1979

As I sit in this decrepit U.S. Air Dash 8 (i.e. no jet engines), sweating profusely from the terror generated by the oncoming cumulonimbus clouds, I wonder if I'll be around to attend the next reunion. Bang another tray table crashes next to me as an olive from a martini ricochets off the overhead luggage bin and lands on my head. This is an early-morning flight so the corporate beast next to me must be gearing up for a particularly productive day. Hopefully the Merlot-colored scars from the late-night battle with his razor will have healed by the time he makes his presentation to the underwriters. Can I possibly navigate to the head? Whap! No way—this is no "minor turbulence, " and I clearly risk being found in a corn field shamefully locked inside the two-by-two stainless-steel stall. Imagine the ignominy; Bruce Bierman will pen my obit describing in vivid detail the sapphire-blue Tidy Bowl stains on my suit. Even my partners T. Wey-mouth and Scott Blackmun will laugh. Better to haul out the dictaphone .for one last column.

Henry Hunnefeld has been named to the executive committee of the World Boxing Association. A partner in the Coral Gables law firm of Carusello and Hunnefeld, Henry has also served as adjunct professor of international law at the University of Miami.

The Ellsworth American recently reported that Julia Sockbeson has been elected a trustee of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor. Julia has worked extensively in tribal administration for the Penobscot Nation and currendy serves on the Indian Island school board and the Indian Health Committee.

Tom Dustin has joined the Concord (N.H.) Savings Bank as a residential-mortgage originator. Formerly a mortgage loan officer with Homeowners Assistance Corp., Tom will be responsible for developing and generating residential mortgage business in the greater Concord, Franklin, and Laconia areas.

Brent Betit has published two poems in Echoes, a creative communications magazine published in Allentown, Pa. Primarily a fiction writer, Brent works at Landmark College, the only one in the country dedicated specifically to dyslexic or learning-disabled students.

Rueben Stokes has been appointed national sales director of Ryder Move Management, the corporate-relocation arm of Ryder Consumer Truck Rental, which provides a full array of move-management services to companies that relocate employees. Rueben joined Ryder after three years in Chicago as the national sales director for Allied Van Lines. In his new position, he will be responsible for managing the sales force and newproduct development.

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