1977

Seizing the opportunity of a rare quiet night with the family out of town, I headed to an old stomping ground, the Bermuda Triangle on Fillmore Street, to compose the class notes. In years past this unique corner of San Francisco provided Dartmouth students who didn't choose banktraining programs some post-graduate education in bartending and waiting. Surrounded by these ghosts of beer busts past, I bring you the news.

Good things come to those who wait. It took Charlie Krupanszky quite a while, but he met Jennifer Wright a couple of years ago and the two of them got married in August in upstate Wisconsin. I was there with '76s Steve Alford, Kim Cushman, and Steve Shoemaker. In this beautiful fishing camp, we did our best to recreate the basement atmosphere of Alpha Delta with pinballs, kegs, and the übiquitous beer-pong table. The games went late and loud. Luckily it was a remote location, so only the fish were disturbed. When the games ended Charlie and Jen had a beautiful lakeside ceremony complete with fantastic flowers everywhere and a soaring bald eagle overhead. Following the wedding, they headed back to the Rockies to set up their new home.

One of the invitees to .the wedding, DaveDobrowolski, couldn't attend because he was flying back to the States with his family after several years in Indonesia. Weirdly enough, he ran into my brother on Fisherman's Wharf during the Dobrowolskis' 16 hour layover in San Francisco.

Steve Silver and his family have just returned to New Jersey from a stint overseas in Switzerland with his company there. They have a new baby and they just bought a new house on the Cape and had visits from the Joneses and Hoskings of Pittsburgh and Bones Gate fame.

Al Sinsheimer paid a weekend visit to San Francisco. We did a serious mountain-bike trip, and Al showed none of the negative effects of a life wasted in Manhattan. He's still working at Goldman, Sachs in emerging markets and is hoping to hook up with other classmates like Dobrowolski, Wes Chapman, and Jose Fernandez to swap ideas and experiences in their field.

Al keeps up with Hugh Frater and his wife, Kirsten Feldman. Flush with his success at Blackrock Financial and hers at Morgan Stanley, this New York power couple took a summer holiday fly-fishing in their own private Idaho. Hugh followed up the trip with a golf outing with buddies Bill Replogle and Ned Gumble down in Virginia. Bill hosted the event near his family's home. He puts his active imagination to work there as a partner in an advertising company.

Two items came in about doctors in the class taking seriously different career tracks. Dave Haraway told me that Libby LeachMaloney was recently named interim medical director at the new Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. With more than 400 beds, the hospital is the largest in northern New England. While Libby makes her anesthesiology rounds in the Upper Valley, Gary Shulhamer practices alone in the Pacific Northwest. Like a scene from Northern Exposure, Gary is the only M.D. in Darrington, Wash. When not being called on to deliver kids and children, he does all the whitewater kayaking time permits.

Last call. Good night.

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