1983

Some people complain about their mothers-in-law but I have mine to thank for a large part of this column. It turns out she has spent the past three years in the Asian Art Museum's extremely rigorous docent program in San Francisco with Wendy Wasson Bingham. They only made the connection at the end-of-the-program party Wendy hosted earlier this year at the Pacific Heights home she shares with her merchant-banker husband, Dick. Wendy's an interior designer and should know better, but she had some Dartmouth paraphernalia around, and Kitzi (that's my mother-in-law) said, "Oh, did you go to Dartmouth? You wouldn't by any chance kn0w...." The rest is Class Notes history.

Wendy reports that since graduation Stuart Grider has managed to cut a wide swath through our nation's best educational institutions. Only after finishing Columbia's School of Architecture did he decide he didn't want to be an architect, and then it was on to Harvard Law school. "I'm pretty sure he went to Yale somewhere in there too," says Wendy. Stuart's in Boston finishing up—but, hey, I hear Stanford Business School's kind of fan.

I reported here almost a year ago that Michelle Ott's only complaint about doing venture capital in Prague was that city's lack of appealing men. Well, Michelle no longer has anything to complain about. She is, as Wendy, a woman of high visual discernment, puts it, "dating a hunk." Word is he's English and works in real estate in Prague.

Edie Farwell has also strayed far from home. She's been to Brazil and Vienna, working for (I hope I have this right) a non-profit computer network for peace and environmental activism, and, says Wendy, is presently preparing for the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.

Our illustrious class treasurer, Patty Shephard Green, wants me to let you know that from now on only one copy of the Alumni Magazine will be sent to households where more than one member went to Dartmouth. If that causes problems, please call Alumni Relations (603) 646-3933.

Henceforth Patty's own mailbox will be one of the less crowded ones. She's married to Chip Green, who is now consulting for a spin-off of Bain, the Parthenon Group, in Boston. They live in Hopkinton, where the marathon starts.

Another classmate affected by this new policy is Karen O'Neill. She recently married was a beautiful country wedding in Vermont. The two are starting a company to package Vermont food products, an idea that, needless to say, has caused rejoicing over at the state government, so much so that they're even helping out.

Lolly Jewett, last heard from at Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass., has moved to the Washington, D.C., area where she's working for the National Democratic Institute in places like South Africa, Mexico, and the former Soviet republics. Lolly's bailiwick is the Ukraine and Belarus, which has already translated into a couple of trips to Minsk and Kiev. She and husband Abner Oakes '8l live in Chevy Chase with their cat Koshka.

Libby Smeltzer Hinson is the proud mother of William Clark Hinson. Is it true, Libby, that the baby was named after base- ball's Will Clark? The way I heard it, mom and pop were watching the game on TV and decided they liked the name. If it sounds like something out of a movie, it might very well be one day: Libby is in L.A. working as a screenwriter, an all-too-natural progression after USC Film School and a stint at Disney. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person (let alone writer) in L.A. not working on one, but I say who needs it with such a fabulous creative outlet as Class Notes?

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