1981

Your new Alumni Magazine scribe has finally arrived. While Keith Hammond is sipping margaritas on a deserted island as he promised, I'm up to my eyeballs in Pampers and baby formula. Christopher was born in July a week before he was clue, much to this mother's delight. Being nine months pregnant in July is not a state I wanted to be in for very long!

Other news on the baby front. Jill Martin Eichner and her husband, Ad, had baby Kyle in the spring just in time for show and tell at the Storrs Pond picnic. Ann Smolowe added baby number two, Jeremy, to the family in early July. Smo manages wilderness trips for corporations sort of an executive Outward Bound. She told me that she was back in her office (or on the trails?) four days after her first baby, and planned to do the same after the second. Having just gone through the process myself, I know it's easier said than done (I'm taking seven weeks off!).

Back on the career front, there is lots of news of our classmates who are getting ahead. Carolyn Samiere is an international lawyer with Richard I. Fine and Associates in L.A. Carolyn, that lucky devil, was recently featured in Money Magazine as a "fast track careerist."

Cyril Smith has joined Zuckerman, Spaeder, Goldstein, Taylor, and Better in Baltimore where he will handle civil and criminal litigation. Cyril was with Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin in Washington, D.C.

Yet another lawyer on the move is David Perkins who, at last notice, was embroiled in a tight race this summer for district attorney in Cumberland County, Maine. No news of the outcome, but in his spare time David works in the civil division of Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith, and Lancaster, a major Portland law firm. I wonder how they get all those names on a business card.

Also making news is Thomas Scott, M.D., who has joined Allegheny Neurological Associates (which is in Pittsburgh, I think). Tom's specialties include neuro-immunology and multiple sclerosis. Pretty impressive.

Not all of us are doctors and lawyers, of course. Kenneth Holmes has been named a partner and board member of North Branch Buildings. Ken, who was previously a project manager at North Branch, will be responsible for marketing the firm's contracting services and overseeing residential and commerical projects.

Ben Hart continues his conservative ventures. He has left the Heritage Foundation to be the executive director of Freedom Alliance. The organization was formed this summer by Oliver North to promote conservative causes, and, in Ollie's words, fight "the left-wing dominated national media," among other evils.

That's all for this month. Unlike Keith, I don't have the inside track to the ongoing drama of Chris Blaski's kittens. (What would a column be without mentioning those kittens?) I'll depend on you to let me know what's happening. Cheers for now.

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