1983

I might as well name Bruce Seabrook honorary editor this month and be done with it, this column owes so much to him. Bruce reports in from his "unhealed, unairconditioned, uncabled, no-TV, totally charming, open to the elements house" in Coconut Grove, Fla., which he shares with Lolita, a 120-pound Neapolitan mastiff. He wants us to know that Billy Cummings graduated from Kellogg School of Business last summer and is living in San Francisco with his wife, Zib (Eliza to you and me). Billy works for Colossus Entertainment as a multimedia kind of guy but is still behaving like a ten-year-old, according to Bruce. More importantly, he seems to have his hair loss under control.

Philip Romualdez's hair, on the other hand, Bruce describes as reminiscent of Ronald Reagan's. But what does that mean? That Philip's a devotee of Clairol? We hear he's a devotee of a certain Swedish law student/model, and is entering into the fourth year of their relationship. "We're all hoping for a wedding," says Bruce, "but first they have to bridge the Stockholm-Manila geography."

Kim Steel celebrated her tenth anniversary in the working world by resigning from her job at Prudential (what a wonderful idea—everyone should take a sabbatical) and spending the winter skiing in Aspen. Her hair, according to the Official Bucko Follicle Report, is still plentiful and gorgeous, but what did you expect? As for Bruce himself, he has one of the cushiest jobs in the class, working for On-Board Revenue and spending half his time on cruise ships. He claims to still have a full head of hair, but he didn't send a picture, so we can't be sure of that, can we?

Phil Ruder got married last summer to Lisa Ponschok, a social worker he met in Madison, where he's finishing his Ph.D. in economics. Chris Herbert was a groomsman, and Tracey Nickerson Herbert, Mark Burget,Eliza Deery, Betsy Evans Bodner,Belle Traver, Bruce Yirinec, and BrianYirinec were the other '83s in attendance. According to Phil, "the guests were so jolly that they were drinking champagne from their shoes." And that was before dinner. The groom managed to resist his mother-in-law's best friend's insistence that he drink from her champagne-filled slipper but we understand that Chris was induced to take a swig.

David Hendren has a new baby, a new job, and a new (old) house in Newton, Mass. The newest partner in the Boston law firm of Cuddy, Lynch & Bixby and his wife, Alyson, welcomed Margaret Elizabeth Grant Hendren on June 27. (Big sister Charlotte is two and a half.) Dave misses seeing John Rogers on a daily basis. The two used to work for the same firm, but John left at about the same time Dave did and is now an associate with Fried, Frank in New York.

More babies: Karen Rogers and John Pryor '84 welcomed son John Williams Rogers Pryor into the world on December 19 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where Karen is a post-doctoral fellow in forensic and child psychology. And Rick Gagne and EliseMorse-Gagne were surprised by the birth of their first child, David Emerson Morse-Gagne, who arrived about 12 days early on November 12 and weighed in at eight pounds, three ounces. The Morse-Gagnés live in Bloomington, Ind.

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Kim Steel celebrated her tenth anniversary in the working world by resigning from her job at Prudential and spending the winter skiing in Aspen. -DEBORAH M. ROSCH '83