1984

Having just got back from a relaxing week in Nantucket, I was a bit unsettled to find that no one had been thoughtful enough to pen a guest column in my absence. After a search through my research department (i.e. my desk drawer) and a few wellplaced phone calls, I was able to file the following report:

From New York I have learned that Mike Patsis is living on the Upper West Side and working hard as a resident at Columbia Presbyterian, where he plans to specialize in hand surgery. My sources tell me that Mike has done battle on the front lines of Big Apple medicine, including a three-month stint delivering babies in Harlem and working the midnight shift in an emergency room in the Bronx. Stewart Kim has worked in the M & A department at Merrill Lynch since picking up his M.B.A. at Wharton. He spends what little free time he has summering in the Hamptons and making weekend trips to the West Coast. Jon Bass has spent the last six years working at Salomon Brothers and is now selling high-yield corporate bonds and "loving it." When not busy windsurfing and working on his squash and golf games, Jon has been training for a triathlon and helping to organize a celebrity swim across Long Island Sound to raise money for cancer.

From the West Coast I hear that ChrissyBurnley Bucklin lives with her husband Randy in what I'm told is "a great house" in Manhattan Beach, Calif. The two met at Stanford when Chris was getting her M.B.A. She is now working for McKinsey in Los Angeles, while Randy is a professor at UCLAs business school. Kathy Marshall Diekroeger and husband Ken are the proud parents of Kenny, who was born this past November. The three live in San Francisco and are looking desperately for the perfect house outside the city. Kathy has gone back to work parttime writing a business plan and working on other corporate development tasks for Paclel's Teletrac subsidiary, a maker of a product that tracks stolen vehicles. Kathy told me she tries to run once a week with Lauren Woodhouse, who lives on the Peninsula and works for High Country Passage planning educational trips. Kathy has also seen Marian Zischke, who works for the money managers Dodge & Cox in San Francisco and is president of the Bay Area Dartmouth Club.

Congratulations to Dave Fuhrman and wife Maria who recently gave birth to a daughter in Los Angeles, where Dave is an insurance broker for Johnson & Higgens. I also received word, a bit belatedly, that TimMaleeny was married in June 1990 to Robin Lynn Grendahl in Anchorage, Alaska. Tim and Robin live in Seattle, where he works in advertising for Cole & Weber and she is finishing her `training in medicine.

Glen French and wife Gayle live in the Philadelphia area, where both are "traveling like banshees:" he as the European marketing rep for a new bio tech product, and she as the East Coast sales manager for a start-up cookie company. Glen said his traveling is far from glamorous, as his touring is usually limited to sales offices and the inside of hotel rooms, but that he has found time to "rediscover tennis" while trying to "convince his shoulder that it can still hit the ball hard." More news to report, but it will have to wait until next we talk.

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