1982

What would we do without Internet e-mail? Actually, I would have more time to clip my nails. However, I would not be gossiping with Bill Prescott as I did recently (December). Bill lives in Northern California and works in international sales for NCD, a network computer firm. He travels to all kinds of exotic Far Eastern spots, although he has consistendy missed Indiana, which is puzzling. Bill married Susan Altman, Penn '86, in 1995, at a bash that turned into "the biggest swimming party I've ever been to." Very Gatsbyesque. Class of '82 wedding attendees included Bryce Lambert, Eric Fisher, Carol Rauch, Steve Avruch, Mark Pals, and Murray Rapp. Bryce is an E.R. M.D. in Concord, N.H., married to Jennifer '87, and has a son, Colin (3). He lurks in Jackson Hole, which prompted Bill to comment, "Long live the Moose Patrol." We'd better not ask. Eric, married in '96, is an architect, recently worked on the Getty Museum and now has his own firm. Carol is an M.D. in Enfield, Conn.; Steve is a lawyer in Boston; Mark is a lawyer in Chicago; and Murray Rapp is a salt-shaker on Capitol Hill. Oops. That's mover/shaker." Bill has a house, an Explorer, and a Volvo, which he noted, in a very colorful and off-color pun, is a vehicle said to cause children. He made all kinds of lame justifications for the Volvo (safer for commuting wife, sedan, "ticket-me red," spoiler) which I simply reject. He's a shamefaced yuppy.

Craig Bradley is dean of student affairs at Bowdoin and was featured in that college's fall 1996 alumni magazine. No, it was not the campus swimming suit issue. Charles Guria, an N.Y.U. law grad, was featured in the Brooklyn New York Beacon as a prominent "African American Who Serves the Law." He is deputy bureau chief, tennis rackets division, and assistant district attorney for Kings County. Oops. No.tennis. He lectures at the N.Y.C. Police Academy and Internal Affairs Bureau and has been a guest commentator on Court TV. Obviqusly, some people will do anything for money and fame. Brad Brown was named vice president and managing director of the information management practice at Arthur D. Little. Brad is married to Jane and has two daughters, Isobel and Samantha. Jamie Martin was named a vice president of Union Bank of California. She is the computer guru for their Los Angeles treasury division and is in several professional choral groups. She must be a singer, unless she does the groups' MIS work. Or maybe they meant coral groups, in which case she collects sea fossils, or is obsessed with shades of peach. Oh, the spellbinding intricacies of the English language...

I was told by Cathy Judd who is doing child welfare law in Boston and has three children, David, Peter and Susie, and who has a neighbor from Green Bay (Go Pack!) that under pain of disinheritance I must mention Kathy Briscoe's wedding. It was a spectacular extravaganza in Aspen (where else?) and featured a smashing evening-before soiree given by her boss at his mountain ranch hideaway. I bet they didn't serve Hormel cocktail weenies. Briscoe is a partner at LA's Lowe Enterprises, where she obviously makes tons of money and hobnobs-with the rich and famous. But, of course, they have less class than I and you. Her friends, that is. Non-Dartmouth. Her husband's name is Steve Plenge and he is a daredevil supreme. Beth Haffenreffer (Columbia, S.A. Pepsi marketing), Libbet Waterman McKeon (M.D., daughter Isabella), Betsy Leggat (marketing/sales for Northface, hoping to move back East), and Sherri Carroll Oberg (president of her own health-care company) were all there meeting rich and famous, while I, I think, was at home watching TV and re-soling my shoes. I may have even had a little nip from the Thunderbird stash, which allows me to see Lifetime movies in 3D. Hiccup.

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