1980
Even the youngest of us is turning 38, and soon we will all be 40. It's going too fast, it's all going too fast. What does it all mean?
The progeny of the granite of New Hampshire, we keep pushing the rock up the hill, making Sisyphus proud. GeneFrisco is CEO of Biomedical Waste Systems Inc. in Boston.Scudder, Stevens & Clark Inc. appointed Paul Elmlinger a managing director in January. Nabisco recently named Jim Goldman vice president of marketing for the Nabisco Refrigerated Foods Co.
Some of us work at playing games. Dennis Murphy is still playing hockey in France, claiming for the past five or six years that "this year" is his last year. Also in the land of Quasimodo (both classic lovers and parents of small children understand) is Larry Lawrence (the only other 'BO from Macon, Ga.), still playing basketball after all these years. How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm, once they've seen Paree? An article in the Valley News on Dartmouth athletes abroad described Larry as a "true Green graybeard." Ouch!
Children can give meaning to life. Relatively recent arrivals (in case you haven't figured it out over the past 16 years, Class Notes news is somewhat dated) include Benzie Edelson, son of Lisa and Geoff Edelson. (Geoff was the first "Jeff' with a "G" I ever knew—growing up, we didn't have any in Macon.) Amy and Ed Rowland have found joy with their daughter, Lainie Juliet, who was one year old in June. Ed has had his shoulder against the rock for Pepsi Foods International in Puerto Rico.
Education is a way of finding meaning. Marcia Lawrence Somerville teaches her three boys and three girls at home. That's more rock than I want to think about. Her husband, Scott Somerville '79, is a staff attorney at the Home School Legal Defense Association. Marsha Rich is a New Hampshire state resource teacher for Project Atmosphere, a national outreach of the American Meteorologic Society. Marsha is on leave from her job as an eighth-grade earth science teacher in Manchester's Derryfield School.
"Dear Abby" and country and western music are good sources of meaning. Singer Randy Travis advised against "digging up bones, exhuming things that's better left alone."
The class, however, has no shortage of orthopaedists. These include EricWashington, featured recently in the St. Louis American, Mike Lynch, in private practice in Norwalk, Conn., and PeterBoone, of Trumbull, Conn. Both Mike and Peter became members of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Sure-eons in February.
When in doubt, God can provide meaning. Anne van Roden described in the June edition of Guideposts how God answered her prayer for good weather on the day she married Joe Hunter several years ago. The article included a photograph of Anne on her wedding day. Prayer can help when the storms of life are washing you away. (I like reading Guideposts for its uplifting articles. Also, the magazine's small size and short articles make for convenient "contemplative reading," much like Reader's Digest. Boy, was I surprised to see Anne staring out from the page at me back in June.)
The Rev. Gerald E. Murray is in Rome in his third of four years of canon law studies. Gerry also is doing reserve duty with Command in Naples. Throw out the lifeline, throw out the lifeline, someone is drifting away.
Define yourself. Get a piece of the rock.
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