1973

Not often do I ask a classmate for news and get as enthusiastic a response as I did from Doug Goodman. Doug joy fully announced that in June of this year, after less than a year's courtship, he was married to Marcia Finkelstein of Providence. Doug pointed out that this is his first marriage and that his introduction to Marcia was secretly plotted by a mutual friend. I think Doug was trying to tell me that Marcia, a social worker, is pretty special to have overcome his natural resistance to settling down.

Doug underwent an equally momentous change on the career front four years ago when he left behind 15 successful years in theater production and "fell into" his current job with Sports Illustrated. Doug describes his job as "editorial triage"—he pre-edits material submitted by 700 part-time journalists employed by SI worldwide.

Since graduating from Yale Divinity in '76, John Keeny has been a Methodist minister in Ohio, working diligently with college students and inner-city children. John's ministry includes organizing clothing and food programs, counseling troubled teens, and leading student volunteer groups into depressed areas where they help rehab tenements and homeless shelters. Every two or three years these work trips take John and his students to Harlem or New York's Lower East Side. On these visits they are treated to a hockey game or other Big Apple attractions by Jon Bonelli.

Most of John Keeney's "spare time" goes to conducting Dartmouth admissions interviews and trying to publish religious and scientific papers on which he has collaborated with John Butlock '63. This fall john is also teaching at United Theological Seminary in Dayton. His wife, Susan (B.A. Cornell, M.A. Yale), is a self-employed architect. They have two daughters, Marya 11 and Elena 6, and a nine-year-old son, Nicholas.

Prompted by a cryptic postcard that read: "Auf Wiedersehen! The Buergers are off to Switzerland," I recently called old friends Martin and Pat Buerger. Martin is being dispatched on "special assignment" by Palo Altobased Dialog Information Services to complete the integration of a Swiss firm that he was instrumental in acquiring. The firm develops international data bases, most notably Data Star. As you read, Patty is probably helping the three Buerger children settle into an international school right near their new home and mapping out what sounds like extensive European travel plans for the next two years.

The College clipping service has been kept busy by a number of recent '73 successes. In early May Bruce Rosenfield, chairman of the estates department of Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis in Philadelphia, was elected chairman of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Section on Probate and Trust Law. Dr. James Roney, associate professor of Russian, was honored with the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching at the May commencement ceremonies at Juniata College in Huntington, Pa.

Also in May, Tom O'Neill was named president of Parsons Brinckerhoff engineering firm, whose senior management he joined just last year. Tom is said to have had the inside track, however, having helped Parsons Brinckerhoff build the Atlanta subway as a summer job during his Dartmouth years. Congratulations to all!

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