1978

This is the last Class Notes column before our 20th Reunion. If you've got the urge there's still time to sign up, join up, and enjoy a great weekend. Lauren Tanny recently left Krames Communications and took a month off for a second honeymoon in Scotland and Italy. Last November 30 Lauren was married to Jim Wood, aided by Helen and Ken Landau, Amy Simon Berg, Pete ('74) and Mary Jo Sorenson. Lauren reports that Sue Wiley Young '77 and Gary ('77) and Jill Eilertson Rogers were present in spirit.

Cortland Corsones is busy with work (his general law practice in Rutland), family (wife Therese Welsh, Notre Dame '79, and children Nick 10, Brendan 7, and Caroline 3), and coaching baseball.

Betsy Fairbanks is also busy with three children (Tim 11, Kevin 8, and Rosita 4), two jobs (executive director of Eschaton Foundation; conservator and private trustee), and one husband (Phil). Says Betsy, "I recently joined the local school board of Bonny Doon (Calif.) Union Elementary District. Our main task is searching for a new superintendent/principal. And I'm becoming familiar with the intricacies of California public school financing—a bit of a disaster, relatively."

A report from Alan Wohlstetter: "There I was, relaxing at home on a snowy winter night with my beautiful wife, Melinda (U.Va. '85), who was due with our second child in March. Our 5-year-old Chip had already fallen asleep in his red Power Ranger outfit, which he had seldom removed since Christmas. Then, channelsurfing, I was ripped from our sagging sofa by the vision of our Nick Lowery judging the Miss USA Pageant with the likes of George Hamilton and Maria Maples. I bet that whole football career thing was just a way to get a slot on that show."

Susan Assmann will be in Hanover for only part of the Reunion, due to a conflict with the Boston Early Music Festival attending, not performing. "What I'm looking forward to most at the Reunion is the math department open house, the Glee Club concert, and chatting with any alums in the fields of math, biostatistics, epidemiology, and clinical research."

Jordan Roderick is still in the radio business, now president of AT&T Wireless' paging division. "By avocation, I am a climber (rock, ice, and alpine), taking advantage of the great outdoors in the Northwest. We live on a farm in Kirkland, Wash. Joyce '80 minds a flock of fiberbearing animals (angora and kashmir goats and sheep) which currently numbers 43. My son Jeff is now in sixth grade amazing! It's a busy and good life."

With the World Food Summit well behind her, Sharon Cowan is still getting used to the novel concept of having her evenings and weekends off. After two years as a member of the core organizing team for the summit, convened last November by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Sharon has reemerged as investment information officer in FAO's technical cooperation department. More on that after she figures out what she's supposed to be doing in the new job. "After nine years in Italy," she says, "repatriation becomes harder and harder to imagine."

Barry Hutsell was called to the bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada on February 19 and is currently studying to write the patent agents exams in April. He is also planning for his wedding reception in June, which is to celebrate his marriage to Eleonora Spada on February 22, 1997.

Michael Day is associate professor of English at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. "I'm working on putting in a computer classroom for our writing and technical communications classes," he says, "but it's tough because we don't have the money. So I'm writing grants and hoping for some matching funds. If classmates know of charitable foundations that will help fund equipment, especially to update writing and communications classes, please let me know."

Brooks Clark, 5317 White Horse Road, Knoxville, TN 37919-9344; fax (423) 588-5388;

There was Nick Lowery.judging tile Miss USA Pageant. I bet the whole football career tiling was just a way to get a slot on that show. ALAN WOHLSTETTER '78

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