1981

Dear classmates. Yes, I’ve done the unforgivable! I have missed a column, as those of you who regularly turn to the back of the Alumni Mag discovered last month. My sincerest apologies for doing so, but let me at least explain myself.

As I was preparing to sit down and write last month’s column my work schedule was exhibiting its normal pattern—first Europe, then Canada, then Philadelphia. Around the same time, however, I got the opportunity to join an investment management firm. It rep- resented a terrific professional opportunity, but was a hard decision to make after nine years with the same firm.

So, to make a long story short, I decided to make the jump, and all thoughts of my 1981 column were pushed to the side for a couple of weeks. I am di rilled about making the move (die firm’s name is Fischer, Francis, Trees and Watts) and hope you all forgive the lapse! Now on to more interesting news . . .

Bishop Mumford wrote (a while ago now, I admit) with an update on what he’s doing. Bish and his wife, Liz, recently celebrated the birth of their first child, Eugene Bishop, last February. The Mumford family is living on the family farm in Indiana where Bish raises com, soybeans, and wheat. He has been work- ing hard to put together his own operation since graduating from Dartmouth. He has worked the farm since 1981, except for a few “side trips” (unfortunately, Bish didn’t elab- orate on what they were!). Bish noted, “It has been a real challenge, with a terrible farm reces- sion, several droughts, and the usual number of plain screw-ups of my own doing. It has been fun though, and I do enjoy this line of work. At times I chuckle when I think of the great sounding and important jobs people are doing as written in the Alumni Magazine, especially when I am covered with dirt or grease or worse (did I mention I also have live- stock?). I still don’t think I would change it.” My own view is that sometimes it is those jobs which aren’t viewed as “important” which are the best or most fulfilling ones. Good luck, Bish!

Some quick news flashes. Word has it that Robin Webb is in Boulder, Colo., working for NASA and (as my source noted) “travel- ing to Europe on taxpayer dollars—isn’t that typical? ” Word has it that Carl Baum, M.D., is now married (details, Carl?) and living and practicing in Cambridge. His specialty is pedi- atric cardiology. Maribeth Hourihan and Tom Ryan recently had a baby boy named Tommy, their first child, I believe. Maribeth and Tom are both practicing physicians in the Boston area. Michael Peterson is a member of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center’s faculty and is the director of radia- tion oncology at Mercer Regional Cancer Center. Michael got his medical degree from Cornell and completed residencies in inter- nal medicine at Northwestern and in radia- tion oncology at HUP.

All for now. Cheers!

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