1975

At the Harvard game last fall I ran in to John Upton and Annie Stockmar Upton '76. The Uptons are still living in Maine, where John is lawyering and Annie is head of the career counseling center at Unum. In addition to working and parenting ,John and Annie are both coaching the high school ski team. As a result, in January, John told me they were "waiting for snow" in the midst of the devastating ice storm which knocked out half of Maine's power for five days (the Uptons were fine). John was also reminiscing about Blakeburgers cooked by Blake WincheU late at night on Morton Street.

Al Austin sent me a birth announcement about the arrival of his first child, Albert Adolphus Austin HI ("Albie") on October 7, 1997. Albie was named after Al's father, who died unexpectedly three months before Albie was born. Albie is a real whopper, weighing in at 10 pounds, 2 oz., and measuring 22 1/2 inches at birth. Al expects him to be a lineman or linebacker on the Dartmouth football team. Although Abie is eating the family out of house and home, A says he's a bundle of joy and everything he had been hoping for for a long time. The Austins have been in Baltimore since December 1996.

In January Bill Trescher moved into a new house in Baltimore, right down the street from Al Austin. Bill and Al didn't know each other at Dartmouth. Bill is a pediatric neurologist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, which is a rehabilitation hospital for children and part of Johns Hopkins University. He cares for kids with brain injuries (such as mental retardation or cerebral palsy) and seizures and does research to try to better understand the causes to improve treatments. His wife, Linda, is a child psychiatrist. Bill and Linda have two daughters, Sarah 7 and Claire 4.

Bob Sullivan has a first child, Caroline Rossi Sullivan, born October 28, 1997. Caroline was 21 inches at birth (placing her in the 100th percentile of length), with long fingers. Bob's wife, Luci, thinks she'll be a pianist, while Bob envisions the Dartmouth women's basketball team. Classmates have sent lots of Dartmouth clothing to Caroline. Although Caroline hasn't been to Hanover yet, Bob was there at the bookstore in December for a book-signing of Flight of the Reindeer.

If you dig up the February issue of Life magazine, you'll find a photograph of Sully in bed on the cover. This brings "to life" an article he wrote within (you'll have to guess the topic). I highly recommend that you also dig up the October 1997 issue of Life. Sully did a true story on Diana Golden '84, a disabled skier and Olympic gold medalist. Diana has terminal cancer. Knowing this, she fell in love and married a fellow Dartmouth graduate last August. Based on Bob's article, the January '98 issue of Reader's Digest did a cover story on Diana, and she has had movie producers chasing after her as well.

Bob's article is really about the power of love. He writes: "We all know, all of us do, that death is waiting. But few of us feel that death is beckoning. It's a mighty difference, a difference hard to live with. Diana's trying; so is Steve. For not to try is not to love, and not to love, now, is impossible. Love is the foundation and the shelter itself. Life no longer stands for anything, without love."

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