1978

The new year started off well with unsolicited news from several classmates. Those of you (approximately 975) who have yet to send in information, please do. It is amazing to see the depth and breadth of people's accomplishments and choices, whether professionally and/or personally.

Jim DiNardo writes: "I am currently an associate professor of anesthesiology and director of cardiothoracic anesthesiology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Our group cares for children having correction of congenital heart defects, patients having heart, heart-lung, and lung transplants, patients having implantation of mechanical circulatory assist devices including the Total Artificial Heart, and of course the more routine coronary artery bypass and valve surgery. The second edition of a textbook I edited, Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery, has just come out. In my spare time I run and sail with my family." I am surprised he has any spare time.

Gwen Rochester Leighty sent news that "My husband, Bruce Leighty '81, and I are pleased to announce the birth of our daughter, Alison Kay Leighty on September 21, 1997. Alison joins big brother Carl (5), who prompdy announced, "Oh, good, now there are two boys and two girls in our family, but we're bigger!" It pleases us to see that Alison's biggest smiles are saved for her brother, who returns her affection with hugs and smiles of his own. We remain In suburban Washington, D.C., where I have returned to work as development office for the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (President Freedman's article on "Libraries Unbound" in the magazine is an eloquent testimony to the value of research and emic libraries and their staffs worldwide), and Bruce is general manager of the biodiversity support program at the World Wildlife Fund. Sorry to miss our Reunion last summer, but Alison's impending birth plus some business travel made the trek to Hanover seem perilous at the time. Hope to be there for the 25th!?" (Very hard to swallow the fact that our next reunion will be our 25th. Who would have thought we would ever be that old?)

On the European front, Sharon Cowan is investment information officer with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome. She has spent more than nine years living in Rome, traveling and working. Bill McLaughlin is living in England, working for Frito Lay. Prior to this posting Bill worked eight years in Latin America. Bill and his wife, Martha, have three daughters: Kelly (12), Hanna (10), and Jamie (7). Meanwhile, Bill Dye writes that he is moving from New York to London to head the London office of Willkie, Farr & Gallagher. For the past seven years Bill has been a partner in the corporate and finance department at Willkie, where he has concentrated in securities and mergers and acquisition matters.

From the files of the alumni clipping service comes information about several of our classmates including the promotion of Jane Horton to assistant institute physician at VMI. Jane is the current chairman of the Stonewall Jackson Hospital board of directors and of the Montessori Center tor Children board of directors. She is also a physician volunteer for the Rockbridge Area Free Clinic. Bruce Rauner has endowed a professorship in business administration at Harvard Business School. He is a managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner Inc.

Here in Pacific Palisades, El Nino has finally arrived, so it's beginning to feel a bit like mud season!

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