1976

Please be sure to send in your class dues, and write some news of yourself and others on the back. I received some news from last year's dues slips. Though it may be a bit old by now, it is news... something I long for, whatever its age.

Tom Parnon is living in Connecticut, where he started his own business over a year ago, in Darien. He is doing market research for high tech companies. Ethan Weiner is also in Connecticut, where he is associate medical director/clinical research for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in Groton. For three years previous to this post Ethan had been an assistant professor of medicine in the division of rheumatology at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. Ethan has two daughters and is living on the Connecticut shore.

News just in from Vermont: Susan Walter has moved to Montpelier after one month in Minnesota and two months in Manhattan. She is the office manager of the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District and is also teaching ethnic cooking through the New England Culinary Institute. "contracting with American and foreign manufacturers to find distributors in their respective foreign markets."

In his dues notice Rob Singer reports living in South Burlington, Vt., having returned from Europe. He is working for himself,

The College sent me the news release announcing the promotion of Eileen ClaireCave. Eileen is the senior staff specialist in the direct marketing department of United Airlines, where she develops and implements plans that create revenue through the use of outside vendors, cooperative promotions, and expanded direct marketing programs. She is living in Elk Grove Village, Ill.

After eight years in the Chicago area, Daniel Tagatac is now in Freehold, N.J., and is back with AT&T Bell Labs. He reports, "there are three differences this time around. Their names are David 7, Laura 5, and Elise 3." Daniel is not sprinting anymore, but he does keep running in occasional races.

Are you still singing, Steve Tompson? Steve and his wife, Susan, are also living in New Jersey, where Steve is a regional vice president at Prudential Power Funding, a unit of Prudential Insurance. They also have three children: twin boys 3 and another boy 2. He says life has been "chaotic," which I suspect is a euphemism at best.

And that exhausts all news sources (HINT, HINT). In closing, I wonder if any classmates were lucky enough to attend last summer's series of open readings by Louise Erdrich and her husband, Michael Dorris, in Canaan, N.H.? The news clipping showed more than 200 people overflowing Canaan Hall, where Erdrich and Dorris opened the series by reading from manuscripts of soon-to-bepublished works. I wish I'd been there.

I am off to a final dress rehearsal of Fiddleron the Roof in which I am playing the "notyet" twenty-year-old daughter Tzeitel. (Clearly, this is a last chance!)

"A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But in our littde village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof, trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck." Tevya, from Fiddler on the Roof

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