1978

"I came here for the water," said Humphrey Bogart, explaining why he had moved from Paris to Casablanca. BillGrant recently made the same move, but rather than running a cafe, Bill is working as an agricultural economist on a five-year project to stimulate Moroccan agribusiness exports (as in, "General Strasser's been shot: round up the usual produce.") Of course the new job doesn't amount to a hill of beans, as Bogey would say, next to Bill's other news—that he married Deborah Sheaffer on August 8 in Washington, D.C., and at the same time adopted Deborah's seven-year-old daughter, Emily.

Great news from astronaut Jim Newman. He is scheduled for a nine-day voyage aboard the shuttle Discovery next June. Jim will be a mission specialist, responsible for operating ORFEUS, NASA's Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer. Apart from its scientific duties, ORFEUS will also be providing celebrity-wedding shots for People magazine. Carol Hillman Van Dyke, her husband,

Neil, and children Sarah 5-172 and Forrest 4 are all prospering in Stowe. Neil is president of the Golden Eagle Alpine Resort; Carol is director of in-house marketing. That's in addition to being on the board of directors of the Stowe Co-op Nursery School, directing the Community Church children's choir in their renditions of "A-men" and "Cum Ba Ya," and running four (down from eight) miles a day and expecting her third child in October. For the last two summers the Van Dykes were able to spend six weeks at their place in the Adirondacks (formerly a boy's camp) on Osgood Pond near Paul Smith, N.Y., that they own with six other families. They were recendy visited there by Helen Andrews Noble's husband, Kent, and son Billy 2 1/2. Helen, who is interning at Kent and Queen Anne's City Hospital in Chestertown, Md., couldn't make the trip.

The Bob Gray family has moved from Ottershaw in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, to Squirrels Run in the same town. Both names conjure images of "Masterpiece Theater" (the rodent series, perhaps) and an idyllic life for Bob, Goody, Priscilla, and Bob III. Bob is still with the Morgan Bank in London and probably in no hurry to come home.

For the past year Phil Peck was on leave from teaching history and coaching nordic skiing at Holderness School on a Klingenstein Fellowship at Columbia University. Phil, his wife, Robin, and their daughters Hannah and Meredith enjoyed many surprises of life in Morningside Heights. "Robin's from Alaska," Phil explains, "and up until this year my own urban experience had been living in Hanover."

"There were people from all over the world in our apartment building," said Robin. "In fact, Hannah and Meredith were the only two children in their play group who spoke English." During his fellowship, Phil was recognized as a Master Teacher, invited for an additional summer fellowship, and earned a master's both in administration and social studies/history.

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