Class Note 1984
Greetings from the Hanover Plain! I know that Eric Grubman and I make this class secretary thing look easy, but I want you to know that we take our jobs very seriously. So seriously that we will do anything to dig up news of you, our fellow classmates. Even if that means jeopardizing our jobs to hang out in Hanover for an indefinite period of time. Since Eric’s saving lives as a doctor, at least that’s what Elisabeth Jaffe of San Francisco told me, he can’t leave his job as easily as a professor can.
Why Hanover? It turns out that you, our dear classmates, love to hang out at our alma mater. While drinking at the Hanover Inn I recently discovered that Steven Morris of Chicago was once considered for the CIA but turned them down. And Marc Devorsetz of Dallas is the house-husband of Richard Jelsma of Dallas. Richard is a big shot surgeon and happily married with twin sons at Dartmouth.
I caught up with Eric Taylor, a judge in Los Angeles, over in Butterfield, where he was trying to install a bar in his daughter’s dorm room. Wait, I didn’t say that. And I found Chrissy Burnley Bucklin of Manhattan Beach, California, at the volleyball court, where we discussed the College’s new drinking rules. We were not drinking at the time.
In a makeshift tent outside Blunt I found a bunch of Homecoming virgins. And I mean that in the nicest way. This group of guys had not been to a Homecoming since our senior year. Give a rouse for Rich Borroff, a director of management information systems at the Harvard extension school (I’m going to leave that Harvard joke alone, but Eric, feel free to grab it in the next column); David Wood, an otolaryngologist in Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Dan Skiest, chief infectious director at Bay State Medical Center in Longmeadow, Massachusetts; David Bough, another otolaryngologist from Upper Saddle River in New Jersey; and Rob Harteveldt, an asset manager in Connecticut.
Non-Homecoming virgins I found at the tent were Heather Keare, co-owner of KS Design in Wellesley, Massachusetts; Wendee Hunsinger Lunt, owner of a consultant business for luxury brands in Bergen County, New Jersey; and Frohman Anderson, private equity wealth management in Rhode Island. This trio has collectively been up to Homecoming for more than 60 years. I guess we know where they’ll be next October.
Chris Cogguilo of Milford, Connecticut, can’t get enough of Homecoming, as he’s come up over the last three years. A dentist, Chris was not bringing up candy for his daughter, but lights for her Halloween party in her “senior” apartment. Besides drilling teeth, Chris also loves fishing with Greg Bekelja. I have no idea what Greg does or where he lives so I’ll leave that up to Eric discover when he takes off his scrubs.
I hope you appreciate all this in-depth information about our classmates. I also hope I still have a job at SUNY Oswego.
—Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; (315) 682-5501; julietgiglio@gmail.com; Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; grubman@sbcglobal.net
