1981

Reunions are currently in full swing on the Dartmouth campus, reminding me that we are just a year away from celebrating our 25th reunion. If this doesn't strike fear into your heart, that's probably because you're not the reunion chair. Lucky for me, many classmates have already pitched in to initial planning. One of our big issues over the next year will be communications, and to that end I am asking you—no begging you—to e-mail, call, visit the Web site, visit me in Boston (!) and give us an e-mail address that works. We will do as much as we can electronically, and this is certainly a more efficient means of organizing. If you want to be involved in anyway, please contact me. Just as you've contacted me with your news for the column. Including "improvements" on news we delivered about Doug Tyler, who is not yet the chief of surgery at Duke. He is chief at the VA and head of cancer surgery at Duke. Still respectable. In other medical news Carl Baum was recently honored by the EPA as a recipient of the first Children's Environmental Health Award, designed to increase awareness and recognize efforts to protect children from environmental health risks. Carl, who is trained in pediatrics, emergency medicine and medical toxicology, is the director of the Center for Children's Environmental Toxicology at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, where he's been since 2000. That news traveled quickly, because that was sent to me from Pete Bogin, who has been living in Paris since graduation. Pete, who plans to attend the 25th, will be vying for the reunion "I traveled the farthest" award. Another attendee hoping to get that award will be JJ, the adorable new daughter Steve Herzog and his wife Jackie, just brought home from China. One-year-old JJ managed better than her parents with jet lag from the 12-hour flight and 15-hour time difference, and she's reportedly a great sleeper and already potty-trained! Abner Oakes, who brought us that news, also wrote about Mark Heuberger's wedding last month to Pam Cobb, a woman he met at Peet's Coffee Place in Cambridge, where they began their courtship with a discussion of Curt Schillings arrival to the Red Sox. Looks like Curt brought good new to the Sox and to the Huebergers. Other '81s attending included Mike Steinharter along with his wife, Dale, and son Jack and Bill Burgess and his wife, Barbara. Abner made it to the Burgess' for dinner in Weston, but I guess Charlestown wasn't on his list of approved places to visit while in Boston. Next time, Abner. Also on the matrimonial front is the recent marriage of Jane Alexander to Chris O'Brien '79. They were married in Bethel, Maine, in May, with her kids Tim and SuLin and his kids Erin and Des serving as attendants. They survived their honeymoon on a tandem road bike trip along the mid-Atlantic coast, suggesting a promising future together. Jane is living in Minneapolis. In news closer to (my) home Brooks Thayer was recently included in a list of top estate planning attorneys in Massachusetts in Boston Magazine. Of course, if you're not a fan of lawyers, Brooks is still your man, having been recognized by the Orleans Fire Department and state fire marshal's office for completing more than 25 years of active service as a call member of the Orleans Fire Department. He still serves as a member of the rescue squad and, in fact, he served with the Hanover Fire Department while at Dartmouth. And speaking of 25 years-visit the class Web site: www.alumni.dartmouth.org/classes/81/default.htm!

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