1984

With our reunion fast approaching, I wanted to remind everyone to (1) show up; and (2) call Reunion Czar Leigh Miller Garry at (914) 833-1601 if you want to help. This column's opening sentence was neither clever nor witty, but I wanted to get business out of the way so that I could clear out the many holiday letters that graced my mailbox. Bob Wiskind told me about the Long Island wedding of Tim Graubert and Becky Parks last March. Both Tim and Becky are doctors in New Haven, he an internist and she a neurologist. Tina Chang also made an appearance. Like the happy couple, she is a doctor, and, like Tim, she is an internist. After finishing her residency in Pittsburgh, she moved to Chicago for a "Rheumatology Fel- lowship." (You know I didn't make that up!) Both Bob and his wife, Anne, as you might have guessed, are also doctors, though neither is an internist. He is a pediatrician, and she is a gynecologist. The Wiskinds live in Atlanta with their one-year-old son Sam, and they promise anyone with extra tickets for the 1996 Olympics a place to stay.

Mike Lapham deserves special mention for sending me his note in a pink New England Telephone billing envelope. I also want to point out that Mike closed his letter by writing, "Feel free to quote as much as you want." Therefore: "feeling voluntary unemployment coming on and the Tenth Reunion approaching, and never having had my name in bold print, I thought I'd better write while I could still say I'm doing something productive. To wit, I'm working with the City of Boston on a campaign to create 1,000 lodging-house rooms and 501 units of housing for people with AIDS. See you at the Tenth." I could not have said it better myself.

Amy lorio was also a generous source of news. She and Ralph Barton were married in April '91. Amy got her master's in education focusing on educational television, and Ralph worked in a family business. After 18 months of living in Boston they decided to "trek to Seattle on a whim to try something new." Amy asked that I plug the Alumni in the Schools program which pairs Dartmouth-alum mentors with high-school students. Call Patsy Fisher-Harris 'Bl at Dartmouth for info.

Amy also writes the following. ToddGreenquist is living and working in Bangor, Maine, "doing something with computers for Bangor Hydroelectric." Mollie Hale works for John Hancock in the agricultural area and recently biked through Canada with DenyaRabius, who is a brand manager in California for Gallo Winery. Heidi Hibben Russell and husband Dan live in the Boston area, where Heidi works in the educational software business. Jonna Kirschner and husband Bruce Scambler have moved into a new house in Oxfordshire, England, and recently traveled to Africa. Mary Meeker is "working for a multinational in Jakarta, and her weeks off are spent touring Indonesia. Rev. Lucia Jackson was "housing Soviet veterans of Afghanistan and U.S. Vietnam vets this summer." (Lucia, this could use some elaboration.) Marci Lait just started medical school in Chicago, where she has been living the last few years. Amy's letter sets a new indoor record by providing news on 13 classmates; I did not include reports on five other classmates mentioned in previous columns. Finally, holiday photo cards indicate that Anne and Jim Clemens recently added daughter Katherine to sons Sam and Sean, and Helen and John Sedgewick welcomed Regan Patricia to the family they began with Connor.

Thanks for the help, those who did. Till next we talk.

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