1974

A big night when you live in a little town like Barnesville is a trip over to Forsyth, Ga., to the Left Banque Cafe for the blue plate special and some local beer, and then a trip to the movie house for a show that was featured last month in Macon and lastyear in New York. (Don't hold your breath to see "Henry and June".) There is a certain lingo that goes with small towns that separates the locals from the visitors. At the theater, for instance, when we ordered two grape sodas the proprietor told us that he could only sell us orange grape was for the "regulars."

I'm glad to hear that my column is inspiring my compatriots to write. One recent correspondence came from Frank Cole, who empathizes with my recent move since he has recently moved from the Keene, N.H., area to Binghamton, in the southern tier of New York State. Frank is associated with the Guthrie Medical Group as an associate in family practice. He and his wife, Catherine, have two children, Brion 9 and Becky 5. Frank even has his very own class of 1974 lawyer, Jim Gleason, who roots for the Mets and has taken up semi-permanent residence at one of the local lakes. Frank recently had the pleasure of taking Brion to his first Dartmouth football game, an exciting win over Cornell in Ithica.

Congratulations to R. Stephen McCormack, who has joined 3i Capital, the Boston-based venture capital firm, as vice president. Prior to joining 3i Capital, Stephen was a vice president/partner for eight years with Merrill Lynch Venture Capital Inc., in New York City. Additionally he has held the position of senior investment analyst with Mass Technology Development Corp in Boston; manager, commodities and equities, with Interactive Data in Waltham; and trust officer with Bank of New York in N.Y.C. After Dartmouth Stephen received an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He and his wife, Reggie, live in Boston with their new son, Stephen McCormack III.

Good news from Chas Carrier. He and Cynthia Round were married this past September at a little country inn in Pennsylvania. The wedding was "a hoot and a half," complete with cajun food, a zydeco band, and a full compliment of good Dartmouth friends: Maurice Rapf '35, David Mechlin '72, '73s Chip Sleeper, Barry Grove, Owen Hughes, and John Lyons, Jennifer Leigh Warren '77, and Jeff Good '87. Cynthia and Chas spent a few weeks in Italy, where Chas proofed his newest book, Venice Walks, which will be published in February by Henry Holt/Owl Books.

Candice Ingals reports that in May she married Peter Valiunas. She has left her real estate practice in Washington, D.C., where she lived for sixteen years, to join her husband in Geneva, Switzerland. Congratulations, Candy.

James Gardner has left California and traded practice at Stanford for blue collar practice in Idaho, where he can max out snow boarding in the Rocky Mountains.

Ed Kofas reports that after Dartmouth he attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine, then the University of California at San Francisco for his internal medicine residency. Since then he has been an emergency physician and is currently working at Stanford Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital, San Jose. He is married to Martene Yingling, Wheaton '73 and Dartmouth exchange '71-72. They have three children, Bryan 6, Drew, and Leah 4.

Well, as they say, "that's the news from Lake Woebegone." Good to hear from everyone.

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