CLASS NOTESNovember 1977

   Update from the nation's capital:

How does one get on the staff of the House Subcommittee on Europe and Middle East? The way Dave Barton did it seems easy enough. First, graduate from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, then go to Vietnam for two years as co-director (with your wife Jane) of the American Friends Service Committee's medical projects, followed by a three-year stint at the Indochina Resource Center in Berkeley.

The Barton's have a two-year-old daughter, Maria Mai, and while Dave develops U.S. foreign policy, Jane is pursuing her graduate studies in Chinese and Japanese folk art.

Elsewhere in Washington. ...Jim Cason, who recently completed a two-year tour in Maracaibo, Venezuela, as principal officer in charge of U.S. affairs in Western Venezuela, is taking an intensive six-month economics course at the Foreign Service Institute before reassignment abroad ...Steve Hayes is a program officer in the U.S. Treasury Department's office of Saudi Arabian affairs ...Joff Keane is special assistant to the assistant secretary for inter-American relations at the State Department. ...and over at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Rich Morrissey is special counsel to the directorate of economic and policy research.

Peter Hargraves, an assistant v.p. and Asianarea loan officer in the international department of the Connecticut Bank & Trust Co., married Nancy Walton, a TWA flight attendant, on August 13. Pete's twin brother John was best man, and his older brother Bob '61, still up in Hanover as president of Dartmouth Time Sharing Systems, Inc., was an usher.

Budge and Anne Gere welcomed a one-and-a-half-year-old son, Samuel Yong-Woon from Korea, who earlier this summer joined eight year-old sister Cynthia in the Seattle, Wash., household. Budge is minister of the Wedgewood Presbyterian Church and stays active coaching and playing soccer and tennis. (He reports there's not much hockey in his part of the Northwest. Anne teaches English at the University of Washington.

It's been a big year for Gerry and Sherri Paul. Last spring Gerry became a member of the New York law firm of Morrison, Paul & Beiley, and then in July, Amy Meredith was born, so three-and-a-half-year-old Sandy will have a playmate in a couple of years.

Other new additions to the Class of Sixty-Six family include George and Joan Reese's second son James, born in Boston where George is executive v.p. of Weston Associates, Inc., a realestate concern .... Lauren, born February 24, to Sharon and Ben Day. Ben's a member of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories. ...And Paula Fay, Rich and Judy Abraham's first daughter (Joseph and Jonathan are six-year-old twins!) at the U. of Conn. Medical School where Rich is a clinical instructor when he's not tending to his Canton, Conn., general internal medicine practice.

A couple of lawyers at opposite ends of the country have left public life for private practice In Seattle, Richard Blacklow left the prosecutor's office to become an associate with (ready?) Torbenson, Thatcher, McGrath, Treadwell & Schoonmaker. In Baltimore, Parker Smith completed two years as assistant U.S. attorney to open a private practice.

The diversity of jobs within the Class is amazing. Examples? Sure. Jon Wiesel is assistant director of the Royal Gorge Nordic Ski Resort in Soda Springs, Calif., the largest ski-touring center in the West, where Jon's duties include teaching cross-country skiing .... Peter Cleaves just completed a study leave at Yale's Department of Political Science where he wrote a book on Peru entitled Agriculture, Bureaucracy and Social Class, and he's now returning to the Ford Foundation as representative for Mexico and Central America, based in Mexico City .... Albie MacDonald is director of public affairs for the Gulf Trading & Transportation Co., Pittsburgh. ... And Robert Dowrie is laboratory director at the Almaden Vineyards in San Jose, Calif.

David Owens is v.p. of Kane Motorcar Co., Narragansett, R.I., which specializes in foreign cars. But that's not all. He's treasurer of the Rhode Island Beekeepers Association and the Narragansett Schools PTA. He recently competed in the annual nine-mile Great Narrow River Canoe Race, and along with Linda, has three sons, ages seven to nine.

Dick Baldwin is operations manager/accountant of Stack & Store Systems, Inc., a distributor of Crown fork lift trucks in Milwaukee. Wife Kathleen received a C.C.C. from the American Speech and Hearing Association in 1977 and is a consultant in language for daycare centers.

Jim Grinnell is design director for The Gillette Company's personal care division (Toni, Adorn, White Rain, etc.) in Boston ...Bruce Drake earned a Ph.D. in management at the University of Washington and is now an assistant professor of management and organization at Wayne State University in Detroit. His wife of seven years, Eileen, is attending the University of Michigan Law School.

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