1977

You've got to love California. They say all the nuts have rolled West, and from time to time that sentiment is confirmed. A couple months back, Mary and I were celebrating the birth of our son Billy when the nurse leaned over and asked, "Would you like to keep the placenta?" Now, I don't want Billy to think I don't love him, and I'm not unappreciative of the miracle of birth, but really, what are you supposed to do with it? Plant a tree on it? Serve it with fava beans and a nice chianti? Needless to say, we declined.

Andy Warhol claimed that everyone will have 15 minutes of fame (or something to that effect). Cort Delaney skirted the edges of fame for a couple of months last year and thoroughly enjoyed himself. It seems that a friend of his got involved in a big-time Hollywood romance with Sharon Stone. Cort became something of an escort to Sharon on several occasions and found himself among the jet-set movie crowd in L.A. They even exchanged letters for awhile. Probably the highlight of their relationship was a lunch he had with her at the Yale Club in New York. She turned a few heads that afternoon. Cort was crestfallen to find that when the romance cooled, he was taken off the Christmas-card list. After the klieg lights and big city, Cort has returned to his windsurfing and law duties back in Connecticut.

Having been abandoned by Sharon, Cort has fallen back on his friendship with lanMcCullough. Lan recently moved out to the suburbs with his wife and commutes into New York for Salomon Brothers. His career there is a survivor's guide to life on Wall Street—he's been in their municipal, then mortgage, then commercial real-estate businesses. These days just hanging in is a triumph.

Labor Day weekend several classmates got together for a mini-reunion in Bowling Green. Since graduation a loyal group of AD brothers have held annual meetings in various locations around the country. This year's meeting was hosted by Professor George Bullerjahn and attended by Dave Voss, Ted Lapres,Phil Hanlon, and representatives from other classes. Activities included a tour of the architecturally significant buildings in Bowling Green and a roadtrip to Phil's home in Ann Arbor for the Michigan-BC football game. George was quick to point out that as dull as life is in Toledo, it makes Voss's Rockford, III., look like Paris. If any of you are interested, Ted made a video of the weekend's events which he will sell for $19.95 a copy.

Another classmate participated in a reunion of sorts in the fall. Adrienne Burford-Foggs joined her husband Michael's family for a "kinfolks" gathering in Milwaukee. Members of his extended family enjoyed a weekend of mingling, sightseeing, eating, learning—you name it. Adrienne and Michael are both doctors in Chicago, and they called on their medical expertise to conduct an educational session for the group titled "This Thing Called AIDS." It sounded from the newspaper like a far grander and more successful family gathering than I've ever heard of.

While these reunions were taking place, Scott Andrews was putting the finishing touches on a film project recently aired on PBS. The documentary investigates the status of Berkeley's attempt at integrating its high school 25 years later. According to the SF Chronicle, the film "finds widening cracks in the national melting pot" and "is one of the scariest shows you'll see this year" for what it says about the state of racial harmony. Check it out if you get a chance.

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