1985

Let's not to the marriage of Eighty-fives Admit ignorance. Mary Reilly and George Elderidge have vow'd to entwine their lives Whilst your vex'd correspondent, quill in hand Eyes his blank parchment, deadline impending. He scans the pages of the Times, and, Lo! A wedding announcementnews worth sending! George, with his M.B.A. from Chicago, (Now V.P. at Boston Life Sciences) Marries Maty (senior Welch Foods exec) Amid a shower of appliances, long toasts, fine wine and Green guests, I expect. If this last be error and on me prov'd Then say I lack'd news, not that they nev'r lov'd.

Whew! If you've never tried to write a sonnet in iambic pentameter, you don't know what you're missing. (Actually, while the above sonnet kind of rhymes and actually manages to stick to ten syllables to a line, the meter, as the Bard would say, sucketh.)

Apologies to Professors Kastan, Saccio, Gaylord, Fradenberg, and others who tried to inculcate me in the mysteries of Shakespeare, and apologies to you, Dear Reader, for inflicting it on you.

In other wedding news, as rumored in an earlier column, Jeff Weitzman married Rachel Milliken recently. (They had a New York Times wedding announcement, with a picture that "looks like a Pearle Vision Center ad—a happy smiling couple in big glasses," said Jeff.) The ceremony was held in Morris Plains, N.J., and Rachel's stepfather, a cantor, officiated. Eighty-fives in attendance included Dave Daub (does something in real estate in Boston, and recently had a baby); Gabrielle Guise (our hardworking class president, pursuing a Ph.D. in Literature at N.Y.U., and probably grading my sonnet right now); Jon Goldman (back in New York and concocting an idea for an alternative dispute-resolution business with Jeff); Jake Kuehn (still a financial consultant with Kwasha Lipton); DaveMarder (on leave from Hale & Door, where he is a junior partner, to work in the public sector as a prosecutor, and father of a second child); and, finally, Chris Veator (manager of the technical consulting group at Thompson Legal Publishing in Maryland). Jeff and Rachel traversed Spain (Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid, Costa Del Sol, etc.) on their honeymoon, which they enjoyed "despite the food."

Those helpful folks at Alumni Records sent me a copy of Institutional Investor Magazine's 1992 All-America Research Tearn. This honor is bestowed annually on sharp-eyed analysts at the premiere investment banks. Our own Michael Young, of Smith Barney Harris Upham & Co., made the list this year. Congrats Mike!

That's all the news that's fit to mangle this month. Mark next.

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