1970
I am always amazed at how (clean the Green looks in May. Thanks to a return rate of 32 percent, my recent fax search for class news has been rewarding. A number of you wrote about your families and personal lives. Others wrote about professional achievements. Remember, this column is to share remembrances with old friends.
Bill Quinn writes that he's been busy practicing law in Salem, Mass., where he lives with his wife, Janet Haynes (Mt. Holyoke '70), and their sons Devin 13 and Chris 9. He reports that the boys love sports. For their 25th anniversary, the Quinns are going to Maui. Bill also sends news of Jim Van Woerkom, who he prefers to call "Lonzo." Jim, wife Sonia, and the family have been living in Las Vegas, where he has been a CPA/chief financial officer in the casino business. A Christmas card from the Van Woerkoms said they have recently moved to Sydney, Australia, for a similar opportunity. Bill promises to gather news from his Phoenix fraternity brothers.
From "sunny Phoenix" proper, Jack Rasor writes that he is executive vice president of Westcor and lives in Paradise Valley with his wife, Heidi, and children Brandon and Liberty (who is at CSU veterinary school). He mentions he was at Bill Shattuck's funeral with James Young ("still single") and that Ed Haldeman, wife, and three children recently visited Scottsdale. Jack's favorite T-shirt: "The older I get, the faster I was!"
Jim Muhlfelder sent a newsy fax. He lives near Albany with his wife, Wendy, and five children. Their oldest son, Josh, is at Bowdoin, and their oldest daughter, Kait, is awaiting her college acceptance notices. Jim notes, "We have a child graduating high school each of the next three years." Since 1980 Jim has been working with the family sporting-goods business, J. deBeer and Son, one of the first baseball manufacturers.
Jim adds, "Just ask [Steve] Fox, [John] May, [Terry] Laughlin, [Dave] Ullrich, [Roger] Grimes, at. al. to show their gnarled fingers from playing 16-inch 'clincher' softball without gloves in Chicago." Jim mentions also running into Russ Lucas and Lou Young at sportinggoods shows. Denis O'Neill's fax begins with, "a few left coast scraps." Together with Deborah McLeod, they are expecting their third son in August (a record for our maturing class?). He notes, "[John] McCravey warned me against going from two to three kids, saying it's like going from man-to-man to zone defense." Denis is working with Jim Natchwey on a screenplay about Jim's adventures as a combat photographer. "Another script I'm working on is in the Deliverance mode (hold the pig) about a four-friend fishing trip to Ascension Bay, Mexico, that goes bad.... I commiserate with Roy Carlson on a regular basis. He, too, lurks in the screenwriting trenches, a few miles south of me in Torrance."
A number of our classmates will be returning to Hanover this June not for our 27th reunion but for their children's graduations. Congratulations! I'm going to welcome my nephew, Benjamin Chittick '97, to the alumni flock. He tells me that Marc Jolicoeur's daughter, Jennifer is graduating too. (Marc and his brother, Dennis Jolicoeur, were our only identical twins). Tom Peisch reports that David Ruedig's son, Adam, is graduating as is John Stern's daughter Maren.
This will be the last column for a few months because DAM does not publish an edition over summer vacation. As your DAM correspondent for the class of '70, I would like to remind you to send in your DAM news so I will have enough DAM material for the upcoming DAM column in the fall. You can help make my DAM work that much easier. Have a darn good summer.
John B. Chittick, 43 Charles St Boston, MA 02114-4640; (617) 742-1325' phone; (617) 742-3499, fax; cchittick @tiac.net>
