1984

Blessed with a full mail bag this month, I will dispense with the usual intro and move right to the news. Martha Lamarre wrote to fill me in on the recent tenth year reunion of the Longmeadow (Mass.) High School class of 1980. Those in attendance included "Debbie Schupack, who resides in Vermont where she produces literary masterpieces;" Alan Chabot, who (as has been reported previously) is practicing law in L.A. where he works for Latham & Watkins with Martha's former roommate Tamara Loomis; and IBMer John Fletcher and wife Jordana '87. Absent were Joyce Leavitt Boudreaux, the subject of a recent "Schupack masterpiece," and Laura Poppo, who is reportedly working on her Ph.D. at Wharton. Martha said she is "technically still a grad student at the University of Minnesota in Counseling Psych (working on my dissertation), but working full time as an eating disorders therapist at a private psychiatric hospital in Minneapolis in order to facilitate avoidance of said dissertation."

I also heard from Jeff Olsen, who lives in Linwood, Mass., with his wife of three years, Hilary, and son Samuel. Jeff works as a carpenter in Loeston, "renovating, adding onto, and fixing up old houses," while Hilary works in the emergency room at the U.Msss. med center. In his spare time, Jeff like to make furniture, including most of the beds and dressers that now adorn his house. For those heading to Nantucket this summer, Jeff is at 117 Main St. "if anyone would like to say hello."

Geoffrey Felder wrote me with the unfortunate news that his father, Doc Pomus, is battling lung cancer at NYU Medical Center, but offered he little news about himself.

Debbie Stark, no doubt prompted by my unsubstantiated reference to her a few months back, was good enough to write me to confirm my reporting and add that since leaving the New York advertising scene she managed to squeeze a trip to South America between a trip to Alaska with her father and brother, a trip to Europe, and a family sailing jaunt in the British Virgin Islands (if only I had a New York advertising job to leave). Tisa Hughes, who will graduate University of Chicago law school this spring, and Julie Levenson, who works at Morgan Stanley in Corporate Finance, joined Debbie on her hiking trip in Ecuador, "braving tarantulas and really big bugs in the Amazon Jungle." Debbie has since taken a job with a marketing company in Princeton, N.J.

Class Treasurer Leah Daughtry is toiling for the Democratic National Committee in Washington, where she is an executive assistant in convention planning. Leah is responsible for all of the planning and logistics for the party's 1992 national convention, including "hotel contracts, floor plans, and who sits where." In preparation for the more than 20,000 participants who will converge on New York next July, she will trade in her reserved seat on the DC/New York shuttle and move to the Big Apple by September so she can survey the scene firsthand. Leah has heard from Milton Drain, who recently moved to Atlanta, but she has not been able to reach Kenny Roberts. On a business note, she tells me that, to date, less than half the class has paid class dues. As you know, dues help pay for class activities, mailings, and your Alumni Magazine subscription. Please send $20 dues to Leah daughtry, C/O Class of 1984 Dues, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755. Thanks. 'Til next we talk.

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