1983

Well, first of all, let's shake the rafters for Mr. Frank Davis, who masterminded a fantastic reunion several weeks ago. Frank, you made it happen ... for more than 500 people. Kathy Bachelder Coster and Beth Wrnnick Falcone were salivating the entire time: "Lemmesee... 500 people. If everybody gives a leadership gift, divided by the hypotenuse of an isosceles triangle, plus the square root of Chip Greene's GPA... WOW! Megabucks!" Yep, it was a wonderful weekend on the Hanover plain.

As it happens, I'm backlogged with information. Let's start with Kathy BOWLER Mitchell. "You forgot the 'Bowler' part," she told me. And that's all she wrote. Oh, man! Next up is the peripatetic Libby Schmeltzer Hinson, who writes from LA that she's written the script for an adaptation of the children's classic The Secret Game for ABC. The program is scheduled to be aired in early-1994. Libby and husband Rich have a 21-month-old son named William Clark. The young man dances to "Son of a Gun for Beer" in his Flintstones pj's.

And then there's Keith Moscow, architect extraordinaire. Last spring Keith was one of five winners in a nationwide architectural competition for the redesign of the San Francisco Embarcadero Waterfront. Wow! Keith also was awarded the Sustainable Design Award from the Boston Society of Architects for the greening (i.e., environmentally efficient and humanistic) design for a historic building in Boston. Keith, alas, is now working on a renovation project for a certain small-time, non-hip school in Cambridge, Mass.

How 'bout this for a theme: The Pete Paragraph? Pete Burack, who spenthis freshman fall watching yours truly flail away miserably in English 5, checked in from the Big Apple's East Side. Pete's now married (to Marjorie Becker, Wesleyan '88), fully accredited with an MM. from theJ.L. Kellogg School of Management, and working in real estate for Bessemer Trust. Pete Farrar is working with Wyatt Associates (benefits consultants somewhere in Massachusetts). "The Company is moving, but they won't tell us where," reports the former Hitchcock denizen. Pete specializes in designing compensation programs for employers. Here's what that means: "A company calls us and says they want us to do a study which recommends that senior management be paid more. So it's pretty straightforward." No arguments here. Pete Barry was sighted not too long ago along the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston, Ill. Peter Forbes was at the reunion and (I believe) is still a mainstay at the Trust for Public Land. I did not see Pete Lavery at the reunion, but it's a lay-up that he's still lurking around Boston—there's sort of an inner connection between Lavery and Boston. Like Larry and the Celtics. Orr and the Bruins.

Moving on... we find a glowing press release from the People's Bank announcing the promotion of Ken Weinstein to first vice president. Ken is responsible for the overall management of the bank's family of consumerdeposit products. Congrats, Kenny. Dinesh D'Souza, meantime, must have a peck of reporters chasing him everywhere. Dinesh surfaced not too long ago at Lehigh University debating multi-culturalism with some quant from U-Chicago. And somehow, it wouldn't seem right to end this without throwing John Hairs name in for good measure. John intrigues me because he's a lawyer (who loves his job) and lives in New York (and thrives there, too). And as long as we're thinking law, Guy Rasco, who supervises legal activities in Dade County, Florida, feels I unfairly abused him by claiming that he wears white suits and jet-skis to work every day. Picky, picky.

In closing, an apology to Glen Eddy, who in truth is a libertarian, not a liberal. Lord, talk about a typo! No, Glen, it wasn't Bruce Andrus's bad doctor's penmanship. And a word of appreciation for Pete Bixby '42, who has read this column faithfully over its precarious seven-year life. Thanks Pete!

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