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had his hands full with a variety of producr porrfolio and alliance management issues as GM and the auro industry muddled through a rough year. C lay still gers his kicks playing guirar, although ir's been a long time since he played with a group-he spends as much time as he can with a growing guitar collection in his basement srudio pounding out runes with limired commercial porential but rons of therapeutic value. Wife, KATE (RAE '81), is busy as ever, and the kids (Dylan and Morgan) are growing up strong and smarr. Clay has seen PETER VAN LOON, STUART KERR, and DAVE BEERS '77 over the pasr year or so and has had sporadic e-mails with a few others from the Class. If anyone swings through Detroit for any reason , give a shour! GAIL ZELMAN PHINNEY has been loving living in sunny Southern California for the lasr four years with her husband, PETER PHINNEY '77, and their children. Gai l is education programs director for the Palos Verdes Art Center and enjoys bringing art education programs inro the schools. Their big news is the arrival of their fourth child, Skyler Reed Phinney, on May 1, 2001, which has created quite a change of pace, bur is a sheer delighr. Skyler is adored by his siblings, Madeleine (14), Parker (11), and Corter (eight). Gail sends regards ro fellow classmates. JIM SHEPARD's most recent novel was Nosferatu, which came our from Knopf in 1998. This fall and winter he has short stories coming out in Harper's, Playboy, Tin House, and Double Take. For the winter term, Jim is going ro be distinguished visiting professor in the MFA program at UCIrvine. And in February, he is going to appear wirh Robert Srone and Denis Johnson in a symposium mounted by the NYU Psychoanalytic Instirure enritled, ''The Apocalyptic Imagination." YOUR SECRETARY served as banquer chair for the Trinity Club of Hartford Annual Banquer in November. It was a very enjoyable evening!
Class of 1978 Alumni Fund Goal: $72,000 and 55 percent parricipation. Kathryn Maye Murphy 6 Kneeland Rd. Marlborough, CT 06447-1225 e-mail: kathy.mayemurphy.78@trincoll.edu Class Agents: A. Cristina Lirot James P. Smith
7 9 ANNE FICKLING was married last Memorial Day weekend in Pirtsfield, MA, ro Jeffrey Brainard, a Wi lliams alum. Anne notes, "LIZ KELLY DRONEY and FRANCES SMITH '78 were there, as well as BARBARA SANBORN FAUROT '78 and KEITH PLAPINGER '78. Jeff is a journalist, wriring for the Chronicle ofHigher Education. I continue ro work for the Center for Civic Educarion, managing a civic education program in Bosnia and Herzegovina. "As I was ceremoniously elecred president of our Class at our 20th, I am open ro any suggesrions-and volunteers-for our 25th; it is only three years away! I can be reached at annef@civiced.org. Creativity, especially, is encouraged." Class of 1979 Alumni Fund Goal: $82,000 and 55 percent participation. Deborah A. Cushman 5 Carbrey Ave. Sharon, MA 02067-2312 e-mail: deborahani@aol.com Class Agents: Sarah W. Neal Philip 0. Renzullo
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Greetings! The news from our Class has been sparse, bur I know thar doesn't reflect what's acrually going on out there. Please, send an e-mail with news ro share with your classmates! NANCY CECCON was married ro Joe Lizer on Sepr. 13, 2001 on Sr. Lucia. She shared her wedding phoros on-line, and I have ro report thar Nancy looks like she hasn't aged a bir. Congrarularions, Nancy and Joe!
Arrisr LOIS ORDWAY had a show ar the Srudio Gallery in Washingron, DC, earlier this year. Her Hula Figures, layers of oils heavily dosed with wax medium and applied with a knife, were the lasr float in Lois's four-year parade of Vessel & Pony Figure paintings. The Seattle Weekly, commenting on Lois's work, said, "a comedienne at hearr; her canvases mix humor, paranoia, and self-effacement, and are finished in explosive colors." Lumigent Technologies, Inc., a developer of high-availability darabase rools for critical business plarforms, made MICHAEL GRABSCHEID a vice president of markering, responsible for directing srraregic markering iniriarives aimed ar posirioning Lumigent as a leader in supporr of the mid-rier database market. Class of 1980 Alumni Fund Goal: $85,000 and 54 percent parricipation. Lynn Johnson Pease 27 Wmthrop Rd. Chester, CT 06412-1036 e-mail: PeaseMktg@aol.com fax: 860-526-8646 Class Agents: Mark A. Leavitt E. Curtiss Smith
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Greetings Class mares: Boy, how the world has changed in such a brief period of time. I hope all of you, and particularly those of you with friends or family affected by the pasr several months tragedies, have recognized how fortunate we have been during our lifetime of peace and prosperity. As I write, it's a beautiful autumn day and I've just spenr some precious time with my daughter. Life is full of changes. First, I thoughr my term as Class Secretary had ended at the last reunion, but the College continues to send me the trickles of news so I am at it again. We will be moving in December ro Rochesrer, MN, ro work ar the Mayo Clinic. It'll be rough gerting used ro those cold winters again! The only mail I received was from ALEX MAGOUN who reports: "After an exceedingly
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long gesration, I finished my Ph.D. in hisrory lasr year ar the U. of Maryland. In some ways ir was worth the wair: Johns Hopkins U. Press wanrs ro review the thesis (the phonograph record from Edison ro LP and 45-you remember those), and the research led ro my first full-rime job. You could say I'm a nonprofir entrepreneur, developing a museum, archive, library, and Web sire (www.davidsarnoff.tv) abour David Sarnoff, RCA, and 20thcentury elecrronic communications. Princeton is a nice place ro live if you don'r have to drive much, and I ger back ro campus occasionally to see rhe crosscountry reams and Cinesrudio. ''The theater is in the midsr of an endowment campaign, ro which I've made the biggest conrribution of my life. Remember those red sears and the lions rampant on rhe carper? They're srill rhere 20 years later, and need replacing; interested classmates should e-mail me for more information: amagoun@sarnoff.com, or 609-497-2423. Whatever happened ro LAURA ROULET and her crack Thursday night staff?" Stay in rouch and send your news ro the College. C lass of 1981 Alumni Fund Goal: $70,000 and 54 percent participation. Robert Orenstein, D.O. 102 Cyril Ln. Richmond, VA 23229-7737 e-mail: rorensr@hsc.vcu.edu fax: 804-675-5437 Class Agent: Richard P. Dahling
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no member of our Class was lisred as missing as a result of Sepr. 11. However, ir's the first time that rhe few degrees of separation that tied all of us from New England schools rogether for so many years, seemed like a curse. Most of us living near the City seemed only one srep removed from the tragedy. We were all quickly numbed in the days following by
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