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George Lefcoe writes from the University of Southern California Law Center in Los Angeles that he has been dividing his time between teaching land use law and planning a series of conferences on the subject of "landtronics." For these conferences, George has managed to attract a veritable "Who's Who" of experts in their various fields to appear as panelists and to consider how information technologies are likely to affect land and buildings, land use planning, and real estate development. In the first of a series of three conferences held in February at USC's Annenberg School of Communications, the expert panelists explored such forward-looking concepts as the new information technologies, advances in telecommunication, and the next wave in home/office concepts - telecommuting. Aptly entitled "Landtronics: The Link between Information Technology and Urban Land Policy," the first conference highlighted the implications of these new technological developments for the courts, for the future of banking, corporate headquarters, and retailing in central cities, and for the design of new, "smart" office buildings and "high-tech" suburban research parks. As an undergraduate, I recall hearing that the purpose of our liberal education was to enable us to rise above the level of "shop talk," or discussions of the weather, during a businessman's lunch. By way of understatement, it looks like George got the message. He says that planning the latter two conferences, scheduled for London, June 19- 21,1985, and Sydney, November 11-12,1986, has given him "a travel schedule that only a travel agent could love."
After graduating from Tuck School in 1960, Andy Hommeyer served two years of U.S. Army duty in Washington, D.C., where he met his wife, Mary, a registered nurse. He then invested seven years in the advertising business, followed by nine years in the corporate world of General Mills, before becoming vice president, marketing, for Olympia Brewing Company in Olympia, Wash., in 1978. Since that time, Andy has switched careers and turned a longtime avocation, personal financial counseling, into a full-time occupation with Foster and Marshall/American Express in Tacoma, Wash. He says he really enjoyed our exciting 25th reunion last summer and seeing old friends for the first time in many years. Andy writes that our head class agent, Bob Werbel, "volunteered him" as class agent for the western U.S.A. Never shy, Andy no doubt looks forward to this most worthy excuse to contact even more of you guys out west in the future. Andy reports that his son, John '88, is spending his time on the athletic field and "booking" in some quiet corner of Sanborn Hall. The Hommeyers have another son, Michael, who is three years his brother's junior.
John and Donna Ferries, who live in Brussels, were party guests over the holidays at the home of Jim and Cyl Mueller in Tervuron, Belgium. John writes that the Muellers have totally renovated their very old house, which has a separate building with a real chapel. Quipped John, "Jim may need it. His successful Middle East soft drink business took a dip recently when, without warning, Saudi Arabia suddenly banned glass bottles. Of course, Jim had cans down there the next week ..."
Bob and Ginny Foot rendezvoused with Roy Jemison and Ray and Rosemary Hymes in Boynton Beach, Fla., where Bob is a special and registered representative with the Prudential Insurance Company. Roy is vice president, franchise operations, for Dunkin' Donuts of America. He had made the trek from his home in Acton, Mass., to Miami for a food service convention, from which he was rescued by Ray and Rosemary, who drove him up the coast to the more personalized gathering. Ray, who flies for Pan Am, lives in Miami, with the Florida Keys and the Caribbean at his back door. He, Rosemary, and their five children, who range in age from 15 to 23, actively pursue interests in fishing, scuba diving, and sailing. The Foots and the Hymeses look forward to meeting Roy's wife, Carol, on his next trip through. Also invited to the gathering, but unable to attend for compelling reasons, was Jim Perry, whom Bob encounters at Life Underwriter Association meetings. Jim is field sales manager for the Allstate Insurance Company in St. Petersburg. Jim resides in Seminole, Fla., with his wife, the former Sally Gray, who is a Skidmore graduate and the sister of no fewer than three Dartmouth brothers, Woody Gray '56, Bill Gray, and Philip Gray '70. The Perrys have two lovely teenage daughters, Lisa, 19, and Julie, 16, who accompanied their parents to last year's reunion.
Pete Anderson is a partner in the Seattle law firm of Bogle and Gates, where he specializes in labor and employment discrimination law. Pete currently serves as chairman of the EEO Law Committee of the American Bar Association's labor and employment law section. With a membership of more than 600, Pete's committee is far and away the largest in the section. Pete earned his law degree at Stanford University in 1962, when he married the former Ann W. Gibson, whom he dated while he was at Dartmouth. The couple has a son, David, 21, who becomes a civil engineering graduate of the University of Santa Clara even as you read this, and a daughter, Karen, 19, who is a sophomore at Stanford. Pete and Ann will forsake the outdoor activities and scenery of the Pacific Northwest, which they love, for a two-month tour of Europe this summer, which will feature visits to Britain, Ireland, and Moscow.
Speaking of vacations: our best wishes to all of you for happy, safe, and memorable ones this year. Feel free to let this scribe know about them, whether or not you fear that their being reported in this column will turn your classmates green with envy.
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