The Voice of Dartmouth
SHE CAN TRACK YOU DOWN ANYWHERE on the Dartmouth campus in ten seconds and has answered more than 4,082,000 telephone calls. Sally Bomhower is the voice of Dartmouth. Has been for 17 years, since first plugging in lines on a New England Telephone Cord Board in a back office of the Hanover Inn. Now she uses a state-of-the-art AT&T Dimension switchboard to talk with friends all over campus. They include: Priscilla Sears, Professor of English, who calls her ever}- week and sends her jelly recipes and postcards from abroad; Carl Wallin, a track coach who calls her every day to say hello ("I've never laid eyes on him," she says); the campus police, who take over her calls every Saturday at noon so that she can bring pizza over for their weekly lunch party; and two of her former work-study students, who call her every Mother's Day.
What of the unfriendly Qcallers? "If they're nasty, so what? You don't have them long." She leans over her switchboard and confides, "They're the ones that get treated the most efficiently."
