The annual fall Washington, D.C., dinner is well established (this was the seventh). Bob Burka hosted in his law firm’s conference/dining room overlooking the Potomac and orchestrated the annual “What’s new with you” discussion. Co-host John Isaacs (a new hip), Maria Burka (just back from Seoul, Korea), Tony Newkirk, Bill and Teddy Reynolds, Wayne and Beverly Johnson, Sam Ostrow, Jim Rooks, Wayne Beyer and Chuck and Young Hobbie caught up on recent personal, class and Dartmouth developments. Tom and Christine Peebles discussed being in Sofia, Bulgaria, where Tom served as a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer for the last six years. Additional notes commenting on the 65th birthday gathering came from Nick Mason of Simsbury, Connecticut. He has been “retired” for nearly 10 years from his last job as CFO of Savings Bank of Manchester, Connecticut. Nick spends time doing volunteer and community service in Simsbury and the Farmington Valley. He and Connie moved to a retirement community in Simsbury in June 2008. Son Jeff ’94 married in September at their summer home on Cape Cod. Joseph Furstenthal of Oakland, California, published The New Connoisseurs’ Guidebook to California Wine and Wineries (University of California Press). The encyclopedic guide got good marks from the New York Times “Diner’s Journal.” As of September Wayne Beyer of Washington, D.C., had completed nearly eight years of judicial appointments in the Bush administration. He returned to the District of Columbia as a trial attorney defending civil cases against the Metropolitan Police Department. Though demanding, the job refurbishes his litigation skills and his interest in police liability issues.


—Dave Mangelsdorff, 3410 Turtle Village Drive, San Antonio, TX 78230-3918; (210) 344-0942; dmangels@idworld.net