1968

A few notes gathered during the fund-raising season follow. I caught Bob Wade just back in Maine from an out-of-state cash management seminar. The co-pilot on one leg of his trip was fraternity brother Tom Grove '66 of Delta Airlines. Mike Jacobs is an attorney with a Madison, Wise., firm which handles a variety of legal services for hospitals and other health-care providers. Entrepreneur Skip Stritter has been working with friends and associates from Stan- ford in the start-up and running of a small com- puter company. Skip's better half is an attorney in San Francisco. From Minnesota, Debbie (Bayrd) Colgan, wife of Joe Colgan, reported that her brother Gary Bayrd and his wife now have a son and a daughter.

The February 1981 issue of Common Cause makes very interesting reading, as it includes a face-off between our own Bob Reich and Murray Weidenbaum on the question, "Have Government Regulations Cut our Competitive Edge?" Bob took the "no" position on the sub- ject. The interviewer reported that both experts agreed on one point, that being that "a well- designed sunset provision : requiring man- datory, periodic review of government agencies and programs could be an important step in achieving effective regulatory reform." CommonCause reported that Bob at that time had served as director of policy planning at the Federal Trade Commission for the past three years and was an adjunct professor of administrative law at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to his work with the F.T.C., he served as assistant to the solicitor general in the Justice Department. It is important to note that Bob also serves on your class executive committee and chairs the alumni continuing education committee, one of 12 stan- ding committees of the Dartmouth Alumni Council.

Numerous articles have crossed this desk mak- ing mention of BCI Geonetics Inc. of Laconia, N.H., of which Peter Hofman is executive vice president. Peter is another member of the class executive committee. The New HampshireTimes issue of June 17 made the following com- ments: " ... BCI Geonetics claims to have refined space-age technical tools to assist in find- ing large supplies of water deep in bedrock. No experts on the subject dispute the fact that major supplies of water sometimes can be found in bedrock formations. Traditionally, the only problem has been an inability to predict with any reliability where such bedrock formations can be found. BCI claims to have solved that problem with a technique that involves the use of satellite reconnaissance photographs and sophisticated geological tools." Peter is quoted as follows: "What we've done is to develop a way of locating the kinds of fractures in the rock where the water is most likely to be found. What we can do is identify areas with high potential. Of course, you really can't tell until you drill the holes." Obviously, with the severe drought con- ditions that faced New England during 1981, BCl's approach to locating bedrock wells has at- tracted much interest!

35 Lancaster Lane Lincolnshire, 111. 60015