1979
Frankly, it was as inevitable as naked nomads crashing SAE's smooth dance on Saturday night of fraternity rush week. With all the stories of our classmates that Jeffrey and I have shared over the last year (most of them true), we were bound to make an editorial mistake sooner or later.
A few months ago, I reported that Laura(Hartshorn) and Walter Elliott had moved to Valdosta, CA., when it should have read Valdosta, GA. Walter's mother wrote me and said that when she read that class column she went into a panic (Talk to your mom much, Walter?). Walter's mom reminded me how foolish it was to suggest that her son could ever move out of the South and just how far away southern California really was. Further research found Laura and Walter raising three children and enjoying small town life in Walter's hometown. On the positive side, my error at least brought me some mail.
Janie Simms Hamner sent me a sweet note from her home in Dallas. I fondly remember escorting Janie to one of her debutante parties one summer in Atlanta. Unfortunately, her "coming out" included nearly landing on a table of hors d'oeuvres during one of our jitterbug dances. Anyway, Janie writes that, with the birth of her third son last October, she has put her career as a pediatrician on hold indefinitely to "...follow the way of cover girl JenniferHughes and stay home with the kids."I was pleased to learn that Janie's guest bedroom is decorated the same as mine, with piles of clean laundry to be folded.
When we last heard from my friend, Phil "The Drill" Coffin, he was barricading his street for the neighborhood block party instead of raging at our 16th Reunion. Apparently, Phil didn't waste the night away baking beans in their can because about nine months later he was the proud papa of a daughter to go along with two older brothers. After taking amazing grief from his Dartmouth friends for naming his recruiting firm The Crimson Group, Phil finally came to his senses and renamed his Chicago firm Coffin, Kelleher, and Associates (I think the associates are ages 6,4, and now,a few months).
From the 'Round the Girdled Earth Division came an interesting tidbit.
Government professor emeritus Larry Radway and his wife scheduled a visit to Melbourne, Australia, before they learned that because of Australia's Grand Prix event there were no available hotel accommodations. Undaunted, Radway wrote the U.S. counsel general there citing his predicament. In exchange for some assistance at finding accommodations, he offered to speak on any U.S. political topic to any group of Australian journalists or officials. It just so happened that Margot Squire is married to the U.S. counsel general, Ross Wilson, and invited professor Radway and his wife to stay with them and their two young sons. Word has it that Margot's two sons loved the Radway's house present of New Hampshire maple syrup.
Also on the international front,I spoke with my C&G roommate Jim Stein, who is busy recruiting Norwegian skiers and outing club undergrads for Dartmouth. Jim and his wife, Eh, recently moved back to Montreal from Norway, a country that he describes as "...pretty close to paradise for any great lover of the out o'doors."
Jim isn't throwing axes very often any more but finds time out from running the family real estate investment development business to explore the Canadian wilderness with his three year old (with another on the way). Jim stays in close touch with Ed Kania, who is the senior partner of a venture capital firm in Boston. Ed is training for the 1996 Olympics by tossing around his three year old daughter and I understand named his two month old daughter after one of our most celebrated class presidents, Luisa Guthrie.
Gotta go coach Little League. Adios.
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Colleen Sullivan Bartlett '79, p. 28
Janie SimmsHammer almostlanded on a tableof hors d' oeuvresduring herdebutante party.JIM Wasz '79
