A great note from Anne Barschall: “Dear Dave, I am a patent attorney. In 1999 I started working part-time out of my home as a sole practitioner doing patent drafting and prosecution in the areas of electronics, software, physics and mechanical devices. Recently the work I’ve been receiving has gotten vanishingly small so I have been living off savings and taking overflow work from the law firm of Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, though they have not really had enough to keep me busy. I enrolled in a biology course this fall in the hopes of starting to broaden the range of inventions I can work on. I would love leads about getting more work. My older son David is a sophomore at RPI, majoring in mechanical engineering. The younger one Joseph goes to college next fall. I am also divorced and looking for a relationship with someone with intelligence and good moral character. Best regards, Anne.” Write back to Anne at barschall@ verizon.net.


A big round of snaps to our mini-reunion chair, Jake Jacobson, and his Hanover-based assistant, Celia Chen, for organizing the second annual 1978 Homecoming mini-reunion during Harvard weekend. Jake continues to improve his powers, reducing last year’s freezing downpours to mere snow flurries this year. At this rate expect a beach party in 2012. Attendance was also up: Zan and John Davis and Kimberly Davis ’11, Denny DeVaux, Jane and Bob Copp, Walter Malmquist II and wife Nancy ’79 and daughter, Pete Judson and wife Grace and kids (and ’14s) Nick and Alex, Gary Sobelson and wife Carol and daughter Rachel, Ray Boniface and wife Nancy Gantt Boniface and sons Raymond ’14 and Mark, Cotton Smith and wife Phyllis and son Brooks ’08, Bernie Drury, Cris Gaut and wife Donna, Drew Petrie, Tom Johansen and wife Sarah and son Christian, John Foote and dad Robert ’47, Steve Mandel and family, Wanda Ryan and son Adam, Joe Bishop, Carol Hillman Van Dyke and husband Neil ’76, Ellen and Steve Adnopos, Cheri Jackson ’77, Sandra (Smallwood) and Don Rendall, Hunter Melville, Nick Lowery, Robert Hyman and wife Amy and daughter Emily ’13. Jake is also looking to expand the mini-reunions to other parts of the world, and for the most obscure reasons. So if you have an idea or even just want a great excuse to see/meet classmates closer to home than Hanover please write to Jake at mjacobson @garetina.com. (Hmm, can I come up with a Sesquicentennial First Battle of Bull Run mini-reunion here for July?)


And on the gossip front: Recent newlywed Anne Bagamery was caught on Facebook plaintively pleading, “I want a new drug.” Trouble in paradise for this Parisienne? Mais, non, simply a quote from the eponymous Huey Lewis and the News 1984 blockbuster. But we had fun with it while it lasted. 


Now write!


—Dave Hov, 7840 Virginia Oaks Drive, Gainesville, VA 20155; (571) 643-8040; davidhov@comcast.net