Film critic for The Boston Globe is a dream job by any measure, especially when you handle it with the style, humor and insight of Ty Burr. Behind the scenes, though, may be a tad less glamorous than you envision. Ty spent Oscar night at the office, watching television and filing copy. Ty’s latest book, Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame, will be published this fall; get it at Amazon.


Hollywood could not write a script as inspiring as the last few years in the life of Meg Coughlin LePage. Diagnosed with ovarian/uterine cancer in 2009, she underwent six months of surgeries and chemo, but missed only about two weeks of work as an employment lawyer in Maine. “I must admit I was a little tired, but it was better than sitting around at home.” 


Meg ran a few miles a week to help her recover from chemo. This past winter she got serious. She started her December weekdays with 5 a.m. jogs in 5-degree temperatures. By February she had run a 10-miler in Maine and a half-marathon in New Hampshire. Meg did not predict when she will challenge her son James, who set two Bates College distance running records this year. Meg ran into George Lester at one of James’ track meets; George’s son Ben runs for Colby College.


Another LePage runner, Bowdoin’s Liza, led Meg to travel halfway round the girdled earth with Lauri Livesy Sandusky. Lauri’s daughter Jennifer, a junior at Tufts, took a semester abroad in Capetown, South Africa, the same time as Liza. Their mini-reunion included a three-day safari.


If you are looking to dress like a star while staying in LePage shape, check out PrismSport’s spring line of athletic apparel. Lori Zelikow Florio and Emily Lisberger Vitale launched the company after one-too-many tennis games and yoga classes in less-fashionable style than we have become accustomed to seeing them in. Paul McCartney’s wife sported a Prism top in People magazine. 


Dressed in skiwear, Merle Adelman and Ron Menner exchanged vows alongside the trails at Windblown Cross Country Ski Center in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. Laurel Smith, justice of the peace for a day, presided over the late January nuptials. Congratulations, Ron and Merle!


Merle passed along news regarding classmates in attendance. Laurel and her husband, Kevin Donahoe, live in Boise, Idaho, but they “wintered” in Jackson, New Hampshire, this year so that they could be closer to daughter Emma’s cross-country ski races for Colby College. Bill Koch handled the beer and wine for the wedding. When not performing in local theater, Bill continues to practice dentistry in Barre, Vermont.


Merle’s cousin Alex Frank and his wife, Jane, live in New York City close to Paul and Jenny Elmlinger. The Franks’ daughter Kendall graduated from Dartmouth in 2010 and her sister Annabelle is a ’13. Alex is the new CFO at Fifth Street Finance.


—Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; robdaisley@me.com; Frank Fesnak, 111 Arbor Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@yahoo.com