1967

After last month's travelogue, visiting classmates abroad, I thought we should check in on our friends living north of the border. We currently have nine '67s who have a mailing address in Canada, and I have something about six of them to share with you. Perhaps this will prompt the others to write. People seem to have taken up residence for several reasons: a return home, their feelings about Vietnam, or the attraction of a beautiful country. All seem now to have interesting things to say about their lives.

Starting in die East, Ian Sherman lives on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia with his wife and son. It sounds as if the natural beauty and quality of life there are the ideal location for a sculptor who loves nature. Ian does works in marble and wood. Meanwhile, DavidCoombs and family are located in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Dave leads a dual life as an academic in the Biology Department at the University of New Brunswick and in private business inventing and marketing scientific instruments. Dave's descriptions of nature on the Bay of Fundy make it seem a world away from the congestion of the New York metropolitan area.

Practicing psychiatry in Montreal, Quebec, is Dan Kraus. He and his wife, Debbie, a musician, have been living there since he started his residency 20 years ago. They seem to find it a great place to raise their three children. Living in the Canadian capital of Ottowa is another physician, Ron Blattel. Ron is in family practice, but he seems to spend a great deal of his time on the squash and tennis courts or outdoors windsurfing, skiing, and kayaking with his wife and two daughters.

Two classmates have ended up in British Columbia. Winning a prize as one of our most traveled classmates has to be Sean Hennessey. Now farming in Argenta, British Columbia, Sean arrived there only after time in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Montreal, Algeria, and Italy. Sean's life and travels thus far sound worthy of a profile in The New Yorker. Also in that part of the world, working as a dean and professor on one of the most beautiful campuses I have ever visited, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, is Don Wehrung. Don uses his graduate training at Stanford to teach in the Business School. He and his wife are constantly busy with their young son.

In the "living in Canada, but we want to know what they are up to" category are AndyBarrie in Toronto, Mike Hoebel in British Columbia, and Bill Postl in Ontario. Send us your news.

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