1980

What an incredible Cinderella story. The campus has gone deadly silent. Five unknowns from out of the Alpha Chi basement. It's 5 a.m., Sunday, June 18, here on the first tee at the Hanover Country Club. A solid wall of morning dew stretches out before the group. The first lines up for his tee shot. He's got about 420 yards. He'll hit about a five iron, don't you think? Oh! He got all of that one. It's in the hole It's in the hole!

It could have been Bill Murray, whacking geraniums from the flower boxes at Caddy-shack's Bushwood Country Club. But for John Cholnoky Joe Misiewicz Andy Graham, Chris Sawch (a.k.a. the Lama), and this writer, it was a fitting conclusion to a reunion weekend that we didn't want to end. Doubtless most passed the weekend in more sane pursuits, but one hopes that all found something special to cherish in their return to the Hanover Plain.

Attending were 246 members of our class, 25 percent more than any previous 15th Reunion class. We really do have something special going here. Just consider the alternatives. One class member requested as quiet a room as possible. The reunion housing office obliged with lodgings directly over the '79 tent.

The weekend was not always perfect. JoniVon Hermann locked her keys in the car during Saturday's Storrs Pond picnic. Bigger problem was, the engine was running. And, of course, we did manage to pick up lots of news.

Joe Misiewicz is a family doctor in Meriden, N.H. Joe is the town's only physician. The town also has one lawyer. The lawyer runs daily TV spots advertising his malpractice specialty. Meanwhile, Joe travels weekly to Washington, where he lobbies fiercely for tort reform.

Harry Shulman is moving to Aspen, Colo. to head up Holland & Hart's law office there. Harry hopes the move will enable him to practice law in a mellow environment, and, more importantly, "bag fourteeners" (i.e., climb 14,000-foot mountains).

Andy Watson retired from the water-filter business after his sales pyramid exhausted itself. He is now in the credit-fixing business. For $800, A-Wat will erase the $25 late charge that keeps showing up on your credit report.

After graduating from Columbia law school and producing records in L.A., Fred Meyerson is pursuing a doctorate in environmental studies at Yale. Fred recently delivered a scientific paper, which he likened to speaking Hebrew to a Dutch audience. He couldn't make a mistake since nobody understood what he was saying.

Martin Boles practices law in Los Angeles. He uses the three-hour freeway commute to listen to Winston Churchill's speeches, Supreme Court oral arguments, and, most importantly, silence, something he will have little of for years to come with five kids at home and another on the way.

Earl Grossman lives in Charlottesville, Va., where he owns a company that organizes student travel tours. Judging from the 73 that he shot in the reunion golf tournament, he works on his golf game as well.

For those who think their hearts won't hold out for another reunion, no need to fear. Sally Sandercock Michler's husband, Robert, is the chief of the heart-transplant unit at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. His unit transplants approximately 80 hearts a year, and the five-year survival rate is 72 percent.

A final note for those who think nothing has changed since 1980. Muffy Ramsdell and Catherine Wolstencrost are the same person.

Many thanks to reunion chairpersons EdSloan, Carla Boehm Sloan and AnneMunves Malenka. And congratulations and best of luck to our new class officers: President Meg LePage, Treasurer Susan Green Spagnola Alumni Council Representative Charlie Clement and, especially, co-secretaries Wade Herring and Laura Giuliano Lattanzi

As for us, there's only one thing left to say: Party on, Mike. Party on, Dan.

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