1978

Could it have been Dan(Harpo) Reicher, Hazel O'Leary's right-hand man, who vetted the $45,000 PR project to read the newspapers and evaluate which reporters liked the DOE? In September Harpo, formerly the deputy chief of staff, was named acting assistant secretary for policy after former AASP Jack Riggs took a big job at the Aspen Institute. Avis Banks Rash is a first-grade teacher, working in San Bernardino, Calif. She and Kern Rash II '76 have two teenagers, Kern III, a high-school sophomore, and Karma, who's in junior high. "Both are honors students and both excel in athletics," says Avis. "Their dad is actively involved as a coach for their high school basketball team. We are proud parents!" Christine HayerRepasy has been promoted to chief counsel of the employee benefits division and specialty insurance operations at ITT Hartford Life Insurance Cos. Husband Paul (Arizona '76) is an engineer at Kaman Aerospace.

Lynn and Terry McEvers own My Auto Mechanic Inc., a full-service general repair facility with a sub specialty in computer and emissions diagnostics for local dealers. "Enjoying hometown—Fort Lauderdale area—by fishing, diving, swimming, sunning, etc. Carrie 15 is an accomplished trumpeter/athlete with sights set on the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Jonathan 13 is a multi-instrumentalist. Their new home address is 801 Orchid Drive, Plantation, Fla. 33317.

Irv Richardson, who works at the Society for Developmental Education in Peterborough, N.H., has co-authored a book on multiage education, Multiage Q&A:101 Practical Answers to Your Most PressingQuestions. This means that Dave will spend a month visiting orthopedic care centers throughout Japan, much as he did on a similar traveling fellowship to Indonesia two years ago. Sue, Elizabeth 4, and Sarah 2 will stay home in South Carolina.

Rick Spier dropped a very nice card from Seattle, enclosing a group photo (see the next newsletter) from the latest minireunion at Cindy and Bill Dexter's mansion in Lebanon. Attendees included MarkArnold, Kevin Barber, Jodi and Ed Hill (married 7/3/94), Cathy and PeterRichardson, along with Rick and his "life partner" Patricia Rovzar. "Not present and sorely missed were Mark McGown and Martha Arnold," wrote Rick.

In a similar vein, outgoing class secretary and newsletter editor Brooks Clark reported on a very nice trip up from KnoxMillet Tenn., for Dartmouth Night weekend. "During the bonfire we ran into Scott Afford, who, (correctly) pointed out several theological oversimplifications in a speech I'd given about William Jewett Tucker, and Tom Johansen, who was surrounded by his kids. God that he is, Tom—who's now the CFO of GW Plastics in Bethel—had donned his cleats the Sunday before and played in the first Annual Fall Masters Classic lacrosse game at Brewster Academy in Wolf eboro. When I saw him at the bonfire he was gearing up for the Big Green alumni lacrosse game the next morning. At the football game we caught up with Daphne and Jay Brown, with their twins Charlotte and Olivia; Steve Mandell and his kids; John"Tecumseh" Evans; Steve Adnopoz and his soccer-playing daughters; and the Grays—Goody, Bob, Robert 8, and Priscilla 5, who have returned from five years in England and settled in Darien."

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