing, and cycling in the area. In John's words, it is "as much fun as I can imagine getting paid for." Life in the woods has not been lonely for him, either. Recent visitors have included Max Cobb, Stacy Prescott, TomFiddaman, and Amy Baker.

I have some baby news .to pass along for the first half of the year. Carroll Rios Rodriguez, (my next-door neighbor in the Freshman Book) and her husband, Tomas, celebrated the birth of their son Tonlas Eduardo on January 3. The family has returned to Guatemala to live now that Carroll and Tomas have received the master's degrees they were pursuing near Washington, D.C, Meanwhile, Mark Dailey and Eleanor Tison, who were wed last year, had a son on February 15 (and they still have him). Luke William Dailey is a potential 'll, for any admissions officers reading this. Mark and Eleanor are studying anthropology at the University of Georgia.

Next is a tale of two guys who just can't get enough of the Dartmouth Experience. Mark Segal, fraternity brother and seemingly eternal roommate of Gerry Russo, will be enrolled in the Dartmouth Medical School this fall. By the time he graduates Mark will have spent a third of his life in Hanover. Gerry, on the other hand, has spent the last year working for the Hanover Savings Bank and delivering pizzas for EBA's (Everything But Appetizing?). He then set off for the Italian LSA program in Siena as a teaching assistant. This fall, he'll begin a master's program in Italian through Middlebury College in Florence.

Now for a glimpse of some lifestyles of the rich and, well, you know. What better place could I start than the titillating pages of People magazine? If you will kindly turn to page four of the magazine's tribute to television's 50th anniversary, you will spot new People staff member Michael Tanner laughing wildly at something, probably the news of Oprah's new extraterrestrial diet or Elizabeth Taylor's 30th divorce and remarriage. I don't know how Michael landed this job, but now I know whom to ask where Elvis really is.

Heather McCutchen attended a playwriting workshop in lowa earlier in the year, arid word has it that she was producing one of her own works. Chris Brock, meanwhile, has been working in production of "Jesse Hawkes" for television in San Francisco.

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