1986
With reunion only a few months away, it is time to update your mental data files. Read the following information into active memory: Don't be surprised if some Sunday morning you hear Casey Casern give a sappy longdistance dedication from Jim McFarland to his new wife, Janet Marie Erickson. Since their marriage last June they have been living in different time zones—Jim is finishing the M.B.A. program at the University of North Carolina, while Janet works for Northwest Airlines in Minneapolis. Jim doesn't realize it, but the long-distance marriage is a carefully crafted plan that Janet has masterminded: by shrewdly selecting a job that has air travel benefits it is feasible to have a remote, ondemand partner without having to tolerate the day-to-day headaches of a new husband. This way she slowly discovers Jim's weird personal habits rather than experiencing them in one big dose.
Many of you are wondering why you haven't received any postcards or letters from your old college pal 9 Sanders. Do not despair. No doubt she has been writing to you weekly since graduation, but her letters have gotten lost in the mail. 9 has a clever little scheme (Janet will like this) of putting only a one cent stamp on a postcard and seeing if the post office is stupid enough to deliver it. Sometimes this scam works, as evidenced by the card she mailed me. Now you know why postal rates have increased.
9 is a fourth-year medical student in Oregon. Recently she did a tour of duty in orthopedic surgery at the Alaska Native Health Center in Anchorage, where she encountered some unusual cases, including a fellow who broke his his hip while doing 92 m.p.h. on a snowmobile. Some of the procedures she had to follow were not run-of-the-mill school stuff. For instance, she couldn't discharge patients until they could ride a sno-go or dogsled for hours and fish for food.
Anyone thinking of running for a N.Y.C. government office should talk to BrianByfield—he's working on the N.Y.C. redistricting committee. Maybe we could all move to the same neighborhood, paint everything green, Brian could arrange for a special Dartmouth district, and we could take over the city! Er . . . maybe not. Brian graduated from Georgetown Law School in June.
Contact Mary Morgan Finnegan if you know any good baby sitters in Hanover. She is expecting to give birth in May, and if the baby is on time it will be making a road trip to the reunion. Mary is doing research on cancer cells at the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C., while her husband, John, works for Valent, a new company which has something to do with the environment.
Dartmouth basketball coaches were thrilled to learn that Jane Daigle Jones recently gave birth to an 11 lb., 3 oz. boy. Now we know who our starting center will be in the year 2011.
Celeste Boatwright is animal doctoring near Philadelphia and when she is not elbow deep in cow stuff she is an upper body strength and conditioning coach for the Philadelphia Eagles kickers.
Deidre Mac Donald is applying the law for a variety of corporate and pro bono clients as the partners at White & Case in N. Y.C. nudge her along the fast track. She has helped some people avoid being evicted and nudged around by the system.
Nancy Lorusso is currently in Seattle, but she is marrying Charlie Peterson sometime very soon, and then they will both move to Minnesota so Charlie can continue his medical studies. Nancy is running a hospital in Seattle. Caroline Diamond was recently appointed general manager of die Harrisburg Patriot News.
Adelaide Pearson Holbert will graduate in June from the UCLA Information Science masters program.
Helen Shelton recently married Maurice Holmes in Chicago.
Shanta Ghona Ferris works for a toy company in Singapore.
Amy McCormick is in the second year of a theology program at Princeton.
The class is well on the way towards reaching its $86,000 fundraising goal. If you haven't done so already, please send in your check.
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1986 5th Reunion"Bach where we started..."June 14-16, 1991
