1979

Skip Maples receives this month's "Associated Press" award. Armed with a new PC and a laser printer, he sent me a 14-year summary that frankly is one of the more interesting morsels to land on a rather empty plate of late. Following our graduation, Skip worked for three years in the Washington office of the late U.S. Representative Millicent Fenwick of Newjersey. He then served in the Peace Corps in Atenas, Costa Rica, where he worked with a savings-and-loan cooperative. Next stop: Ftarvard Business School, from which Skip and Jim Holden graduated in 1986. After a three-year stint as a securities analyst at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis, Skip accepted an offer in 1990 from the Milwaukee boutique Cleary, Gull, Reiland & McDevitt. And most recently, in October 1992, Skip married Carolyn Weigell, a high-school buddy of Mike Johnson. OK, Wilson, now that your freshman roommate took the time, send me an update on the New York/Connecticut scene.

Similarly moved by technological innovation (the electronic class-note system) to write, Sam Winebaum has expanded Winebaum News and formed a new company, P.0.P./Graphics, which produces and distributes, over telephone lines, narrated electronic advertising to end-of-aisle televisions in major supermarkets. Having established a dozen sites at several chains, Sam is eager to correspond electronically with any willing '79s.

Rob Worley has been named regional vice president at Commerce Bank N.A., where he will oversee lending and branch administration for the firm's Atlantic County, N.J., operations. Rob previously was a senior vice president at Bank of Mid-Jersey; he, Pat, and their daughter Samantha recently moved to Medford Lakes.

Dave Van Wie has joined Robert G. Gerber Inc. as director of environmental management. Gerber has been one of Maine's leading geoscience and geo-technical engineering firms for several years. The firm specializes in assisting clients with environmental regulatory issues, the rough-site investigations, and evaluations. Essentially, Dave will be responsible for providing total-quality environmental management services to Gerber's clients. Dave recently served as a member of the Facility Siting Board of Maine Waste Management Agency and as chairman of the New Gloucester conservation Commission.

Last fall, Bruce Nickelson married Maria Uria in Storrs, Conn. Ushers included Carl Gehring, Tim Higgins, and John Moragne. Bruce is a geologist with GZA Geo Environmental Technologies. Maria, a graduate of UMSS Cogga, Bolivia, is a doctoral candidate at U-Conn.

Bill Barron eveiytime I review my records of column contributors during the past five years, there is a distinct blank box next to your name. Life can't possibly be as mundane as the tales from Baltimore which I often use for filler. Call me collect.

Phil Odence is organizing a mini-reunion in Hanover during the weekend of October 29 (Harvard game and Homecoming); you will be receiving the details in coming months, but please mark your calendars now.

For those of you not residing in the MidAdantic neighborhood, the latest news from the Hill and Pennsylvania Avenue is less than sanguine. Judicial nominations are in a state of disarray; the Health Care Task Force has apparently disbanded; and inexpensive crewcuts are the latest rage.

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Paniters Peter Garfield '84 and Nick Lawrence '82 showed their work in a Tench Reunion exhibit at the Hopkins Center's Jaffe Freid Gallery.