| A couple of months ago, I told
you that at our September meeting of the Executive Committee, as we were discussing the
building excitement over our 60th Birthday celebration in San Francisco, scheduled for May
13-14-15-16, we realized that three of those present had 60th birthdays during that
four-day period: Pete Bleyler on the 13th, Ken Walker, the 14th and Roger McArt, the 16th! Now both Bill Figilis and Bob Garrity report they
have birthdays on May 15, so we really can have a cake with 60 candles every day of the
reunion. Bill didn’t say, but Bob reports he definitely plans to attend. How many of
you remember that probability lecture back in freshman year that there would be at least
several folks in the room who would have birthdays on the same date? It was either
Bancroft Brown or Francis Sears, but I suspect somebody with a photographic memory can
tell me for sure. Anyhow, make those San Francisco reservations!
Henry Eberhardt, who has been active in
both our class and as a former director of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, reports, "I'm
leaving Sea Education Association after 2 1/2 years to become the Director of the Alumnae
Fund and Special Gifts at Mount Holyoke College. I'm really psyched. I start in late
January. And really more important news, youngest son Rob and Maggie had John
Henry "Jack" Eberhardt on October
7. He's named after the two grampas. Jack is our 4th grandchild. Mike has the others:
Erika 15, Amanda 10 and Zachary 4. Mike plans to get out of the USN next November after 14
years. Too many night carrier landings on a pitching flight deck and time away from the
family."
And class webmaster Ron Wybranowski
reported in December, "We will be moving in about a month to a townhouse in North
Andover. We hate to leave the city, but time to stir the pot again. I will be taking a 3
month (or more) sabbatical to make a bona fide attempt to sell my photography. I'll let
you know how I make out. Joan is going to commute to her job at Ernst & Young until
the end of '99. I think she likes the view from the 47th floor of the Hancock."
More Moves: John Zabriskie is now chairman
of the board, president and chief executive officer of NEN Life Science Products, a
leading supplier of reagents for labeling DNA, RNA and proteins. And the mail brought news
of his appointment to two boards of directors: AlphaGene Inc., an emerging genomics
company, and Biomira Inc., a biotechnoligy company specializing in innovative therapeutic
approaches to cancer.....Chris Hearon has moved to Perkiomen School in Pennsburg Pa, where
he will teach Spanish, after last teaching at Christ Church Episcopal School.,
Wendy and Mike Kirst are in Oxford England
for the winter quarter. Mike is teaching at Stanford-at-Oxford and affiliated with St.
Catherines College. The undergrad courses include a comparison of recent English and U.S,
Education reforms. Mike promises to be back in time for the S.F. reunion.
Robert Conn
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem NC 27157-1015
Rconn@wfubmc.edu
Note: This column is limited to 500
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