1977
A hint for class secretaries who find the month's pickings slim: take a trip to the College Grant and pour over cabin registers, young and old. We journeyed there during the peak colors in early October and were blessed with a warm, sunny weekend, complete with moose sightings, skinny dipping, and canoeing on the Dead Diamond River with Dan Nelson '75, wife Deb, and children Jack and Alice (buddies of our Kaethe and Scott). The log at Hellgate Hilton was a trove, page after page, through year after year: Betty Stroock and Ann Van Curan Johnson overnighting with the women's cross-country team while yet undergraduates; Jim Forcier's 13 th annual visit with a dedicated bunch of New Hampshire and Vermont friends; Bruce Bokor '76, Rick Leonardi '79, Mark Winkler '79, and Tom Swart wood '78 at various times; '78s Rick Sunshine and Dave Speer in June of '88; and, just in September, Andrew Repasy, Jonathan Gage, Jeff Gilbertson, and Tom Blueher. The last group wrote: "It's good to know friends don't change in each other's eyes notwithstanding what the photographs of old suggest."
Fortunately, news was far from slim this month. Ian Frank, wife Barbara, and son Jordan surprised us in Peter Christian's during Ian's tenth Med School reunion. (Lan would have agreed with the quote above; he commented on the ease friends have with each other, even after several years apart.) lan is still in Philadelphia, leading a group studying immunology and clinical treatments for AIDS. Larry Guillemette joined the O'Connor Group as managing director and senior financial officer in Manhattan. Richard Swicker '52 shared news of CharlesSwicker, a navy lieutenant who received the Naval Institute Award, along with a master of science degree in national security affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Charles finished first in a class of 193, and heads next to more study in Newport, R.I. Ted Wingate got to watch Al chase Kaethe and Scott through the Inn during the pre-bonfire chaos over Homecoming weekend (lucky him!). Ted is looking into fellowships in child psychiatry. Jennifer Clarke, husband Al Barstow '75, and children John and Mariah enjoyed the Homecoming hubbub on an unusually warm (shirtsleeves and shorts, nearly) evening in front of Dartmouth Hall.
Lest the editorially-biased Wall Street Journal (having several former Review members on its editorial staff, and with no aspersions cast on reputable WSJ columnists such as Paul Gigot) or ABC's "20/20" lead you to believe otherwise, the Review is nearly in the background noise of the life sounds of this place. But don't take our word for it, either: come, and find out for yourself.
and Carol Muller, P.O. Box 861, Norwich, VT 05055
