1978

Louise and Charlie Nadler finally got together for dinner in Singapore with fellow Singaporans Jamie '77 and Paula McLeod Pfaff. Soon afterward Charlie, who had been the U.S. Ringbinder Corporations director of operations in that area, was promoted to vice president of marketing and called to the home office in New Bedford. The Nadler family packed up and moved to Marion, Mass., in June. Augusta is in third grade, Hunt is in first, and Lucie is one andja half.

For the past three years Tom Ostertag has been general counsel to Major League Baseball. His wife, Judy Russell, is a strategic-planning consultant with Andin, a jewelry company in Manhattan, and their daughter Emily is 17 months old. There is no truth to the rumor, by the way, that George Bush will be the next Commisioner of Baseball.

Heard from Martha (University of Virginia '78) and Mark Arnold, who live outside of Philadelphia with their two-year-old son Eric. As it happened, Eric came into Mark and Martha's lives through adoption, and they hope to expand their family again the same way. In Eric's adoption, Mark and Martha networked to get out word of their interest in adopting. Word reached a birth mother making an adoption plan for her child, and things worked out. As Mark and Martha start to network for a second child, they would love to hear from anyone interested in being part of that network, or who hears of a possible situation. Please call Mark or Martha collect at (215) 836-9077. Martha is a special-projects marketer for McNeil Consumer Products, the makers of Tylenol; Mark is business manager for Emissionsteknik, a Swedish subsidiary of the British conglomerate Johnson Matthey that makes emission-control systems for diesel-powered vehicles.

Cindy Tolbert just opened a rural health clinic in Dry Run, Pa. "In our parking lot we have a hitching post for horses and buggies," Cindy reports. "Our daughter Kristin is three years old and lots of fan. Last June Slater and I were blessed with another daughter, Julia. We are enjoying her tremendously."

In his capacity as class chaplain, the Reverend Scott Axford sent me the program from the memorial service for departed classmates that he conducted during our reunion last June. As part of the service, Scott read aloud the names of the 12 members of our class who have died. For the benefit of those who couldn't make the reunion, I thought it would be a nice idea to reprint those names here. They are Paul Bullock, Randy Cardozo, KevinCohan, Cory Fifield, China Hodges, William Houser, John Kesner, ColinMacPherson, Frederick Seeley, Foster Vail,Marcus Walker, and Mark Walker. We are all grateful to Scott for doing such a great job for our class, and we will all take a moment to remember these classmates.

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