1977

Drew Kintzinger and I (A1) spoke on the phone about reunions. Gary Mayo is our reunion chair, and plans for next June have coalesced: a Friday evening talent show, a Friday night tent, Saturday afternoon picnic at Storrs Pond, and some special activities for children (under age 37 or so, that is). Several of these will be done jointly with '76 and '7B. If you want to get involved on the party side of things, give Gary or Dave Haraway a call. (We have their phone numbers we'll only trade them for news of YOU, however!) If you want to get involved on the fundraising side (this is the start of a new Campaign for Dartmouth, so there is added emphasis this year), class agents are needed: call Sue WileyYoung, Associate Director of the Alumni Fund, 800/228-1769. The target is to have each agent responsible for calling no more than five classmates.

Susan Dentzer was awarded a U.S.-Japan Leadership Program Fellowship by the Japan Society for a year's research and study in Japan. Susan is senior writer and chief economic correspondent for U.S. News and World Report. Given the shifts in the European Common Market, political transformations in previously communist states, and Japan's economic strengths, it should be riveting being so close to the pulse of change.

Tales (true ones) of folks from Chicagoland: George Singer 'SO wrote of his son-in-law, and our classmate: "Michael Huffman has been elected president of the International Lightning Class Association. Mike is an avid Lightning sailor who sails out of the Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club with his wife, Margaret (Singer) Huffman '82." Must've been their boat we saw from the new Shedd Aquarium this past July, leading the pack (pod?) on Lake Michigan.

Jonathan Gage has opened a cardiology practice in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Jon followed his M.D. from Penn with an internship and residency at the U. of Chicago in internal medicine, and cardiology training at University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland and Yale-New Haven Hospital.

I had intended to add here a tale (tall one) of a phantom classmate, Slim Pickens, that Bane of All Newswriters; but then, having stated my intention, I really need say no more along those lines. It was a good story, though. From an interview in Time magazine with Robert Coles, Harvard child psychiatrist "Q: Are most children really interested in spiritual questions?

"A; They're interested, out of their humanity, because they know to ask what Gauguin asked in his 1897 Tahitian painting: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Those are the the great existential questions of artists, philosophers, novelists, historians, psychologists, and the questions of children and of all human beings."

Cheers to you all in your interesting and diverse lives!

Al Henning and Carol Muller, P.O. Box 861, Norwich, Vermont 05055