1984

Class Reunion is coming up, and, once again, the '83s and '82s will be joining our Reunion. Why is it, I wonder, that we '84s have to carry their lame a**es all the time? (Perhaps my counterpart scribes would like to respond?) I asked some '84s if they were planning to attend Reunion and why.

Heidi Fritzche buys and sells antique and estate jewelry in the city of New York. Without naming names, I believe she's helped some of her less-advantaged classmates purchase engagement rings way out of their meager price ranges. (Thanks, Heidi I think Kathy would have married me anyway, but the ring definitely helped.) Heidi was teaching windsurfing in 1984 and thought this jewelry business would be a temporary "bridge" job, but 13 years later, she still loves it. To beat the heat of the city, Heidi regularly escapes to Block Island in a Mako 22-footer. Regarding Reunion, Heidi says she will certainly come because she didn't make the 10th and "feels like she missed out."

Bob and Carla Small Cronin just had baby Michaela in July to celebrate Carla's graduation from Harvard Business School. With four-year-old Brendan and a new house, Bob and Carla have their hands full. I forgot to ask whether they would be coming to Reunion, but as they are from the Boston area, I assume they will be sucked into the vortex of Dartmouth alums heading north that weekend.

Joshua Mendes is enjoying work as an editor at CNN Business News in New York. He mentioned that George Mannes is also doing business reporting at the New YorkDaily News.

Andy Pickens is married to Abby and living in Houston. After graduating from UCLA law and clerking on the 4th Circuit, Andy is in the civil appellate division of Fulbright & Jaworski. When asked about Reunion, Andy responded like any young lawyer on the partner track: he will come if he doesn't have to work. When I pressed him on why he would want to go if work permitted, Andy became positively eloquent: "Dartmouth has the best undergraduate education in the country. Professors like Starzinger and Boly they just lived to make our minds stronger. There was a concern for educating the students that doesn't exist at other top universities. And besides, it was a hell of a lot of fun." Andy, I will hold a stool for you at Five Olde in June.

Peter Garfield, recently back from China, is pretty well traveled for a starving artist guy, with recent shows in Italy, Germany, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He has been doing photography but oils and sculpture are also in his repertoire. (Not to mention a little construction and real estate: last year Peter secured 11,000 square feet of space in Brooklyn, where he built 18 studios, most of which he rents to other artists.)

Peter is ambivalent about Reunion. Having taken a different path from most, he wonders whether he will have much in common with classmates. I believe his concern is by no means restricted to artists, so here is my two-cents-worth: Reunion means a gathering of people who shared something. We gather next June to celebrate the College and that extraordinary, irreplaceable time in our lives. Whether you are now a physicist, a banker, or a con artist, you are a key part of that celebration.

We'll see you in June.

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David Hooke '84on Mount Washington, p. 22

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