1968

Snowbound in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and light on news, I've been to the airwaves. Don Marcus is back on this side of the pond after nine years in London; he's now living in Cochituate, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod), and looking ahead to a future home in Strafford, Vermont, sometime in the next few years. He's been in show biz essentially ever since undergraduate years in the Dartmouth Players. Several chapters in his life: in New York running a theater, in Los Angeles for 10 years as a writer and in TV production and most recently doing TV work in London. He met wife Lisa in the Green Room at the Hop in 1968. That was a resonating feature of the recent reunion, which they attended. They ran the theater together in New York and then Lisa moved to her own next chapter as an artist. While they were in California she attended the Art Center College of Design, specializing in painting. Their future house in Vermont (in design, as they now just own the land) will include a studio for Lisa. Son Ted is a chip off the old block: He plans to be involved in show business as well. While I am sitting still in the snow Margaret and Peter Zack have been driving from Maine through two consecutive snowstorms to Penn State to attend the awarding of a Ph.D. in clinical psychology to their eldest daughter, Sanno. She is now a postdoc at Stanford. Their second daughter, Britta, lives in Avon, Colorado, where she teaches special education in elementary school. Speaking of snow, she is recovered from a leg broken while snowboarding last year. Daughter Annika is in Birmingham, Alabama, where her significant other is in medical school. Peter continues as director of an energy conservation program for the state of Maine. As models of energy conservation he and Margaret have been "off the grid" for 10 years, collecting their electrical power from photovoltaics on their roof. Margaret is an associate director of a program serving mentally retarded adults. Peter had a scare this past summer: While he was riding his bike, a car sideswiped him from behind (the mirror whacked his shoulder) and knocked him for a major loop. No damage done, luckily. Fellow architect Jon Pilling is in his 16th year of teaching at the Boston Architectural College, leading international studies that include travel to Cuba and to Mexico. He maintains an architectural "micropractice" as well, specializing in health care and early childhood education facilities. Francines current interests include Siamese cat rescue; during the past 10 years she has hosted 61 cats. She also has been active in fundraising for the program, and among other things made cat sleeping bags for sale. They keep in touch with Pam and Pete Boorum, who both now focus on miniature furniture and have a national reputation in this specialty, leading seminars and working with museums. Midwinter greetings to all, and keep the news coming.

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