1984

I'll be honest with you. Prior to assuming the responsibilities as your class secretary I too looked with disdain at the desperate pleas of secretaries beseeching their classmates to write them with news to include in their columns. A few days ago, however, I was confronted with the stark realization that my second column was fast becoming due and I did not possess even a single piece of fresh information to report. I wondered if I too would be forced to actually beg for news.

While roaming the streets of Hartford feeling sorry for my plight, I luckily ran into John Rich doing some shopping. John told me he was in the middle of studying for the Connecticut Bar exam and that he had joined the law firm of Murtha, Culina in Hartford. John, who graduated from BU law school in June, recently married Jean Zoubek, also a Hartford lawyer, whom he met while working in Washington, D.C.

Lest you think that no one in our class is practicing law, add two more to the list. TedCooperstein is working in New York for Dewey, Ballantine at al as a litigator and is still active in military training. Bonner Kyle also approached me at reunion and said she was practicing law in Houston but was "not really excited about the attention to detail that the work requires."

The column was starting to come together, but it still lacked anything fresh. I decided to call Mike Sill and find out the news from Minneapolis. Mike is working in his family's business selling the machinery and supplies that are used in road construction. When I inquired about his social life, Mike admitted that his line of work was "kind of a conversation stopper" at the local bars but that he was dating a "blondehaired, blue-eyed Minnesota gal" and spending his free time hunting and fishing, with limited success. Mike reports that Warner Ide gave in to his love for the outdoors and has built a house on a bluff overlooking a Wisconsin bass lake even though it is some 40 miles away from his office in St. Paul. Warner is a VP of marketing for his uncle's sign company and has been successful with a separate company he recently started which sells specialty signs to outdoorsmen. Casimir Lawler rounds out the Minneapolis '84 contingent. "Buster" works for Ivy Medical, where he has developed an instrument which measures the volume of droplets of solutions.

At this point there are a number of titillating tidbits I could relate to you about our classmates but alas I am fast running out of space. And to think I almost started begging for news. Let the other secretaries resort to such tactics. Rest assured that I can and will continue to fill this column with or without your help. Of course, if you have a minute to write, you know where to find me.

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