1984
I begin this, my final column as secretary, without my usual complaints about the paucity of news since I was lucky enough to see many of you during our reunion weekend. First, a well-deserved thanks must go to Leigh Miller Garry, who organized the event and worked tirelessly throughout the weekend to make sure everything came off smoothly. Thanks also to the many others who helped. Now, on to the news.
Reunion seemed like one long cocktail party with too many faces and too many beers making it difficult to get all the facts straight. Here, then, is my general stream of consciousness report from the many conversations I had: John Kennedy made the trip from Chicago with his fiancee, Emily Mercer. A November wedding is planned. Revell Horsey and Carrie told me they have left New York for a summer with their daughter in Boulder, Colo. They are moving to Baltimore in the fall where Carrie will be at Johns Hopkins. I saw Laurie Kretchmar at the class tent and learned that she had left her position at Fortune Magazine to become a senior editor at another publication. "Now, I'm running the show," Laurie put it, more or less. Speaking of Fortune alums, I sawjosh Mendes at Storrs Pond on Saturday. Josh told me he too will leave the magazine, to attend Harvard's Kennedy School and "think about what I want to do." My other major recollection from the cookout was having lunch with J.B. Daukas, Randy Slayton, and John Isaacson while each watched over their newly minted daughters. Their wives, Christie, Brenda, and Linda Tuck Isaacson seemed to be doing most of the work though Daukas was surprisingly adroit with a bottle.
I have in my mind an image of Wendy Folberth Miller and Eric Miller '82 herding their brood through a crowd, but I don't remember if that was my Dartmouth reunion or my business school reunion. (Actually, it was both!) Pam Ross Ciszewski was looking happy in her final weeks (days?) of pregnancy, and Frohman Anderson was racing after his blondhaired daughter as she explored campus. Dr. Robert Mansfield held court at die side of the tent. Beth O'Neill, who was married last fall, chatted with me over breakfast. Terri Gibbs breezed into the tent with some kisses and a round of hello's. And I caught up with Charlie Hoban, who recendy moved back to the states with his wife after a stint in Paris.
In the mail bag I received word form Kitnberli Fahlbeck Mulford, who writes that sh she and husband Bruce were recently blessed with a son, Alexander, born on December 20. She adds that they will live in England for the next four years while Bruce is stationed there as a master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. I also heard that Marion Ryan has left the New York law firm of Rogers & Wells to take a job as counsel for the reality-based programming division of King World Productions Inc. The division includes the news magazines "Inside Edition," "American Journal," and "The Les Brown Show."
It is hard to believe that it has been some four years since I began serving as your secretary, but with 37 columns under my belt, it is only fitting that I pause to wax nostalgic. In spite of receiving only 23 unsolicited letters in four years, I have managed to make mention of 394 (by my count) classmates at least once, and only a handful more than twice. I have enjoyed myself and wish to thank you all for indulging me with your tolerance and the occasional compliment. Without knowing my successor at press time, I wish him or her the best of luck and hope that you make that lucky soul scrape as hard as I did. And so I close, as always, 'til next we talk.
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The Brewsters have begun training baby Will early. Dad Toby '83 and Will coasted through the 5K race while mom Becky '84 went the distance in the 10K.
