1982

As Ben "Bubba" Tongue aptly described it, Gile Hall was simply a farm team for the fraternities. Gile's graduates had remarkably few adjustment problems when they later migrated to Webster Avenue. Speaking of Ben, he is currendy living in the Boston area and toiling for Bell Adantic. His employer hasn't changed since he joined after Dartmouth but his business cards have gone from AT&T to Nynex to the current ephemeral appellation. He has planning and engineering responsibilities for Bell Adantic's initiatives in high-speed data and fiber optics. He is enjoying the bachelor's life in Boston: playing in two soccer leagues, skiing, golfing and sailing

Tom "Gunner" Gunning is currently practicing anesthesiology in Dallas. He recently knocked out Tom Landry, who recovered both from the procedure and the drags. He's been married for nine years with zero kids, three dogs, two cats and one iguana (recently gone AWOL). He's running marathons and practicing kendo (Japanese fencing). He is also perplexing advertising demographers by being both a practitioner of classical guitar and a Harley Davidson enthusiast.

John Moscarino, our able co-head class agent, reports from Santa Monica where he is practicing commercial litigation at O'Neill Lysaght & Sun. Remarkably, following UCLA Law School, John chose to stay in L.A. and not return to Cleveland. John likes golf. He just returned from Ireland where he played nine rounds in six days. He mentioned he sees quite a bit of JoeReinkenmeyer, fellow Gile alumnus, who went from writing legal briefs to writing scripts for actors who pretend to know what a legal brief is. According to John, Joe has built a successful career writing scripts for shows such as L.A. Law and Law and Order as well as for several HBO movies.

Peter "Robo" Roberts waxed nostalgically about Gile Hall. I could sense his eyes welling up when he described how sad he was when the campus police broke up Tom Gunning and John "Utzie" Utzsch-neider's Jonestown Kool Aid party. Tom and John were apparently not able to recall that event. He fondly recalled the melodic chants of "Hitchcock Sucks" that floated down the hallways. He recounted to me how Jim"Foggy" Morrison earned his nickname. On hearing Jim on WFRD, an upperclassman was struck by the resemblance to the Warner Brothers cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn. Following the acquisition of UNUM, where Foggy had been managing real estate investments, it is rumored that he has moved to Louisville, Ky., to assume similar responsibilities for a locally based insurance company. Utzie is a partner at the law firm of Binhgam Dana in Boston.

I hate to end Bill Banks's streak of 17 years without appearing in the class column.

In Other News: Gail KoziaraBoudreaux took responsibility for Aetna US Healthcare's "Greenbelt" region that includes Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia and the Carolinas. She had been responsible for the company's Northwest region, based in Seattle. Rick and I were assured that the Alumni Magazine reaches the Middle East by an e-mail from Yisrael "Jay" Rosenberg. His LSA experience at Tel Aviv must have been positive. He is living in Jerusalem and working as technical writer for a promising telecomm company called TTI Telecomm (Nasdaq: TTIL). Yisrael mentioned that on Aug. 11 the sun stopped shining while his wife, Orly, delivered their daughter Yael. [That must be a better portent than, say, having a black cat cross your path]. Yael joins two brothers, ages 7 and 2. Yisrael invites any travelers to the Holy City to visit and to "find out what all the fuss is about."

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