1986

I'm at deadline and rambling because we've had.minimal news of '86s. The APB notice sent to Topliff-NewHamp-Lodge inhabitants met with only two replies, one from a New Hamp who didn't want to share the news. I'm counting on the mighty Hitchcock to show its classmate power in the next report. (If not, I will begin to make things up.) We'll encourage Topliff residents to join next issue (deadline is the 26th), but for now know that big Topliff (it was the largest dorm) is looking really weak.

Our one for publication is Joel Riggs, who writes: "I'm pleased to announce the September 19 birth of our first child, Rocket Sweet Riggs! Naturally, there's a Web site: www.rocketriggs. com Also, after 22 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, Maria, Rocket and I will be moving to Decatur, Georgia, this summer. I have family there and we'd like to try something completely new for a change. I've heard it said that in California people are hostile to strange people but very open to strange ideas while in the South it's the other way around. We'll soon find out for ourselves. I teach aikido to children and adults and I still like to play piano and do photography. Maria is a psychotherapist and I am a martial artist; we settle every disagreement one way or another. I'm always happy to hear from Dartmouth acquaintances: joel@joelriggs.com."

Rocket is a boy and September 19 was the last good day of another Rockets career. One Roger "Rocket" Clemens got great moral support from 200-game winner and friend Andy Pettitte that day. He spoke about 500 wins between the two Texas chums. If they speak with one another now it's about steroid perjury. I still don't know why you need someone else to put injections in your butt.

Joel was an inhabitant of the (Motor) Lodge. Yes, in the 1960s the Lodge was the everyman's Hanover Inn. Some daughters and sons of Dartmouth were probably conceived there. Our class expected the former motel would not last as a dorm, but indeed, it lives; 2012s will likely play pong there. In our era they did not leave Bibles between beds but Joel and classmates did get wake-up calls from the front desk, had free continental breakfasts and were able to steal towels.

Avoid steroids, and avoid my mentioning Clemens' butt next month—write.

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