1974

The best part about living in a small town in Georgia is being able to attend the local single-A farm-team baseball games. Macon is the home of the Macon Braves. Games are played at the renovated Luther Williams stadium, and the scenery is right out of Bull Durham. The stadium holds about 2,000, and backboard advertisements are hand-painted by a local man and his daughter. In the sultry hot summer nights you can sit 15 yards from the players, hear every crack of the bat and every wooph of a catch, and eat hot dogs to your heart's content. Everybody but everybody sings "Take me out To the Ball Game." You would think you were at a baseball revival. Anyway, I think about my grandfather moving up from the minor leagues to the majors and I study the center-fielder with awe and respect. There is nothing like baseball in America.

Congratulations to Carl Mock who was named Superintendent of the Hartford District schools. Carl had been employed since 1987 as superintendent of schools of Little Compton, R.I. He has been described as "an extraordinary communicator with remarkable interpersonal skills and a strong administrative background." Carl graduated from Hartford's middle and high schools, and after Dartmouth he received his master of education degree in administration and planning from the University of Vermont in 1983.

It is reported that Fritz Ledbetter is training for the 1991 Iditarod. If anyone knows anything about Fritz, let us know.

Fred Previc reports that he is currently employed as a research physiologist at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine in San Antonio, Texas. Fred is paid to study how pilots get spatially disoriented and is also working on other theories of higher brain functions. Fred's wife, Nancy, is a clinical psychologist and native Aussie. They recently gave birth to their first child, Andrew.

Other congratulations to John Craver on the birth of his son Andrew Scott. John is in private practice in Seattle as a psychotherapist and reports that he loves skiing, sailing, and hiking.

Greg Pulis has finally settled full-time in Los Angeles, where he helps to run the television department at Creative Artist's Agency. Last year he was commuting to New York City from Los Angeles and back, working as a lawyer for clients in motion picture, theater, and television worlds. Greg's travels took him to Russia, Spain, and the Cannes Film Festival last year.

It sounds like Rick Ranger, Cathy, and Owen are having a wonderful time in the gorgeous state of Alaska. They are traveling to places like Denali Glacier Bay and Gates of the Arctic, and visiting the Wrangell Saint Elias Range, the empty Tundra Foot Hills of the Alaska Range along the Denali Highway, and the great canyon of the Tatonduk along the Yukon border. I am ready to book my flight right now, as the past few weeks of summer here have been like living in a rain cloud.

Jack Martin is presently recuperating from a bad throw on a Bronco out in North Dakota. Redford's movie is on hold until Jack's broken bones are healed. Cards should be sent c/o The Bad Lands, Bismarck, North Dakota.

Mary S. Donovan, Mercer Law School, Deans Office, 1021 Georgia Avenue, Macon, GA 31201-6709