1979

Ready? I really mean this. Are you sitting down? Good. Well, here it is. By the time the kids of America cry, "trick or treat" this Halloween, the first 1 percent of our classmates will have already celebrated 50th birthdays. Five decades roaming this girdled earth. Two score and 10 years. A whole half-century! By our 30th reunion, virtually all of us will have passed this not-so-minor milestone, too. The truth, however, is that our vanguard is already there. So let us raise the glass to wish them well. And as we twirl the melting ice cubes and take a sip, let us ponder this now evident truth.

So how should we best celebrate our "first 1 percent?" By naming names? Notyet. With minireunions? Of course! On the two weekends before Halloween our class will gather to support our new head coach Buddy Teevens (not yet 50) with two New England mini-reunions. The first will be in Hanover during Homecoming, October 22, at the football game against Columbia. The second gathering will be a week later in Cambridge at the Harvard game on October 29. Even if you have not seen a Dartmouth football game since the 19705, make travel plans now to join classmates before, during or after these games.

And from our shameless commerce division, if anyone would like a T-shirt honoring both the Energizer Buddy and our senior year chapionship season; please e-mail your interest Phil Odence at phil.odence@alum.dartmouth.org.

Linda Button, principal and creative director, and Mark Tomizawa '78 of Smash Advertising did the cool advertising campaign for the History Channels series on FDR. Checkout their Web site at www.smash.com.

Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman of New York announced the expansion of its financial services practice, adding Robert McLaughlin, who is joining the firm as an attorney and partner. Robert concentrates his practice on over-the-counter derivatives, structured products, extensions of credit and debt trading. His clients include foreign and domestic banks and other financial institutions, as well as hedge funds, mutual funds, corporations, individual investors, asset managers and government-sponsored entities.

Congratulations should also go to Mary Beth Gose, who was just re-elected to her final term as trustee (two-term limit) for the village of Scarsdale, New York. Mary Beth, her husband, Firman, and their sons, Anthony and Philip, are all doing well in southern Westchester County.

Christian Campos, a surgeon specializing in cardiac surgery, valvular heart surgery and coronary artery bypass surgery, has joined the practice of cardiothoracic surgeons Paul Hatton and Thomas Carr at Southcoast Cardiac Surgical Associates in Fall River, Massachusetts. He will serve on the staff at the Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River and St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford.

Craig Enright, who has a day job working for General Electric in Stamford, Connecticut, recently played accompanying saxophone to an aspiring young jazz vocalist at the 55 Bar in New York City. David Bridges, a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. State Department, sends us a mini-reunion hello from Baghdad. We all wish him well. Josh Muskin has recently moved to Morocco for a multi-year stint as head of a USAID project to improve educational and employment opportunities for Moroccan students. Now finish your whiskey, stand up, turn the cell phone back on, and call me at (212) 827-8456 with your latest news. Do it before you turn 50!

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