1977

Tales from the Twentieth, Part 2. On Friday night, the class of 1997 tent was the place to be. A sizable portion of all She reuning classes seemed to be behind Fayerweather Hall. Tunes were provided thanks to Dave Haraway, who had the foresight and ingenuity to engineer a firstclass sound system from a car stereo.

Larry Cubas reports that he has moved from the high stakes arena of international currency trading to the high stakes arena of international cuisine. Earlier this year Larry and his partners opened the New York Cafe in Rome, Italy.

Bill Greenbaum recently embarked on a new career writing screenplays in New York. Bill reports that he was working on his first film project and thoroughly enjoying himself.

A moving moment occurred Saturday night when the class formally adopted Linda Kamarow, wife of our recently deceased classmate, Gary Komarow. In addition to a distinguished career as a lawyer, Gary served as president of the Dartmouth Club of Washington (earning Club President of the Year honors) and most recently as the club's director of outrageous events. Linda has already assumed the outrageous events position, and we look forward to seeing her at our future class functions.

The most recent Dartmouth Club President of the Year is also a classmate. Mike Carter was honored last October for his leadership of the Indiana Club, which was also honored as the Small Alumni Club of the Year. Mike is a public service dynamo. He founded the Muhammad Ali Baseball League for youngsters in West Louisville, Ky., and persuaded the Professional Golfers Association to sponsor a summer music camp for the West Louisville Boys Choir. Mike also is president of a prison tutoring program in Indianapolis. At Reunion Mike could often be found accompanying Scott Axford '78 on microbrew-tasting excursions.

At Reunion Wayne Geyer and KathyKelley Cimina observed that they both have been able to make effective, but different, uses of their biology majors. Wayne is a researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Kathy is a fitness entrepreneur, owning and operating an exercise center in suburban Philadelphia.

Jana Singer, Liz Epstein Kadin, and I had a chance to recall a "memorable" road trip to Florida in March 1977 with Jim VanDuys and his classic 1967 Plymouth Fury big engine, no heater. Apart from losing Jana for three hours on the New Jersey Turnpike, having to crash unannounced at 2 a.m. with Jim Dell's parents in Virginia (Jim was in Italy at the time), and suffering second-degree burns on mon derriere at a nude beach, the trip was perfectly planned. Jana is a law professor at the University of Maryland. Liz is an investment banker in New York.

Leslie Kenney Finertie had her hands full at Reunion with her five-year old twin daughters, Heather and Holly, but had a moment to chat at breakfast on Saturday. Reunion was one stop on an extended East Coast vacation for the Finertie family, traveling from San Antonio, where Leslie is a consulting actuary. Heather and Holly were introduced to snow on Mt. Washington, played in the surf in New Jersey, and helped feed tarantulas at the Smithsonian Institute.

I also caught up with Mark HunterMadsen, whom I hadn't seen since graduation. Mark is one of the many journalists in our class whose work seems to appear with increasing frequency in prominent media. Mark lives in San Francisco and is currently an editor for Wired magazine.

Happy Trails.

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