1977

'I received a copy of our Freshman Book in the mail recently from Charlie Krupanszsky. Thanks again, Charlie. I was thinking I would use it to help put faces with names, but I may use it as blackmail if I don't start getting more news. The book is thoroughly enjoyable to leaf through again. I haven't seen one in some time, and it reminds me of that first fall when we were constantly looking up dorms of the people we had met or looking up people we were hoping to meet.

I ran into Scott Kepner at a cocktail party several months back. We were swapping good news/bad news jokes about California. The good news was we have had lots of rain lately. The bad news was it will take rain in biblical proportions to make up for our seven-year shortfall. The subject arose when I asked tactfully about the California real-estate market (another good news/bad news topic) and his chosen profession. It seems Scott got into it early enough and in enough of the right places to be doing very well, but I can't say the same for many of his professional brethren. Scott married a couple years ago and is enjoying the stability of a single-zip-code lifestyle after Lauren spent their first married year finishing Harvard Business School.

The only classmate he keeps up with regularly is Zoltan Zsitvay, who, coincidentally, is the last entry in our freshman book.I called Zoltan to see how he was doing. He and his wife are busy raising their two young children in Harding Township, N.J.,' while Zoltan commutes to Wall Street to trade convertible stocks for Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette.

Penn State University recently named Vincent Pellegrini as chairman of the Orthopaedics Department and professor at the school's medical center. Vince attended Dartmouth Medical School after graduation and has specialized in hand and upper-extremity surgery for the last several years. A press release mentions his interest in heterotopic ossification. How do you get that?

Chris Jenny writes that he and wife Andi are "living a happy Ozzie-and-Harriet life out in the 'burbs of North Andover, Mass." They have three young children, and their number- one priority is finding a high quality education for them. In his spare time Chris is chief executive of Health Management International, parent company for a family of consumer product companies. Sounds lucrative, Chris. You know, if you give enough money (or negotiable securities), the College may be able to work something out for you.

Our class president, Missy Asbill, wrote with some news from last fall's Club Officers Weekend. Kentucky Dartmouth Club President Alan MacDonald was recognized as Club President of the Year at Club Officers Week- end in the fall. Alan was also made a partner in his law firm, and he and wife Joyce '78 celebrated their daughter's first birthday. Busy year, Alan—congratulations. Why no picture in the Freshman Book?

Missy also received an award at the meeting for outstanding district enrollment directorship in Washington, D.C. Great work. There will probably be a whole new crop of potential students with the new administration in town.

Alike Carter, also from the Dartmouth Club of Kentucky, was up for that weekend and spoke on a panel about public service initiatives Dartmouth Clubs are beginning to make. It sounds like a far cry from the early Dartmouth Club functions I attended in New York. We showed very little initiative of any kind back then. I'm glad that we are maturing.

Larry Cubas was in Hanover the same weekend. He, Alan, and Mike all agreed to participate on our class's executive committee. Larry's primary purpose for his trip to Hanover was the alumni varsity basketball game. Missy didn't report a result or how Larry did, but it must have taken some courage just to suit up. I'm sure you represented us proudly Larry. With that assault on eternal youth as a talisman, and a new spring approaching, I'll sign off.

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