Alumni At-Large Class of 1971

Class Correspondent Information



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The Blue Light

Pat Montgomery and Barbara Waters completed the Ragbrai XXIV cross-Iowa bicycle ride in July. . . . Janet Beals writes from Colorado of a lifestyle of hiking, running, ballet lessons, skiing, piano playing and restaurant work. . . . David Freeman is an art teacher in the Boston public schools and an avid squash and tennis player. . . . Alan Levine is in Phoenix, where he is a senior project engineer for software for Boeing 737 Avionics. . . . Dick Lewin is a trustee for the New Hampshire Nature Conservatory. . . . Meryl LeBoff is a physician and director of the skeletal health and osteoporosis program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. She lives in Boston with her husband, her 11-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son. . . . The Manchester, Conn., Journal Inquirer reported that Sandra Rau Ferrari was named as teacher of the year in Windsor Locks, Conn. She has been a mathematics and computer teacher there for the past 12 years. . . . Thanks for all your letters.



Newsmakers
Ann Lyle Rethlefsen '71 received one of the 24 fellowships in the Bush Educators Program for mid-career educators in Minnesota. . . . Robert Diamond '73 was featured in a Euromoney magazine article. He is director of the fixed income division at the investment bank BZW. . . . Michael Roy '74 is the new president of the Maine Municipal Association. . . . Gail Chase '74 was named treasurer of the Maine Children's Alliance. . . . Elizabeth Knight Warn '76, has been promoted to senior vice president in the retail mortgage department at Peoples Heritage Bank. . . . Lynn Thommen '76 is director of development for American Ballet Theatre. . . . Steven R. Singer '79 joined the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as chief of communications and principal spokesman.

Mileposts
Births: A daughter, Abigail Grace, to Neil and Donna Dee Genzlinger '78.


Cathy Kindquist '78 Soaking Up Knowledge
The Flood probably won't do us in, but water--or the lack of it--might. Thirsty big cities are expropriating more and more water resources from rural agricultural areas and creating a wave of controversy in the process.A century ago, rivers flowing from the mountains helped support year-round ranching in the South Park area near Denver. Today, says Cathy Kindquist '78, an assistant professor of geography at Radford University in Virginia, cities like Aurora, Colo., are buying up water rights to ensure their own growth, and ranchers are being devastated by the loss of their water. [CONTINUE]