1979

Earlier this year the Dartmouth Alumni Council selected Peggy EpsteinTanner as the first recipient of the Distinguished Young Alumni Service Award. Both the College and the council view the award as the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a young graduatedefined as someone who has graduated within the last fifteen years. Peggy's selection is hardly surprising. As the council noted in her citation, she has packed more service into her 11 years as an alumna than most alumni do in a lifetime. Peggy has been an enrollment and high school liaison officer, a member of our class executive committee, the class head agent, a member of the Alumni Fund Committee, a member of the Alumni Council, and chairman of the council's nominating committee. She previously received the Dartmouth Alumni Fund Award. Peggy particularly distinguished herself while serving as chairman of the nominating committee 1986-87. Following a divisive alumni trustee election, she broke new procedural grounds by creating various systems which enabled the committee to reach out to alumni and to work closely with the Board of Trustees. Those

systems are still in effect today. As many of you know, Peggy's father and sister are Dartmouth alums. Given the degree of Big Green loyalty in the Epstein family, one can only speculate as to the likelihood that Peggy's son, Eric, will attend Princeton, his dad's alma mater.

Phyllis Chang was recently elected a director of the Philips Exeter Academy General Alumni-ae Association. Phyllis graduated from Boalt School of Law in 1985, and she received an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 1987. During her tenure as a law student she studied in Beijing. Phyllis currently is a corporate lawyer at the San Francisco firm of Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges; she specializes in international business transactions and investments in the People's Republic of China.

Stirred by my rather pathetic pleas for news, Carol Frost sent me an eleven-year update. In 1984 she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. Since the fall of 1983 she has been on the geology and geophysics faculty at the University of Wyoming. Carol's husband, Eric, joined the English department at the same time, and they were both tenured last year. Along with their six-month-old son, Charles William, they are taking a one-year sabbatical in the

Barbara Weise reports that CherieHolmes has been sent to the Persian Gulf with the U.S. Navy. Cherie will be serving aboard the hospital ship Comfort until February. Cherie would welcome mail from long-lost '79s; her mailing address: LCD Cherie Holmes (Surgical), Medical Treatment Facility, USN Comfort (T-AH2O), FPO, NY 09566-4008

Happy Holidays to all.

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