1978

The first snowstorm of the season found me driving up to Hanover for my first Alumni Council meeting. While the drive was stunningly beautiful, I was very glad that my winters in Wyoming had kept my snow-driving skills honed (or not—ask Liz deMurga Spradling or Ann Hoover Maddox!). The Alumni Council meeting was definitely informative and enlightening. My new years resolution is to write up the report I owe all of you and the class of '77. One of my personal highlights was lunch with Mary Kendall Brown, Celia Chen and Annie McLane Kuster. We discussed ideas for the panels at our upcoming 20th reunion (June 12-15). It was a true pleasure to catch up with friends I hadn't seen since our 20th. I hadn't been in Hanover in the winter since senior year—it was spectacular—at least to this exile on the West Coast.

Dan O'Connor sent news of a recent gathering in Boston. "Along with the regular Boston crowd of Jay Murphy, Chris Lynch, Jack Reeder, Peter Renner, T.J. Russell, Tripp Peake, Whit Johnson and me; we had Dr. Jimmy Vailas, who came down from New Hampshire; attorney George McDavid, who was flying through Boston en route to Philadelphia; and, the winner of the long distance award: attorney C. Craig Woods from Columbus, Ohio. The group was fairly well behaved at lunch. Tripp is enjoying the venture capital business;he still has all his hair but it is all white. Big George is still with Reed, Smith and working in Princeton. Jimmy is an orthopedic surgeon in Manchester, New Hampshire. He did a great job on our daughters ACL. TJ looked like a film star as he sauntered into the restaurant with his sunglasses on. We are looking forward to the reunion!"

Fritz Rohlfing sent news of Chris Rizek's appearance on C-SPAN today, December 10,2002, on an American Enterprise Institute Panel on "The Future of the IRS." Chris is a top-notch tax attorney at Caplin & Drysdale in D.C., and is a former associate counsel for tax policy with the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Fritz neglected to include news of his activities. Meanwhile, Sharon Lee Cowan reports that she is "still chasing the carrot of a promotion to diplomatic status in the United Nations system. These days I do corporate communication for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), where one of the biggest challenges is de-linking it from FAO Schwartz in the minds of Americans."

Finally, I hope as many of you as possible have made plans to attend our reunion. I must admit that "her spell on [me] remains." There will be opportunities to enjoy each others company learn new things and take advantage of all that Dartmouth and the Upper Valley have to offer. Dartmouth has changed a lot and not at all (and this may be your last chance to see Gerry and Bradley halls!).

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REUNION June 12-15 2003