1974

74 It's always slightly uncomfortable to run into former criminal clients years after one has represented them. In June I attended a conference in Boulder, Colo, (a wonderful city still stuck in the sixties), and thought I spotted an old client, Sam Jones. Years ago, I represented Sam on an escape charge after he had been confined to the federal halfway house in Atlanta, Ga., and the temptation to leave just became too great. On a whim he got a bus ticket to California where he took in the sights at Disneyland and Venice Beach and was finally caught vacationing in, yes, Burbank.

Well, there he was in living color on Pearl Street doing a magician/juggling act and reading palms on the side talents he learned on that trip to L.A.

Out in Boulder, at the same conference I attended, was Matt Wilkes, who is the associate dean at New York Law School. Matt, a long-time friend of David Cranshaw in Atlanta, has recently married.

The classes of '73 and '74 had a mini-reunion in New York this year. Present were Frank Munn '73 and his wife, Jan; Bill andBeth Geiger; and Jeff and Janney Simpson, all there to see Christine and Michael Devries '73 performing on Broadway in the Secret Garden. Michael helped to develop the show's trial workshops and opening production and played the part of Albert. Jeff Simpson is an ob-gyn in New York City who stopped in for the event on his way back on the train from Baltimore, where he was attending a medical meeting. He and Janney live in Niantic, Conn., where they have two boys, Marcus and Matthew.

Retroactive Iditarod update on FritzLedbetter: according to Bruce J. Stuart, President of Alberta Tubular Products Limited in Calgary Canada, Fritz passed through Calgary on his way to Alaska this winter to participate in the dog sled races at the Calgary Winter Carnival. Bruce reports that Fritz will be selling both hockey and baseball cards in Nome this summer, and he has just acquired Bob Hayes' rookie card to add to his collection. Thanks Bruce.

Congratulations to Richard Tushman, who was elected president of the Shenandoah County Memorial Hospital medical staff. Richard joined Shenandoah County Memorial Hospital in 1985 as a urologist. He received his medical degree from Cornell. Richard and his wife, Lucy, have four children.

Dan O'Haire has just been elected president of The Mountaineering Club of Alaska. Anyone courageous enough can join him and the AMC gang in July for the 8th Annual Ice Field Crossing. Dan led an exotic island climb last summer with other faithful climbers on the slopes of the Augustine volcano on Augustine Island Lower Cook Inlet. (RickRanger reports that there are more-or-less active volcanos within 150-mile radius of Anchorage.)

Jacqueline Lovett Stafford reports that she recently left George Washington University after seven years on the faculty there in ophthalmology She joined Mayo Clinic with a split practice in ophthalmology and neuroophthalmology She and her husband, Scott Stafford (U.S. Naval Academy), had their first child, Eric, last year. Scott will be discharged from the navy and join Jacqueline this summer.

Well, that's the news from a hot June in the south.

Dean's Office, Mercer Law Shool, 1021 Georgia Ave., Macon, GA 31201-6709

Dan O'Haire led an exotic islands climb on the slopes of the Augustine volcano. Mary Dovan '74