1980

Tales from the Crypt, Volume XIII, Chapter I. Dateline: Baldwin, Michigan. By the banks of the fabled Pere Marquette River your trusty scribe is hard at work. The evening air is soft and warm, and the insect hatch is enough to send any trout worth his gills into a feeding frenzy. I'll have to resist temptation because when duty calls, it's time to make like Casey Casem and roll the hits from coast to coast.

Udder delight: Congratulations to EllenGroetch LaBaerge who has just been promoted to vice president of Law and Human Resources for Dairylea Cooperative. Based in Syracuse, Dairylea is a dairy cooperative with 2,400 farmer members throughout the Northeast in a milk marketing network that stretches from Maine to Maryland to Ohio. Following law school in Notre Dame, Ellen joined the co-op's legal department in 1986 and now handles the outfit's legal, personnel, and benefits issues. What with all the problems employees encounter at work today, these duties must keep Ellen very busy. The days of the one-company career, the company man, and the benevolent employer may all have gone the way of the buffalo. These days everyone has to look out for number one. Which reminds me of an old Arabian proverb: "Trust in Allah but tie your camel."

Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard: Soon to start his third year of residency training in diagnostic radiology is Stephen Scotti. The good doctor is stationed at the Medical Center Hospital in Burlington, Vt. Stephen might pursue a fellowship in interventional radiology but for now, way-cool Burlington is just right. "It's a pretty relaxed place to live," he says, "with lots of high-fiber diets and Birkenstocks... the only ground rule at the hospital is no folk dancing in the 0.R."

Lawyers in Love, part 2: Playing out the sequel to Jackson Browne's old hit is now a way of life for Carolyn Graff Wade, bankruptcy attorney non-pareil. Carolyn is a partner in a small firm which recently hired its first associate—you guessed it—her husband, Pat. The idea of a husband and wife working together is enough to drive some people absolutely fruitloops. Just look at what it did to Harry and Leona. Fortunately, working together is terrific for the Wades and helps to make up for the long hours. This is starting to sound more and more like another episode of "Hart to Hart."

Shaken, not stirred: Well-adjusted BillMartini writes from the Coast Gauche that life in San Francisco is just one big canoli. Bill is district sales manager for TECOGEN Inc., which markets cogeneration and chiller products. (Kids, don't try this at home!) When he becomes president, Bill has promised to change the name to TECOGIN. Proud papa of eighteen-month-old Claire Sophia, Bill finds that parenthood is wonderful so far, but demanding and disorienting as well. This sounds like the old bumpersticker: "Insanity is hereditary—you get it from your kids!"

As The Brides Go Tearing By: Joan vonHermann may be the only bride to have slalomed the wedding guests. On February 1 Joan married Mitchell "NO I'm not related to H&R" Block at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in Utah. Joan and Mitchell run Direct Cinema Limited, a documentary film company based in Santa Monica. Wedding invitations which feature "steep and deep" runs at Alta and Snowbird between wedding festivities usually gamer a high success rate, and this was no exception. If I ever received an invitation like this, you'd have to measure my response in nanoseconds. KristenFunkhouser Pierce and Susan Ball represented our class well, and Tim von Hermann '82 drank for all of Alpha Chi that couldn't attend. Incidentally, the bride's dress was you guessed it—snow white.

That Gatorade commercial with Michael Jordon is nice but I prefer the marketing slogan which I have embraced for many years: Be like Mike—drink beer.

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