1974

Ever since my cry for correspondence a couple of months ago, die response from '74s has been great, so I apologize for raising my voice. Keep your e-mails coming—Rick Ranger and I are compiling quite a list of classmates that will help us all stay in touch. Your class officers are also interested in a class of 1974 Web page, so please send us your ideas, suggestions, technical assistance, and dinero.

Bob Clymer (who I recall as RickWoolworth's roommate freshman year) has risen within the hallowed ranks of Salomon Brothers as a new managing director. And Nora Jacobson, who has lived in Norwich (Vt.), Paris (France), Antioch (Ohio), Hanover (N.H.), Hoboken (N.J.), and Chicago is making films. Her most recent projects include a promotional film about Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in Utah, a cinematic documentary profile of Vermont poet Verandah Porche, and Letters to MyMother's Early Lovers (which she scripted herself). Nora's film, Delivered Vacant, was included in the New York Film Festival, the Sundance Festival, and the Vermont International Film Festival.

Hizzoner Dave Danielsen is now a judge of the San Diego Superior Court after leaving his law practice in Southern California. Dave was considered "one of the most effective and brightest trial lawyers" in the community. I'm wondering whether the idiot savants down there will be saying "Gotta watch Danielsen" every afternoon at 3 p.m. PST. Speaking of TV, Dr. John Kiely appeared on The TodayShow in February for an interview about his current work at the National Center for Health Statistics. John is an epidemiologist extraordinaire as the chief of infant and child health studies branch at NCHS and is well known in the public-health arena for his work correlating maternal socioeconomic status with infant mortality. John and his wife, Michele, also an epidemiologist, take good care of their kids, Aidan and Caitlin.

Jeff Corelitz and I are in the midst of organizing a mid-Atlantic midsummer '74 get-together in Annapolis on Jeffs by-now famous sailboat, Sales Call. Jeff was featured on the Baltimore airwaves in Valentine's Day promotional ads for Great Expectations, a national video dating service. Ling put Howard Stern to shame with his delivery. I'm also helping Jeff with his up-and-coming Web site (). Stay tuned.

Bert Hubinger lives in Arnold, Md. Bert indicates that he is interested in "hooking up with Dartmouth writers and editors with whom I could compare notes on the freelance and parttime market." Bert has a wide range of journalistic interests, most recently including naval history and marine biology. See you on the SalesCall this summer, Bert. Anyone who wants to link up with him can get his address from me via the Internet.

Duncan Todd has moved up to chairman of the Mercantile Printing Co. in Worcester, Mass. Duncan has been waiting for this moment since he got out of school, having been in the printing industry for 20 years. His company specializes in sheetfed printing, desktop publishing, books, catalogs, booklets, and manuals.

I'm finally finishing up my master's degree in public health at Johns Hopkins in May. It's been a long two years, but I really felt it was worth every minute and penny. If any of you have the yen to get back into the educational mode, now's the time. Things are a lot different than we knew them to be, thanks to advancing communication technology and the everexpanding information highway. Re-engineering yourself for age 50 ain't such a bad idea considering how much the rules of the game have changed. Think about it. It takes a village. Sayonara.

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