1984

In prior months the mail has yielded enough grist to keep this column packed with details of the deeds and misdeeds of the class of 1984. As of late, however, the flow has slowed to a trickle and I was forced to once again go to the phones. While early calls were greeted with answering machine messages and "he don't live here no more," my luck changed when I got through to Boston socialite TomMartinson, who is working in the family insurance brokerage business. Marty tola me of his traveling —most recently to Germany and Switzerland on business —and that he is playing goalie in an "old men's" hockey league and was named a league allstar, status he never achieved while minding the nets at Dartmouth. Tom shares a house in Harvard Square with Bill Connolly and Jim Calmas and filled me in on them. After graduating from Tuck, Jim has been working for Massachusetts Financial Services where he is managing his own investment fund and playing rugby in his free time. Big Bill, also a recent Tuck graduate, is engaged to Barbara McKinlay, with a wedding set for the summer. He toils at Merrill Lynch in bond sales while she works at State Street as a bond analyst which no doubt makes for interesting dinner conversation.

Since it was my dime, Tom kept right on talking and provided me with updates on a number of '84s including:

Mike Timmons, who left Southern California where he was managing a plant for Smith, Kline to return to his native Boston. Mike recently bought a house in Andover and made a switch to the sales side, where, to put it bluntly, he is pushing drugs;

Al Chabot, who, to quote Tom, "Is 'L.A. Law' relived, working for a Los Angeles law firm and loving it";

Peter Grace, who continues his job hunting in Boston after getting his M.B.A. from University of Chicago last spring; and Jenkins Marshall, who is working for ÜBS Securities, living in a newly acquired house in New Canaan, and preparing to marry Linda Cooper 'B5 in May.

My next call found Rob Irwin at home killing time between his job in the LBO group at Alex, Brown & Cos. in New York and his scuba diving lesson. Rob had me on the speaker phone, as most of my friends in investment banking tend to do, and told me of his marriage November 11 to Thene Martin, a lawyer. When I expressed mv surprise at the demise of his bachelorhood, Rob began making the standard "Hut, you know when it's right" speech that all my recently married friends feel obligated to impart to me. Nevertheless, I politely listened in hopes of gleaning more news. My patience paid off as Rob eventually told me that his wedding party included best man KyleGore, who has left Baltimore for California, and ushers Jim Schaefer and Geoff Berlin, a Paris-based consultant for Corporate Value Associates. Others in attendance included Tom Rivard, who made the trip from Australia where he works for a consulting firm (I think); Robb Jefferson, who is practicing law in Texas; and Dave Frulla, who is doing litigation work for a small law firm in D.C.

Finally, a piece in the December issue of Vanity Fair featured Jonathan Nossiter, who is directing a movie, "Resident Alien," about Q uentin Crisp. Nossiter was assisting in the making of "Fatal Attraction" when he met Crisp, who the article describes as the "quintessential octogenarian gay superstar."

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