1982

Well, graduation is once again at hand on the Hanover Plain, and for this scribe that can only mean memories of nightmares past. Every year about this I vaguely recall the pressures of exams, especially those in my final term. After mis managing my academic career for five full years, I found myself on the threshold of institutional freedom. What an opportunity to right so many wrongs and change so many ingrained study habits. Naahh!!!

Those last few days of my college career are now nearly a decade behind me, and as I look back in wonder, I can't help but smile wryly as I fight off the nausea. Even now 1 occasionally check the mail, half expecting to receive a new transcript with a series o incompletes that will make my treasured parchment vanish into thin air. Such are the crosses that I have to bear.

Fortunately, some of my classmates chose to take advantage of their opportunities and have made steady strides up the pathway to success. For example, Ken Cleveland has become editor of the Sentinel & Enterprise in Fitchburg, Mass Ken's career has taken him through a variety of publications, including stmts as news editor at the Clinton Daily Item, Marlborough Enterprise, and Fludson Daily Sun.

Steve Zilber is quietly making a name for himself in the Cleveland area. After spending four years with a high-tech Steve invented a lens coating for LensCrafters. Steve is now working on his own products, and do ing lighting design.

Steve writes that Charles Oberndorf is still teaching at the University School but has just had his first novel published. The paperback, entitled Sheltered Lives, is published by Bantam Spectra. Here's a blurb from the jacket: "... a powerful novel of a vividly evoked, all- too-possible tomorrow. With it Charles Oberndorf makes a stunning debut as one of the most talented new writers of speculative fiction." Not bad.

Steve went on to mention that Rusty May (manufacturing) and Bruce Goodman (furniture chain) are keeping busy with their family businesses in the Cleveland area.

Through Steve I heard that Ron Holman was also living near the mistake by the lake. Ron has recently become assistant general counsel for Hyatt Legal Services m their Cleveland office. In addition to his legal work, Ron has taken the Arnie Becker role, appearing regularly on a television talk show to discuss legal topics, and he was also co-host of a mid-day news/talk show program.

Speaking of legal eagles, one busy man has got to be Dave Howard. Mo was named the first general counsel m New York Mets his tory in February and probably hasn't been out of the stacks since. Before the Shea Stadium appointment, Mo was associate counsel in the baseball commissioners office. He, wife Nancy, and their two sons are living in Valley Stream, N.Y.

Also trying to get full-time into the sports thing is Bob Bauer. Bob is interning in the sports department at the brand new New England Cable News television station and is paying his dues, hoping to get into producing or reporting. There isn't a lot of money in it, Bob, but it sure is fun.

That's it for now. Special thanKs to ateve Zilber for the wealth of information he supplied. And make sure to read Sheltered Lives. It sounds like a winner.

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