1978

Our Reunion was a great success. Many thanks to all those who worked so hard to make it happen, especially Steve Adnopoz, Todd Anderson, Jay Brown, and Jack Reeder. And many thanks to those who made the special effort to be there.

At our class dinner (masterfully emceed by the inimitable Marc Farley) the late Arvo Oopik's daughter, Krista, remembered her father's vitality and commitment. It is fitting that our class project, which supports tutorial assistance for NativeAmerican students at Dartmouth, has been rededicated in Arvo's name. Jim Bullion was appropriately recognized for his work in establishing this class project, which is already making a difference for many Dartmouth students

In his keynote address, Scott Brown described what he wishes to accomplish as dean of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation. He would like re-establish several excellent programs the Jersey City internships, for example that have been lost to budget cuts and he needs our support in this worthy initiative. Scott makes a persuasive case for the importance of instilling social commitment and activism as part of the Dartmouth experience.

Daryl Bornstein put together an unbelievable cabaret show. Nick Lowery emceed with aplomb. Brian Litscher touched perfection singing "Danny Boy." Carol Hillman Van Dyke and her daughter, Sarah, performed a breathtaking piano/violin duet. We saw a video of Jim Newman walking in space.

On Sunday morning, the Rev. Scott Axford officiated at a thoughtful memorial service.

For the record, our class formally adopted Jay Heinrichs once only a Middlebury '77 as an honorary '78. As editor of The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine for the past decade, Jay brought distinction to that publication and to the College. Although he is now editor of U.S. Airway's in-flight magazine, Attache, Jay and his wife, Dorothy, and their children, Dorothy Jr. 12 and George 9, still reside in Etna, next-door to Sarah and Tom Johansen's newly constructed dream house. Please welcome Jay to our class. He's at .

In other news, Valerie Steele has been appointed chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Her most recent book, Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power (Oxford, 1996) has been published in several foreign editions and will be available in paperback in June of this year. Her next book, Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now, will be published by Yale University Press in October. Her husband, John Major, works as a senior editor at the Book-of-the- Month Club, reading and evaluating manuscripts. He also has continued to be active as a China scholar and as a writer in other areas as well. He has two books coming out this fall: The New Lifetime Reading Plan (coauthor, with Clifton Fadiman; HarperCollins) and World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (co-editor, with Katharine Washburn; Norton).

Lauren Tanny's new address is 3203 Longfellow Drive, Belmont, CA 94002; (415) 596-8630; (415) 596-8625, fax; .

Dana Robin Hill is a psychologist at NIH in Bethesda, MD. Her husband, See- Yan Lam (U. of Oregon '72), is at the Food and Drug Administration. Their son, Ben, is 6.

After the navy, Ernie Maimer worked for several years as a freelance medical writer. Recently he accepted a fulltime position with a medical communications agency in New York City. Recently he and Kate also celebrated their first wedding anniversary (Jeff Levin was a groomsman in the ceremony). E-mail Ernie at .

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