1987

Every once in a while, we class secretaries get a remarkable letter, a letter so rife with mystery and adventure that it practically begs to be included in the next column. Since I don't have any letters like that, I'll just jump right in.

Just kidding. Actually, some news arrived recently from Andrew Bilgore that is quite intriguing indeed. When I last spoke with him, he was planning to follow up his critically acclaimed acting career at Dartmouth by taking the plunge, agent and all, in Hollywood. It sounds as if he has stayed busy despite the postponement of a project in the Middle East. Andrew appeared in his first television episode for a show called "D.E.A.," a Fox network offering that has since been felled by cancellation. He debuted as the character Walter, a methamphetamine "cook" who meets an untimely end by drowning in a vat of chemical waste (I hate it when that happens). Much to Andrew's dismay, his "dead scene," when his character is discovered in a dumpster, was cut from the episode that aired. With decisions like that, it's no wonder the show was cancelled!

Andrew recovered from this disappointment by spending time skiing in Europe and attending the Imperial Ball on New Year's Eve at the royal palace in Vienna. To top it all off, he ran into Walter Cronkite while waltzing at said ball.

(Author's note: I must admit that Andrew's story struck me as a bit far-fetched or at least in need of verification, but my doubts disappeared when I hit the Walter Cronkite part. Now, chemical waste and Vienna are the stuff of crafty deception, but no one in his right mind would cast Walter Cronkite in such a ruse!)

Closer to campus, Jon Bigelow is keeping busy teaching school just twenty minutes soudi of Hanover. Last summer he finished work on a house that he now shares with his wife. In the few spare moments he has, Jon wonders what he might do in the future, but one distraction or another always brings him back to the present.

Just when I thought wedding news was hitting a dry spell, I find that more '87s are doing that nuptials thing. Mike Jennings passed along the news that Carolyn Negley was married in December to her Dartmouth Med School classmate Bill Wester. At the decidedly wild reception, Mike noticed passers-by (and passers-out) Lisa Sweeney,Todd Currie, Kathleen Joyce, Chris FoleyKollmorgen, Sue Bagas, and Tim Bixby. Mike is currently braving the weather and crime on Chicago's South Side at the University of Chicago's Business School, where Ashok Gangolli is also enrolled. In Sun Valley, Idaho, Mike has heard that Mark Elsbree continues to play host to various classmates who might find themselves in the area, including Tom Fyda and EmersonBruns. Isn't it funny how people just "happen to be in town" when you live in Sun Valley, but not when you live in Topeka? Go figure.

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