1988

Lest anyone has been led to believe by earlier remarks in this space that your secretary discourages giving to the Alumni Fund, I begin this month's installment with a stern assurance that nothing could be further from the truth. I give, and I encourage you to do so as well when the phone rings or the letter arrives soliciting your gift. Any remarks I made were only intended to encourage you to give your class dues as well as your Alumni Fund gifts, and to stress that the two are completely separate entities. Ideally, you, like me, would write two checks a year—one to the class of the other to the College. But that's your business. I can only encourage, and as long as I am your secretary, I will continue to encourage all giving that benefits both our class and our Alma Mater.

Since we're talking about the Alumni Fund, it's appropriate to mention that our head agents won two superprestigious awards From the Alumni Fund for their efforts in the last campaign. Pam Codispoti and Shea Harden won the Class of'53 Award for greatest number of donors (663 of us gave) and the Charles J. Zimmerman Award for highest participation for classes one to four years out (65 percent of us). It would be nice to congratulate them for these awards every year, so how about it?

More marriage news has arrived. RossAmpel joined Heather McClelland '89 in a November wedding in Saddle River, N.J.; I got a card from Ross's mom saying so. The couple is now buying dinette sets in Chicago.

Bill "Bubbles" Trattler married his hometown lady, Audra, in Miami back in September before a host of'88s. Dartmouth Medical School second-year demigod Brent Forester sent along word of the betrothal, and mentioned these classmates as tuxedoed attendants: Ken Leonetti, ChrisLien, Jeff Carton, Larry Spiegelman,Jevin Eagle, Jay Fogerty, and Nell Friedman.

A Norwegian in Memphis? Sounds unlikely, but Johan Andresen reports that it's "a blast, really!" He originally went to Memphis to serve as a marketing analyst for the International Paper Company; now he is manager of marketing communications. Johan welcomes word from any alumni who find themselves on Beale Street.

Cyndi Strand has a game plan for the next year or so that's as intriguing to her as it is to you and me. "I'm starting off in Guatemala for a couple of months and then continuing to travel throughout Central and South America for the next year. The question of 'Why?' is hard to answer—l may not be able to tell you until I return." Cyndi says that, should you be planning a trip to those areas yourself, you can contact her through her parents' address in the freshman book. She'd love some Green company on her trek.

As winter enfolds us, I'll leave you with a letter from Bermuda native Stephen Davidson. "I have just entered the George town M.B.A. program after a year of duty in the Bermuda Regiment. Despite the absence of war, riot, or natural disaster, the regiment found 1,001 ways to make me earn the cherished corporal's stripe. I have another two years of reserve duty after the M.B.A., so if any '88s are visiting Bermuda and see me in a parade, please wave to me and extend the appropriate levels of pity." Steve spent time with Simon Cordery, who was doing research for his master's in biology at the Bermuda Biological Station for Marine Research. "I'm still not sure whether he was studying the effects of pollution on coral or the effects of beer and sun on the human body," Steve writes. Studying either sounds pretty good to me right about now.

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