1973

73 It's an incredibly rainy Sunday afternoon in Boston, which may account for my reasonable luck in reaching old classmates. First came a great chat with Bill Kemnitzer in Smithtown, N.Y. Bill and wife Barbara have what Bill refers to as a "yours, mine, and ours" family. Bill's son Bill Jr. is just starting his senior year as a pre-med student at Vanderbilt. Barbara's daughter Sandra just graduated from C. W. Post in Long Island, and daughter Holly is a sophomore at Suffolk Community College. Bill and Barbara rounded out the family with Sasha, now a high-school freshman, and one-year-old Michael, "the surprise of the year." The older kids had the good fortune to visit Hanover quite frequently and romp through Thayer, but Bill's 20 years in the marine wholesale business, selling boat trailers up and down the East Coast, have kept him too busy to make reunions. Bill thinks he may finally have found the solution to his time conflict, however, having recently turned the weightlifring hobby of his Dartmouth years into complementary wholesale and retail fitness equipment businesses. (We'll hold you to that one, Bill, and expect to see you in '94!)

Tom Sherry and wife Tracey are roaming around New England until January while Tom is on sabbatical from the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Tulane. Hopefully he'll read this and send along an update of his travels for future publication.

John Standish arrived in Colorado Springs about seven years ago by way of New York and Albuquerque. Last year he and a partner opened a recording studio, City Tracks, where they do sound for TV and radio commercials. John's wife, Maria, is a landscaper and gardener, providing an aesthetic balance to her "techie" husband.

Don Fussell arrived in graduate school at the University of Texas at Dallas by way of two years of around-the-world travel after Dartmouth. Don met his future wife, Kala, while working on his master's and Ph.D. in computer science. A few years later, Don was traveling again, this time to Kala's home in Nepal, where they were married. Don really enjoyed the Hindu ceremony because it was one he hadn't "already known and gotten bored with." Their nine-year-old daughter Natasha's name was chosen because, being Russian, it is one that both cultures can pronounce. Since completing his graduate studies, Don has been a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working to build cyberspace. In case you're as out of it as I am, that means he is working to build virtual reality, a system in which people around the world can interact as if they were in the same room. (T have probably already screwed that explanation up, Don, so please forgive me.)

That's all for a rainy Sunday. Please take a minute to call or write soon!

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