1977

A year from now,you should be completing plans to attend our 25th reunion. If the program A.P. Duffy and the reunion committee put together doesn't convince you to attend, consider this invitation from Susan Dentzer:

"I'll put on my College trustee hat and urge you to visit some of the distinctive new features on campus. One is the new Berry Library addition to Baker, designed in part by architect Robert Venturi. It's one of several major construction projects that will add sorely needed new academic and residential space over the next few years. Also worth a visit is the new McCulloch Hall dormitory, part of the East Wheelock residential cluster. If you can, take the time for a campus tour, stop to chat up some current students or meet some of our stellar faculty. You'll be persuaded, as I am over and over, that Dartmouth is an even more wonderful place than when we were there—and that's saying a lot!"

Here's a first—a demand for equal time from Paul Meyer. "I must respond to Dave Drobrowolski's recent comments about his 25-year-old restored guitar. During the winter of' 76, when that guitar was new, we were bus boys at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, living in a house in West Palm that had been chopped into apartments. We moonlighted as apartment managers, renting rooms to people considerably less reputable than ourselves. For three months, all Dave played was 'Sister Golden Hair,' a song that made little sense even then. I figured anyone who played one song continually would eventually master it, but in fairness, we were only there for one season. Years later, after Dave moved to Spain, I had visions of him sitting on the street corner, bewildering Spaniards, busting 'Sister Golden Hair.' When I next hit the 'T' in Boston, I'll watch for Dave with his case open."

In Hardwick, Vermont, Linda Markin and her partner, Marie LaPré Grabon, celebrated their 21st anniversary together with a civil union. "We spent most of 2000 working to see the civil union legislation passed, attending public hearings and appearing in a TV feature story and a commercial. We had a wonderful ceremony and party December 1, made even more special by attendance of my dearest Dartmouth friends and family— Robin Barnett, Nancy Wasserman, Jan Malcolm, Susan Dentzer, Judy Geer '75, Eileen Blackwood 'BO, Lawrence T. Markin '52. Since 1988 I have been CFO for Concept2, which manufactures and distributes innovative products for rowing through- out the world. I am also board president of the Samara Foundation. Marie and I have four grown kids, two grandchildren, amazing natural surroundings, a large and vibrant community of friends, and gratitude for our good fortune."

Fellow deal attorney Ken Frankel contacted me after he read about my participation in the acquisition of the R.H. Phillips Wine Co. by Vincor International, Canada's largest wine producer. He graciously treated me to lunch when I arrived at his Toronto office two weeks later, a bit peeked after a bacchanalian closing dinner. "I'm a partner at the Torys law firm, where I lead the Latin practice group (thank you, Marissa Navarro) and belong to our technology practice group. I've been here for a few years, having been most recently general counsel for Alcatel Canada and chief international counsel for Alcatel in Madrid."

Another business lawyer, Rufus King, returned to Hanover this fall as a guest lecturer at Tuck. He spoke about corporate governance issues affecting start-up companies and venture capital financings. "My last visit to Tuck was as part of the Hanover Inn's catering staff. Most of the current M.B.A. students were then in diapers. Tempus fugit."

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