1981

It's the first day of summer. Things to do: Open last three months worth of mail, pay unpaid bills before utilities shut off, change snow tires, write column. It's an exciting life. But not nearly as exciting as one of our former scribe's, Stephen Godchaux, who has just been made co-executive producer and head writer of the Showtime series Dead LikeMe. He named one character after Daisy, Scott Stuart's youngest child, and a second characters name is something like Maribeth Hourihan, but it's not exactly that. I'm wondering about royalties.

Nor is my life as exciting as that of Charmaine Curtis. Charmaine was named one of the "100 Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business" by the San Francisco Business Times this past April. She began her career as an urban planner, market analyst and project manager for the first loft condominium development in San Francisco. After that, she worked as a project manager and then director of housing development for Mercy Charities Housing California. From there she ran her own real estate consulting and development firm until she joined A.F. Evans Development, where she is currently president, overseeing development, acquisition and rehabilitation of high-quality housing, serving all income levels.

Dan Evans also wins out in the excitement department, having joined a Dartmouth contingent for a rendition of "Men of Dartmouth" at Seal Cove, Vinalhaven, Maine, during a Cohasset Yacht Club Cruise. Other attendees included Jeff Nothjnagle '63, Rob Leggat '92, Dick Leggat'48, Betsy Leggat '82, Debbie Leggat '80, Bob Kilmarx '50, Sarah Leggat '79, Don Evans '47 and Woody Chittick '62.

From the older-but-still-exciting file comes word of our fearless leader, Chip Bettencourt, whose daughter, Jeanne, turned 18 and graduated from high school a couple weeks ago. She is deferring college for a year to skate as a part of Team USA Synchronized Skating, traveling throughout the United States and Europe. Her two sisters are following closely in her footsteps, having placed eighth at the Nationals this year. Clearly their style and grace is inherited from dad, who has been demonstrating similar qualities on the ice for years.

Elsewhere in the Northeast, David Perkins is president of Perkins Olson, a law firm in Portland, Maine. He surfaced in a recent publication of Maine Today, writing about bankruptcy protection for individuals buying a business. His practice focuses on representation of businesses in both purchase and sale transactions, bankruptcy and litigation. I suspect he's had plenty of on-the-job excitement in the past couple of years.

As for our volunteers, Jeff Walters is finding lots of satisfaction as a Cub Scout den leader in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, which allows him to spend lots of quality time with his son, Matt. In this role he gets to write skits, teach the Scouts how to build birdhouses and tie knots, keep track of achievement activities and so on. Also, as leader of the full pack, he runs big events like the Rain Gutter Regatta and the Pinewood Derby. And to think I never even made it to Webelos.

Stuart Weinberg is on the board of the American Camping Association, Ohio section, serving as membership chair and Webmaster (www.acaohio.org). The organization serves millions of kids each summer and throughout the year. He also started a nonprofit camp alumni association called Friends of Kern Inc. (www.friendsofkern.org) to benefit the camp named in honor of founder Carl B. Kern of the Dayton Foundation, 15 years after initiating a long-term investment fund in his memory (www.kernfund.org). Stuart lives in Findlay, Ohio. Camping sounds like fun—if we ever see summer!

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