1982

As Corinne Heyes promised last month, Wheeler Hall continued...Paul Johnson emailed from the middle of a three-week jury trial that he is a lawyer in Pordand, Maine, doing various kinds of litigation, some real estate, and a little bit of many other things. When not working, Paul spends his time exploring the beaches, mountains, and lakes of northern New England with his two sonsjared and Peter, who are both experienced skiers and outdoorsmen. Paul can be reached at and would welcome all Dartmouth visitors. Also in Pordand is Cheryl Bascomb, who is director of multicultural marketing at UNUM. Cheryl is raising children Garrett and Rosa, one horse, 11 layer hens, five baby turkeys, too many chicks to count, two cats, and one blind dog. She did say she was trying to keep her home from becoming a petting zoo. I think she should just give in and sell tickets! She stays in touch with Wheeler roommate Hope Wernick Wigmore, who has three children, the latest an adopted child from Guatemala, and AliciaBixby who runs an inn in Telluride with husband Keith Hampton (Richardson) and two skiing children.

Lita Remsen has passed on her sports genes to daughters Lucy 4.5 and Emma 6, who take in local college sport in Ithaca, N.Y., and think of themselves as athletes. Unfortunately, it became clear that Emma identified a little too closely with that local Ivy League school when she declared, "Mom, I want to go to two colleges, Dartmouth and Cornell." But I'm sure Lita and husband Jim Marshall '7l) will get that straightened out. Lita has spent the last 15 years in the Ithaca area and works as a child-care trainer. She and I commiserated about being ex-college jocks approaching our forties.

I find it ironic that my freshman (and sophomore, junior, and senior) year roommate Sherri Carroll Oberg also has two sports-minded children, Alison 8 and Eric 6 (clearly, the sports genes come from footb all-great husband Curt '77, not Sherri). When not out-driving her mother on the golf course, Alison is picking on kids her own size in locai Softball and soccer leagues. Eric told Sherri that she had to "face her fears" just prior to heading off down a black diamond ski trail without her this past winter. Sherri has had a busy spring chairing a committee that was responsible for making sure that the Trustees knew the opinion of alumni on the new Trustee initiative on student life. On the business front, her firm engaged in human trials on the drug they hope to bring to market and was relieved to find that the last five years of research and development was not in vain.

Jon Baker, who along with Jim Howe and George Clothier, made up one of the infamous Wheeler triples, is a lawyer with the EPA's Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C., where he focuses on issues involving the agency's contracts and other questions that arise under environmental statutes. Jon and his wife, Anita, who is also a lawyer ("Yes, we are one of those two-lawyer families that are so rare in Washington."), live in Bethesda, Md., with three-year-old daughter Emily and son Josh, born June 17, just in time for this column's deadline! Jim lives in lowa City with wife Denise, son James (VI, but who's counting), and daughter Julia. Jim is a surgical oncologist and endocrine surgeon at the University of lowa whose laboratory work focuses on the genetics of inherited gastrointestinal cancer syndromes. Jim's parting thought: "Life has been good since Dartmouth, but little more serious than the days Jon Baker, George Clothier and I spent in 204 Wheeler!" Ain't it the truth?

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