1983

I can't tell you how many calls and letters I've received bearing the message: "Enough about classmates already—let's hear more about Hollywood celebrities!" (Great to hear from you, Will Cattan.) Well, all right. As it happens, I have a new neighbor. Perhaps you've heard of her: Married With Children star Christina Applegate. She recendy bought the house across the cul de sac (I feel obliged to add that it's three or four times the size of ours) and while I haven't actually met her yet her entourage seems very nice.

If that's not enough, I was walking with my 16-month-old twins in Beverly Hills the other day and who should admire them but Roseanne. "Twins," she drawled. "How cute." And just think, she has a new baby now, too. It is a glamorous life. I try not to let it change me.

Soon, however, I won't have to stray outside our charmed little circle of '83s to discuss celebrities. Jean Hanff Korelitz is bound to become one as soon as her legal thriller comes out next spring. About jury tampering and science run amok, it's called Jury of Her Peers, and it's great. I read every page. And I happen to know that Jean's already had a nibble or two from Hollywood although it's not even out yet. Poor Julia Roberts. This is the legal thriller she should have starred in. She would have been perfect for the lead. But read it and see for yourself. Start asking your local booksellers about it now, and you can be sure they'll have it when it comes out.

Bob Agler and his wife, Sonia Chae, '84, are delighted to announce the arrival of Samuel Chae Agler, born February 9. "Sam," Sonia wrote from Chicago a few months ago, "was born two months early, but is doing fine, and is actually pretty huge now (18 lbs. With an enormous head—he looks like an Asian Bob)." Sonia enclosed a picture, and you know whatshe's right.

I received a charming not recently from the proud father of Miriam Ricketts. He reports that after getting her MBA from John sHopkins, Miriam started her own business in Cleveland, Ohio. Somewhere in between she taught at Verde Valley School in Sedona, Ariz., and this year the students there voted to have her come back and give the commencement adress. " I feel this i somewhatktr` unusual and quit an hnor fr a ungDartmouth alumnus" writes Bil Ricketts '51, and we think it is,

Dave Neslund is now an assistant vice-president in the corporate lending department of Farmers First Bank in Lititz, Md. Dave and his family (and I wish I could tell you more about them) recently moved to Lancaster County from the Baltimore area where he was previously working for Chase Manhattan Bank of Maryland.

And, lest I forget, I owe an apology to those among you who avidly scoured last month's column for the promised picaresque (not to mention, picturesque) tale of Mike Fisch's courtship of his wife, Laura. It all started when a friend offered to set the two up on a blind date. Well, not exactly blind. Laura, as I believe I've mentioned, was a Ford model, so Mike, nothing if not enterprising, looked up her page in the Ford book. And here's the kicker: he decided, no, he wasn't really interested. Why not? (At least Mike had the grace to look a little sheepish.) Because she wasn't blond, that's why not. Through a tangled series of events, he ended up on the phone with her anyhow and that did the trick. "She gave good phone," Mike chuckled Mike-ishly (ah, Mike, single women across America will miss you), and the rest—Upper East Side townhouse swarming with a remarkable number of little boys considering how long they've been married, and all—is history.

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