1982

Some of Marie Center's recent obituary by JoannaBoeing Bratton had to be edited for space. Here's the rest: "A reading center at the Grosvenor Neighborhood House [Marie's last place of employment] was dedicated in her name. At a memorial service on August 25, [1996], six people gave eulogies, including Sean Burke and Linda Derenzo. Pallbearers included Linda DeRenzo, Joanna Boeing Bratton, Sean Burke, and Karl Klug. Many friends visited Marie during her last weeks, including '82s Winky Stearns Hussey and Diane Bassett. We will miss her humor, intellect, love, commitment, and caring very deeply. Donations are encouraged to: The Marie A. Center Memorial Fund, c/o Melanie Norten, Stewardship Office, Dartmouth College, 6066 Fleet Building, Hanover, NH 03755-3515."

More details about Rob Ford's business, which I wrote about from memory because his colleague's letter had mysteriously disappeared. I just found it in the back of my lingerie drawer along with a missing tube of toothpaste. Ah—the stashing instinct of two-year-olds! Rob's colleague, the company's co-founder /CEO, described it as an Internet job search service () whose paying customers are employers recruiting recent college grads. Rob is almost entirely responsible for making the founders' vision a business reality, and it's grown to 20 employees. Rob was on NBC's Weekend Today talking about it.

Dave Fein, most recently associate counsel to the President, yes, of the U.S., has joined Wiggin & Dana in Connecticut as the partner in charge of their white-collar defense and internal investigations group. I put his card in my filofax just in case I get caught.

Jim Adams was named a senior vice president of Meredith & Grew/Oncor, a Boston real-estate firm. Jim is a specialist in the downtown Boston market. He won the Tenant Deal of the Year Award from the Greater Boston Real Estate Board. At first I thought that was the Tenant of the Year Award and wondered what one must do to win such a thing. Endless possibilities.

Meanwhile, Vital Images, a St. Paul, Minn., medical devices company, hired JayMiller as its vice president of marketing and business development. Before this annointing, Jay worked as a marketing manager for GE Medical Systems in Milwaukee. He has a master's in biomedical engineering from UVA and an M.B.A. from Northwestern.

Lillian Cousins Giornelli e-mailed from Atlanta. She is a lawyer. She worked for a law firm and then a family financial business until she "hit the wall" after her fourth child. Gee, I can't imagine why. Her kids are 6, 4, 4, and 2. When not managing "the herd" she cruises online. She's at .

Marjie Maclean called. Marjie was an executive with a Chicago bank and tossed it all to start her own business. We were beginning to discuss this when there was a horrible crash as my daughter threw cherry-red Robitussin in a glass bottle over the upstairs railing. I had to cut Marjie short and mop. Now I keep getting someone's fax machine. Marjie—please call me with the details!

Sue McClary Keenan called from practically next door. Her husband, David Keenan '81, is now the director of Indiana University's intensive Chinese school. Sue is raising their teenage children (I know...but Sue had the "first baby born to a member of the class of '82.") and singlehandedly renovating their house. She just put in a hardwood floor. Herself. I find this sufficiently sickening that I'm going to end here and go eat a box of ice cream. But first, remember our 16th Reunion! It's scheduled for Friday, June 19, to Sunday, June 21.

Please come so we can compare hairlines and varicose veins and discuss how we have become what we said we would never become when we were in college.

2303 Woodstock Place, Bloomington, IN 47401-6102; (812) 332-4924 (h);

Dougald Mac Donald '82on Mount Washington, p.22