1986

"You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down."—Malcolm Forbes So who's "up?" Niko Skipitaris is doing well in New York City grinding away in his second year of residency in internal medicine. Niko was "on call" reunion weekend, and he does note that his hours "suck," but all in all he is finding doctordom a good fit. Also doing well in the "Marcus Welby" mold is Dan Driscoll, who is also in his second year. Dan scored big with a residency assignment at Mass General in surgery.

Richard Thorner is alive and well in Manchester, N.H., where he is living his own version of "Law and Order." Richard graduated from Boston University Law school and collects antiques and objets d'art in his spare time. This fall Richard had the honor of arguing a case in front of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

We've had a report that Alex Gutterman was a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at UC Davis, but it's been a long time. Anyone know of his whereabouts?

By this time Brian Moore should have been basking in the warm sunshine of Los Angeles. Brian was going to move there from Methuen, Mass., to pursue a career in film. After receiving his master's in education at Harvard, and a temporary stint at Brandeis doing promotional videos for their admissions office, he landed a job with a literary agent in L.A., but at the last minute he got another job offer, also in film, that will allow him to stay in Massachusetts. If Brian makes a film there, it won't be his first. You may have seen his flick, "In Search of Something Similar to Carl Maiden's Nose." (I am not kidding—that is the name of the film.) The star of the film was none other than our very own Mary Frances Spatola who, Brian notes, shows some real "comic genius" in the film.

In L.A., Brian might have run into GregLabate, who works as an entertainment lawyer there. He graduated from UCLA law school and is now seeking to be "the lawyer to the stars."

Joel Riggs owns his own graphics firm out in San Francisco called Riggs Graphics and Presentation. Joel has been an entrepreneur now for close to four years. Chad Rosenberger has also picked up the entrepreneurial spirit working in Czechoslovakia. Chad graduated from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and then made his way through the then Iron Curtain. Now, with political global warming, Chad is helping to bring Western professors over to Czechoslovakia for seminars and lectures. During his spare time he is trying to keep up his writing and is considering producing a newsletter of Czech poetry and stories.

Peter Henderson is working as a consultant in Hanover while his wife attends Tuck. By this time they should have a little baby on their doorstep as well. Suzey Davis writes (yes, someone actually wrote me), "Since I wasn't able to attend reunion I just wanted to let you know that I recently got engaged (Christmas Eve at a friend's party, in front of 50 onlookers) to Gary Bremer '84. I am a practising psychotherapist down here in Milford, Conn."

Special note of thanks to all of our classmates who have contributed to the Jane Dea Awad Achievement Fund. Jane died in August 1988 of Hodgkin's Disease and her family and friends established this fund in her memory. A scholarship will be awarded to a Dartmouth woman in need of financial assistance who "demonstrates qualities of leadership, character and steadfastness to excellence, qualities that Jane exemplified and admired." Her mother writes, "Over the past three years the response has been heartwarming in that so many young people with limited financial resources have responded so generously."

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