1974

For all of you Internet "surfers," here's my new email address: . Feel free to send me information about yourselves and other classmates for this column as well as Rick Ranger's always-eloquent class newsletter. Tom Ludlow, our able class treasurer, has asked each of us for ideas to help President Buck Becker decide what to do with current funds in our 20th Reunion Class Project Collections.

It was nice to ride back from the Saturday-of-Reunion Moosilauke hike with JohnPolley, who told me of his success as an attorney in Indianapolis. John related that Indy hasn't been the same since TomEggleston left for Grand Rapids, Mich. (One of my favorite pastimes at reunions has been to talk to classmates I didn't know well during school daze, so thanks, John.) It was also nice to ride to Greenwich, Conn., with old roomie Rick Woolworth and wife Jill '77 and their three daughters. When we got to their soon-to-be-renovated house I promptly got trampoline lessons from Joycelyn, Virginia, and Helen, and then headed off to the pool for a family swim. Then I needed a beer and a nap.

If I've left other 20th Reunion attendees out of this column, it's not on purpose, so forgive me. It seems that we always outperform our '73 and '75 cohorts attendance-wise, and because I skipped the picnic on Saturday, I missed talking to a lot of you. And anyway I was drafted (strong-armed) by Rick Ranger and Mary Donovan just before class elections that evening. Otherwise, I would have made copious notes. Send me a quick letter so's I can write your name in bold letters too.

Chris "Lance" Baldwin (a.k.a. "000 C'mon" by the '74 squash team) is still in N.Y.C. and has advised me that Lex Chalko is curing borderline personalities (Lex, was that a requirement for admission to Dartmouth?) in his psychotherapy practice in Connecticut. Lance and Judy stay current with neighbor and Park Avenue ophthalmologist-pilot Wayne Whitmore. Wayne and Alice came with daughter Samantha to visit me in Kingman, Ariz., during my two-year stay there. (You can ask them ifitwas really true!) Samantha had been spontaneously chanting my name weeks before, much to her parents' chagrin. Chris and Wayne challenged Jim Gardner to join them in their annual Out-West hiking trip in '95.

Over the past few years I've bumped into Bill Chilcote, the Woolworths, Bob andKathy Atwell, Mike Pancoe, and KennyCanfield while skiing in Colorado. Which brings me to ask Alike Draznik if he has any plans yet for a '74 ski trip this winter. Mike and his family and I were in Steamboat in 1990 when I introduced Annie, Katy, Billy, and Gordy to Han'D'Gas, a noisemaker designed to wreak havoc in a gondola lift. Mike, get crackin'!

Tom Wilson is program director for the internal-medicine residency program at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, just a few miles from my new location. I actually inter- viewed with Tom earlier this year for a teach- ing position at Good Sam before taking my current position at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. I understand that Scott and Fern('75) Phillips are also in the vicinity, so please give me a call, you two. And I had dinner the other night with neighbor Blair Andrew '75, who wondered, as did I, how George Vorys is doing back in Ohio.

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